Dramatic Spaces

Author : Jennifer Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317528012

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For literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is both text and performance. Dramatic Spaces examines period-specific stage spaces in order to assess how design shaped the thematic and experiential dimensions of plays. This book highlights the stakes of the debate about spatiality and the role of the spectator in the auditorium – if audience members are co-creators of the drama, how do they contribute? The book investigates: Roman comedy and Shakespearean dramas in which the stage-space itself constituted the primary scenographic element and actors’ bodies shaped the playing space more than did sets or props the use of paid applauders in nineteenth-century Parisian theaters and how this practice reconfigured theatrical space transactions between stage designers and spectators, including work by László Moholy-Nagy, William Ritman, and Eiko Ishioka Dramatic Spaces aims to do for stage design what reader-response criticism has done for the literary text, with specific case studies on Coriolanus, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Tales of Hoffman, M. Butterfly and Tiny Alice exploring the audience’s contribution to the construction of meaning.

Author : Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.)
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0817308547

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Theatrical Spaces and Dramatic Places by Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.) Pdf

This volume brings together experts in the field of Renaissance theatre architecture. It considers concepts and applications of theatrical space during the early modern period.

Author : Jennifer Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317528005

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Dramatic Spaces by Jennifer Low Pdf

For literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is both text and performance. Dramatic Spaces examines period-specific stage spaces in order to assess how design shaped the thematic and experiential dimensions of plays. This book highlights the stakes of the debate about spatiality and the role of the spectator in the auditorium – if audience members are co-creators of the drama, how do they contribute? The book investigates: Roman comedy and Shakespearean dramas in which the stage-space itself constituted the primary scenographic element and actors’ bodies shaped the playing space more than did sets or props the use of paid applauders in nineteenth-century Parisian theaters and how this practice reconfigured theatrical space transactions between stage designers and spectators, including work by László Moholy-Nagy, William Ritman, and Eiko Ishioka Dramatic Spaces aims to do for stage design what reader-response criticism has done for the literary text, with specific case studies on Coriolanus, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Tales of Hoffman, M. Butterfly and Tiny Alice exploring the audience’s contribution to the construction of meaning.

Author : H. Lojek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230370418

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The Spaces of Irish Drama by H. Lojek Pdf

Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space.

Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521839563

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Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama by Alison Findlay Pdf

This study examines the playing spaces for early modern women's drama.

Author : Javier Lorenzo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684484935

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Space, Drama, and Empire by Javier Lorenzo Pdf

Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain’s classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope’s drama and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past. In specific plays, this book argues, historical landscapes and settings were used to foretell and legitimize the imperial present in Hapsburg Spain, allowing audiences to visualize and plot, as on a map, the country’s expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries. By focusing on connections among space, drama, and empire, this book makes an important contribution to the study of literature and imperialism in early modern Spain and equally to our understanding of the role and political significance of spatiality in Siglo de Oro comedia.

Author : Holger Kleine
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035604351

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The Drama of Space by Holger Kleine Pdf

The experience of architectural spaces is formed by the way they are staged. The Drama of Space examines the composition and articulation of architectural spaces in terms of spatial dramaturgy, as a repertoire of means and strategies for shaping spatial experience. This fundamental approach to architectural design is presented in four parts: Archetypal principles of spatial composition are traced from the study of three assembly buildings of the early modern period in Venice. Theatre, film, music, and theory provide background knowledge on dramaturgy. Detailed analyses of 18 international case studies offer new perspectives on contemporary architecture. The book ends with a systematic presentation of the dramaturgy of space, its parameters and tools, in architectural design.

Author : Jennifer A. Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Drama
ISBN : 131572345X

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Dramatic Spaces by Jennifer A. Low Pdf

For literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is both text and performance. Dramatic Spaces examines period-specific stage spaces in order to assess how design shaped the thematic and experiential dimensions of plays. This book highlights the stakes of the debate about spatiality and the role of the spectator in the auditorium - if audience members are co-creators of the drama, how do they contribute? The book investigates: Roman comedy and Shakespearean dramas in which the stage-space itself constituted the primary scenographic element and actors' bodies shaped the playing space more than did sets or props the use of paid applauders in nineteenth-century Parisian theaters and how this practice reconfigured theatrical space transactions between stage designers and spectators, including work by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, William Ritman, and Eiko Ishioka? Dramatic Spaces aims to do for stage design what reader-response criticism has done for the literary text, ?with specific case studies on Coriolanus, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Tales of Hoffman, M. Butterfly and Tiny Alice exploring the audience's contribution to the construction of meaning.

