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Author : Donald Perret
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : French drama
ISBN : 2600036903
Author : William Grange
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761860044
A Primer in Theatre History covers productions, personalities, theories, innovations, and plays from ancient Greece to the Spanish Golden Age. Grange discusses theatre from 534 BC in Athens to 1681 AD in Madrid. The book contains highly informative chapters on theatre culture in the ancient classical world, the medieval period, the Italian Renaissance, classical Asia, German-speaking Europe, France to 1658, and England to 1642. Following a wide-ranging introduction, chapters allow the uninitiated reader straightforward access to well-researched material, often presented in a humorous and approachable fashion. Descriptions of films augment discussions of theatre, while an extended bibliography and comprehensive index assist the reader in making further inquiries. Each chapter features illustrations by Mallory Prucha, a designer and graphic illustrator who has received several awards at theatre conferences around the US. A Primer in Theatre History does not read like a scholarly tome. Its whimsical wrinkles offer readers a more contemporaneous view of theatre than is customary. It employs, for example, frequent references to movies germane to topics and time periods under discussion. Such use of film promotes familiarity among younger readers, who can then appropriate analogies to theatre performance.
Author : Harriet Lyon,Alexandra M. Walsham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277698
How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future? The word nostalgia was invented in the late seventeenth century to describe the debilitating effects of homesickness. Now widely defined as a sense of longing for a lost past, initially it was more closely linked with dislocation in space. By exploring some of its many textual, visual and musical manifestations in the tumultuous period between c. 1350 and 1800, this volume resists the assumption that nostalgia is a distinctive by-product of modernity. It also forges a fruitful link between three lively areas of current scholarly enquiry: memory, temporality, and emotion. The contributors deploy nostalgia as a tool for investigating perceptions of the passage of time and historical change, unsettling experiences of migration and geographical displacement, and the connections between remembering and forgetting, affect and imagination. Ranging across Europe and the Atlantic world, they examine the moments, sites and communities in which it arose, alongside how it was used to express both criticism and regret about the religious, political, social and cultural upheavals that shaped the early modern world. They approach it as a complex mixed feeling that opens a new window into individual subjectivities and collective mentalities.
Author : Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou,Paul J. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004438569
The French poets Ronsard and Du Bartas enjoyed a wide but varied reception throughout early modern Europe. This volume is the first book length monograph to study the transnational reception histories of both poets in conjunction with each other.
Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313033575
Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen. The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative. Each begins with a biographical, artistic, religious, or historical background section, which places the subject within a larger cultural and historical context. A description and analysis follow. This section may include a discussion of the fool's appearance, gender role, ethical and moral roles, social function, and relationship to such themes as nature, time, and mortality. The entry then discusses the critical reception of the subject and concludes with an extensive bibliography of general works.
Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135314
Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality plays cohabited with song, dance, farces and other public spectacles, frequently sharing ecclesiastical and secular inspiration. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre between 500 and 1500, and imaginatively pieces together the puzzle of medieval theatre by foregrounding the study of performance. Each of the ten chapters of this richly illustrated volume takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Author : Istvan Czachesz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317544050
Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the very start of Christian history. The sources range across Greek comedy, Roman and Jewish demonology, and metamorphosis traditions. The study reveals how these images originated, were adopted, and were shaped to the service of a doctrinally and psychologically persuasive Christian message.
Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812248746
Crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them playable half-a-millennium later, Jody Enders's translations of twelve medieval French farces take on the hilariously depressing—and depressingly hilarious—state of holy wedlock.
Author : Jane Everingham Nelson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004520608
This landmark interdisciplinary study shines the light of religious Hermetism on Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Othello and The Tempest and reveals the ‘religion of the mind’ found in the Corpus Hermeticum to be a source of Shakespeare’s understanding of human psychology.
Author : Edith Hall,Amanda Wrigley
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781904350613
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2318 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373971
A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UVA:X001623096
Author : Nancy Freeman Regalado
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015074283147
This collection of essays recognizes the accomplishments of one of the pathbreaking women in the field of medieval French literature, Nancy Freeman Regalado, whose research has always pushed beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Author : Ralph M. Rosen,Helene P. Foley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004424463
This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes’ comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Reformation
ISBN : OSU:32435077856110
