The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography (Routledge Companions)

518 Pages·2020·157.48 MB·english

by  Tracy C. Davis (editor)

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION

TO THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
HISTORIOGRAPHY
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive
and wide- ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the
twenty- first century and Critical Media History.
Written by an international team of authors whose expertise spans a multitude of historical
periods and cultures, this collection of fascinating essays poses the central question: “what is
specific to the historiography of the performative?” The study of theatre, in conjunction with
the wider sphere of performance, involves an array of multi- faceted methods for collecting
evidence, interpreting sources, and creating meaning. Reflecting on issues of recording — from
early- modern musical scores, through VHS technology to latest digital procedures — and on
what is missing from records or oblique in practices, the contributors convey how theatre and
performance history is integral to social and cultural relations.
This expertly curated collection repositions theatre and performance history and is essential
reading for Theatre and Performance Studies students or those interested in social and cultural
history more generally.
Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts at Northwestern University, USA.
Peter W. Marx is Chair of Theatre and Media Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany,
and director of its Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung.
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T H E ROU T L E D G E

C OM PA N ION TO
T H E AT R E A N D
PE R F OR M A NC E
H I STOR IO G R A PH Y
Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx
Collaborating Editors:
Leo Cabranes-Grant
Pavel Drábek
Robert Henke
Odai Johnson
Heike Roms
Liz Son
Margaret Werry
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First published 2021
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© 2021 selection and editorial matter, Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx;
individual chapters, the contributors
The right of Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx to be identified as the authors
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ISBN: 978- 1- 138- 57551- 6 (hbk)
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To all generators, discoverers, amassers, hoarders, and bestowers of theatre and performance documentation;
to the archivists who accession, preserve, and defend these materials from the rampages of rising tides,
bowing shelves, and befuddled trustees; and to those who lend imagination and skill to the
understanding of diverse evidence, this book is gratefully dedicated.
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CONTENTS

List of figures x

List of contributors xiv

Preface xix

Introduction: on Critical Media History 1

Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx
PART I
Theatre history is performance history 41
1 The size of all that’s missing 43

Odai Johnson
2 Gyno ludens: a doll house redux 65

Natasha Korda
3 Rethinking categories of theatre and performance: archive, scholarship,
and practices (a post- colonial Indian perspective) 86

Bishnupriya Dutt
4 Dancing with the living dead: state violence in South Korea and the
performance of memory 104

Elizabeth W. Son
5 Setasidedness 118

Tracy C. Davis
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Contents
PART II
Materiality and the sensorium 141
6 Performatic archives: mobilising affects in eighteenth- century Mexico 143

Leo Cabranes- Grant
7 German radio drama and the “cultural formation” of interiority 167

Michael Bachmann
8 Canonising impulses, cartographic desires, and the legibility of
history: why speak of/ for “Indian” theatrical pasts? 186

Rashna Darius Nicholson
9 Decolonising theatre history: ontological alterity, acting objects,
and what Theatre Studies can learn from museums 206

Margaret Werry
PART III
Locating 227
10 Off the record: contrapuntal theatre history 229

Noémie Ndiaye
11 The theorist and the theorised: Indigenous critiques of Performance
Studies 249

Stephanie Nohelani Teves
12 Complicating hybridity: a view from/ through the Andean
patron- saint fiesta 260

Enzo E. Vasquez Toral
13 Theatre- historiographical patterns in the Global South 1950– 1990:
transnational and institutional perspectives 269

Christopher B. Balme
14 The role of theatre in the modernisation of Tunisia 290

Vicki Ann Cremona and Mahmoud Mejri
15 Translation and/ as theatre and performance historiography: towards
a reconsideration of a neglected but omnipresent challenge 307

Jean Graham- Jones
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Contents
PART IV
Historicising 325
16 On circulation and recycling 327

Peter W. Marx
17 Towards an expansive historiography of Jews as creative collaborators
and hired contractors in early-m odern Italian theatre and performance 348

Erith Jaffe- Berg
18 Renaissance theatre and clockpunk historiography 364

Ellen MacKay
19 Theatre history as contemporary history 383

Matthias Warstat
PART V
Scaling 397
20 Modelling the world through play: an exploration in repurposing,
representation, and history- writing 399

Pavel Drábek
21 Towards a new culture of public negotiation: interplay between political
and theatrical spheres in the Vienna Revolution of 1848 418

Stefan Hulfeld
22 Performance texts and recording performance: towards a methodology
of multiplicity 436

Sharon Aronson- Lehavi
23 Quantitative visualisation and qualitative research: the Beijing opera
Yinpeixiang (video matching audio) project 456

Siyuan Liu
Index 478

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