Covering 5 sections of the theatre this sourcebook will look at the evolution of the modern era of theatre beginning in the 19th Century. The 5 sections span; Naturalism and Symbolism, The Historical Avant-Garde, Early Political Theatre, The Performance of Ideology and Contemporary Performance. Featuring extracts from theoretical writings and reviews, parts of plays and introductions by the editors Maggie B Gale and John Deeney. Professor Maggie Gale is the chair of Drama at Manchester University and has had two books already printed on woman within theatre and contributed to several books on the history of theatre. John Deeney is the head of Drama at MMU, Manchester Metropolitan University, and has written books on Mark Ravenhill and is very well respected in his field. This book looks to be a must for many students as well as those interested in the history of the theatre. Perhaps this will be another essential textbook for anyone studying drama although there are plenty out there already, I believe that books like this which annotate and analyse other sources are a boon for any student but to a certain extent cannot match the freedom and experience of finding theories and techniques through reading as much material as possible. So yes its good there is another book that gives us this sort of information but don’t we need our theatre students to research more themselves? In closing I will say that my opinion above is not a knock on the editors or Routledge themselves just on the fact that these sorts of books should be the start of someones research and not the only source of research which ultimately has been my experience of many students work.
Out on the 4th of August it is available at amazon.co.uk in paperback here for the price of: £28.49 and FREE delivery
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