Performance Studies by Richard Schechner

Performance Studies by Richard Schechner

Features chapters with examples and biographies that provide an overview of the range of performance for undergraduates at all levels in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. This book includes: student activities to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion; and, line drawings and photographs.

'This isn't merely the musings of a theatre director who never stops innovatingIt is a global thinker's striking, historic way of understanding human nature from a surprisingly practical perspective, which can be adapted in countless areas at numerous levels.' – Sun Huizhu, Professor of Drama, Shanghai Theatre Academy

'The text is very cleverly put together with a clear idea of how its features contribute to the reading of the material. I frankly cannot imagine it being done better.' – Simon Shepherd, Central School of Speech and Drama, London

'A very effective summary of a lifetime of major creative and scholarly experiment.' – New Theatre Quarterly

Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of Public Domain (1969), Environmental Theater (1973), The End of Humanism (1982), Performance Theory (2003, Routledge), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), The Future of Ritual (1993, Routledge), and Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture (2004). His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Serbo-Croat, German, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the co-editor of the Enactments series published by Seagull Books.

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ISBN 13	9780415372466
ISBN 10	0415372461
Title	Performance Studies
Author	Richard Schechner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2006-04-28
Number of pages	351
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