This guide to modernism and performance introduces key developments and debates of the period, such as the rise of the director, new theories of acting and new modes of production. Through these debates, and emphasis on the performing body, this study underlines the importance of performance in reconfiguring our general understanding of modernism
OLGA TAXIDOU is a Reader in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where she teaches theatre and performance studies. She is the author of The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (1998), Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2004) and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998, 2002)