Performing Eighteenth-Century Theatre — chapter downloads

INTRODUCTION:
Performing Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Discourses, Practices, Artefacts (Magnus Tessing Schneider and Meike Wagner)

PART A: Theoretical Perspectives

    • 1. On a Praxeology of Theatre Historiography (Meike Wagner)
    • 2. Aesthetic Historicity (Willmar Sauter)
      3. Adequate Rhetorical Delivery when Staging Premodernity: A Combination of Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches (Jette barnholdt Hansen)
      4. Some Reflections on Historically Informed Performance (Magnus Tessing Schneider)
      5. Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos and the Search for an Affective Practice (Mark Tatlow)

PART B: Practical Perspectives

    • 1. Materiality in Action: Costume and Light on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (Petra Dotlačilová)
    • 2. Rousseau’s Pygmalion as Research on Stage: From Theory to Practice and Back Again (Maria Gullstam)
      3. Costume in the Age of Rousseau and the Case of Pygmalion (Petra Dotlačilová)
      4. Swimming in the Water of Theatrical Conventions: The Performers’ Perspective (Laila Cathleen Neuman and João Luís Paixão in conversation with Willmar Sauter and Magnus Tessing Schneider)
      5. From the General to the Specific: The Musical Director’s Perspective (Mark Tatlow in conversation with Magnus Tessing Schneider)

PART C: Performing on the Drottningholm Stage

    • 1. An Aesthetics of Absence: Don Giovanni at Drottningholm, August 2016 (Willmar Sauter)
      2. Performing in Historical Theatre Sites: Frames, Potentials, Challenges (Meike Wagner)
      3. Presenting the Theatre of Drottningholm (David Wiles)

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