Introduction: On Critical Media History / TRACY C. DAVIS, PETER W. MARX -- Part I. Theatre History is Performance History: 1. The Size of All That’s Missing / ODAI JOHNSON -- 2. Gyno Ludens: A Doll House Redux / NATASHA KORDA -- 3. Rethinking Categories of Theatre and Performance: Archive, Scholarship, and Practices (A Post-Colonial Indian Perspective) / BISHNUPRIYA DUTT -- 4. Dancing with the Living Dead: State Violence in South Korea and the Performance of Memory / ELIZABETH W. SON -- 5. Setasidedness / TRACY C. DAVIS -- Part II. Materiality and the Sensorium: 6. Performatic Archives: Mobilising Affects in Eighteenth-Century Mexico / LEO CABRANES-GRANT -- 7. German Radio Drama and the "Cultural Formation" of Interiority / MICHAEL BACHMANN -- 8. Canonising Impulses, Cartographic Desires, and the Legibility of History: Why Speak of/for "Indian" Theatrical Pasts? / RASHNA DARIUS NICHOLSON -- 9. De-colonising Theatre History: Ontology Alterity, Acting Objects, and What Theatre Studies Can Learn from Museums / MARGARET WERRY -- Part III. Locating: 10. Off the Record: Contrapuntal Theatre History / NOÉMIE NDIAYE -- 11. The Theorist and the Theorised: Indigenous Critiques of Performance Studies / STEPHANIE NOHELANI TEVES -- 12. Complicating Hybridity: A View from/through the Andean Patron-Saint Fiesta / ENZO E. VASQUEZ TORAL -- 13. Theatre-Historiographical Patterns in the Global South 1950–1990: Transnational and Institutional Perspectives / CHRISTOPHER BALME -- 14. The Role of Theatre in the Modernisation of Tunisia / VICKI ANN CREMONA, MAHMOUD MEJRI -- 15. Translation and/as Theatre and Performance Historiography: Towards a Reconsideration of a Neglected but Omnipresent Challenge / JEAN GRAHAM-JONES -- Part IV. Historicising: 16. On Circulation and Recycling / PETER W. MARX -- 17. Towards an Expansive Historiography of Jews as Creative Collaborators and Hired Contractors in Early-Modern Italian Theatre and Performance / ERITH JAFFE-BERG -- 18. Renaissance Theatre and Clockpunk Historiography / ELLEN MACKAY -- 19. Theatre History as Contemporary History / MATTHIAS WARSTAT -- Part V. Scaling: 20. Modelling the World through Play: An Exploration in Repurposing, Representation, and History Writing / PAVEL DRÁBEK -- 21. Towards a New Culture of Public Negotiation: Interplay between Political and Theatrical Spheres in the Vienna Revolution of 1848 / STEFAN HULFELD -- 22. Performance Texts and Recording Performance: Towards a Methodology of Multiplicity / SHARON ARONSON-LEHAVI -- 23. Quantitative Visualisation and Qualitative Research: The Beijing Opera Yinpeixiang (Video Matching Audio) Project / SIYUAN LIU