Author : Adi Ophir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134959747

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Plato's Invisible Cities by Adi Ophir Pdf

This book offers an original and detailed reading of Plato's Republic, one of the most influential philosophical works in the emergence of Western philosophy. The author discusses the Republic in terms of discursive events and political acts. Plato's act is placed in the context of a politico-discursive crisis in Athens at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century B.C that gave rise to the dialogue's primary question, that of justice. The originality of Dr. Ophir lies in the way he reconstructs the Republic's different spatial settings - utopian, mythical, dramatic and discursive - using them as the main thread of his interpretation. Against the background of Plato's critique of the organisation of civic-space in the Greek polis, the author relates the spatial settings in the Plato text to each other. This provides a basis for a re-examination of the relationship between philosophy and politics, which Plato's work advocates, and which it actually enacted.

Author : Birgit Beumers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118424735

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A Companion to Russian Cinema by Birgit Beumers Pdf

A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up-to-date and thorough coverage of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, which also effectively fills gaps in the existing scholarship in the field This is the first volume on Russian cinema to explore specifically the history of movie theatres, studios, and educational institutions The editor is one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies, and contributions come from leading experts in the field of Russian Studies, Film Studies and Visual Culture Chapters consider the arts of scriptwriting, sound, production design, costumes and cinematography Provides five portraits of key figures in Soviet and Russia film history, whose works have been somewhat neglected

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113699719

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Contemporary Drama in English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : NYPL:33433073131405

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Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gordon McMullan,Kelly Stage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350174399

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The Changeling: The State of Play by Gordon McMullan,Kelly Stage Pdf

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration, disability both mental and physical, and performance both early modern and contemporary. The Changeling's critical and theatrical history, and a selected bibliography for the volume helps readers easily find the most frequently cited materials in the volume as a whole, while individual essays detail the full expanse of critical sources to pursue for further analysis. With contributors ranging from highly regarded critics to emerging scholars drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Switzerland, the collection equips readers to engage with a variety of critical approaches to the play, moving a long way beyond the last century's tendency to treat Middleton as 'the early modern Ibsen', to ignore Rowley, and to focus almost wholly on a single aspect of the play's plot. Key themes and topics include: · Performance · Space and affect · Authorial collaboration · Gender and representation · Violence · Disability

Author : Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487519353

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Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain by Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas Pdf

Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions. Focusing on Spanish dramas between 1500 and 1700, through the birth and development of its playhouses and coliseums and the phenomenal success of its major writers, this collection addresses a unique phenomenon through the most popular, versatile, and generous medium of the time. The contributors tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre could be used to deploy scientific knowledge. While Science on Stage contributes to cultural and performance studies it also engages with issues of censorship, the effect of the Spanish Inquisition on the circulation of ideas, and the influence of the Eastern traditions in Spain.

Author : Peta Tait
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351912112

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Performing Emotions by Peta Tait Pdf

In Performing Emotions, Peta Tait's central argument is that performing emotions in realism is also performing gender identity. Emotions are phenomena that are performable by bodies, which have cultural identities. In turn, these create cultural spaces of emotions. This study integrates scholarship on realist drama, theatre and approaches to acting, with interdisciplinary theories of emotion, phenomenology and gender theory. With chapters devoted to masculinity and femininity specifically, as well as to emotions generally, it investigates social beliefs about emotions through Chekhov's four major plays in translation, and English language commentaries on Constantin Stanislavski's direction (of the play's first productions) and his approaches to acting, and Olga Knipper's acting of the central women characters. Emotions exists as social relationships; they are imagined and embodied as gendered. Tait demonstrates how theatrical emotions are predicated on social performances and vice versa. In Chekhov's plays, which came to dominate a twentieth century theatre of emotions, characters interpret their emotions intertextually in relation to other theatrical and fictional narratives of emotions. Tait here interrogates these plays as sustained explorations of the inherent theatricality of characters expressing emotions from their phenomenological awareness. A theatrical language of gendered interiority is produced in the acting of emotions in Stanislavski's early realistic theatre. Alternatively, remapping the performances of emotional bodies can destabilise the culturally constructed boundary separating an inner, private self and an outer, social self in culturally produced geographies of emotions. As Tait shows, emotions can be performed as indivisible spatialities. Performing Emotions integrates theories of theatre, gender identity and emotion to investigate how sexual difference impacts on the representations of emotions. The book develops an accumulative analysis of the meanings of emotions in twentieth century realist drama, theatre and acting.