| Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US Contributor(s): Mantoan, Lindsey (Editor), Moore, Matthew (Editor), Schiller, Angela Farr (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0367468301 ISBN-13: 9780367468309 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $40.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Education | Curricula - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities |
| Dewey: 812.009 |
| LCCN: 2021030627 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 314 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike Literature and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon. Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation, and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field's relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by this book on the canon grapple with the field's fundamental values, and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute this discipline. This is a vital text for anyone considering the role, construction, and impact of dramatic canons in the US and beyond. |