Checking Out Chekhov: A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers
ISBN: 9781936235919 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov--a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed plays have left an indelible imprint upon the world's theatre. Every page reveals the joys and difficulties of his short life, his comic sensibility, deep compassion, and often puzzling use of dramatic style and genre. Carnicke demystifies Chekhov's plays--forged from his literary innovations, avid theatergoing, love of vaudeville, and loathing of melodrama. She interweaves biographical and cultural information with insightful case studies and close analysis to leave her reader...
This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov--a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed plays have left an indelible imprin...
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Acco Festival: Between Celebration and Confrontation
ISBN: 9781618115119 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This research follows the history ofthe Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012, chronicling it as a site of celebration as well as confrontation. The Acco Festival is presented as a borderland that brings together established mainstream directors and actors, alternative artists from the fringes, and Acco's Jewish and Arab residents. The book explores the festival's artistic direction; repertoire; organization, budget, and infrastructure; reception; and the Acco host community.
This research follows the history ofthe Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012, chronicling it as a site of celebration as well as con...
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Complicating the Female Subject: Gender, National Myths, and Genre in Polish Women's Inter-War Drama
ISBN: 9781618115423 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seven inter-war plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation when they appeared, yet today they are almost forgotten. This groundbreaking study interrogates the feminism of these plays and their authors, who dared to question national myths, subvert genre expectations, and reinterpret definitions of subjectivity, anticipating the work of numerous women playwrights in post-1989 Poland. Synthesizing a variety of theoretical perspectives, the author produces a nuanced reading of each work and of the group as a whole. Both texts and the innovative synthetic...
Seven inter-war plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation when they appeared, yet today they are almost forgotten....
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Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia
ISBN: 9781618114723 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia offers an in-depth reading of early Russian tragedy as a political genre. Imported to Russia by Aleksandr Sumarokov around 1750, tragedy reenacted and shaped the symbolic economy and the often disturbing historical experience of "absolutist" autocracy. Addressing half-forgotten texts and events, this study engages with literary and cultural theory from Walter Benjamin to Foucault and "new...
Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sum...
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417,64 zł |
At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor
ISBN: 9781611478242 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor explores the economics of the theater by examining how drama seeks to make sense of changing conceptions of labor. With the growth of commerce and market relations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England came the corresponding degradation and exploitation of workers, many of whom made their frustrations known through petitions and pamphlets. Poverty affected all sectors of society in early modern England and many laborers, even London citizens from more prosperous trades, could expect to experience periods of impoverishment....
At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor explores the economics of the theater by examining how drama seeks to make sense of changin...
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417,69 zł |
Performing Difference: Representations of 'The Other' in Film and Theatre
ISBN: 9780761841548 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded from dominant historical narratives.
Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and theater studies. Each au...
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421,09 zł |
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance
ISBN: 9781032094069 / Angielski / Miękka / 1534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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422,19 zł |
A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century I
ISBN: 9781032237442 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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422,19 zł |
The Theatrical Public Sphere
ISBN: 9781107006836 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial political and social function. He traces its origins and argues that the theatrical public sphere invariably focuses attention on theatre as an institution between the shifting borders of the private and public, reasoned debate and agonistic intervention. Chapters explore this concept in a variety of contexts, including the debates that led to...
The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on ...
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422,25 zł |
Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution
ISBN: 9781107076327 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in support of Mao's communist revolution. DeMare traces the development of Mao's 'cultural army' from its genesis in Red Army propaganda teams to its full development as a largely civilian force composed of amateur and professional drama troupes in the early years of the PRC. Drawing from memoirs, artistic handbooks, and rare archival sources, Mao's Cultural Army uncovers the arduous and complex process of creating revolutionary dramas that would...
Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in supp...
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422,25 zł |
Rural Revisions of Golden Age Drama: Performance of History, Production of Space
ISBN: 9781611488333 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines important social, geo-political, cultural and artistic components involving the staging, both past and contemporary, rural and urban, amateur and professional, of some of the most relevant Spanish Golden Age historical plays.
This work examines important social, geo-political, cultural and artistic components involving the staging, both past and contemporary, rural and urba...
