Eleanor Chadwick

Historically Responsive Storytelling

How Contemporary Western Theatre is Rediscovering its Roots

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9780367547240
• ISBN-10: 0367547244
• Artikelnr.: 73484156

Autorenporträt

Eleanor Chadwick is a researcher and theatre maker currently working with Watershed Pervasive Media Studio and University of Bristol on a MyWorld Fellowship. She is also Artistic Director of Sleight of Hand theatre company, and a postdoctoral associate in Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Warwick, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: Looking Back: Tracing Theatre's Roots
Chapter 1. Reaching for the Unknowable: the Human need for Ritual
Chapter 2. A Flexible Superstructure: Macrocosm/Microcosm and the Medieval
Worldview
Chapter 3. The Power of Archetype: Universal-General and
Historical-Specific
Chapter 4. Time and Space: Hierophany and Imaginative Flexibility
PART TWO: Moving Forward: New Historically-Responsive Methods
Chapter 5. The Sacred Body-as-Text: from Medieval to Avant-Garde
Chapter 6. Seeking Immersion, Finding Connection: the Contemporary Theatre
Chapter 7. Theatre in Times of Crisis: the Power of Ancient Forms in
Collective Processing
Bibliography
Index