Historically Responsive Storytelling

ISBN-13: 9780367547172 / Twarda / 2023 / 336 str.

Eleanor Chadwick

Opis

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview.

Spis treści

　

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE: Looking Back: Tracing Theatre’s Roots

Chapter 1. Reaching for the Unknowable: the Human need for Ritual

Chapter 2. A Flexible Superstructure: Macrocosm/Microcosm and the Medieval Worldview

Chapter 3. The Power of Archetype: Universal-General and Historical-Specific

Chapter 4. Time and Space: Hierophany and Imaginative Flexibility

PART TWO: Moving Forward: New Historically-Responsive Methods

Chapter 5. The Sacred Body-as-Text: from Medieval to Avant-Garde

Chapter 6. Seeking Immersion, Finding Connection: the Contemporary Theatre

Chapter 7. Theatre in Times of Crisis: the Power of Ancient Forms in Collective Processing

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Eleanor Chadwick is Programme Leader of Performing Arts at Plymouth Marjon University, and Postdoctoral Associate in Theatre Studies at University of Warwick, UK.