Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide-ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to think about performance, through to the diverse and interrelated concerns required of higher-level study.

Case studies throughout the book root its discussion of how to study theatre with specific examples.This is the most comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the field available, written by one of its foremost scholars.

Author: Erika Fischer-Lichte
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/24/2014
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.37w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780415504201


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2014 pg. 457

About the Author

Erika Fischer-Lichte　is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and Chair of the Institute for Advanced Studies on "Interweaving Cultures in Performance" founded in 2008. Among her many publications are　Global Ibsen. Performing Multiple Modernities　(2010),　The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics　(2008, German 2004), and　Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual. Exploring Forms of Political Theatre　(2005).

Ramona Mosse is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she previously completed a fellowship at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures."

Minou Arjomand is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. Her research focuses on the relationship between theatre and political trials in postwar Germany and the United States.