Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama Since 1960
ISBN: 9781349224388 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Post-Colonial English Drama is the first critical survey of contemporary Commonwealth drama. Besides essays on such individual dramatists as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, David Williamson, Louis Nowra, Athol Fugard, George Walker, Sharon Pollock and Judith Thompson there are surveys of the dramatic literature and developments in the theatre in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica and Trinidad. Canadian woman dramatists and the new radical South African theatre are also among the topics.
Post-Colonial English Drama is the first critical survey of contemporary Commonwealth drama. Besides essays on such individual dramatists as Wole Soyi...
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578,30 zł |
Consciousness, Literature and Theatre: Theory and Beyond
ISBN: 9781349252824 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book relates to the study of spirit and spirituality; mind, intelligence, consciousness and epistemology; literature and theatre. From a basis in recorded experience it rethinks the nature of spirit and relates spirit to the human mind, and it questions the unprovable assumptions underlying contemporary objectivist and scientific approaches to intelligence, language and knowledge. It develops a model of the mind and extended states of consciousness and uses this to explore the rhythmical structures fundamental to literature and theatre.
The book relates to the study of spirit and spirituality; mind, intelligence, consciousness and epistemology; literature and theatre. From a basis in ...
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The life and death of King Richard III
ISBN: 9781519594600 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1592. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. 1] The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified as such. Occasionally, however, as in the quarto edition, it is termed a tragedy. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy
Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1592. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to pow...
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The tragedy of Macbeth
ISBN: 9781519594778 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself.
Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witche...
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Anthony and Cleopatra
ISBN: 9781519594846 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was probably performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King's Men. 1] 2] Its first known appearance in print was in the First Folio of 1623.
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was probably performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe The...
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Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society
ISBN: 9781472485311 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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What Moves You?: Shaping Your Dissertation in Dance
ISBN: 9781138857292 / Angielski / Twarda / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for Dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made research methodology. What Moves You? fosters a creative approach to dissertations and final projects. By guiding the development of a personal study program, this volume encourages Dance students to take ownership of their artistic and academic work, a skill essential both to successful undergraduate study, and to making the first steps towards a career in Dance. Rather than propose a prescriptive, step-by-step mantra,... Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for Dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made resea... |
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What Moves You?: Shaping your dissertation in dance
ISBN: 9781138857308 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made research methodology. What Moves You? fosters a creative approach to dissertations and final projects. By guiding the development of a personal study program, this volume encourages dance students to take ownership of their artistic and academic work, a skill essential both to successful undergraduate study, and to making the first steps towards a career in dance. Rather than propose a prescriptive, step-by-step mantra,... Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made resea... |
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185,60 zł |
Merely Players: Acting like Shakespeare really matters
ISBN: 9780994388711 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a middle-aged boy player returns to London's Globe playhouse during a terrible revival of Romeo and Juliet, she sets off a chain of events as great as any of Shakespeare's entertainments, revealing a love story that lay hidden for decades, just beneath the lines of the script. Centuries later, an out-of-work Sydney actor connects the dots of this drama and is inspired to write a play, bringing him face to face with big life lessons in the art and politics of storytelling. The lives of these two unconventional players collide in a journey from Australia to England, from drama school to... When a middle-aged boy player returns to London's Globe playhouse during a terrible revival of Romeo and Juliet, she sets off a chain of events as ... |
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Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure
ISBN: 9781137596338 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that a trans-disciplinary dialogue between the art of acting and the art of philosophical thinking urges us to create a new image of both thought and theatrical performance. Whilst acting is revealed in its at once utmost creative and philosophical dimension, thinking itself becomes a form of artistic practice. This book argues that a trans-disciplinary dialogue between the art of acting and the art of philosophical thinking urges us to create a new image ... |
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Dance and Gender: An Evidence-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780813062662 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few volumes tackle the issue of gender and dance with such currency. A work of high quality, thorough in its composition, impeccable in its rigor, and far-reaching in its approach. Julie Kerr-Berry, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Generous with data, this collection of accessible research will inspire a variety of emotions from anger to fascination, prompting us to question our own actions and the shape of the future of dance. Barbara Bashaw, Rutgers University Driven by facts and hard data, this volume reveals how gender dynamics affect the lives of dancers, choreographers,... Few volumes tackle the issue of gender and dance with such currency. A work of high quality, thorough in its composition, impeccable in its rigor, and...
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488,32 zł |
Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics
ISBN: 9781137520432 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ideas about negativity, emptiness, nothingness, and disappearance have maintained great theoretical currency in the field of performance theory. Performance Apophatics argues that performance is often an ethical injunction against what it would know or seek to make known. The book explicates texts, performances, and theories of performance as negative epistemologies that encounter the unknown through the known, drawing from literature in theology and apophatic spirituality for guides and examples.
Ideas about negativity, emptiness, nothingness, and disappearance have maintained great theoretical currency in the field of performance theory. Perfo...
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385,52 zł |
Write That Down! the Comedy of Male Actress Charles Pierce
ISBN: 9780982285381 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first, authorized biographical tribute to Charles Pierce, the foremost "male actress" of the 20th Century. Born in 1926, Pierce went from playing small gay clubs in San Francisco to international acclaim. His send ups of icons Bette Davis, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford garnered him fans across the globe and lifelong friendships with Hollywood celebrities like "Golden Girls" star Bea Arthur. Pierce also enjoyed a TV and film career, notably as Bertha Venation in the groundbreaking feature film "Torch Song Trilogy" with Harvey Fierstein,...
The first, authorized biographical tribute to Charles Pierce, the foremost "male actress" of the 20th Century. Born in 1926, Pierce went from playing ...
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Hinduism and Hindi Theater
ISBN: 9781137599223 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960.
This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960.
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192,74 zł |
Nanine: ou l'homme sans préjugé
ISBN: 9781530153831 / Francuski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nanine, une orpheline, a ete elevee comme une servante privilegiee par la mere du comte d'Olban. Elle n'est pas indifferente au comte et, elle-meme, songe a lui avec vertige en pensant a la difference de leurs conditions. Mais Olban a des arrangements matrimoniaux avec la baronne de l'Orme. Assumera-t-il son amour ? Passera-t-il par dessus les prejuges de classe et resistera-t-il aux machinations de la jalouse baronne ?"
Nanine, une orpheline, a ete elevee comme une servante privilegiee par la mere du comte d'Olban. Elle n'est pas indifferente au comte et, elle-meme, s...
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William Forsythe
ISBN: 9781138173620 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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696,20 zł |
Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet
ISBN: 9781138220188 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following question: How and to what end was the human body discussed, portrayed, and utilized as an aesthetic metaphor in turn-of-the-century Vienna? By scrutinizing theatrically "hysterical" performances, avant-garde puppet plays, and images created by Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and others, Nathan... This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medi... |
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Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era
ISBN: 9781349349524 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the As...
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192,74 zł |
Dracula: The Musical?
ISBN: 9780573608414 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This delightful spoof of the classic horror tale is an unparalleled romp from start to finish.
This delightful spoof of the classic horror tale is an unparalleled romp from start to finish.
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64,65 zł |
Monologues for Actors of Color: Men
ISBN: 9781138175419 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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195,92 zł |