Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin - 9780415243773

Taylor & Francis

Performance and Evolution in the Age of DarwinOut of the Natural Order\nAuthor(s): Jane Goodall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415243773, 978-0415243773\nSynopsis\nPerformance 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. \n The period [tel] 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. \n With this book, Goodall contribute.