The Drama, Theatre & Performance Companion

ISBN-13: 9780230551657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 376 str.

Michael Mangan

Opis

Offering essential guidance to students throughout their undergraduate studies, this companion explores the development of a discipline that is still in flux, offers practical advice about how to study it and where this study might lead, and provides a useful reference resource on key practitioners, debates, performances and terms.

Spis treści

Introduction: This book and how to use it PART I: DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE: THE SUBJECT AND ITS STUDY 1. The Context of the Subject 2. Your Course and what to Expect from it 3. Study Skills for Drama, Theatre and Performance Students PART II: CORE TOPICS IN DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE 4. Developments and Directions 5. Working Practically 1: Acting 6. Working Practically 2: Devising 7. Working Practically 3: Directing 8. Theatre Histories 9. Analysing Texts 10. Questions of Theory 11. Theatre and Gender 12. Theatre and the World: Globalization, Interculturalism and Postcolonialism 13. The Uses of Drama: Applying Performance 14. Mediating Performance: From the Machine Age to the Digital Age PART III: KEY CONCEPTS PART IV: LANDMARKS: KEY PRACTITIONERS, THEORISTS AND PERFORMANCES PART V: FRAMEWORKS FOR RESEARCH: KEY WRITINGS ON DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE PART VI: WHAT NEXT? PART VII: RESOURCES FOR STUDYING DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE Bibliography Index.

O autorze

Michael Mangan is Professor and Chair of Drama at Loughborough University, UK. He has taught English and Drama in Universities in the UK and the US, and has held chairs at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and De Montfort University. He is also a playwright and director, and has worked as a literary manager, a dramaturg and an actor. His books include Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: A Critical Study, A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies and Staging Masculinities: Gender, History, Performance.