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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Author’s preface
• Editors’ preface
• Prologue Is everything theatre?
• Note
• Central concepts of theatre and performance research
• Chapter 1 The concept of theatre
• Further Reading
• On the “Theatrum Mundi”
• On Theatre and Science
• On Theatricality
• Notes
• Chapter 2 The history of the discipline
• Further Reading
• On Theatre and Performance Studies
• Chapter 3 The concept of performance
• Bodily Co-presence
• The Transience of Performances
• Spatiality
• Corporeality
• Tonality
• Rhythm
• The Emergence of Meaning
• The Event-ness of Performance as Experienced by the Spectator
• Further Reading
• On Performance and Performativity
• On Theories of Acting
• On Performance Spaces
• On Ritual and Liminality
• Notes
• Methodologies
• Chapter 4 Performance analysis
• Perception
• Memory
• Articulation
• The Practice of Analysis
• Research Questions
• Methodologies
• Phenomenological Approaches
• Semiotic Approaches
• Performance Analysis: A Case Study
• Excursus: Performance and Drama
• Further Reading
• On Memory
• On Semiotics
• On Phenomenology
• Chapter 5 Theatre historiography
• Theoretical Considerations
• Performance Genres and the Concept of Theatre
• Conceptions of History
• Periodization
• Historiographic Praxis
• Questions
• Sources
• Methodologies
• Further Reading
• On Historiography
• On Theatre History and Historiography
• On Affect
• Notes
• Chapter 6 Theorizing theatre and performance
• What Do We Mean by “Theory”?
• The Concept of Theory
• Concepts
• Applying and Validating Theories
• Developing Theories
• Transforming Existing Theories
• Testing Theories
• Theory and Practice
• Further Reading
• On the Concept of Theory
• Performance as Research
• Pushing boundaries
• Chapter 7 Interweaving performance cultures
• Processes of Interweaving Performance Cultures
• Interweaving in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
• “Kabuki” on European Tour
• The Hanamichi in Berlin
• The Productive Reception of European Theatre in Japan
• Interweaving Performance Cultures since the 1970s
• Local and Global Theatres
• Further Reading
• On Non-European Theatre Traditions
• On Intercultural Theatre and Interweaving Performance Cultures
• On Postcolonialism
• Chapter 8 Performing the arts
• Theatre and the Other Arts
• The Relationship Between the Arts in Performance
• The Performative Turn in the Arts
• Intermediality and Hybridization
• New Digital Media
• Further Reading
• On Media
• On Interart
• Chapter 9 Cultural performances
• New Transformative Aesthetics or Applied Theatre?
• Cultural Performances
• Staging and Performance
• Crossovers Between Different Genres
• Further Reading
• Transformative Aesthetics
• Cultural Performance
• Applied Theatre
• Epilogue Not everything is theatre
• Bibliography
• Index of names and performance groups
• Subject index
• Index of works