Anmerkungen:
Aus dem Vorwort: . A symposium dedicated to this topic was supposed to be held at our institution in March 2020 titled ‘Theatre History as a History of Performance Spaces and Stage Technologies: A Comparative Perspective’. However, the pandemic prevented the event from coming to fruition. Since the researchers were unable to gather and exchange thoughts in a physical place, they had at least two alternatives: meet in virtual space such as Zoom and/or to condense their ideas into an extremely small (or electronic) space known as an (e-)book and offer it for public discussion. We have chosen the second option, and hence, this was how the present volume came into being
Beschreibung:
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
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