Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends
ISBN: 9780226207889 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of every legend is true. Or so argues Jody Enders in this fascinating look at early French drama and the way it compels us to consider where the stage ends and where real life begins. This ambitious and bracing study explores fourteen tales of the theater that are at turns dark and dangerous, sexy and scandalous, humorous and frightening-stories that are nurtured by the confusion between truth and fiction, and imitation and enactment, until it becomes impossible to tell whether life is imitating art, or art is imitating life.
Was a convicted criminal executed on stage during a... Part of every legend is true. Or so argues Jody Enders in this fascinating look at early French drama and the way it compels us to consider where the ...
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The National Stage: Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France, and America
ISBN: 9780226454979 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisis--from the challenge of socialism in late nineteenth-century Europe to the struggle to "salvage democracy" in Depression America--Kruger poses a fundamental question: in the formation of nationhood, is the citizen-audience spectator or participant? The National Stage answers this question by tracing the relation between theatre institution...
The idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing Engli...
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A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater
ISBN: 9780226477619 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles.
Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, Graham Ley here discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. In addition to photos of... Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observ...
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The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre
ISBN: 9780226534831 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of a larger project to examine the Elizabethan politics of representation, Louis Montrose's The Purpose of Playing refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. Montrose first locates the public and professional theater within the ideological and material framework of Elizabethan culture. He considers the role of the professional theater and theatricality in the cultural transformation that was concurrent with religious and socio-political change, and then concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called...
Part of a larger project to examine the Elizabethan politics of representation, Louis Montrose's The Purpose of Playing refigures the social an...
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Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture
ISBN: 9780230001534 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This bold and wide-ranging study takes a fresh look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Many rites of mourning shown in the theatre held Catholic resonances, but how did such memories of traditional worship work in post-Reformation England? Drawing on performance studies, this book provides detailed readings of major playtexts, Shakespearean and others, to explore the politics, pathologies, physiologies and parodies of mourning.
This bold and wide-ranging study takes a fresh look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama t...
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Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780230507173 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following Miller's death in 2005, this fully revised, expanded and updated new edition examines the playwright's career as a whole. All the plays are now discussed, along with his non-dramatic writings, and Carson explores the ways in which Miller's later work helps us to better understand the plays of his maturity.
Following Miller's death in 2005, this fully revised, expanded and updated new edition examines the playwright's career as a whole. All the plays are ...
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Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832: The Road to the Stage
ISBN: 9780230518025 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.
This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Usin...
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National Theatres in a Changing Europe
ISBN: 9780230521094 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over time, this new collection highlights the difficulties these institutions encounter today, in an environment where nationalism and national identity are increasingly contested by global, transnational and local agendas, and where economic forces create conflicting demands.
Examining the ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over time, this new collection highlights the difficulties these institutions en...
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Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre: 'The Best in This Kind'
ISBN: 9780230524804 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest, mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution.
This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every ...
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Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800
ISBN: 9780230525245 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All the great political revolutions of the twentieth century referred back to Marx. Reviled by some, revered by many, Marx's influence can be found in every area of the humanities and social sciences from literary criticism to globalization. In this thoroughly revised and updated new edition of his classic biography, David McLellan provides a clear and detailed account both of Marx's dramatic life and of his path-breaking thought together with a wealth of bibliographical information for further reading.
All the great political revolutions of the twentieth century referred back to Marx. Reviled by some, revered by many, Marx's influence can be found in...
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The Theatre of War: The First World War in British and Irish Drama
ISBN: 9780230525580 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Theatre of War surveys more than two hundred plays about the First World War written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 1909 and 1998. Perspectives discussed include: subject matter, technique and evaluation. The result is an understanding of the First World War as a watershed in international history.
The Theatre of War surveys more than two hundred plays about the First World War written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 19...
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Autobiography and Performance: Performing Selves
ISBN: 9780230537521 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitioners, Heddon argues that autobiographical performances
act as sites of resistance and intervention and uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use of the personal in performance Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitio...
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Children and Theatre in Victorian Britain: All Work, No Play
ISBN: 9780230551558 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an interdisciplinary study of children on the Victorian stage, examining the social and historical context in which children worked in the theatre during the nineteenth century.
This is an interdisciplinary study of children on the Victorian stage, examining the social and historical context in which children worked in the the...
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Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology
ISBN: 9780230553132 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and analyses other approaches, including those offered by research into neuroesthetics.
This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are ...
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The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History
ISBN: 9780230572560 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of specially commissioned essays offers the latest research on a broad array of nineteenth-century performance genres, lucidly written, by leading scholars in the field. It will be of interest to students of historiography, theatre history, British popular culture, and leisure studies.
This collection of specially commissioned essays offers the latest research on a broad array of nineteenth-century performance genres, lucidly written...
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Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement: The Last Human Venue
ISBN: 9780230572614 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the innovative theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a radical critique of performance studies.
This title unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, a...
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Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre: From Hamlet to Madame Butterfly
ISBN: 9780230602892 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with that in European Renaissance drama. Why are the two great plays of each tradition, plays regarded as defining their nations and eras, Kanadehon Chushingura and Hamlet, both revenge plays? What do the revenge dramas of Europe and Japan tell us about the periods that produced them and how have they been modernized to speak to contemporary audiences? By interrogating the manifestation of evil women, ghosts, satire,...
Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and co...
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Turn-Of-The-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich
ISBN: 9780231051286 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed in cabarets, and explains their connection with avant-garde movements.
Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed in cabarets, and explains their connection with avant-...
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616,35 zł |
Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays
ISBN: 9780231108720 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bamrili puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume. Organized by genre, each section features a rich selection of representative plays and explorations into each theatrical style and is prefaced by an illustrative essay covering a wide range of subjects, from stage direction to musical accompaniment. With classic and new translations of more than thirty plays and scenes--along with Brazell's detailed, historically rich supplementary material and copious illustrations--no better...
This is a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bamrili puppet theater--in one comprehensive, auth...
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A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832
ISBN: 9780252072857 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As America passed from a mere venue for English plays into a country with its own nationally regarded playwrights, William Dunlap lived the life of a pioneer on the frontier of the fledging American theatre, full of adventures, mishaps, and close calls. He adapted and translated plays for the American audience and wrote plays of his own as well, learning how theatres and theatre companies operated from the inside out. Dunlop's masterpiece, "A History of American Theatre was the first of its kind, drawing on the author's own experiences. In it, he describes the development of theatre in New...
As America passed from a mere venue for English plays into a country with its own nationally regarded playwrights, William Dunlap lived the life of a ...
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145,47 zł |