Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history. The diverse international team of contributors investigates how theatre history has been constructed, showing how historical facts are tied to political and artistic agendas and explaining why history matters to us. Beginning with an introduction to the central narrative that traditionally informs our understanding of what theatre is, the book then turns to alternative points of view – from other parts of the world and from the perspective of performers in fields such as music-theatre and circus. It concludes by looking at how history is written in the 'democratic' age of the Internet and offers a new perspective on theatre history in our globalised world.
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Abu-Lughod, Janet 120
Abu-Lughod, Lila 131
Accademia Olimpica 76, 199
acting, history of 15–30, 67, 74, 142, 184
See also re-enactment
aesthetics 173–4
al-Hakim, Tawfik 126
Al-Hanager theatre 132
al-Kassar, Ali 126
al-Rihany, Naguib 125–6
Alexander II of Russia 107
Allt, Nicky 93–4
Amato, Joseph A. 101
Amblett 254
Amphitheatre (London) 213, 214, 220, , 223
See also Astley, Philip
Apollinaire, Guillaume 22
Appia, Adolphe 24–5, , 199
applause 169–71
Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford) 274–7,
archives 267–77
Artaud, Antonin 21
Aspelin-Haapkylä, Eliel 108, 112
Astley, John 215–16
Astley, Philip 212–15, 217, 219, 220, 221, 223
Aubignac, François Hédelin de 18, 20
audience 169–82, 273
and modernism 171–2
of Roman theatre 176–7
and worship 177–8
Azmy, Hazem 4
Balla, Giacomo 26–7
ballad operas 204–5
Ballet Guild 271
Ballets Russes 201, 270
Balten, Pieter 178–81
Baltic Circle 106
Bangladesh 157–8
Barba, Eugenio 186–8, , 194
Barbieri, Nicolò 18, 20
baroque 35–40, 68–9
in England 39–40
in Italy 35–9
Barthes, Roland 143
Baudrillard, Jean 288
Baugh, Christopher 60, 68
Bauhaus 201
Baxter, W. G. 254, 255–6
Bayreuth Festival 21
Beard, Thomas 234
Beatles 99
Beckett, Samuel 14, 154
Benda, Georg 46
Beni Suef 129–30
Benjamin, Walter 69, 267
Bernhardt, Sarah 169, 267
Bernstein, Leonard 207
Betterton, Thomas 247–9
Bial, Henry 283
Bibiena family 37–9, 45
Billington, Michael 91, 101
Bleasdale, Alan 97, 100–1
Blists Hill Victorian Town 285–6
Blom, Philip 267
body, history of 191–3
Boerenkirmes 178–81
Brandon, James 144
Bratton, Jacky 6, 291–2
Brecht, Bertolt 26, 29, 205
Brewer, John 44, 288
Bristol University Drama Department 272
Broadway 173, 197, 203, 206, 207
Brockett, Oscar 152, , 153
Brook, Peter 194
Brown, John Russell 15
bunraku 142
Burckhardt, Jacob 59
burlesque 205
Burton, Richard 252
Bush-Bailey, Gilli 146, 290–1
Cage, John 202
Canning, Charlotte 301
Canth, Minna 109
Carlson, Marvin 35, 91, 301, 309
Castil-Blaze 272
Centre for Asian Theatre 158
Chambers, E. K. 246
Charles II (England) 40, 217
Chigi, Agostino 27
chorus 80, 204
circus 210–23
regulation of 215–19
Circus Schumann 79, , 81
Circus Space 210
Cirque du Soleil 222
classical theatre 73–83, 176–7, 274–7
classicism 45–5, , 63, 75–9, , 80–1, 211–12
Cocteau, Jean 200–1
Comédie Française 270
commedia dell’arte 18, 44, 65–8, 69
Copeau, Jacques 136, 186
Covent Garden 39, 44, 272
Craig, Edward Gordon 25, 186
