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Troubling Traditions

Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US

Matthew Moore editor Lindsey Mantoan editor Angela Schiller editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Nov '21

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Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to the wide array of debates around dramatic canons.

Unlike Literature and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon. Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation, and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field’s relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by this book on the canon interrogate the field’s fundamental values, and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute this discipline.

This is a vital text for anyone considering the role, construction, and impact of canons in the US and beyond.

ISBN: 9780367468309

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

314 pages