Performance Spaces and Stage Technologies : : A Comparative Perspective on Theatre History / / ed. by Yuji Nawata, Hans Joachim Dethlefs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Dethlefs, Hans Joachim,; Masaru, Ito,; Soichiro, Itoda,; Takayuki, Hioki,; Tatsuhiko, Seo,; Van Eikels, Kai,; Yasuko, Enomoto,; Yasuyuki, Mitsuma,; Yuichi, Ishida,; Yuji, Nawata,
• HerausgeberIn: Dethlefs, Hans Joachim,; Nawata, Yuji,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Theater ; 146
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

The history of theatre has often been written as a history of great writers, actors, or directors. This book takes a different approach: the contributors examine the history of performance from the perspective of theatre spaces and stage technologies. Art, literature, religion, law, urbanism, architecture, technology - this interdisciplinary book discusses how these fields relate to theatre and performance. Geographically, it covers a significant portion of the globe; chronologically, it ranges from ancient times to the present. This book provides a timely attempt to combine cultural and global history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Performance Spaces in Ancient Chinese Cities: Street Theatres of the 9th Century Capital Chang’an -- The Semi-Circular Theatre in Seleucid and Arsacid Babylon -- The Perspectival Stage in Sebastiano Serlio’s Second Book of Architecture (1545) and its German Reception in the Context of Wohlstand -- Central Perspective in Catholic Churches and on Stage in Europe between the 15th and 17th Centuries -- Notable Spectacles in the Late 19th-Century Kabuki Stage -- Berlin and its Theatres between 1870 and 1890 -- The Theatres in Modern Shanghai: From the Perspective of Cultural History -- Discussions on Theatre Spaces and Theatre Materials by the Leningrad School -- Projection Technology and the Theatre Stage: Light, Space, Body Politics -- Cultural Techniques of Play: A Global Perspective -- Contributors