Interpreting the Theatrical Past : Essays in the Historiography of Performance

Introduction / Thomas Postlewait & Bruce A. Mcconachie -- Theatre History As An Academic Discipline / R.w. Vince -- Theatre And The Civilizing Process: An Approach To The History Of Acting / Erika Fischer-lichte -- Using The Concept Of Cultural Hegemony To Write Theatre History / Bruce A. Mcconachie -- Questions For A Feminist Methodology In Theatre History / Tracy C. Davis -- Theatre Audiences And The Reading Of Performance / Marvin Carlson -- Power's Body: The Inscription Of Morality As Style / Joseph R. Roach -- Opera As Historical Drama: Le Clemenza Di Tito, Khovanschina, Moses Und Aron / Herbert Lindenberger -- Here Comes Everybody: Scholarship And Black Theatre History / James V. Hatch -- Emphasizing The Avant-garde: An Exploration In Theatre Historiography / Alan Woods -- Evidence And Documentation / Joseph Donohue -- Performance Reconstruction: The Vital Link Between Past And Future / Robert K. Sarlos -- Actors' Biography And Mythmaking: The Example Of Edmund Kean / Leigh Wood -- Autobiography And Theatre History / Thomas Postlewait -- Historiography: A Select Bibliography -- Theatre History -- Art, Literary, And Cultural History -- General Historiography / Thomas Postlewait. Edited By Thomas Postlewait & Bruce A. Mcconachie. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 273-305.