Theory/Theatre

This edition of Theory/Theatre is a highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism, through to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies, queer and feminist theories.

This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism, through to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies, queer and feminist theories.

Key updates to the new edition include further perspectives and expanded content on:

• Technology, audience reception and liveness

• Further examinations of feminism, transgender and gender theory, as well as queer theory

• Disability studies

• Critical Race Theory

• Decolonization

• Intersectionality

• Critical Phenomenology

Bringing contemporary voices and examples to light, author Mark Fortier introduces the ways in which established and emerging theories can interact with theatre and performance.

This is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance studies.

Autorentext

Mark Fortier is a Professor in the School of Theatre, English and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is co-editor of Adaptations of Shakespeare (Routledge 2000) and his research interests include Shakespeare, the intersections of law and literature, and looking at how theory interacts with theatre studies.

Klappentext

This edition of Theory/Theatre is a highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism, through to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies, queer and feminist theories.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Theatre, Body, Life and Language

Semiotics

Phenomenology

Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction

Cognitive Theory

Chapter 2 Subjectivity and Theatre

Psychoanalytic Theory

Gender Theories

Intersectionality

Reader-Response and Reception Theory

Chapter 3 World and Theatre

Materialist Theory

Postmodern Theory

Post-Colonial Theory

Critical Race Theory

Glossary

Bibliography

Index