Historically Responsive Storytelling: How Contemporary Western Theatre is Rediscovering its Roots (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

By: Eleanor Chadwick

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Synopsis: This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview. This volume looks at our diverse and amalgamative theatrical inheritance and discusses various practitioners and companies whose work reflects and recapitulates ideas, approaches, and structures original to theatre’s ritual roots. Drawing together a range of topics and examples from the early Middle Ages to the modern day, Chadwick focuses in on a theatrical language which includes an emphasis on the psychosomatic, the non-linear, the symbolic, the liminal, the collective, and the sacred. This interdisciplinary work draws on approaches from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, historical and cognitive phenomenology, and neuroscience, making the case for the significance of historically responsive modes in theatre practice and more widely in our society and culture.Eleanor

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000994698
Related ISBNs:: 9780367547172, 9780367547240, 9781003090298
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/30/23
Copyrighted By:: Eleanor Chadwick
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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