- 238 pages
- English
- PDF
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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
About this book
Theatre has engaged with science since its beginnings in Ancient Greece. The intersection of the two disciplines has been the focus of increasing interest to scholars and students. The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science gives readers a sense of this dynamic field, using detailed analyses of plays and performances covering a wide range of areas including climate change and the environment, technology, animal studies, disease and contagion, mental health, and performance and cognition. Identifying historical tendencies that have dominated theatre's relationship with science, the volume traces many periods of theatre history across a wide geographical range. It follows a simple and clear structure of pairs and triads of chapters that cluster around a given theme so that readers get a clear sense of the current debates and perspectives.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Objectivity and Observation
- 2 Staging Consciousness: Metaphor as Thought Experiment in McBurney's Beware of Pity
- 3 The Experimental/Experiential Stage: Extreme States of Being of and Knowing in the Theatre
- 4 A Cave, a Skull, and a Little Piece of Grit: Theatre in the Anthropocene
- 5 The Play at the End of the World: Deke Weaver's Unreliable Bestiary and the Theatre of Extinction
- 6 Bodies of Knowledge: Theatre and Medical Science
- 7 Pathogenic Performativity: Urban Contagion and Fascist Affect
- 8 Theatres of Mental Health
- 9 Devised Theatre and the Performance of Science
- 10 Theatre and Science as Social Intervention
- 11 Acting and Science
- 12 Staging Cognition: How Performance Shows Us How We Think
- 13 Clouds and Meteors: Recreating Wonder on the Early Modern Stage
- 14 'The Stage Hand's Lament': Scenography, Technology, and Off-Stage Labour
- Index
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