Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US

By: Lindsey Mantoan

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Synopsis: Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike Literature and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon. Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation, and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field’s relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by this book on the canon interrogate the field’s fundamental values, and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute this discipline. This is a vital text for anyone considering the role, construction, and impact of canons in the US and beyond.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 314 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000486384
Related ISBNs:: 9781003031413, 9780367468323, 9780367468309
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/30/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Lindsey Mantoan, Matthew Moore, and Angela Farr Schiller
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Education, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Lindsey Mantoan
Edited by:: Matthew Moore
Edited by:: Angela Farr Schiller