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423,05 zł |
Mass Theatre in Inter-War Europe: Flanders and the Netherlands in an International Perspective
ISBN: 9789058679925 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In many European countries mass theater was a widespread expression of "community art" that became increasingly popular shortly before World War I. From Max Reinhardt's lavish open-air spectacles to socialist workers' Laienspiel (lay theater), theater visionaries focused on ever larger groups for entertainment as well as political agitation. Despite wide research on the Soviet and German cases, examples from the Low Countries have hardly been examined. However, mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands had a distinctive character, displaying an ideological heterogeneity not seen... In many European countries mass theater was a widespread expression of "community art" that became increasingly popular shortly before World War I.... |
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424,16 zł |
Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans
ISBN: 9780813942315 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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424,16 zł |
Renaissance Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook
ISBN: 9780313241086 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vince introduces readers to the sources of information available to the theatre historian, and to some of the methods that have been used in the interpretation of that evidence. He provides an analytical survey of the principal written and artifactual evidence for the history of the Renaissance theatres of Italy, Spain, England, and France.
Vince introduces readers to the sources of information available to the theatre historian, and to some of the methods that have been used in the inter...
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427,16 zł |
Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901
ISBN: 9780313242113 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides a ready reference to significant productions of plays on the London stage during the period 1837 through 1901 and includes extensive information concerning both plays and players. The compiler's introduction offers a fascinating overview of the cultural and social attitudes toward theatre in the Victorian Era, and the ways in which theatre reflected societal changes, class differences, and the tastes and interests of the theatre-going public. This single-volume reference offers a wealth of previously unobtainable factual information and an opportunity for broader study... This work provides a ready reference to significant productions of plays on the London stage during the period 1837 through 1901 and includes exten... |
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427,16 zł |
Neoclassical Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook
ISBN: 9780313244452 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like Vince's two previous volumes in this series, "Ancient and Medieval Theatre" (1984), and "Renaissance Theatre," "Neoclassical Theatre" provides a valuable resource for theoreticians and practioners. "Choice" This book provides an introduction to the information sources available to the neoclassical theatre historian and to some of the methods that have been used in the interpretation of those sources. Differences in the cultural context of the theatres in England, France, and Italy as well as in the historiography governing their interpretations are explored in depth. Unlike other... Like Vince's two previous volumes in this series, "Ancient and Medieval Theatre" (1984), and "Renaissance Theatre," "Neoclassical Theatre" provides... |
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Romanticism and Theatrical Experience: Kean, Hazlitt and Keats in the Age of Theatrical News
ISBN: 9781107183872 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book uniquely brings together the fields of theater history, print culture, and literature, exploring new contexts around the work of actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats, and reframing the relationship between theater, essays and poetry in Regency London.
The book uniquely brings together the fields of theater history, print culture, and literature, exploring new contexts around the work of actor Edmund...
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427,28 zł |
Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts
ISBN: 9780521401593 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of newly-commissioned essays by established scholars, responding to recent critical debate on political theater during the turbulent early years of the seventeenth century. Addressing a wide range of theater texts from the period between the accession of James I and the Civil War, the authors draw on criticism by both new historians and cultural materialists.
This is a collection of newly-commissioned essays by established scholars, responding to recent critical debate on political theater during the turbul...
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427,33 zł |
Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780521640312 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts of the period. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and capital ventures. Leinwand discusses plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Heywood and Massinger, pairing them with writings about the finances of royalty and aristocrats, privateers, theatrical entrepreneurs and debtors.
This innovative study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narr...
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427,33 zł |
Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9780521809146 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the discourses and practices that defined Renaissance theater, as related to the development of encyclopedic texts and vice versa. Looking at what "theater" meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and critics, William West sets Renaissance drama within one of its cultural and intellectual contexts. Although the study focuses on the Renaissance, it also draws on and analyzes substantial classical and medieval material. It is of equal interest to intellectual historians, theater historians and students of early literature.
This book analyzes the discourses and practices that defined Renaissance theater, as related to the development of encyclopedic texts and vice versa. ...
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427,33 zł |