Real Animals on the Stage

ISBN-13: 9780367344665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 110 str.

Teresa Grant; Ignacio Ramos-Gay; Claudia Alonso Recarte

Opis

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Theatre and Performance.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: real animals on the stage Teresa Grant, Ignacio Ramos Gay, and Claudia Alonso Recarte 2. ‘A pleasant tragicomedy, the cat being scap’t’?: William Sampson’s The Vow Breaker (1636) and the instability of genre Teresa Grant 3. ‘Des singes, c’était le narcisse’: class, imitation and performing monkeys in late-eighteenth century Paris Ignacio Ramos-Gay 4. Replacing injured horses, cross-dressing and dust: modernist circus technologies in Asia Peta Tait 5. There is a whale in the room: Pina Bausch’s animals on stage Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 6. Animals in socially engaged performance practice: becomings on the edges of extinction Lourdes Orozco 7. ‘When the animal cannot keep up a good appearance it had better go out of the room’: vivisection and theatricality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Claudia Alonso Recarte