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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'Naming Theatre offers readers a comprehensive understanding of how names populate theatre and how they structure knowledge about a play. This book is an important contribution to the field...[and] prompts theatre scholars to expand the discourse related to their work (something which is frequently ignored) by establishing ways of questioning it.' - Stella Keramida, Platform
''Naming' is James Frieze's key term in a critique of identity and identification, which he sees as both a theme and a technique in contemporary theatre and performance... The book's strength and its substance is the exegesis of text and performance, through an ingenious variety of examples of naming as a process which embeds the subject in language, or alternatives strategies which manipulate naming to satirize or escape from such an inscription. It is the level of detail and the application of a mutating but consistent insight that is impressive here, and the book will be as useful as a collection of performance analyis as for its overall thesis.' - Gareth White, NTQ
About the author
JAMES FRIEZE is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He devises and directs new works for the stage and site-specific adaptations of novels, magazines, and virtual worlds. He has contributed to various journals, and is currently
writing books on Ping Chong, and (with Anita Gonzalez) on diasporic performance in Liverpool and New York.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Naming Theatre
Book Subtitle: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance
Authors: James Frieze
Series Title: Performance Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245709
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-51770-7Published: 16 October 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24570-9Published: 16 October 2009
Series ISSN: 2947-5600
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 215
Topics: Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, Performing Arts