part, I Scenographic elements -- chapter Introduction -- Scenography or design / Arnold Aronson -- chapter 1 Stage and Audience -- Constructing relations and opportunities / Beth Weinstein -- chapter 2 Scenery / Thea Brejzek -- chapter 3 Costume / Michelle Liu Carriger -- chapter 4 Light and Projection / Scott Palmer -- chapter 5 Sound (design) / David Roesner -- chapter 6 Scenography and the Senses -- Engaging the tactile, olfactory, and gustatory senses / Stephen Di Benedetto -- part, II Scenographic theory and criticism -- chapter 7 THEATRICAL LANGUAGES -- The scenographic turn and the linguistic turn / Austin E. Quigley -- chapter 8 Seeing scenography -- Scopic regimes and the body of the spectator / Joslin McKinney -- chapter 9 Absolute, abstract, and abject -- Learning from the event-space of the historical avant-garde / Dorita M. Hannah -- chapter 10 “What is happening” -- Notes on the scenographic impulse in modern and contemporary art / Kevin Lotery -- chapter 11 Scenography Beyond Theatre -- Designing POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews / Arnaud Dechelle -- chapter 12 Participation, Interaction, Atmosphere, Projection -- New forms of technological agency and behavior in recent scenographic practice / Chris Salter -- part, Architecture as design / C. W. Marshall -- part, Spatial and environmental design / C. W. Marshall -- chapter 13 Scenography in Greece and Rome -- The first thousand years / C. W. Marshall -- chapter 14 Imagining the Sanskrit Stage / Amanda Culp -- chapter 15 Tudor and Stuart Scenography / Andrew Gurr -- chapter 16 Playing with materials -- Performing effect on the indoor Jacobean stage / Jane Collins -- chapter 17 Architecture as Design -- Early Modern theatres of France and Spain, 1486–1789 / Franklin J. Hildy -- chapter 18 The Open-Stage Movement / Dennis Kennedy -- part, Pictorial and illusionistic design / C. W. Marshall -- chapter 19 Medieval Scenography -- Places, scaffolds, and iconography / Gordon Kipling -- chapter 20 Storyteller as Time-traveler in Mohammed ben Abdallah’s Song of the Pharaoh -- Multimedia avant-garde theatre in Ghana / Jesse Weaver Shipley -- chapter 21 Environmental Theatre -- Selected Asian models / Kathy Foley -- chapter 22 The City as Theatre 1 / Marvin Carlson -- chapter 23 Site-specific Theatre / Mike Pearson -- chapter 24 Free reign? -- Designing the spectator in immersive theatre / W. B. Worthen -- part, Symbolic and emblematic design / C. W. Marshall -- chapter 25 Scenography in the First Decades of Opera 1 / Evan Baker -- chapter 26 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England / David Kornhaber -- chapter 27 Eighteenth-Century France / Pannill Camp -- chapter 28 Boxed Illusions -- From melodrama to naturalism / Amy Holzapfel -- part, Modern and contemporary design / C. W. Marshall -- chapter 29 Richard Wagner, Georg Fuchs, Adolphe Appia, and Edward Gordon Craig / Christopher Baugh -- chapter 30 Russian Stage Design and Theatrical Avant-Garde / Julia Listengarten -- chapter 31 Expressionism and the Epic Theater in early twentieth-century German stage design -- The Expressionist ethos / Mel Gordon -- chapter 32 Bertolt Brecht and Scenographic Dialogue / Christopher Baugh -- chapter 33 The New stagecraft / David Bisaha -- chapter 34 Bauhaus scenography / Melissa Trimingham -- part, III History and practice -- chapter 35 Metaphor, mythology, and metonymy -- Russian scenography in the Yeltsin era / Amy Skinner -- chapter 36 Transformation of forms -- Polish scenography after 1945 / Dominika Łarionow -- chapter 37 Modern and contemporary Czech theatre design -- Toward dramatic spaces of freedom 1 / Barbora Příhodová -- chapter 38 Worlds of German design in the twenty-first century / Matt Cornish -- chapter 39 Modern British theatre design -- UK design for performance since 1975 / Kate Burnett -- chapter 40 Latin American scenography / Lidia Kosovski Henrique Sá Luiz -- chapter 41 Design in the United States and Canada / Arnold Aronson -- chapter 42 Spatial oscillations in the American avant-garde / Stephen Bottoms -- chapter 43 Contemporary Chinese opera design -- The pursuit of cultural awareness / Yi Tianfu -- chapter 44 Postmodern design for opera / Ewa Kara.

"The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies.Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson brings together a uniquely valuable anthology of texts especially commissioned from across the discipline of theatre and performance studies.Establishing a stable terminology for a deeply contested term for the first time, this volume looks at scenography as the totality of all the visual, spatial and sensory aspects of performance. Tracing a line from Aristotle's Poetics down to Brecht and Artaud and into contemporary immersive theatre and digital media, The Routledge Companion to Scenography is a vital addition to every theatre library."--Provided by publisher.