Real animals on the stage. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Teresa Grant, Ignacio Ramos-Gay, Claudia Alonso Recarte.
• Editors: Grant, Teresa, 1972-; Ramos Gay, Ignacio; Alonso Recarte, Claudia
• Contents: 1. Introduction: real animals on the stage Teresa Grant, Ignacio Ramos Gay, and Claudia Alonso Recarte 2. ‘A pleasant tragicomedy, the cat being scap’t’?: William Sampson’s The Vow Breaker (1636) and the instability of genre Teresa Grant 3. ‘Des singes, c’était le narcisse’: class, imitation and performing monkeys in late-eighteenth century Paris Ignacio Ramos-Gay 4. Replacing injured horses, cross-dressing and dust: modernist circus technologies in Asia Peta Tait 5. There is a whale in the room: Pina Bausch’s animals on stage Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 6. Animals in socially engaged performance practice: becomings on the edges of extinction Lourdes Orozco 7. ‘When the animal cannot keep up a good appearance it had better go out of the room’: vivisection and theatricality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Claudia Alonso Recarte
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.8; Animals as actors; Animals in the performing arts
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000649918
• Related ISBNs: 9781000639957; 9781000644937; 9780429325984
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