Theatre History and Historiography: Ethics, Evidence and Truth. Edited by Claire Cochrane and Jo Robinson . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. vii + 205 + 11 illus. £58/$95 Hb; £45.99/$69.99 Eb. - Comic Acting and Portraiture in Late-Georgian and Regency England. By Jim Davis . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. vii + 274 + 68 illus. £64.99/$99.99 Hb.

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-353
Author(s):  
Helen E. M. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Theatre History ◽  
Cambridge University

New Readings in Theatre History. By Jacky Bratton. Theatre and Performance Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. xi + 238. $24 paper; $70 cloth.

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-147
Author(s):  
David Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Theatre Historiography

I have no hesitation in saying how much I admire Jacky Bratton's New Readings in Theatre History. I consider it an essential guide to an understanding of modern theatre historiography, and it offers a cluster of apposite alternative approaches to historical research. That this book throws light into some areas of the early Victorian stage that are rarely investigated and even less frequently analyzed is a further gift. Bratton has a knack for identifying those marginalized, by gender or by theatrical task, from central discourses and in restoring to these now-distant sources a reclaimed significance. She hears the small voices and those whose contributions to the British stage were rarely, if ever, known to audiences in the capital or major centers. She has given us a superb study, vital to the practicing historian.

Talking to Carlos Gimenez, Creator of the Rajatabla in Caracas

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 243-249
Author(s):  
Glenn Loney
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South America ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Return Visit ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The City

knowledge of the theatre of South America tends to be shamefully scanty in the English-speaking world: yet the forces of rapid political change, both revolutionary and repressive, often provoke innovative theatrical responses. NTQ intends to pursue the study of theatre in this huge continent. The following interview was conducted by Glenn Loney with the young director Carlos Gimenez – a refugee from Argentina presently working with his Rajatabla troupe in Caracas, Venezuela – whose production of Bolivar was brought to the Public Theatre in New York last summer, with a return visit planned to include The Death of Garcia Lorca, both discussed in the following conversation. Glenn Loney is a widely published American drama critic, teacher, and writer, presently teaching on the doctoral theatre programme of the City University of New York, and working on the American volume in the Documents of Theatre History series for publication by Cambridge University Press.

Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1789–1860. Edited by Donald Roy. Compiled and introduced by Victor Emeljanow, Kenneth Richards, and Laura Richards. Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 558. $130 cloth.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
Barry Daniels
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Documentary History ◽  
The 1960S

I was introduced to sourcebooks as an undergraduate in the 1960s. At that time, the most frequently used were A. M. Nagler's A Sourcebook in Theatrical History (1952), Toby Cole's Directors on Directing (1963), and Toby Cole and Helen Chinoy's Actors on Acting (1948). These books first introduced me to the process of theatre history, and as I believe it is important to introduce this process to students, I continued to use both Nagler and the Cole and Chinoy volume, which was expanded in 1970, in teaching theatre history.

A History of Theatre in Africa. Edited by Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. xvii + 478; $140 cloth.

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-315
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
The West ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Books

One of the greatest challenges to teaching world theatre history in the United States is that the vast majority of survey history books spend two dozen chapters on the theatre of the West, giving the theatres of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East a single chapter each at best. In addition, there have to date been no comprehensive histories of African theatre covering the entire continent, Africa north of the Sahara being linked for cultural reasons with the Middle East instead of geographically with the rest of the continent. A History of Theatre in Africa, edited by the pioneer of African-theatre scholarship, Martin Banham, is an excellent, if uneven, redressing of those imbalances.

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