- Title
- `Wistful remembrancer': the historiographical problem of Macqueen-Popery the dangers and relevance of anecdotage in theatre scholarship
- Creator
- Davis, Jim; Emeljanow, Victor
- Relation
- New Theatre Quarterly Vol. XVII, Issue 4, p. 299-309
- Relation
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=NTQ
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2001
- Description
- The theatre shelves of secondhand bookshops testify to the sometime popularity and prolific output of the theatre publicist and would-be historian Walter Macqueen-Pope. Yet even by the time Macqueen-Pope was publishing his later volumes in the 1950s, the rise of academic theatre scholarship was questioning such anecdotally based and unverified accounts of the theatre and its past. Today, we can look at Macqueen-Pope, and at the period immediately before the First World War which was so often the focus of his attention, not so much for evidence of flawed scholarship as for his revealing attitude to be taken into account in any historical approach to so ephemeral an art as the theatre, and, as the authors here conclude, while Macqueen-Pope may not tell us the whole truth about his many subjects, such a 'wistful remembrancer' remains significant to any investigation of a theatrical past 'that must always be a melting pot of imperfect recognitions and unattainable desires'.
- Subject
- Walter Macqueen-Pope; theatre; historiographical; theatre scholarship
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27062
- Identifier
- uon:1341
- Identifier
- ISSN:0266-464X
- Language
- eng
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