Theatre history and historiography : ethics, evidence and truth / edited by Claire Cochrane and Jo Robinson.
Cochrane, Claire, editor.; Robinson, Joanna, 1967- editor.
2016
PN2115
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Title Theatre history and historiography : ethics, evidence and truth / edited by Claire Cochrane and Jo Robinson.
ISBN 9781137457288 (electronic book)
1137457287 (electronic book)
9781137457271
1137457279
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number PN2115
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.09
Summary This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.
Note Based on essays presented at the a meeting of the TaPRA History and Historiography Working Group convened on the topic of "Ethics and Evidence" at Birmingham University in 2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Cochrane, Claire, editor.
Robinson, Joanna, 1967- editor.
Available in Other Form Theatre history and historiography
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Claire Cochrane and Jo Robinson: Introduction
Re-writing (master) narratives. David Roberts: Writing the ethical life: theatrical biography and the case of Thomas Betterton
Rosemarie Bank : Ethics and bias: historiography and anti-theatrical prejudice in nineteenth-century America
Viv Gardner: In the eye of the beholder: recognising and renegotiating the scenario in writing performance histories
"Other" histories. Katherine Newey: Feminist historiography and ethics: a case study from Victorian Britain
Poonam Trivedi: Garrison theatre in colonial India: issues of variation
Claire Cochrane: Facing the face of the other: the case of the Nia Centre
The ethics of evidence. Alison Jeffers: Collecting and re-collecting: the challenges and possibilities of developing a social archive in post-conflict Northern Ireland
Heike Roms: Mind the gaps: evidencing performance and performing evidence in performance art history.

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