A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age 6

First published in hardback in 2017. This paperback edition published 2022. To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. 'A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age' provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance. Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission. "A Cultural History of Theatre presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2,500 years, tracing the complexity of the interactions between theatre and culture. 1. A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity (500 BCE-1000CE) 2. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages (1000-1400) 3. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age (1400-1650) 4. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) 5. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire (1800-1920) 6. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age (1920-2000+). Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters : 1. Institutional Frameworks 2. Social Functions 3. Sexuality and Gender 4. The Environment of Theatre 5. Circulation 6. Interpretations 7. Communities of Production 8. Repertoire and Genres 9. Technologies of Performance 10. Knowledge Transmission : Media and Memory. This structure offers readers a broad overview of a period within each volume or the opportunity to follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter across volumes. Generously illustrated, the full six-volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on theatre in history."--Résumé du site web de l'éditeur LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xi SERIES PREFACE xv EDITOR’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvi Introduction: The Impossible Modern Age / Kim Solga 1 1. Institutional Frameworks: Theatre, State, and Market in Modern Urban Performance / Michael McKinnie 17 2. Social Functions: Consumers and Producers / Nicholas Ridout 35 3. Sexuality and Gender: New Stories and New Spaces on the Modern Stage / Kirsten Pullen 55 4. The Environment of Theatre: ‘Home’ in the Modern Age / Kim Solga and Joanne Tompkins 75 5. Circulations: Visual Sovereignty, Transmotion, and Tribalography / Jill Carter, Heather Davis-Fisch, and Ric Knowles 95 6. Interpretations: The Stakes of Audience Interpretation in Twentieth-Century Political Theatre / Dassia N. Posner 117 7. Communities of Production: A Materialist Reading with an Offstage View / Christin Essin and Marlis Schweitzer 139 8. Genres and Repertoires: Redressing the Nation in Ireland and Japan / Michelle Liu Carriger and Aoife Monks 159 9. Technologies of Performance: Machinic Staging and Corporeal Choreographies / Ashley Ferro-Murray and Timothy Murray 181 10. Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory / Sarah Bay-Cheng 201 NOTES 221 BIBLIOGRAPHY 241 INDEX 259 To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance.Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission. -- Provided by publisher A Cultural History of Theatre presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2,500 years, tracing the complexity of the interactions between theatre and culture: 1. 'A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity' (500 BC - 1000 AD) 2. 'A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages' (1000 - 1400) 3. 'A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age' (1400 - 1650) 4. 'A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment' (1650 - 1800) 5. 'A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire' (1800 - 1920) 6. 'A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age' (1920 - 2000+)