Also available as an e-reference edition in Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
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| - 'Global in scope, authoritative in detail, and generous in coverage,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
will be the standard work of reference in the field for decades to come. Coordinating the efforts of an international team of advisory editors and over three-hundred specialist contributors, Dennis Kennedy has gathered together in two volumes thousands of reasons why the
many varieties of theatrical performance have long been so important to the world and why, now more than ever, they ought to remain so. Joseph Roach, Professor of Theatre and English Yale University
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This book is uniquely comprehensive and, to anyone at all interested in theatre, pretty well indispensable. What's more it's highly readable. Sir Richard Eyre, former Director, RNT
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'Will set the standard for decades ... the great strength of this work is its global nature.' Library Journal
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| Description | | - The most comprehensive reference work of the world's performing arts
- 2 volumes, 4300 A-Z entries
- Original, signed articles by more than 300 international contributors such as Peter Holland and Brooks McNamara
- International approach with in-depth coverage of non-Western forms
- Also available as e-reference in the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf series please visit www.oxford-theatreandperformance.com
| The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
is an unparalleled resource, providing comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information about theatre and performance internationally, through history and in the present in an accessible format. Available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf, the 4,300 entries total well over a million words and
are complemented by over 100 illustrations. Coverage ranges from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. The Encyclopedia
pays special attention to non-Western styles through articles on theatre and performance throughout the many countries and traditions of Asia and Africa, often written by practitioners or critics from those areas.
Dance, opera, performance art, radio, film, and television are covered at length. The Encyclopedia
also embraces para-theatrical, non-drammatic, and popular performance, including ritual, carnivals, parades, the circus, and public executions. Biographical entries cover the lives and work of major figures from the past and present: actors, playwrights, directors, designers, and critics.
Innovative entries on cities and regions place performance in its local social and political context.
A particular feature of the Encyclopedia
is the series of entries on concepts, theories, and critical approaches to theatre and performance, from short definitions of terms to lengthy considerations of genres, and from detailed discussion of movements such as feminism and psychoanalytic
criticism to discussions of semiotics and post-colonial studies. While remaining thoroughly accessible in language and approach, the Encyclopedia
takes advantage of the theoretical and historiographical developments in the field, using signed entries by the best scholars and writers available.
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Readership: The readership of the Encyclopedia will be international, mainly in North America, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, Japan. Its major market will be university and college libraries worldwide. Potential readers include academic specialists and students in theatre and performance, and in film, literature, languages, anthropology, and sociology; theatre practitioners, critics, journalists, and general readers interested in the theatre.
| Contents |
Volume 1
Preface and principles
Acknowledgements
Thematic Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Editors and Contributors
THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE A-K
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Volume 2
Key to Contributor Initials
Note to the Reader
THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE M-Z
Timeline
Further Reading
Index of Dramatic Works
Picture Acknowledgements
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Dennis Kennedy, Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
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