Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015052565945
London Theatre Record
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London Theatre Record
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London Theatre Record
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015067514979
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Theatre World Annual (London)
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCSC:32106019360988
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Theatre Record
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Theater
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133490420
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Women and Comedy
Susan Carlson
Author : Susan Carlson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 0472101870
Women and Comedy by Susan Carlson Pdf
Explores the history and nature of women in British dramatic comedy
Aphra Behn
Mary Ann O'Donnell
Author : Mary Ann O'Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351957793
Aphra Behn by Mary Ann O'Donnell Pdf
This annotated bibliography constitutes a thoroughly revised and more easily readable study of Behn's publications, of those edited or translated by her, of publications that included her works, and of writings ascribed to her, along with an annotated bibliography of over 1600 works about her from 1671 to 2001, with an unannotated update covering 2002. The augmented primary bibliography describes all known editions and issues of her works to 1702, and adds a catalogue of editions to 2002, including on-line sources. The secondary bibliography adds close to 1000 items published since 1984 to the original 600 of the first edition along with about 175 more from 1671 to 1984, with attention to materials not in English. New appendices include a list of dedicatees, actors, recent productions (with reviews), and provenances. This volume will be invaluable for book dealers, collectors and librarians, as well as students and scholars of Aphra Behn and of Restoration literature.
"Celebrating Confusion"
Kenneth Nally
Author : Kenneth Nally
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443803656
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Though widely lauded as one of the most creative and challenging forces in Irish theatre Frank McGuinness’s plays have often met with a tempestuous reception. This new work details the significance of key productions of his plays in the context of Ireland’s culture and society. Charting McGuinness’s development as a dramatist from The Factory Girls through to Gates of Gold it combines cultural, political and theatrical analysis to position McGuinness as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation. Textual analysis supports considerations of theatrical performance to show how visual art, stagecraft, sculpture and song are central to our understanding of McGuinness’s theatre. Drawing forth the range of sexual, familial and national identities found in McGuinness’s work this book shows the significance of symbols in theatre that often seeks to confuse the simplicities of absolutes in order to show the complexities of difference. Wide-ranging, theoretically astute and written in a lucid and engaging style, Celebrating Confusion will appeal to all readers who are interested in Irish Theatre and its intersection with the politics and culture of contemporary Ireland.
The Theatre of Rupert Goold
Sarah Grochala
Author : Sarah Grochala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350090743
The Theatre of Rupert Goold by Sarah Grochala Pdf
Since the late 1990s, Rupert Goold has garnered a reputation as one of the UK's most exciting and provocative theatre directors. His exhilarating, risk-taking productions of both classic texts and new plays have travelled from regional stages to the National Theatre, the West End, Broadway and beyond. Through his artistic directorship of Northampton's Royal & Derngate, the touring theatre company Headlong and London's Almeida Theatre, he has radically transformed, not only the companies themselves, but the landscape of British theatre. This is the first book to survey and analyse the full range of Goold's work to date and is a vital resource for students, scholars and fans of his work. Based on extensive interviews with Goold and some of the playwrights, designers, actors and other creatives who have collaborated with him, The Theatre of Rupert Goold provides an account of Goold's work from the beginnings of his career to the present day, offering a backstage view of the creative processes behind some of his most successful productions including: Paradise Lost, Faustus (Royal & Derngate); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Six Characters in Search of an Author, ENRON (Headlong); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Charles III and Ink (Almeida). The Theatre of Rupert Goold is an accessible and fascinating guide to Goold's approach to making theatre, an approach that asks provocative questions of the modern world in the most theatrical ways imaginable.
New Theatre Quarterly 35: Volume 9, Part 3
Clive Barker,Simon Trussler
Author : Clive Barker,Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052144814X
New Theatre Quarterly 35: Volume 9, Part 3 by Clive Barker,Simon Trussler Pdf
Provides an international forum for the discussion of topics of current interest in theatre studies. This issue includes articles on women and theatre in Spain; Sarah Bernhardt in Vaudeville; Giorgio Strehler's 'Faust' project; Deborah Levy in interview; and social space in ancient theatre.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dorothea Kehler
Author : Dorothea Kehler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135886677
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Dorothea Kehler Pdf
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre
Catherine Love
Author : Catherine Love
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000839784
Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre by Catherine Love Pdf
Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre interrogates the paradoxical nature of theatre texts, which have been understood both as separate literary objects in their own right and as material for performance. Drawing on analysis of contemporary practitioners who are working creatively with text, the book re-examines the relationship between text and performance within the specific context of British theatre. The chapters discuss a wide range of theatre-makers creating work in the UK from the 1990s onwards, from playwrights like Tim Crouch and Jasmine Lee-Jones to companies including Action Hero and RashDash. In doing so, the book addresses issues such as theatrical authorship, artistic intention, and the apparent incompleteness of plays as both written and performed phenomena. Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre also explores the implications of changing technologies of page and stage, analysing the impact of recent developments in theatre-making, editing, and publishing on the status of the theatre text. Written for scholars, students, and practitioners alike, Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre provides an original perspective on one of the most enduring problems to occupy theatre practice and scholarship.
Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s
Jane Milling
Author : Jane Milling
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408129609
Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s by Jane Milling Pdf
Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from a decade when political and economic forces were changing society dramatically. It offers a broad survey of the context and of the playwrights and companies such as Complicité and DV8 that rose to prominence at this time. Alongside this it provides a detailed examination based on fresh research of four of the most significant playwrights of the era and considers the influence they had on later work. The 1980s volume features a detailed study by four scholars of the work of four of the major playwrights who came to prominence: Howard Barker (by Sarah Goldingay), Jim Cartwright (David Lane), Sarah Daniels (Jane Milling) and Timberlake Wertenbaker (Sara Freeman). Essential for students of Theatre Studies, the series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced from the 1950s to 2009. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights besides other theatre work from that decade, together with an extensive commentary on the period. Readers will understand the works in their contexts and be presented with fresh research material and a reassessment from the perspective of the twenty-first century. This is an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1980s.
A Politic Theatre: The Drama of David Hare
Scott Fraser
Author : Scott Fraser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484979
A Politic Theatre: The Drama of David Hare by Scott Fraser Pdf
This analysis of twenty published texts by David Hare employs definitions from contemporary semiotic literary theory as a means of describing typologies of political drama. By tracing the incorporation of stylistic devices from agitational propaganda (caricature, self-referentiality, the frisson between oral and visual signification) throughout the typologies, the study illustrates how each text subverts audience expectation based on established dramatic genres. The collection of texts is seen as inherently self-referential and politically subversive. At the centre of each typology is a protagonist who functions as a martyr to or parodic emblem of contemporary society. Consistently, the hermeticism of public institutions which represent the political status quo makes them immune from any form of individual protest from the Left or Right. In the satirical anatomy, the emblem of political dissent is coopted by involvement within the institution, or the stage is dominated by a conservative who controls the action. In the demythology, private individuals are seen as incapable of altering the public frame of history; but here private suffering subverts the collective mythology of the historical construct. In the martyrology, the emblem of dissent is associated with a moral virtue which is inimical to contemporary society, the audience's expectation of the triumph of the individual being subverted when he/she is expelled from the onstage world on the grounds of political ideology. It is only in the final typology, the conversion, that a conservative emblem is seen as directly influenced by such martyrdom, and the audience is provided with an actual example of political change. Thus, the study describes how each typology builds on the construction of the previous, and all generate from agitational propaganda.
Interpreting Chekhov
Geoffrey Borny
Author : Geoffrey Borny
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781920942687
Interpreting Chekhov by Geoffrey Borny Pdf
The author's contention is that Chekhov's plays have often been misinterpreted by scholars and directors, particularly through their failure to adequately balance the comic and tragic elements inherent in these works. Through a close examination of the form and content of Chekhov's dramas, the author shows how deeply pessimistic or overly optimistic interpretations fail to sufficiently account for the rich complexity and ambiguity of these plays. The author suggests that, by accepting that Chekhov's plays are synthetic tragi-comedies which juxtapose potentially tragic sub-texts with essentially comic texts, critics and directors are more likely to produce richer and more deeply satisfying interpretations of these works. Besides being of general interest to any reader interested in understanding Chekhov's work, the book is intended to be of particular interest to students of Drama and Theatre Studies and to potential directors of these subtle plays.
Turgenev and Russian Culture
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401205863
Turgenev and Russian Culture by Anonim Pdf
The present volume has as its central aim a reassessment of the works of Ivan Turgenev for the twenty-first century. Against the background of a decline in interest in nineteenth-century literature the articles gathered here seek to argue that the period in general, and his work in particular, still have much to offer the modern sensibility. The volume also offers a great variety of approaches. Some of the contributors tackle major works by Turgenev, including Rudin and Smoke, while others address key themes that run through all his creative work. Yet others address his influence, as well as his broader relationship with Russian and other cultures. A final group of articles examines other key figures in Russian literary culture, including Belinskii, Herzen and Tolstoi. The work will therefore be of interest to students, postgraduates and specialists in the field of Russian literary culture. At the same time, they will stand as a tribute to the life and work of Professor Richard Peace, a long-standing specialist in nineteenth-century Russian literature, in whose honour the volume has been compiled.