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Chapter 12 - Non-linear Methodologies for Researching Early Modern Performance:

The Case of the Canario

from Part III - Interpreting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

By
Anke Charton
Edited by
Tracy C. Davis  and
Paul Rae
Tracy C. Davis
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
Paul Rae
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Summary

Anke Charton takes the backstory of the canario, a baroque court dance, as an example to consider mixed methods in historiographic work. Marginalized knowledges, in particular, benefit from such an approach. Performance practices that have left few conventional traces behind can be explored more thoroughly if those traces are queried from different perspectives: reading archival sources against the grain, drawing on positionality, and engaging multiple temporal frameworks. The case of the canario illustrates the additional challenge – true for much of early modern Western theatre history – of working with a later, superimposed narrative that obscures an earlier, less-documented practice.

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The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies , pp. 236 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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