Author : David Wiles
Release : 2003-10-02
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 744/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Short History of Western Performance Space by : David Wiles
Download or read book A Short History of Western Performance Space written by David Wiles. This book was released on 2003-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative 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 diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.