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Theatre Across Oceans

Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange, 1890–1925

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Authors:
  1. Nic Leonhardt

    1. Munich, Germany

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  • Explores the infrastructure of global cultural mobility between the years 1890 and 1925
  • Combines the research fields of global history and theory to provide a geographical (transatlantic) perspective
  • Provides information on the professional theatrical mediators at the heart of the exchange who have previously received insufficient critical attention

Part of the book series: Transnational Theatre Histories (TTH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Meandering (Theatre-) Histories

    • Nic Leonhardt
    Pages 1-36

  3. “Transfer, Transmission, Translation”—Of Countries, Oceans, News

    • Nic Leonhardt
    Pages 37-79

  4. Agencies Backstage, Bookings, Bureaucracy

    • Nic Leonhardt
    Pages 81-138

  5. Transatlantic Mediators of Theatre

    • Nic Leonhardt
    Pages 139-294

  6. Multifurcations: The Course and Decline of Transatlantic Theatre Flows During the First World War

    • Nic Leonhardt
    Pages 295-314

  7. Conclusion

    • Nic Leonhardt
    Pages 315-317

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 319-336
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Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory, the geographical focus of the book is a transatlantic one, based on the active exchange in this phase between North and South America and Europe. Emanating from a rich body of archival material, the study argues that this exchange was essentially facilitated and controlled by professional theatrical mediators (agents, brokers), who have not been sufficiently researched within theatre or historical studies. The low visibility of mediators in the scientific research is in diametrical contrast to the enormous power that they possessed in the period dealt with in this book. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Munich, Germany

    Nic Leonhardt

About the author

Nic Leonhardt is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on theatre history of the nineteenth and twentieth century and is strongly interdisciplinary and transnational in approach. Since 2016 she has been the senior researcher and associate director of the ERC (European Research Council) project “Developing Theatre” at LMU Munich, as well as director of the Centre for Global Theatre History.

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