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Theatre Histories

An Introduction

By: Daphne P. Lei,Tobin Nellhaus,Tamara Underiner,Patricia Ybarra

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Theatre Histories

An Introduction

By: Daphne P. Lei,Tobin Nellhaus,Tamara Underiner,Patricia Ybarra

This updated fourth edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often interacted. Bringing together a group of scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds and approaches to the history of global theater, this introduction to theatre history places theatre into its larger historical contexts and attends to communication’s role in shaping theatre. Its case studies provide deeper knowledge of selected topics in theater and drama, and its “Thinking Through Theatre Histories” boxes discuss important concepts and approaches used in the book. Features of the fully updated fourth edition include: Deeper coverage of East Asian and Latin American theater. Richer treatment of popular culture. More illustrations, photographs, and information about online resources. New case studies, include several written by authoritative scholars on the topic. Pronunciation guidance, both in the text and as audio files online. Timelines. An introduction on historiography. A website with additional case studies, a glossary, recordings of the pronunciation of important non-English terms, and instructor resources. A case studies library listing, including both those in print and online, for greater instructor choice and flexibility. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate courses in theatre history, world theatre and introduction to theatre, and anyone looking for a full and diverse account of the emergence, development, and continuing relevance of theatre to cultures and societies across the world.

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Taylor & Francis

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ISBN 10

1040046312

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9781040046319

Uncrossing the Borders

Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism

By: Daphne Lei

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Uncrossing the Borders

Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism

By: Daphne Lei

Over many centuries, women on the Chinese stage committed suicide in beautiful and pathetic ways just before crossing the border for an interracial marriage. Uncrossing the Borders asks why this theatrical trope has remained so powerful and attractive. The book analyzes how national, cultural, and ethnic borders are inevitably gendered and incite violence against women in the name of the nation. The book surveys two millennia of historical, literary, dramatic texts, and sociopolitical references to reveal that this type of drama was especially popular when China was under foreign rule, such as in the Yuan (Mongol) and Qing (Manchu) dynasties, and when Chinese male literati felt desperate about their economic and political future, due to the dysfunctional imperial examination system. Daphne P. Lei covers border-crossing Chinese drama in major theatrical genres such as zaju and chuanqi, regional drama such as jingju (Beijing opera) and yueju (Cantonese opera), and modernized operatic and musical forms of such stories today.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472131370

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9780472131372

Uncrossing the Borders

Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism

By: Daphne Lei

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Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism

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Operatic China

Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific

By: D. Lei

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Operatic China

Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific

By: D. Lei

In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349736937

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9781349736935

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