The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance / Edition 1

by Jane de Gay, Lizbeth Goodman

Overview

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new writings from leading scholars, the book provides material on:
* post-coloniality and performance theory and practice
* critical theories and performance
* intercultural perspectives
* power, politics and the theatre
* sexuality in performance
* live arts and the media
* theatre games.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415174732
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/09/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lizbeth Goodman is at the University of Surrey. She is the author of Contemporary Feminist Theatres (1993), and Feminist Stages (1996) and editor of Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance (1998), and Literature and Gender (1996). Jane de Gay is Research Assistant on the Gender, Politics, Performance Research Project at the Open University. She is the sub-editor of the Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword Introduction 1.Practice to Theory: Theatre Games 2.Critical Theories and Performance 3.Theorizing and Playing: Intercultural Perspectives 4.Power, Politics and the Theatre 5.Sexuality in Performance 6.Performance Theory, Live Arts, and the Media 7.Political Theatres, Post-Coloniality, and Performance Theory 8.Post-Linearity and Gendered Performance Practice Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'A provocative collection of 50 writers ... The extracts are short and well-chosen, and for that alone will be thumbed by student readers.' - Plays International

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