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Theatre/Performance Historiography for the 2020s: A Review Essay - The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx. London and New York: Routledge, 2021; pp. xxi + 495, 63 illustrations. $250 cloth, $52.95 e-book.
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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx. London and New York: Routledge, 2021; pp. xxi + 495, 63 illustrations. $250 cloth, $52.95 e-book.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2021
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5 Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the autonomous German discipline of theatre studies back to the work of Max Herrmann in 1918 in The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies, ed. Minou Arjomand and Ramona Mosse, trans. Minou Arjomand (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2014), 12–13.
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8 Carlson, Marvin, Performance: A Critical Introduction (1996; 3d ed., London: Routledge, 2017)Google Scholar. Compare a more theatre-oriented UK frame of reference in Thinking through Theatre and Performance, ed. Maaike Bleeker et al. (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019). The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science, ed. Rick Kemp and Bruce McConachie (London: Routledge, 2019) likewise works with a more theatre-related definition.
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17 See What Is Adaptive about Adaptive Memory?, ed. Bennett L. Schwartz et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
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