Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism

The first book to take a critical realist approach to any area of culture, this study examines theatre and its history through the interaction of society's structures, agents and discourses.

Tobin Nellhaus is Librarian for Performing Arts, Media, and Philosophy at Yale University. He is the co-editor, with Susan Haedicke, of Performing Democracy, International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance. He has published articles in Theatre Journal, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, the Journal of Critical Realism, and contributed article to Staging Philosophy. Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy and Performance and Cognition Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn.