Performing the Eighteenth Century / / edited by Magnus Tessing Schneider, Meike Wagner.

• TeilnehmendeR: Wagner, Meike,; Schneider, Magnus Tessing,
• Place / Publishing House: Sweden : : Stockholm University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages) :; illustrations

The essays in the present book, written by an international group of scholars, try to answer these - and many other - questions by initi­ting a dialogue between academic and artistic research. Behind all the essays is a mixture of fascination and dissatisfaction with today's performances of drama and opera classics, particularly those that take place in historic theatres, and those operating within the so-called Historically Informed Performance movement. The essays reflect a desire to develop and expand the methods traditionally used by theatre historians. And they present a variety of angles on today's performances in historic theatres and on today's attempts to revive theatrical practices of the past. The anthology is essential reading for theatre scholars and musicolo­gists studying eighteenth-century performance as well as for theatre and opera artists concerned with period performance practice.