Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook

This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance.
The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as:
decoding the sign
the politics of performance
the politics of gender and sexual identity
performing ethnicity
the performing body
the space of performance
audience and spectatorship
the borders of performance.
Each reading is clearly introduced, making often complex critical texts accessible at an introductory level and immediately applicavble to the field of performance. The ideas explored within these readings are further clarified through innovative, carefully tested exercises and activities.