Cullen, Andrew 93
Cumberland, Richard 43
Dada 202
Dalcroze, Emile-Jacques 199
dance 271, 290
Davis, Tracy C. 283
De Beaul, Bal 199
De Loutherbourg, Philippe James 14, , 46–7, 49
De Witt, Johannes 63
Delcuvellerie, Jacques 184–5, 190
Deleuze, Gilles 157
Demosthenes 80
Devrient, Eduard 27
Diaghilev, Serge 201
Dibdin, Charles 217, 219
Diderot, Denis 14, 43–4,
digital humanities
See internet
Dionysian festivals 77, 267–8
See also Great Dionysia
Dionysus, theatre of 74
dō 138, 141
Dorset Gardens Theatre 40–2
dramatic literature 33
drawings 247–52
Dromgoole, Dominic 94
Drury Lane 14, 40–2, 47, 49
Ducrow, Andrew 214
Dullin, Charles 186
Durkheim, Emile 79
early modern period 63–5
e-book
See internet
Egypt 88, 116–33
Eisenstadt, Shmuel 140–1, 146
Elizabethan drama 62–3, 232–3
Elizabethan stage 40
Elizabethan Stage Society 14, 40
Enlightenment 27, 42–3
Esslin, Martin 15
Ethelwold (Bishop) 177
Everyman (theatre) 92, 93, 98–9, , 100
Evreinov, Nikolai 24
Farthing, Anna 294, 296
Fearon, Kevin 92, 98
Ferguson, Niall 3–4
Finland 88, 104
Finnish Theatre (company) 107–8
First World War 271
Fitzgerald, Percy 51
Florentine Camerata 198
Freedley, George 151
Frenckell, Ester-Margaret von 112,
Fried, Michael 43–4
Fuchs, Georg 17
Fumaroli, Mark 187
Gabrieli, Andrea 76
Garrick, David 14, 43, 46, 47
Gascoigne, Bamber 152
Gesamtkunstwerk 22, 26, 78, 201, 206
See also Wagner, Richard
Giddens, Anthony 141
Gielgud, John 252, 256–8, , 272
Gilbert and Sullivan 205
Glass, Philip 197
globalisation 69, 91–2, 159–60, 208
Globe Theatre 40, 287,
Shakespeare’s Globe 63, 258, 261
Glorious Revolution 42
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 21, 46
Goldoni, Carlo 17
Gombrich, Ernst 35
Google Books 302, 303, 309–10
Gove, Michael 3–4
Gozzi, Carlo 17
Great Dionysia 77
Green, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ 299, 303
Gropius, Walter
See Bauhaus
Grotowski, Jerzy 186, 187, , 189
Groupov
See Delcuvellerie, Jacques
Guattari, Félix 157
Hamdan, Gamal 116–17
Hammerstein, Oscar
See Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein
Harlan, Manuel 259
Harrison, Jane Ellen 79
Hauptfleisch, Temple 165, 309
Hazlitt, William 252
Helavuori, Hanna-Leena 110
Helsinki Festival 105
Hickling, Alfred 95
Hippisley Coxe, Antony 221
historical re-enactment 281–96
historiography 3–6, 9–12, 43, 184, 193–4, 239–42, 242–3
history, teaching of 3–4, 309
Hodgdon, Barbara 61
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von 28
Hotel Medea 273
Hrosvitha 13, 57
Hulfeld, Stefan 65
Ibsen, Henrik 14, 19
Infitah 130
Ingegneri, Angelo 22
intermezzo 35,
International Council on Archives 272
International Federation for Theatre Research 139, 151
internet 158–9, 299–312
Intimate Theatre
See Strindberg, August
Irving, Henry 34, 50–1, 253–4, 255–6
See also Lyceum Theatre
Ismail, Khedive 118–20,
Ivanov, Vyacheslav 19
Jackson, Anthony 284, 294
Japan 89, 136–46
Jarrett, Henry C. 207
Jarry, Alfred 14, 16
Johnson, Boris 96
Jones, Inigo 13, 39, 69, 249
Jonson, Ben 13, 69
Kabuki 142,
Kandinsky, Wassily 199
Kantor, Tadeusz 186, 187
kata 142
Kean, Edmund 252
Kelly, Frances Maria 292–3
Kemble, John Philip 252, 254–5, 256
Kennedy, Dennis 256
Kernodle, George 40, 42
