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Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin: Out of the Natural Order
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780415243780
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2002
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
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 was out of the natural order. Missing links and throwbacks, freak taxonomies and exotic races were favourite subject matter for the burgeoning variety theatre movement. Focusing on popular theatre forms in London, New York and Paris, Jane Goodall shows how they were interwoven with the developing debate about human evolution.
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