David Wiles considers theatrical activity "happening" in churches, streets, pubs and galleries, as well as in buildings explicitly designed to be "theaters", in this historical account. Surveying performance space usage within the traditions of Western Europe, Wiles traces a diverse set of continuities, from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas not included in standard accounts of theater history.
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"Meticulously researched, covering a broad sweep of performance history from classical Greece to modernist western Europe, lavishly illustrated with reproductions, original line drawings, maps, and diagrams, it presents descriptions and analyses of a wide range of performance practices." Modern Drama
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This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.
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When I enter an empty theatre, I feel a surge of anticipation, sensing the potential for intense human contact. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
processional drama, sympotic space, early circus, trestle stages, theatre architecture, fairground booth, cosmic circle, inert container, theatrical meaning, medieval theatre, stage wall, theatre space, processional route Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Piazza San Marco, Covent Garden, Short History of Western Performance Space, Twelfth Night, Forum Romanum, Mary Magdalene, Peter Brook, Bouffes du Nord, Quem Queritis, Shakespeare's Globe, Theatre of Marcellus, Albert Hall, High Cross, Place Dauphine, Royal Exchange, Royal Shakespeare Company, Virgin Mary, Adolphe Appia, Bloody Mary, Edward Gordon Craig, Gray's Inn, Natya Sastra, New York, Our Lady, Theatre of Dionysus New!
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When I enter an empty theatre, I feel a surge of anticipation, sensing the potential for intense human contact. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
processional drama, sympotic space, early circus, trestle stages, theatre architecture, fairground booth, cosmic circle, inert container, theatrical meaning, medieval theatre, stage wall, theatre space, processional route Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Piazza San Marco, Covent Garden, Short History of Western Performance Space, Twelfth Night, Forum Romanum, Mary Magdalene, Peter Brook, Bouffes du Nord, Quem Queritis, Shakespeare's Globe, Theatre of Marcellus, Albert Hall, High Cross, Place Dauphine, Royal Exchange, Royal Shakespeare Company, Virgin Mary, Adolphe Appia, Bloody Mary, Edward Gordon Craig, Gray's Inn, Natya Sastra, New York, Our Lady, Theatre of Dionysus New!
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- The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre on 5 pages
- The Grotowski Sourcebook (Worlds of Performance) by RICHARD SCHECHNER in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Aesthetic Theory (Theory and History of Literature) by Theodor W. Adorno in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre (Oxford Illustrated Histories) by John Russell Brown on page 14, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture by Christian Norberg-Schulz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (Routledge Companions) by Paul Allain on page 208, and Back Matter
- The Victorian Clown by Jacky Bratton in Back Matter
- A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by Diana E. Henderson on page 69
- A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by Diana E. Henderson on page 69
- Classics and the Uses of Reception (Classical Receptions) by Charles Martindale in Back Matter
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