Politics And Drama

Author : David Bradby,Louis James,Bernard Sharratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521285240

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Performance and Politics in Popular Drama by David Bradby,Louis James,Bernard Sharratt Pdf

Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contributions came from people with very different types of experience: from an ex-animal trainer to a lecturer in film studies; from playwrights, directors and actors to professional critics and academics. Each author focused on a particular problem of defining drama in performance, drawing together the conditions of performance, the types of audience and the political effects of the plays or films in question. The result was a series of fruitful connections and juxtapositions that shows the remarkable continuity of the problems raised in attempts to create a popular political drama.

Author : Onder Cakirtas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781532669071

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Politics and Drama by Onder Cakirtas Pdf

By comparing the literary works of two of the greatest playwrights of our time, Önder Cakirtas reveals the similarities and contrasts between their political views and the political backdrop of their respective nations. In Britain, George Bernard Shaw, the leading British dramatist for the first half of the twentieth century, wrote his plays to explicitly reflect his socialist political and economic views, and highlight the need for equal rights for women. In Turkey, decades later, Orhan Asena confronted similar issues with plays that challenged the dominant political powers of his time - a stance which ultimately led to his political exile from Turkey.

Author : Lesley Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521308175

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Friedrich Schiller by Lesley Sharpe Pdf

Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Experimental drama
ISBN : 0333519337

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The Politics of Theatre and Drama by Graham Holderness Pdf

Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521374367

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Plays of Persuasion by Greg Walker Pdf

A detailed study of the interaction between drama and politics in the reign of Henry VIII. The subject is addressed both in general terms and through a series of case-studies of individual early Tudor plays. Through its innovative use of dramatic texts as historical source material, the book provides illuminating insights into the political and cultural history of the Henrician period, and into the perceived character of the King himself. It focuses on the troubled religious and political history of the reign, the culture of the Court, and the personality and governmental style of its head. In doing so the book argues for a reassessment of the reign, which places the King once more at the centre of affairs, and acknowledges the determining effect which this egotistical, charismatic but, above all, pragmatic monarch exercised on the artistic culture, as much as on the politics, of the Court. The book also demonstrates the close and specific links between the drama and the politics of the reign, through a detailed study of a number of key works, links which have hitherto been viewed only as general or peripheral.

Author : Sarah Grochala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472588494

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The Contemporary Political Play by Sarah Grochala Pdf

What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs? Is it purely a matter of content or is it also a matter of structure? The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure examines the politics of contemporary 'political' drama. It traces the origins of the contemporary British political play to the emergence of the idea of 'serious drama' in the late 19th century through the work of Bernard Shaw, and argues that a Shavian version of serious drama was inextricably linked to the social and political structures of British society at the time. While political drama is still often thought of as adhering to a Shavian model in which social issues are presented through a dialectical structure, Grochala argues that the different political structures of contemporary Britain give rise to formally inventive dramaturgies that are no less 'serious' or political than their Shavian forebears. Through analysing the experimental dramaturgies of contemporary plays by playwrights including Caryl Churchill, Simon Stephens, Anthony Neilson, debbie tucker green and Mark Ravenhill, among others, it offers a set of new principles for understanding how a play functions politically and reveals how today the dramaturgical structure of a play is as political as its content.

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134956029

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Shakespeare's Political Drama by Alexander Leggatt Pdf

There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare. Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power. Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience - as well as the politics of personal relationships. In this book Alexander Leggatt concentrates on the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and losing, of public power in the state, in the English and Roman histories. He sees Shakespeare as concerned both with things as they are, and with things as they ought to be: his depiction of public life includes clear appraisals of the one, and powerful images of the other. It is the interplay of the two that makes the drama.

Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521660518

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The Politics of Irish Drama by Nicholas Grene Pdf

The author explores political contexts for some of the outstanding Irish plays from the 19th century to the contemporary period.

Author : Allan Havis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0252070003

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American Political Plays by Allan Havis Pdf

These scripts touch on the issues of the 1990s, including the Gulf War, racial and sexual relations, crises unique to big cities, immigration and multiculturalism, art and censorship, revisionist history, academic freedom, and the transformation of the American presidency. The American play by Suzan-Lori Parks features an Abraham Lincoln impersonator trapped in an outrageous, Beckett-like world, while Naomi Wallace's In the heart of America centers on a Palestinian American from Atlanta who is caught up in the Persian Gulf conflict. Kokoro by Velina Hasu Houston chillingly depicts the stark predicament of a Japanese mother caught between two impossible worlds; Marisol by José Rivera reveals the dark fairytale life of a young Latin woman in a wartorn, apocalyptic New York. The Gift by Allan Havis confronts overwhelming moral ambiguity in the farcical realm of university politics, while Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees offers an adroit treatment of the fascinating, tortured Nixon/Kissinger relationship. The collection closes with Mac Wellman's 7 Blowjobs, a wicked send-up of the compromise politics that determined the fate of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Author : G. Holderness
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349217922

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Politics Of Theatre And Drama by G. Holderness Pdf

Author : Rebecca Joubin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739184301

