Routledge Companion to Scenography

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Scenography</em> is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical conceptual critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies.</p><p>Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson brings together a uniquely valuable anthology of texts especially commissioned from across the discipline of theatre and performance studies.</p><p>Establishing a stable terminology for a deeply contested term for the first time this volume looks at scenography as the totality of all the visual spatial and sensory aspects of performance. Tracing a line from Aristotle’s <i>Poetics </i>down to Brecht and Artaud and into contemporary immersive theatre and digital media <i>The Routledge Companion to Scenography </i>is a vital addition to every theatre library.</p>