A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age

Kim Solga is is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Western University, Canada. Her books include Performance and the City (2009), Performance and the Global City (2013), Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance (2009), and A Cultural History of Theatre: The Modern Age (Methuen Drama, 2017).

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Introduction: The Impossible Modern Age
Kim Solga, Western University, Canada

1 Institutional Frameworks: Theatre, State, and Market in Modern Urban Performance
Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary University of London, UK

2 Social Functions: Consumers and Producers
Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London, UK

3 Sexuality and Gender: New Stories and New Spaces on the Modern Stage
Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University, USA

4 The Environment of Theatre: ‘Home’ in the Modern Age
Kim Solga, Western University, Canada and Joanne Tompkins, The University of Queensland, Australia

5 Circulations: Visual Sovereignty, Transmotion, and Tribalography
Jill Carter, University of Tornoto, Canada, Heather Davis-Fisch,University of the Fraser Valley, USA and Ric Knowles, University of Guelph, Canada

6 Interpretations: The Stakes of Audience Interpretation in Twentieth-Century Political Theatre
Dassia N. Posner, Northwestern University, USA

7 Communities of Production: A Materialist Reading with an Offstage View
Christin Essin,Vanderbilt University, USA and Marlis Schweitzer, York University, Canada

8 Genres and Repertoires: Redressing the Nation in Ireland and Japan
Michelle Liu Carriger,University of California, Los Angeles , USA and Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of London, UK

9 Technologies of Performance: Machinic Staging and Corporeal Choreographies
Ashley Ferro-Murray, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Timothy Murray, Cornell University, USA

10 Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory
Sarah Bay-Cheng, Bowdoin College, USA


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