The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science gives readers a sense of a dynamic field, using detailed analyses of plays and performances covering a wide range of areas including climate change and the environment, technology, animal studies, disease and contagion, mental health, and performance and cognition. Identifying historical tendencies that have dominated theatre’s relationship with science, the volume traces many periods of theatre history across a wide geographical range.
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2020
978-1-108-70098-6
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Cambridge University Press
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr is an academic specialising in Victorian and modern English literature, the interaction between science and literature, and theatre studies, especially science in theatre. In 2015, she was appointed a Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford.
After completing a BA in English at Yale University, she worked in publishing for two years before completing a Master of Arts programme at the University of Oslo, funded by a Fulbright Grant, and then a PhD in English at the University of Oxford. She taught at North Carolina State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and the University of Birmingham, before taking up a post at Oxford in 2007 as a fellow and tutor at St Catherine’s College.
More information: www.english.ox.ac.uk, scholar.google.com, journals.openedition.org, www.researchgate.net and en.wikipedia.org
Introduction
1 – Objectivity and Observation
2 – Staging Consciousness
Metaphor as Thought Experiment in McBurney’s Beware of Pity
3 – The Experimental/Experiential Stage
Extreme States of Being of and Knowing in the Theatre
4 – A Cave, a Skull, and a Little Piece of Grit
Theatre in the Anthropocene
5 – The Play at the End of the World
Deke Weaver’s Unreliable Bestiary and the Theatre of Extinction
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6 – Bodies of Knowledge
Theatre and Medical Science
7 – Pathogenic Performativity
Urban Contagion and Fascist Affect
8 – Theatres of Mental Health
9 – Devised Theatre and the Performance of Science
10 – Theatre and Science as Social Intervention
11 – Acting and Science
12 – Staging Cognition
How Performance Shows Us How We Think
13 – Clouds and Meteors
Recreating Wonder on the Early Modern Stage
14 – ‘The Stage Hand’s Lament’
Scenography, Technology, and Off-Stage Labour