Playing with the past: the politics of historiographic theatre

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Playing with the past: the politics of historiographic theatre

This thesis explores theatre's capacity to act as a medium for the 'production' of history. Proposing a theoretical model capable of accommodating this significantly underexplored function of contemporary drama, I adapt recent developments in the debates over textual historiography to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Haddow, Sam
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	Theatre politics history
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27967/

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