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Author : Walter Herries Pollock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Actors
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087838744
Author : Michael Benedikt,George E. Wellwarth
Publisher : New York : Dutton
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015005077493
Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587299933
In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City’s ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre paved the way for six months of theatregoing in Paris and a month’s sojourn at the 2006 Avignon Festival. In French Theatre Today he turns his yearlong involvement with this rich topic into an accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive overview of contemporary French theatre. Situating many of the nearly 150 stage pieces he attended within contexts and timeframes that stretch backward and forward over a number of years, he reveals French theatre during the first decade of the twenty-first century to be remarkably vital, inclined toward both innovation and concern for its audience, and as open to international influence as it is respectful of national tradition. French Theatre Today provides a seamless mix of critical analysis with lively description, theoretical considerations with reflexive remarks by the theatremakers themselves, and matters of current French and American cultural politics. In the first part, “New York,” Turk offers close-ups of French theatre works singled out during the ACT FRENCH festival for their presumed attractiveness to American audiences and critics. The second part, “Paris,” depicts a more expansive range of French theatre pieces as they play out on their own soil. In the third part, “Avignon,” Turk captures the subject within a more fluid context that is, most interestingly, both eminently French and resolutely international. The Paris and Avignon chapters contain valuable and well-informed contextual and background information as well as descriptions of the milieus of the Avignon Festival and the various neighborhoods in Paris where he attended performances, information that readers cannot find easily elsewhere. Finally, in the spirit of inclusiveness that characterizes so much new French theatre and to give a representative account of his own experiences as a spectator, Turk rounds out his survey with observations on Paris’s lively opera scene and France’s wealth of circus entertainments, both traditional and newly envisioned. With his shrewd assessments of contemporary French theatre, Turk conveys an excitement and an affection for his topic destined to arouse similar responses in his readers. His book’s freshness and openness will reward theatre enthusiasts who are curious about an aspect of French culture that is inadequately known in this country, veteran scholars and students of contemporary world theatre, and those American theatre professionals who have the ultimate authority and good fortune to determine which new French works will reach audiences on these shores.
Author : Katherine Ibbett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351881418
Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeenth-century French theater. Each chapter takes up a particularity of seventeenth-century theatrical style and staging”for example, the clearing of violence from the stage”and shows how the conceptualization of these French stylistic shifts appropriates a rich body of Italian political writing on questions of action, temporality, and law. The theater's appropriation of political concerns and vocabularies, the author argues, proffers an astute reflection on the practices of government that draws attention to questions obscured in reason of state, such as the instrumentalization of women's bodies. In a new reading of tragedies about government, the author shows how the canonical figure of Pierre Corneille is formally engaged with the political strategizing he often appears to repudiate, and in so doing challenges a literary history that has read neoclassicism largely as a display of pure French style.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1984-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521278813
In the years since 1940, French theatre has been transformed both institutionally and artistically. This book compares all the major traditions and tendencies at work in French theatre since the outbreak of the Second World War, not only in Paris, but also in the Centres Dramatiques and Maisons de la Culture. Previous books have stopped short at the end of the fifties when the influence of Artaud was strong and the Absurd Theatre had become the new orthodoxy. David Bradby reassesses Beckett, lonesco, Adamov and Genet and challenges the notion that the sixties and seventies were a period of decline in French theatre. The book proceeds chronologically, offering a critical survey of the principal directors, actors and companies as well as of the playwrights, who are its major concern. Important productions are illustrated with black and white photographs. The political background is explained and all quotations are in English.
Author : Walter Herries Pollock
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129095805X
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Author : Walter Herries Pollock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337534503
Author : Hugh Allison Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083690883X
Author : Walter Herries Pollock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0331839962
Excerpt from The Modern French Theatre: With Critical Notes on Some of the Principal French Actors It would be well if any of Musset's poetic power had descended to the comedy writers of the present day. To M. Augier indeed it has in a sense descended t. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Whitton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719024684
"This book offers an introduction to seventeen key figures in French stagecraft. It is not a systematic study of mise en scène. Readers can consult the sections on individual directors who most interest them. But those who take the study as a whole will also ... find a guide to the changing attitudes and assumptions, the new ideas and controversies, that have shaped the French stage during the last hundred years."--Preface.
Author : John A. Henderson
Publisher : London : G. G. Harrap
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN : UOM:39015001597684
Author : Virginia Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139491648
Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films.
Author : C. Finburgh,C. Lavery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230305663
This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991-05-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521408431
An updated account and comparison of the major traditions and tendencies in the French theatre from 1940-1990.
Author : Walter Herries 1850-1926 Pollock
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1374048712
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