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Performance Reconstruction and Spanish Golden Age Drama

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137437075

ISBN: 978-1-349-68391-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Feb 2, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction: Critical Theory and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Performance

Vidler, Laura L.

Pages: 1 –8

[Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the smell, texture, and taste of a memorable meal. It is a dish you order repeatedly at your favorite restaurant in spite of your best intentions to try something new. Perhaps the meal is associated with a particular event, like the scene of your first...
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Chapter 2Revisiting Comedia Reconstruction in a Revisionist Performance Environment

Vidler, Laura L.

Pages: 9 –23

[Samuel Beckett’s 35-second ultra-minimalist play, Breath, reduces the human experience to a birth and a death, an entrance and an exit.1 Regardless of the number of performances, for each audience, for each performative act, characters are born and die again for the first time. Antonin Artaud...
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Chapter 3The Habitus of Corral Scenic Space

Vidler, Laura L.

Pages: 25 –54

[In Seeking Spatial Justice, Edward Soja relates that, in 1968, deteriorating conditions for the poor in the outskirts of Paris led to riots and unrest, even as public policy emphasized democratic ideals and principles. In spite of France’s insistence on égalité, Soja notes, the poor in Paris...
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Chapter 4(Re)Placing the Corral Body: Problematizing Semiotics and Gesture

Vidler, Laura L.

Pages: 55 –73

[While the corral space certainly forms and informs corral theater practice, we are reminded by actors and theorists from Stanislavsky to Michael Chekhov to Burningham that bodies establish the performance event. Some of the earliest, nonarchival attempts to reconstruct comedia staging, in fact,...
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Chapter 5Staging the Object

Vidler, Laura L.

Pages: 75 –106

[The relative objectivity and subjectivity of modern theatrical communication and interpretation has been the central question of performance theory for many decades now. The triangular discourse between Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, and Mikhail Bakhtin beautifully illustrates this problem....
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Chapter 6Women/Objects on the Modern and Early Modern Stage: Two Exceptional Case Studies

Vidler, Laura L.

Pages: 107 –121

[So far in this book we have focused on the ways in which the analysis of cultural habitus might help us to reconstruct early modern staging practices. When we identify how the structures of habitus were structured in the early modern period, our analysis both informs our interpretation of the...
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Chapter 7Adaptation, Translation, and the Relevance of Classical Theatrical Performance

Vidler, Laura L.

Pages: 123 –139

[We have stipulated from the beginning that staging “reconstruction,” for the purposes of this book, is not, as Barthes puts it, “a superficial history which mechanically reconstructs certain anecdotic details,”1 but rather a gaze at the irrepeatable by way of the eternally reproducible. This...
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Chapter 8Theory Performance

Vidler, Laura L.

Pages: 141 –151

[Stanley Fish challenges the theoretical turn for its inability to formulate a general hermeneutics from within the limits of culture. “Theory begins and ends in interest and raises the imperatives of interest… to the status of universals.”1 In spite of neo-pragmatism’s insistence against “the...

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