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100 1 _aWiles, David,
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245 1 2 _aA short history of Western performance space /
_cDavid Wiles.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2003.
300 _aix, 316 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-308) and index.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tSacred space --
_g3.
_tProcessional space --
_g4.
_tPublic space --
_g5.
_tSympotic space --
_g6.
_tThe cosmic circle --
_g7.
_tThe cave --
_g8.
_tThe empty space.
520 1 _a"This book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a divers set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history. Drawing on the cultural geography of Henri Lefebvre, the book identifies theatrical performances as spatial practices characteristic of particular social structures. It is not a history of contexts for dramatic literature, but the history of an activity rooted in bodies and environments. Wiles uses this historical material to address a pressing concern of the present: is theatre better performed in modern architect-designed, apparently neutral empty spaces, or characterful 'found' spaces?"--BOOK JACKET.
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