Entertaining Children
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan Limited |
| ISBN-13 | 9781137305466 |
| Open Library | OL20679647W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 2014 - 2014 |
| Language | EN |
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History is a series devoted to the best of theatre/performance scholarship currently available, accessible, and free of jargon. It strives to include a wide range of topics, from the more traditional to those performance forms that in recent years have helped broaden the understanding of what theatre as a category might include (from variety forms as diverse as the circus and burlesque to street buskers, stage magic, and musical theatre, among many others). Although historical, critical, or analytical studies are of special interest, more theoretical projects, if not the dominant thrust of a study, but utilized as important underpinning or as a historiographical or analytical method of exploration, are also of interest. Textual studies of drama or other types of less traditional performance texts are also germane to the series if placed in their cultural, historical, social, or political and economic context. There is no geographical focus for this series and works of excellence of a diverse and international nature, including comparative studies, are sought
Children and Youth of the Empire
D uring the first decade of the twentieth century theatrical troupes that comprised child performers were a feature of the transnational touring routes throughout Australasia and “the East,” as the vast territory north of Australia to Shanghai, and west to the subcontinent of India was colloquially termed. Often referred to as “lilliputian” or “juvenile” companies this type of performance was a phenomenon particular to the historical moment, the …
Entertaining Children
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History is a series devoted to the best of theatre/performance scholarship currently available, accessible, and free of jargon. It strives to include a wide range of topics, from the more traditional to those performance forms that in recent years have helped broaden the understanding of what theatre as a category might include (from variety forms as diverse as the circus and burlesque to street buskers…
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Children and Youth of the Empire
D uring the first decade of the twentieth century theatrical troupes that comprised child performers were a feature of the transnational touring routes throughout Australasia and “the East,” as the vast territory north of Australia to Shanghai, and west to the subcontinent of India was colloquially termed. Often referred to as “lilliputian” or “juvenile” companies this type of performance was a phenomenon particular to the historical moment, the …
Entertaining Children
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History is a series devoted to the best of theatre/performance scholarship currently available, accessible, and free of jargon. It strives to include a wide range of topics, from the more traditional to those performance forms that in recent years have helped broaden the understanding of what theatre as a category might include (from variety forms as diverse as the circus and burlesque to street buskers…