Troubling Traditions Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US

• Main Authors: Moore, Matthew, Schiller, Angela Farr
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2022; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: American drama; Arts; Canon (Literature); Drama; Drama Education & Drama Therapy; Multicultural Education; Teaching & Learning; Theater; Theater-United States-History; Theatre & Performance Studies; Teaching Dance Histories; PS; American Sign Language; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Martin Luther King; Queer Performance; UT Austin; theatre; Pantheon; Follow; David Savran; MFA Student; Arab American; Traditional Canon; Queer Theatre; dance; Holds; Muñoz; Canon Project; Shakespeare; LORT; Western Canon; Musical Theatre Writers; India; Molière; performance; Dramatic Canon; Ivory; Wo; BFA; Queer Canon
• ISBN: 0367468328; 9780367468323; 9780367468309; 0367468301
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003031413

Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike Literature and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon. Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation, and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field's relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by this book on the canon interrogate the field's fundamental values, and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute this discipline. This is a vital text for anyone considering the role, construction, and impact of canons in the US and beyond.