Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age

Kim Solga is is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Western University, Canada. Her books include Performance and the City (2009), Performance and the Global City (2013), Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance (2009), and A Cultural History of Theatre: The Modern Age (Methuen Drama, 2017).

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Editor’s Acknowledgements Introduction: The Impossible Modern Age Kim Solga, Western University, Canada 1 Institutional Frameworks: Theatre, State, and Market in Modern Urban Performance Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary University of London, UK2 Social Functions: Consumers and Producers Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London, UK3 Sexuality and Gender: New Stories and New Spaces on the Modern Stage Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University, USA4 The Environment of Theatre: ‘Home’ in the Modern Age Kim Solga, Western University, Canada and Joanne Tompkins, The University of Queensland, Australia 5 Circulations: Visual Sovereignty, Transmotion, and TribalographyJill Carter, University of Tornoto, Canada, Heather Davis-Fisch,University of the Fraser Valley, USA and Ric Knowles, University of Guelph, Canada 6 Interpretations: The Stakes of Audience Interpretation in Twentieth-Century Political Theatre Dassia N. Posner, Northwestern University, USA7 Communities of Production: A Materialist Reading with an Offstage ViewChristin Essin,Vanderbilt University, USA and Marlis Schweitzer, York University, Canada 8 Genres and Repertoires: Redressing the Nation in Ireland and Japan Michelle Liu Carriger,University of California, Los Angeles , USA and Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of London, UK9 Technologies of Performance: Machinic Staging and Corporeal Choreographies Ashley Ferro-Murray, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Timothy Murray, Cornell University, USA10 Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory Sarah Bay-Cheng, Bowdoin College, USANotes Bibliography Index