Edited by Dennis Kennedy
over 4,300 entries
This encyclopedia provides authoritative and up-to-date information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions. Entries range from short definitions of terms to lengthy considerations of genres and movements, such as feminism and psychoanalytic criticism. Entries on cities and regions place performance in its local social and political context. Written in accessible language, this encyclopedia brings together an international cast of over 300 specialist contributors.
Dennis Kennedy is Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, and head of the School of Drama, at Trinity College, Dublin. His award-winning publications include
Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre,
Looking at Shakespeare: a visual history of twentieth-century performance, and
Foreign Shakespeare.
e-reference edition ISBN: 0198610963
Print edition ISBN: 0198601743
Print edition publication date: 2003
Publishing history: First published 2003
Copyright: © Oxford University Press 2003, 2005
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