Performing Magic on the Western Stage: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

by Francesca Coppa (Foreword), JamesPeck (Foreword), Lawrence Hass (Foreword), EugeneBurger (Foreword)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $116.47

  Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.