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Performing History
Dr Helen Brooks
This seminar examines the place of the archive in histories of performance.
Using cutting-edge theory from the fields of performance studies and
historiography the seminar will offer an opportunity to interrogate the concept
of the archive and problematise its place within histories of theatre and
performance.
How do we approach oral and written forms of memory in
studying history and what is the place of the archive in hidden or marginalised
histories?
These questions, amongst others, will be considered through the
seminar.
Dr Helen Brooks is a specialist in long eighteenth-century performance and
has a particular interest in women's roles in theatre of the period. She is active
in TaPRA's Theatre History and Historiography working group and has
published on eighteenth-century women as actresses and as managers, as
well as on the eighteenth-century touring circuit.
She is currently working on a
monograph examining the relationship between the actress and changing
concepts of gender over the period.