MC
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American specialist in literature and theatrologist
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Male
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1 January 1935
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Biography
Introduction
Marvin Carlson (born 1935) is an American Theatrologist, currently the Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor at City University of New York,a and also previously the Walker-Ames Professor at University of Washington. A largely collected author, his work covers mainly the history of theatre in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century.
Selected works
- Performance: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 1980 ISBN 978-0415137034
- The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine. University of Michigan Press, 2003 ISBN 978-0-472-08937-6
- Speaking in Tongues: Languages at Play in the Theatre. University of Michigan Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-472-03392-8
- Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality. University of Michigan Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0-472-11985-1