Overview

This collection of essays explores the intersections between theater as text, theater as performance, and theater as pedagogy. The theory of performance and the practice of theater as it can be done, taught, and conceptualized in academia bring together these three different paths, in a volume that can be equally useful to theater practitioners, to teachers of dramatic texts, and to students, scholars, and teachers of theater seen both as literature and as practice.

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In the course of my twenty-year career in academe I have rarely come across a collection of essays so various in approach and configuration, and yet so unified in spirit, so equal in their devotion to the subject of Theater. Whether they deal with theater as literature, they are interested in theater as performance, or they approach it from the pedagogical standpoint, and whether they discuss dramatic theory or address instead the practices of drama, all the contributors to this volume believe, quite firmly and passionately, in the teaching value, indeed in the life-changing power of Theater. Their articles illustrate the ways in which they avail themselves of that power in their work, to make a difference in the classroom and/or on the stage...--Francesca Savoia

In the course of my twenty-year career in academe I have rarely come across a collection of essays so various in approach and configuration, and yet so unified in spirit, so equal in their devotion to the subject of Theater.Whether they deal with theater as literature, they are interested in theater as performance, or they approach it from the pedagogical standpoint, and whether they discuss dramatic theory or address instead the practices of drama, all the contributors to this volume believe, quite firmly and passionately, in the teaching value, indeed in the life-changing power of Theater. Their articles illustrate the ways in which they avail themselves of that power in their work, to make a difference in the classroom and/or on the stage.--Francesca Savoia

Author Information

Domnica Radulescu is Professor of French and Italian Literatures at Washington and Lee University. Maria Stadter Fox earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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