January 10th

Postlewait
 Introduction, theatre and historiography
 Introduction: basic methods of historical scholarship, primary knowledge
 Theatre: from dance, opera, puppet to all related performance events
 Historiography: mindset that leads us to investigate the processes and aims of historical
understanding
 Human knowledge depends upon the discovery of time
 History serve as both the mod and method of knowledge for all branches
What are primary sources?
 Can be created at the time when event occurred (letters and newspaper) or later
(memoirs, interviews)
 Secondary sources are works that interpret, analyze and discuss evidence provided by
primary sources
 One step removed from event
 Tertiary Sources
 Synthesize primary and secondary sources such as dictionaries and textbooks