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Theatre History and Historiography

Ethics, Evidence and Truth

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  1. Claire Cochrane

    1. University of Worcester, UK

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  2. Jo Robinson

    1. University of Nottingham, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Claire Cochrane, Jo Robinson
      Pages 1-29

  3. Re-Writing (Master) Narratives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Writing the Ethical Life

      • David Roberts
      Pages 33-47

    3. Ethics and Bias

      • Rosemarie K. Bank
      Pages 48-59

    4. In the Eye of the Beholder

      • Viv Gardner
      Pages 60-81

  4. ‘Other’ Histories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Feminist Historiography and Ethics

      • Katherine Newey
      Pages 85-102

    3. Garrison Theatre in Colonial India

      • Poonam Trivedi
      Pages 103-120

    4. Facing the Face of the Other

      • Claire Cochrane
      Pages 121-143

  5. The Ethics of Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Recollecting and Re-Collecting

      • Alison Jeffers
      Pages 147-162

    3. Mind the Gaps

      • Heike Roms
      Pages 163-181

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 182-205
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About this book

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.

Reviews

“There are well-crafted and provocative essays here, and the foregrounding of ethical questions makes the volume a potentially useful companion to other anthologies … . The collection will be of interest to postgraduate students and scholars of theatre history, and some essays could be assigned to advanced undergraduates.” (David Calder, Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 28 (1), 2018)



“The focus of the present collection is, as signaled by the subtitle, squarely on ethics and evidence … . they are held together by an impressively coherent and sustained engagement with a set of ethical challenges posed by the alterity of theatre-historical evidence. This volume firmly establishes ethics on the theatre-historiographical agenda.” (Christopher Balme, Theatre Notebook, Vol. 71 (1), February, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Worcester, UK

    Claire Cochrane

  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Jo Robinson

About the editors

David Roberts, Birmingham City University, UK Rosemarie K. Bank, Kent State University, USA Viv Gardner, University of Manchester, UK Katherine Newey, University of Exeter, UK Poonam Trivedi, University of Delhi, India Alison Jeffers, University of Manchester, UK Heike Roms, Aberystwyth University, UK

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