Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Some Critical Remarks on Theatre Historiography
2 On Writing National Theatre Histories
3 Theatre Historiography: General Problems, Swedish Perspectives
4 Recovering Repressed Memories: Writing Russian Theatre History
5 Nationalism, Tradition, and Transition in Theatre Historiography in Slovenia
6 Rewriting a National Theatre History in a Bilingual Country: The Case of Belgium
7 Named in Passing: Deregimenting Canadian Theatre History
8 Narrative Possibilities for U.S. Theatre Histories
9 Performing Mexico
10 The Creation of a Canon: Re/Evaluating the National Identity of Israeli Drama
11 When Did Brahma Create Theatre? and Other Questions of Indian Theatre Historiography
12 Shadow and Method: Meditations on Indonesian Theatre Historiography
13 Reassembling South African Theatre History
Contributors
Index