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Performance Studies: An Introduction

By Richard Schechner


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March 11, 2020

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Performing Arts / Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography
Drama

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$110.95

Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance.

The publication ofPerformance Studies: An Introductionwas a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters, up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances, and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of performance studies. Among the book's topics are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games, social media, the performances of the paleolithic period, and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, poststructuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy, and aesthetics.Performance Studies: An Introductionfeatures the broadest and most in-depth analysis possible.

Performance Studies: An Introductionis the definitive overview for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, the performing arts, and cultural studies.

This new edition is also supported by a fully updated companion website, offering a variety of interactive resources, teaching tools, and research links.

Richard Schechneris a pioneer of performance studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright, he is University Professor of Performance Studies Emeritus at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and Editor ofTDR: The Journal ofPerformance Studies. Among his many books areEnvironmental Theater(1973),The End of Humanism(1982),Performance Theory(2003, Routledge),Between Theater and Anthropology(1985),The Futureof Ritual(1993, Routledge),Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture(2004), andPerformed Imaginaries(2015, Routledge). His books and essays have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the Enactments series published by Seagull Books. He founded The Performance Group, East Coast Artists, and East End Players and was a co-producing director of the Free Southern Theater and the New Orleans Group. He has directed theatre, led performance workshops, and lectured in the USA, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Sarah Lucieis a Ph.D. candidate in Theater and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center with an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her writing appears inThe Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics,PAJ,Puppetry International,ande-misférica.She also works as Assistant Editor forTDRand General Manager of East Coast Artists.

ISBN: 9781138284562
Format: Paperback
Pages: 382
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 11, 2020