Kershaw, Baz 304
Khedivial Opera House 119
Kindermann, Heinz 152
Kirby, Dave 94
Kittredge, G. L. 235, 236
Koo Koo
See Green, Elizabeth ‘Betty’
Koski, Pirkko 111, 113
Koskimies, Rafael 112
Kurtz, Ellie 259–61
Laban, Rudolf von 20–1, 277
Lanier, Jaron 308–9
Larkin, Jonathan 100
Lawless, Fred 95
Lawrence, Thomas
See Kemble, John Philip
Leahy, Helen Rees 284
Leary, Patrick 306
Lehár, Franz 29
Leigh Foster, Susan 290
Lessing, Gotthold 45
Leyhausen, Wilhelm 277
Licensing Act 14, 217
liturgical drama 177–8
liveness 299, 304
Liverpool 88, 91–101
Liverpool Playhouse 98, 99, 100
Liverpool Royal Court 92–6
London Charter for the computer-based visualisation of cultural heritage 305
Lyceum Theatre 50, 253, 292
Lyotard, Jean-François 190
Machiavelli, Niccolò 13, 58–9, 67, 75
Maclise, Daniel 250–2
Macready, William Charles 252
macrohistory 239–40, , 268
Maeterlinck, Maurice 19, 25
Magelssen, Scott 283
Mander and Mitchenson Collection 272
Mandler, Peter 220
Mantzius, Karl 150–1
Marlowe, Christopher 231, 232–8, 242
masque 39, 69
Mayer, David 258
McBean, Angus 256–8, 263
Medici family 13, 35
medieval drama 57–8, 177–8
Meiji restoration 136, 139
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix 76
meraviglia 35
Meyerhold, Vsevolod 14, 19–20, 25, 186
michi
See dō
microhistory 239, 240, 268
Miyao, Jiryō 140
Mnouchkine, Ariane 186
modernism 10–11, 15–30, 171–2, 199
modernism and modernity 11, 15–16, 17, 120
Monk, Meredith 197
Montague, Tony 210
Morozov, Evgeny 306
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 46, 198
Mubarak, Gamal 132
Mubarak, Hosni 116, 131–2,
Muir, Ramsay 98
Murphy, Arthur 46
Murray, Gilbert 79, 81
museums 269–70
music and musical theatre 197–208
music theatre 200–3
musical theatre 203–8
‘My Hotel Medea’ 273
Myllyaho, Mika 111
Nakazato, Toshiaki 140
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 127, 128–9
National Theatre (Helsinki) 109, 112,
National Theatre (London) 268
National Theatre Archive (London) 274
nationalism 269–71
naturalism 23
new historicism 64–5
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 273
Nicholas II (Russia) 108
Nicholl, Charles 238
Nicoll, Allardyce 150, 151
Nietzsche, Friedrich 14, 19, 78–9, , 192
nihonjinron 138, 143
See also Nitobe, Inazo
Nijinski, Vaslav 21
Nishino, Haruo 144–6
Nitobe, Inazo 143
Noh theatre 10, 136–46
Nunnery, Liz 99
objects 268–70
Odin Teatret
See Barba, Eugenio
Offenbach, Jacques 205
Oksanen, Sofi 111–12
opera
See under music theatre
Opera House (Berlin) 45
Opera House (Bordeaux) 45
Opéra (Paris) 270
opera seria 204
Paget, Derek 205
Palais Garnier 270
Palladio, Andrea 45–5, , 76
Palmer, Harry 207
Passion Plays 13, 57, 58
See also religion
Peacham drawing 246
Performance, Learning and Heritage research project 284
Phelan, Peggy 262
photography 253–61
Plautus 75
Poel, William 14, 39–40
See also Elizabethan Stage Society
Pompey, Theatre of 13
popular theatre 27–9, 197, 220–3, 299
Postlewait, Thomas 256, 301, ,
presentism 3, 293
Racine, Jean 13, 58
Rathbone, Philip 96
Ravisse, Paul 120
re-enactment 281–96
Rebellato, Dan 207
Reeves, John 151
Reiko, Yamanaka 141
Reinhardt, Max 14, 21, 79, 80–1
religion 13, 18, 56, 61–2
religion and politics 35, 42
