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The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre
ISBN: 9780192854421 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, an authoritative and lavishly illustrated new history, celebrates the stage's greatest achievements over 4,500 years, from festival performances in ancient Egypt to international, multicultural drama in the late twentieth century, and from Sophocles and Aristophanes to George Gershwin and Harold Pinter.
Here are the playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and more, accessibly and attractively arranged so that everyone with a passion for the stage can follow the glorious... The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, an authoritative and lavishly illustrated new history, celebrates the stage's greatest achievement...
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129,89 zł |
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Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical
ISBN: 9780195054255 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in the development of American musical comedy. Mordden's account features such show people as Florenz Ziegfeld, Harold Prince, Bert Lahr, Gwen Verdon, Angela Lansbury, Victor Herbert, Liza Minnelli, and Stephen Sondheim, and such musicals as Sally, Oh Kay , Anything Goes, Show Boat, Oklahoma , Follies, Chicago, and countless others.
While theatrical historians traditionally have emphasized the role of the authors of musicals, Mordden also... Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in th...
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196,92 zł |
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The Idolatrous Eye : Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780195132052 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study argues that the century after the Reformation saw a crisis in the way that Europeans expressed their religious experience. Focusing specifically on how this crisis affected the drama of England, O'Connell shows that Reformation culture was preoccupied with idolatry and that the theater was frequently attacked as idolatrous. This anti-theatricalism notably targeted the traditional cycles of mystery plays--a type of vernacular, popular biblical theater that from a modern perspective would seem ideally suited to advance the Reformation project. The Idolatrous Eye provides a...
This study argues that the century after the Reformation saw a crisis in the way that Europeans expressed their religious experience. Focusing specifi...
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1013,40 zł |
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Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002
ISBN: 9780195158779 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Called the "theater equivalent of longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael" by Matinee Magazine, critic and producer Steven Suskin chronicles the 2001-2002 theater season in his latest installment in the Broadway Yearbook series. Commenting with wit and erudition on each show that opened on Broadway between May 2001 and May 2002, Suskin's vivid descriptions recall Tony winners like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Urinetown and commercial smashes like Mamma Mia and The Graduate. A great read for theater buffs, the book is also a valuable...
Called the "theater equivalent of longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael" by Matinee Magazine, critic and producer Steven Suskin chron...
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450,61 zł |
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The Necessity of Theater : The Art of Watching and Being Watched
ISBN: 9780195332001 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - at its most powerful - can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth.
The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by separating it into... What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Pa...
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219,21 zł |
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The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999 : Form and Pressure
ISBN: 9780198121879 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A century ago this year, productions of W.B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field launched what was to become Ireland's National Theatre, named after its home on Abbey Street, Dublin. This is the first history of the Abbey Theatre to set the plays and the personalities in their historical and political context and to describe the theatre's artistic development.
A century ago this year, productions of W.B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field launched what was to become Ireland's...
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928,60 zł |
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Patrons and Performance : Early Tudor Household Revels
ISBN: 9780198128809 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first book to examine early Tudor theater from the perspective of the great households of England. Westfall provides an illuminating account of those aristocrats of the sixteenth century that commissioned, funded, and staged complex and often lavish entertainments for their households, including plays, masques, concerts, dances, and sports.
This is the first book to examine early Tudor theater from the perspective of the great households of England. Westfall provides an illuminating accou...
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1238,14 zł |
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The Shakespearian Playing Companies
ISBN: 9780198129776 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking study is the first history of the professional acting companies who brought drama to London in Shakespeare's time. Gurr draws on the most up-to-date research to provide a general history of company development from the 1560s, when the first of the major companies belonging to great lords began regularly to offer their plays at court and in London, to 1642, when by Act of Parliament they were closed down. He offers detailed and fascinating accounts of each of the forty companies that played in London during the period, including Shakespeare's company, The...
This ground-breaking study is the first history of the professional acting companies who brought drama to London in Shakespeare's time. Gurr draws on ...
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1575,81 zł |
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Acting Between the Lines : The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics, 1980-1984
ISBN: 9780198182474 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since its creation in 1980 by actor Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) and playwright Brian Friel (Translation, Dancing at Lughnasa), Northern Ireland's Field Day Theatre Company has brought challenging drama to the entire island, "from Coleraine to Kerry." With the addition to the board of directors of poets and critics such as Tom Paulin, Seamus Heaney, and Seamus Deane, Field Day ventured into the realm of the more explicitly political with a controversial pamphlet series. Acting Between the Lines is a fascinating study of one of the most important developments in contemporary Irish...
Since its creation in 1980 by actor Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) and playwright Brian Friel (Translation, Dancing at Lughnasa), Northern Ireland's Fi...
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427,72 zł |
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Theatre Censorship : From Walpole to Wilson
ISBN: 9780199260287 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new perspective on British cultural history. Statutory censorship was first introduced in Britain by Sir Robert Walpole with his Licensing Act of 1737. Previously theatre censorship was exercised under the Royal Prerogative. By giving the Lord Chamberlain statutory powers of theatre censorship, Walpole ensured that confusion over the relationship between the Royal Prerogative and statute law would prevent any serious challenge to theatre censorship in Parliament until the...
Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new perspective on British c...
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872,32 zł |
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Theatre of the Book 1480-1880 : Print, Text, and Performance in Europe
ISBN: 9780199262168 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Theatre of the Book explores the impact of printing on the European theater, 1480-1880. Far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printing press played an essential role in the birth of the modern theater. Looking at playtexts, engravings, actor portraits, notation systems, and theatrical ephemera as part of the broader history of theatrical ideas, this illustrated book offers both a history of European dramatic publication and an examination of the European theater's continual refashioning of itself in the world of print.
Theatre of the Book explores the impact of printing on the European theater, 1480-1880. Far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printin...
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506,51 zł |
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Life as Theater : A Dramaturgical Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780202308333 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Life as Theater is about understanding people and how the dramaturgical way of thinking helps or hinders such understanding. A volume that has deservedly attained the status of a landmark work, this was the fi rst book to explore systematically the material and subject matter of social psychology from the dramaturgical viewpoint. It has been widely used and quoted, and has sparked ferment and debate in fi elds as diverse as sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, speech communication, and formal theater studies.
Life as Theater is about understanding people and how the dramaturgical way of thinking helps or hinders such understanding. A volume that has deserve...
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246,82 zł |
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Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends
ISBN: 9780226207889 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 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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179,03 zł |
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A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater : Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780226477619 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 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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77,96 zł |
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Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture
ISBN: 9780230001534 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25 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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438,11 zł |
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Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement : The Last Human Venue
ISBN: 9780230572614 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25 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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534,08 zł |
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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. 22-25 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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405,41 zł |
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Traditional Japanese Theater : An Anthology of Plays
ISBN: 9780231108720 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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806,05 zł |
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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. 25-30 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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155,87 zł |
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The Death of Character : Perspectives on Theater After Modernism
ISBN: 9780253210081 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call the 'avant-garde.'" --Essays in Theatre ..". an insightful set of theoretical 'takes' on how to think about theatre before and theatre after modernism." --Theatre Journal "In short, for those who never experienced a 'postmodern swoon, ' Elinor Fuchs is an excellent informant."... "Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretical... |
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86,57 zł |
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