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Writing Musical Theater
ISBN: 9781403963956 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in which writers can market a finished show and get it produced. For the interested theatregoer and writers, it is written in a lively and user-friendly style and illustrated with numerous examples.
This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in w...
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Playwrights on Playmaking, and Other Studies of the Stage
ISBN: 9781410214898 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS Playwrights on Playmaking Undramatic Criticism Old Plays and New Playgoers Tragedies with Happy Endings On the Advantage of Having a Pattern Did Shakespeare Write Plays to Fit His Actors? Strange Shakespearian Performances Thackeray and the Theater Mark Twain and the Theater Henry James and the Theater Stage Humor The "Old Comedies" The Organization of the Theater Memories of Actors At the time of original publication in 1923, Brander Matthews was Professor of Dramatic Literature in Columbia University, and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
CONTENTS Playwrights on Playmaking Undramatic Criticism Old Plays and New Playgoers Tragedies with Happy Endings On the Advantage of Having a Pattern ...
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The Playwright's Voice: American Dramatists on Memory, Writing and the Politics of Culture
ISBN: 9781559361637 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These 15 interviews illustrate the diversity of modern American theater and examine what makes it a unique art form. Savran (English, Brown U.) discusses the work, artistic influences, and the state of contemporary American theater and its meaning and purpose with artists including Tony Kushner, JosT Rivera, Ntozake Shange, and Anna Deveare Smith.
These 15 interviews illustrate the diversity of modern American theater and examine what makes it a unique art form. Savran (English, Brown U.) discus...
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80,73 |
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From Luababa to Polk County: Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
ISBN: 9781934074053 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully edited volume contains nine of Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished plays at the Library of Congress, including three of her full-length plays: Polk County, Cold Keener and De Turkey and De Law. This book is expected be a major contribution to American literary scholarship as it portrays customary African American life in the 20th century through a highly nonconformist African American lens. Zora Neale Hurston is a world-renowned author, best known for her fiction and folklore, including her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road...
This fully edited volume contains nine of Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished plays at the Library of Congress, including three of her full-length plays:...
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The Play within the Play : The Performance of Meta-Theatre and Self-Reflection
ISBN: 9789042022577 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting - from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy - but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized...
The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide rang...
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607,66 |
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Anzac to Understanding: Including "Anzac, the Play: A Saga of War and Peace in the 20th Century" and "A Quest for Understanding"
ISBN: 9781434327185 / Angielski / Miękka / 820 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Anzac, the Play: A Saga of War and Peace in the 20th Century," was written in Berkeley in 1969, published in 1971 and produced at the Globe Playhouse Los Angeles in 1984 with readings at the Lankershim Arts Center, No-Ho, North Hollywood in 1996. Accompanying the play, is historical documentation of the lives of the families from whom the characters were drawn as well as war letters of Willie Augustus Mann, 1914-1919, his own story and relevant pages from the Anzac Book, written by the Anzacs themselves, published in 1916. "A Quest for Understanding" is rooted in this Great War, the First...
"Anzac, the Play: A Saga of War and Peace in the 20th Century," was written in Berkeley in 1969, published in 1971 and produced at the Globe Playhouse...
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177,01 |
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Men at Play : Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s
ISBN: 9789042023574 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men's experiences of war and migration? Men at Play explores theatre's role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays...
How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and o...
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The Vapours: a play
ISBN: 9781515150787 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cristabel Cuellar visits a lonely town in the Pacific Northwest ostensibly to investigate an auto accident, but in fact she's looking for signs of the Hollow Earth. Her claimant, Judith, has been having nightmares of a devilish figure who takes her on a tour of the Underworld. Together they go on a journey that will change their lives forever. A new full-length play by the author of CLOWNTIME IS OVER and EINSTEIN'S WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING, THE VAPOURS covers esoteric territory in the context of a thriller in which digging too deeply may uncover literal monsters.
Cristabel Cuellar visits a lonely town in the Pacific Northwest ostensibly to investigate an auto accident, but in fact she's looking for signs of the...
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The Collected Plays
ISBN: 9780099286257 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Bell Chimes In these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, and together they exhibit a daring wit and an exhilarating sense of experiment.
The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Be...
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British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics
ISBN: 9780230005099 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre--the 1990s. Featuring interviews with key names in the field (including Max Stafford-Clark, Mark Ravenhill, Michael Billington, Dan Rebellato and Aleks Sierz), and with a particular focus on "in-yer-face theatre," this volume will be essential reading for all students and scholars of contemporary British theatre, as well as theatregoers and practitioners.
This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal momen...
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The Comedies of Machiavelli: The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia
ISBN: 9780872209015 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences. This bilingual edition includes all three examples of Machiavelli's comedic art: sparkling translations of his farcical masterpiece, The Mandrake; of his version of Terence's The Woman From Andros; and of his Plautus-inspired Clizia--works whose genre afforded Machiavelli a unique vehicle not only for entertaining audiences but for... Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy mor... |
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National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage
ISBN: 9780230573376 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification.
Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly in...
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Nora and Barbara
ISBN: 9783639080018 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death: An Expository Study of His Drama, Theory and Production Work, 1988-2008
ISBN: 9781403994738 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylish work brings together startlingly original forms of classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and catastrophic eroticism. This study considers the full range of his theatrical achievements.
Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylis...
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A More Perfect Ten : Writing and Producing the Ten-Minute Play
ISBN: 9781585103270 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is a revision of Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute is replete with advice and tips on creating the successful 10-minute play, information on ten-minute festival opportunities and much more.
This text is a revision of Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute is replete with advice and tips on creating the successfu...
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Rubiette
ISBN: 9781436396585 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lorsque les heros de cette tragedie ont pu s'enfoncer jusqu'au centre de l'enfer dantesque, les feux de la souffrance les brulent et rien n empeche que ceux qu'ils enfl amment ne sentent s'embraser en eux-memes les cuisantes douleurs. L'Amour ( Eros ) et la Haine ( Polemos ) joints a des sentiments forts et a des emotions troublantes emportent vehementement les protagonistes de cette piece et avec eux le spectateur ou le lecteur au fi n fond de la miseremorale et psychique. E. A.
Lorsque les heros de cette tragedie ont pu s'enfoncer jusqu'au centre de l'enfer dantesque, les feux de la souffrance les brulent et rien n empeche... |
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The Biggie and Other One-Act Plays Volume 1 by Albert Meglin
ISBN: 9780975485149 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Grenadine
ISBN: 9780300149920 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neil Wechsler's Grenadine has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series. The play was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and contest judge Edward Albee. Grenadine is the fantastical story of a man's quest for love in the company of three devoted friends. Albee writes, "I found it highly original. . . . The questions the play asks and the answers it proposes are provocative; the play stretched my mind."
About the Yale Drama Series Yale University Press, the Yale Repertory Theatre, and the David Charles Horn Foundation are proud... Neil Wechsler's Grenadine has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series. The play was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning pla... |
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The Squire's Daughter: A Tragedy, In Five Acts (1846)
ISBN: 9781437423310 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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163,79 |
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Warren, A Tragedy In Five Acts: Designed To Illustrate The Protection Which The Federal Union Extends To The Citizens Of Massachusetts (1850)
ISBN: 9781437362787 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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