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The Politics of Love by Rebecca Joubin Pdf

Dramatic miniseries are the primary arena for the expression of postcolonial Syrian culture and artistic talent, an arena that unites diverse aspects of artisanship in a struggle over visions of the past, present, and future of the nation. As the tour de force of the television medium, blossoming amidst persisting authoritarianism, these miniseries serve as a crucial and complex artistic avenue through which political and social opposition manifests. Scholars have tried to come to terms with a highly critical culture produced within attempted state co-optation, and argue that politically critical culture operates as a “safety valve” to release frustrations so that dissenters are less likely to mobilize against the government. Through research fueled by a viewing of over two hundred and fifty miniseries ranging from the 1960s to the present—as well as an examination of hundreds of press reports, Facebook pages, and extensive interviews with drama creators—this book turns away from the dominant paradigm that focuses on regime intent. When turning attention instead to the drama creators themselves we witness the polyphony of voices employing love and marriage metaphors and gender (de)constructions to explore larger issues of nationalism, self-identity, and political critique. At the heart of constructions of femininity are the complications that arise with the symbiosis of pure femininity with authentic national identity. Deconstructing masculinity as political critique has been less complicated since it is not implicated in Western identity issues; on the contrary, illustrations of subservient masculinity serve to subtly denounce government corruption and oppression. Miniseries from the 1960s demonstrate that the focus of the qabaday (tough man) on female sexuality comes from his own political alienation vis-à-vis the state, and is part of a vicious cycle of state violence vis-à-vis the citizen. In recent years, and in particular after the uprising, we can see the emerging definition of the true qabaday as one who does not suppress a woman’s sexuality, thereby allowing for full equality in relationships as the basis of a truly free society.

Author : David M. Bevington
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005104982

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Tudor Drama and Politics by David M. Bevington Pdf

Author : Susan Wiseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521472210

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Drama and Politics in the English Civil War by Susan Wiseman Pdf

In 1642 an ordinance closed the theatres of England. Critics and historians have assumed that the edict was to be firm and inviolate. Susan Wiseman challenges this assumption and argues that the period 1640 to 1660 was not a gap in the production and performance of drama nor a blank space between 'Renaissance drama' and the 'Restoration stage'. Rather, throughout the period, writers focused instead on a range of dramas with political perspectives, from republican to royalist. This group included the short pamphlet dramas of the 1640s and the texts produced by the writers of the 1650s, such as William Davenant, Margaret Cavendish and James Shirley. In analysing the diverse forms of dramatic production of the 1640s and 1650s, Wiseman reveals the political and generic diversity produced by the changes in dramatic production, and offers insights into the theatre of the Civil War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789042026070

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Political Performances by Anonim Pdf

Preliminary Material -- Mapping Political Performances: A Note on the Structure of the Anthology /E.J. Westlake -- Performance as Sepulchre and Mousetrap: Global Encoding, Local Deciphering /Avraham Oz -- Witnesses in the Public Sphere: Bloody Sunday and the Redefinition of Political Theatre /Paola Botham -- Orality and the Ethics of Ownership in Community-Based Drama /David Grant -- The Théâtre du Soleil's Trajectory from “People's Theatre” to “Citizen Theatre:” Involvement or Renunciation? /Bérénice Hamidi-Kim -- Ways of Unseeing: Glass Wall on the Main Stage /Tal Itzhaki -- To Absent Friends: Ethics in the Field of Auto/Biography /Deirdre Heddon -- Reading the Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal /Carl Lavery -- Barbarians and Babes: A Feminist Critique of a Postcolonial Persians /Sydney Cheek O'Donnell -- Performing Stereotypes at Home and Abroad /Tom Maguire -- The Comeback of Political Drama in Croatia: Or How to Kill a President by Miro Gavran /Sanja Nikčević -- Local Knowledges, Memories, and Community: From Oral History to Performance /David Watt -- Modalities of Israeli Political Theatre: Plonter, ARNA'S Children, and the Ruth Kanner Group /Shimon Levy -- Documenting the Invisible: Dramatizing the Algerian Civil War of the 1990S /Susan C. Haedicke -- The Erotic Politics of Critical Tits: Exhibitionism or Feminist Statement? /Wendy Clupper -- The Güegüence Effect: The National Character and the Nicaraguan Political Process /E.J. Westlake -- Do the Ends Justify the Means? Considering Homeless Lives as Propaganda and Product /Beverly Redman -- The Birabahn/Threlkeld Project: Place, History, Memory, Performance, and Coexistence /Kerrie Schaefer -- Non-Naturalistic Performance in Political Narrative Drama: Methodologies and Languages for Political Performance with Reference to the Rehearsal and Production of E to the Power 3--Education, Education, Education /Lloyd Peters -- Gay Muslims and Salty Meat Pies: The Limits of Performing Community /Sonja Arsham Kuftinec -- About the Contributors.

Author : Caspar Harold Nannes
Publisher : Washington, D.C., Catholic U. Of America P
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015066078661

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Politics in the American Drama by Caspar Harold Nannes Pdf