European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire

This open access edited volume constitutes the first historical study of the phenomenon of European theatre migration, and thus contributes in new and important ways to the formation of a historical discourse on theatre and migration. The hidden histories of European theatre migration that this book seeks to explore allow us to rethink global theatre history as a history of mobility with Europe as the point of departure rather than the point of arrival. It also allows the reader to challenge and to decenter a European self-understanding of insularity and a European cosmopolitanism ignorant of its imperial and colonial roots.