A Short History of Western Performance Space
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-02
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521012744
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.