Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860. Questioning Canons. 

Table of Contents

Svein Gladsø
The (pre)history of canons

Penelope Cave
Meeting the masters: Repertory choices for young ladies

Dóra Kiss
Canonisation of the danced minuet over centuries

Meike Wagner
On the other side of the canon: August von Kotzebue as a popular playwright and controversial public persona 

Elizabeth Svarstad
Traces of dance and social life: A dance book and its context

Eva Hov
Outside canon: Anonymous music and informal cultural activities in Trondheim around 1800   

Mats Krouthén
A private playlist? Repertory in Norwegian eighteenth-century musical clocks

Anne Margrete Fiskvik
Itinerant female performers in the Nordic sphere 1760‒1774: Traceability and visibility

Ellen Karoline Gjervan
The hybrid child: The preconditions, dissemination, and enduring popularity of equestrian drama

Maria Christina Mur
Vittorio Alfieri’s tramelogedia Abéle: A physiognomic reading of a marginalised play by a canonical author

Annabella Skagen
Oehlenschläger’s Freyas Altar: A rejected Singspiel performed

Randi Margrete Selvik
Forgotten music: Early Norwegian composers and Oehlenschläger’s Freyas Altar

Jon Nygaard
Questioning the canons of Ibsen’s theatre: Re-searching the relevance of Ibsen’s theatre repertory, 1852–1862