religious drama 56, 57, 177–8
See also Passion Plays
Renaissance 34, 52, 58
Restoration (England) 40
rhizome 157
Ricketts, John Bill 222
Roach, Joseph 247, 252, 282, 290,
rococo 44, 45
Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein 204
Roman theatre 74–6, 176–7
romanticism 33–4, , 46–51, 214
Rosenthal, Harold 272
Rosenzweig, Roy 308
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 46
Rowe, Nicolas 247, 249,
Royal Circus (London) 213, 217–19,
Royal Dramatic Theatre (Stockholm) 169
Royal Opera House (London) 272
See also Covent Garden
Royer, Alphonse 150
Russian theatre 19–20
Sabbioneta 37
Sachsen-Meiningen, Georg Duke of 24, 34
Sadat, Anwar 130, 131, 132
Salzburg Festival 14, 21
Sannu, Yacub 121–3
Sarlos, Robert K. 286–7, , 288
Sarma 273
Savonlinna Opera Festival 106
Scala, Flaminio 13, 65–7
scenography 42, 44, 46–51
Schoenberg, Arnold 200
Schwartz, Anja 281
Sexton, James 98
Shakespeare, William 39, 49–50, 63, 65–8, 69
Hamlet 13, 67–9, , 247–62
Shakespeare’s Globe 258, 261, 287
Shehata, Hazem 129–31,
Shepherd, Simon 91, 101
Shils, Edward 140
shingeki 144
Silverstone, Catherine 262–3
Singleton, Brian 153–4,
Smeds, Kristian 110–11,
Société Internationale de la Danse 271
Society for Theatre Research 220, 272
Söderström, Elizabeth 171
Sondheim, Stephen 206
Sophocles 13, 14, 76
Southern, Richard 272
Spanish theatre 68
Speaight, George 220
spectatorship
See audience
stage design 34
scenography 42, 44, 46–51
stage lighting 34, 49–51, 254
Stanislavski, Konstantin 20, 24, 189
Stockhausen, Karlheinz 202
Stravinsky, Igor 197, 200
Strindberg, August 23, 171–2, 173
Stroud, Neil 210
Strutt, Joseph 220
Stuart court 39, 42
Sturm und Drang 23, 46
See also Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Suzuki, Tadashi 144
Swan Theatre (London) 63
Tagore, Rabindranath 157–8
Tahrir Square 133
Tampere Theatre Festival 106
Teatro Olimpico 13, 76, 176–7
television drama 97, 290–1
Terence 75
theatre architecture 34
baroque 37–9, 42
circus 211–12
classical 79, 80, 176
Noh 141
renaissance 60–1, 76
Theatre of Five Thousand
See under Max Reinhardt
Theatre Histories 70, 91, 140, 153, 159
Theatre Information Group 274
Theatre Royal (Bury St Edmunds) 287–8, 293
Thetard, Henry 221
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa 5
Thirty Years’ War 42
This Accursed Thing 284–5, 294
Tieck, Ludwig 76
Tin Pan Alley 206
Tiusanen, Timo 112, 113
Tocqueville, Alexis de 101
Tokugawa shogunate 139
Tokugawa, Iemitsu 139, 143
Toole Stott, Raymond 220
Topelius, Zachris 107
Union des Historiens du Cirque 221
Vega, Lope de 68
Vickery, Amanda 288–9
Victoria & Albert Museum 271
video 258, 263
Vitez, Antoine 186, 188, 194, 288
Vitruvius 76
Vollmoeller, Carl 81
Wagner, Richard 14, 19, 25, 27–8, 77–8, 201
Walker, Jonathan 294, 296
Walker, Lynne 95
Walvin, James 283–4
Wasfi, Huda 132
Weill, Kurt 205
West End 98, 197, 217
Wickham, Glynne 272
Wikipedia 281, 308, 309, ,
Willson Disher, Maurice 220
Winckelmann, Johann 78
Winet, Evan 156
Wöfflin, Heinrich 35
Wren, Christopher 42
Yokomichi, Mario 141
York pageants 58
See also Passion Plays
Younge, Gary 96
Youssef, Wahbi 123–4
YouTube 94, 303
Zeami Motokiyo 139, 144
Zola, Emile 23, 51, 14