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Performing Literary HistoryPlaying with Seventeenth-Century Dramatic Types

Performing Literary HistoryPlaying with Seventeenth-Century Dramatic Types This article charts the collaborative production of a play designed to show that performing literary history enables students' perception of history as process and performance. The play Before & After highlighted conventions of seventeenth-century prologues, epilogues, and gendered theatrical performance techniques through students' performances and participation in a postproduction survey. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

Performing Literary HistoryPlaying with Seventeenth-Century Dramatic Types

Ritchie, Leslie; Fisher, Judith W.
Pedagogy , Volume 11 (3) – Oct 1, 2011
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1531-4200
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Abstract

This article charts the collaborative production of a play designed to show that performing literary history enables students' perception of history as process and performance. The play Before & After highlighted conventions of seventeenth-century prologues, epilogues, and gendered theatrical performance techniques through students' performances and participation in a postproduction survey.

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Pedagogy – Duke University Press

Published: Oct 1, 2011

References

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    Campbell, Lily B.
  • Feminist Performance as Feminist Historiography
    Canning, Charlotte
  • Theatre History and Historiography: A Disciplinary Mandate
    Postlewait, Thomas
  • A History of Costuming on the English Stage between 1660 and 1823
    Campbell, Lily B.
  • Feminist Performance as Feminist Historiography
    Canning, Charlotte
  • Theatre History and Historiography: A Disciplinary Mandate
    Postlewait, Thomas