The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience
ISBN: 9780292752177 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept at manipulating this relationship. Plautus allowed his actors to acknowledge freely the illusion in which they were taking part, to elicit laughter through humorous asides and monologues, and simultaneously to flatter and tease the spectators. These metatheatrical techniques are the focus of Timothy J. Moore's innovative study of the comedies of Plautus. The first part of the book examines Plautus' techniques in detail, while... The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was partic... |
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Theatre Backstage from A to Z: Revised and Expanded
ISBN: 9780295977171 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This invaluable guide to theatrical production includes up-to-date definitions of all technical aspects of stagecraft, including the many advances in the past decade, particularly in the areas of trusses, rigging, and automated lights and their control. More than 200 terms, along with 25 new drawings, have been added, many existing definitions have been expanded and drawings revised to include new technological developments, and World Wide Web addresses have been added to the List of Manufacturers and Distributors and to the Bibliography. At the same time, older terminology and definitions... This invaluable guide to theatrical production includes up-to-date definitions of all technical aspects of stagecraft, including the many advances ... |
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147,14 zł |
Voices from the Federal Theatre [With DVD]
ISBN: 9780299183202 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theatre to more Americans than at any time in history. This book documents this vibrant, colourful, politically explosive time, covering everything from daring dramas to musicals and puppet shows.
The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theatre to more Americans than at any time in histor...
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197,03 zł |
Voices from the Federal Theatre
ISBN: 9780299183240 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theatre to more Americans than at any time in history. This book documents this vibrant, colourful, politically explosive time, covering everything from daring dramas to musicals and puppet shows.
The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theatre to more Americans than at any time in histor...
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97,83 zł |
British Theatre Since the War
ISBN: 9780300087376 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British theatre of the past fifty years has been brilliant, varied, and controversial, encompassing invigorating indigenous drama, politically didactic writing, the formation of such institutions as the National Theatre, the exporting of musicals worldwide from the West End, and much more. This entertaining and authoritative book is the first comprehensive account of British theatre in this period. Dominic Shellard moves chronologically through the half-century, discussing important plays, performers, directors, playwrights, critics, censors, and agents as well as the social, political,...
British theatre of the past fifty years has been brilliant, varied, and controversial, encompassing invigorating indigenous drama, politically didacti...
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239,23 zł |
Vanishing Acts: Theater Since the Sixties
ISBN: 9780300087772 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this outstanding collection of critical writings, some published here for the first time, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theater in America over the past forty years. His view of modern drama and its performance is rich with the insights of both a discerning critic and an individual for whom the making of theater is a passion. As Rogoff explores the topics of acting, directing, playwriting, Shakespeare productions, opera, and theater criticism, he celebrates live theater's victories over new realms while deploring the threat of imitative repertories, acting styles, and playwriting....
In this outstanding collection of critical writings, some published here for the first time, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theater in America ...
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263,76 zł |
Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology
ISBN: 9780300103366 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's development.
Robert Knopf here assembles essays from performers, directors, writers, and critics that illuminate this ongoing inquiry. The book is divided into five parts--historical influence, comparisons and contrasts, writing, directing, and acting--with interludes by major artists whose work and words have shaped the development of theater and film. A comprehensive bibliography and... This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film...
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367,96 zł |
A Life in a Wooden O: Memoirs of the Theatre
ISBN: 9780300105520 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ben Iden Payne spent more than seventy years in the theatre in England and America. On his retirement at the age of ninety it was a very different theatre from the one he entered at nineteen on joining Frank Benson's touring Shakespeare company. That change was due in no small part to his own efforts. Payne could point to many experiences that would have guaranteed him a place in the theatre annals: He was a director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He staged plays for such stars as John Drew William Gillette, John and Ethel Barrymore, Otis Skinner, and Helen Hayes. And for eight years he was...
Ben Iden Payne spent more than seventy years in the theatre in England and America. On his retirement at the age of ninety it was a very different the...
