An edition of Signs of performance (1996)

Signs of performance

an introduction to twentieth-century theatre

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An edition of Signs of performance (1996)

Signs of performance

an introduction to twentieth-century theatre

Signs of Performance provides the student with working examples of theatrical analysis. It ranges across the spectrum of twentieth-century theatre, covering practitioners as diverse as Stanislavski and Brecht, Samuel Beckett and Robert Wilson.

Colin Counsell takes a historical look at theatre as a cultural practice, clearly tracing connections between key practitioners' own ideas about performance; the theatrical practices prompted by those ideas; the resulting signs which emerge in performance; the meanings and political consequences of those signs.

Signs of Performance is the first book to answer the question 'How does theatre work?'. It provides an understandable, theoretical framework for the study of theatre as a signifying practice and offers vivid explanations in clear, direct language. This book tells you everything you want to know about how performance works, and opens up this fascinating field to a broad audience.

Publish Date
Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Pages
242

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.

Published in
London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792/.014
Library of Congress
PN2041.S45 C68 1996, PN2041.S45C68 1996, PN2041.S45 C68 1996eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 242 p. ;
Number of pages
242

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL801330M
Internet Archive
signsofperforman0000coun
ISBN 10
0415106427, 0415106435
LCCN
95037692
OCLC/WorldCat
861199958, 32968801
Library Thing
1860683
Goodreads
3105138
3779737

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