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Performing Objects and Theatrical ThingsMarlis Schweitzer, Joanne Zerdy

Performing Objects and Theatrical Things

2014272 pages
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"Performing Objects and Theatrical Things rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events from the perspective of the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives. Embracing methodologies from across the humanities and social sciences, we understand physical materials as actants, with particular frequencies, energies, and potentials to affect human and nonhuman worlds. The texts, stage properties, instruments, costumes, photographs, and detritus that animate this collection emerge from the thirteenth- to the twenty-first century,…

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4 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2014
    Palgrave Macmillan · 279 pages · 9781349486700
  • Other · English · 2014
    Palgrave Macmillan · 9781322106939
  • Other · English · 2014
    Palgrave Macmillan · 9781137402455
  • Other · English · 2014
    Palgrave Macmillan · 264 pages · 9781137402448
Theater, philosophyMaterial cultureTheater, historyAnthropologyTheaterPhilosophyHistoriographySymbolic anthropology