Quo Vadis? Theatre Studies at the Crossroads

Abstract

Theatre studies as an academic discipline was founded in a programmatic way, as a discipline devoted not to text but, rather, to performance. Since its very origins, it has been understood as an "interdisciplinary" subject within which many other fields of study intersect and merge: art history, musicology, literature studies, cultural history, communication and media sciences, philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, economics, and law. Whether it is defined and practised as culture studies, as media studies, or as art studies, the study of theatre constitutes, by definition, an interdisciplinary field. Nearly a century after the founding of theatre studies, on the threshold of a new millennium, it makes good sense to take stock of the challenges and prospects, problems and risks facing theatre studies today because of, and in terms of, its interdisciplinary nature.

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