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196,33 zł |
The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties
ISBN: 9780306801860 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theater. Producing plays that reflected topical issues of the decade and giving a creative chance to actors, directors, and playwrights who were either fed up with or shut out of commercial theater, the "Group" remains a permanent influence on American drama despite its brief ten-year life. It was here that method acting, native realism, and political language had their tryouts in front of audiences who anticipated--indeed demanded--a departure from the Broadway "show-biz" tradition. In this now classic...
The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theater. Producing plays that reflected topical issues of the...
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87,53 zł |
Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910
ISBN: 9780312173630 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of African American performance and theatre is a topic that few scholars have closely studied or discussed as a critical part of American culture. In this fascinating interdisciplinary volume, David Krasner reveals such a history to be a tremendously rich one, focusing particularly on the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the 20th century. The fields of history, black literary theory, cultural studies, performance studies and postcolonial theory are utilized in an examination of several major productions. In addition, Krasner looks at the aesthetic significance of African...
The history of African American performance and theatre is a topic that few scholars have closely studied or discussed as a critical part of American ...
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391,77 zł |
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era
ISBN: 9780312214180 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette.
The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times a...
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391,77 zł |
Ben Jonson's Theatrical Republics
ISBN: 9780312214982 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it explores his engagement with concepts of republicanism. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson's stage worlds - his 'theatrical republics' - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially 'anti-theatrical'. The Jonson presented here is a positive celebrant of the social and political possibilities of theatre.
This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it ex...
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391,77 zł |
No Surrender! No Retreat!: African-American Pioneer Performers of 20th Century American Theater
ISBN: 9780312217570 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No Surrender No Retreat examines the careers of fifteen pioneer performers and their triumphs over herculean obstacles. It is a look back over the 20th century and documents personal histories of staggering achievement in spite of institutional racism, gender oppression, and classism. Twenty-four years in the making, No Surrender No Retreat is an indispensable work on African Americans in the performing arts, examining well-known performers, such as James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, and Pearl Bailey. Rare archival material and a number of personal interviews enrich this tome. Glenda E....
No Surrender No Retreat examines the careers of fifteen pioneer performers and their triumphs over herculean obstacles. It is a look back over the 2...
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195,87 zł |
The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940
ISBN: 9780312225629 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Whitman Sisters were the highest paid act on the Negro Vaudeville Circuit, Theater Owner Booking Association (Toby), and one of the longest surviving touring companies (1899-1942). The group was considered the greatest incubator of dancing talent for Negro shows on or off Toby, and significantly contributed to American theater and dance history. In The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville, Nadine George-Graves provides an historical narrative of their achievements and uses black feminist theories, feminist theories of performance, and theories of class and popular culture to analyze the many...
The Whitman Sisters were the highest paid act on the Negro Vaudeville Circuit, Theater Owner Booking Association (Toby), and one of the longest surviv...
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509,31 zł |
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era
ISBN: 9780312294434 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette.
The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times a...
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293,82 zł |
Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean
ISBN: 9780312294526 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures inthe early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of thatexperience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that theEnglish encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representationsinspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity...
Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures inthe early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of thatexperien...
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195,87 zł |
The Origin of the Theater: An Essay
ISBN: 9780313200076 / Angielski / Twarda / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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304,34 zł |
The Theatres of London
ISBN: 9780313212277 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Individual histories of many London theaters (including a sketch of the facade) giving various reconstructions and the plays presented.
Individual histories of many London theaters (including a sketch of the facade) giving various reconstructions and the plays presented.
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276,68 zł |
Ethnic Theatre in the United States
ISBN: 9780313212307 / Angielski / Twarda / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Strongly recommended for undergraduate and graduate libraries; useful in theater, American history, and ethnic studies." Choice
"Strongly recommended for undergraduate and graduate libraries; useful in theater, American history, and ethnic studies." Choice
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332,01 zł |
Ancient and Medieval Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook
ISBN: 9780313241079 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vince uses written and artifactual evidence of theatre history to explain the nature of its current state. His study of theatre's early forms discloses a wealth of significant facts, and some conjectures, that stimulate understanding and appreciation of the art. Backstage
Vince uses written and artifactual evidence of theatre history to explain the nature of its current state. His study of theatre's early forms disclose...
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188,14 zł |