A Short History of Western Performance Space

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Cambridge University Press, Oct 2, 2003 - Drama - 316 pages
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.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Sacred space
23
Processional space
63
Public space
92
Sympotic space
131
The cosmic circle
163
The cave
207
The empty space
240
Notes
267
Select bibliography
303
Index
309
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