1st Edition
Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin Out of the Natural Order
By Jane Goodall
Copyright 2003
280 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
280 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin reveals the ways in which the major themes of evolution were taken up in the performing arts during Darwin's adult lifetime and in the generation after his death. The period 1830-1900 was the formative period for evolutionary ideas. While scientists and theorists investigated the law and order of nature, show business was more concerned with what... Read more
Introduction. Chapter One: Out of Natural History. Chapter Two: Missing Links and Lilliputians. Chapter Three: Performing Ethnology. Chapter Four: Varieties. Chapter Five: Lowly Origins. Chapter Six: Natural Vigour. Notes and References. Index.
Biography
Jane R. Goodall is currently Director of Research in the College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney where she specialises in the development of cross-disciplinary research. She is the author of Artaud and the Gnostic Drama (1994).
'This well crafted and entertaining book makes a valuable contribution to this history of ideas.' - New Theatre Quarterly
