Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Representing the Past: An Introduction on Five Themes -- Section One: Archive -- Playbills and the Theatrical Public Sphere -- The Making of Theatre History -- Writing the Unwritten: Morris Dance and Theatre History -- Section Two: Time -- Cyclic Perseverance and Linear Mobility of Theatrical Events -- Performative Time -- Representing India's Pasts: Time, Culture, and the Problems of Performance Historiography -- Section Three: Space -- Space and Theatre History -- Seeing Is Believing: The Historian's Use of Images -- When "Everything Counts": Experimental Performance and Performance Historiography -- Section Four: Identity -- History's Thresholds: Stories from Africa -- The High Stakes of Identity: Lorraine Hansberry's Follow the Drinking Gourd and Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Fifty Years of Staging a Founding Father: Political Theatre, Dramatic History, and the Question of Representation in Modern China -- Section Five: Narrative -- Textual Evidances -- Narratives of Nostalgia: Oriental Evasions about the London Stage -- Reenacting Events to Narrate Theatre History -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.