Performing Magic on the Western Stage: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present - Hardcover

by L. Hass (Editor), F. Coppa (Editor), J. Peck (Editor)

Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

Author Biography

Karen Dearborn Graham M. Jones Mary Lawlor Robert E. Neale Susan L. Schwartz Matthew Solomon Christopher Stahl