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Theatre Reconstruction: Tentative Steps Toward a Methodology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Alan Woods
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The scholarly work of reconstructing vanished theatres is of crucial importance to theatre history. The playhouse provides the physical plant for the drama; therefore its shape exerts enormous influence upon plays written for it. Its size and accommodations for the audience reflect and may even determine the drama's function within a given society. To ignore the physical setting of a play's first production is an error almost as damning for the theatre historian as the practice of the literary scholar who forgets that plays are not written for examination in classes.

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Research Article
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Theatre Survey , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , May 1971 , pp. 46 - 57
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1971

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