Theatre Histories: An Introduction - Paperback

by Tobin Nellhaus (Author), Daphne P. Lei (Author), Tamara Underiner (Author)

This updated 4^th edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often interacted.

Author Biography

Daphne P. Lei is a Professor of Drama and the Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine, USA. She is the 2022 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award, the lifetime achievement award from the American Society for Theatre Research.

Tobin Nellhaus is an Independent Scholar. He writes mainly on the relationship between theatre and communication practices, and on critical realism in theatre theory and historiography.

Tamara Underiner is an Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University, USA, and the Director of the PhD program in Theatre and Performance of the Americas.

Patricia Ybarra is the MacMillan Family Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University, USA. She is a former president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.