Representing The Rural On The English Stage

Author : Gemma Edwards
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031264788

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Representing the Rural on the English Stage by Gemma Edwards Pdf

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre production, Representing the Rural celebrates the lively engagement with rurality on English stages since 2000, constituting the first full study of theatrical representations of rural life. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on political philosophy and cultural geography in its definitions of rurality and Englishness, and works with key theoretical concepts such as nostalgia and ethnonationalism. Covering a range of perspectives from the country garden in Mike Bartlett’s Albion to agricultural labour in Nell Leyshon’s The Farm, the enclosure acts in D.C. Moore’s Common to Black rural history in Testament’s Black Men Walking, the book shows how theatre and performance can open up different ways of reading rural geographies, histories, and lives. While Representing the Rural is aimed at students and researchers of theatre and performance, its interdisciplinary scope means that it has wider appeal to other disciplines in the arts and humanities, including geography, politics, and history.

Author : Gemma Edwards
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3031264770

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Representing the Rural on the English Stage by Gemma Edwards Pdf

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre production, Representing the Rural celebrates the lively engagement with rurality on English stages since 2000, constituting the first full study of theatrical representations of rural life. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on political philosophy and cultural geography in its definitions of rurality and Englishness, and works with key theoretical concepts such as nostalgia and ethnonationalism. Covering a range of perspectives from the country garden in Mike Bartlett’s Albion to agricultural labour in Nell Leyshon’s The Farm, the enclosure acts in D.C. Moore’s Common to Black rural history in Testament’s Black Men Walking, the book shows how theatre and performance can open up different ways of reading rural geographies, histories, and lives. While Representing the Rural is aimed at students and researchers of theatre and performance, its interdisciplinary scope means that it has wider appeal to other disciplines in the arts and humanities, including geography, politics, and history.

Author : Lisa Hopkins,Helen Ostovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317102755

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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage by Lisa Hopkins,Helen Ostovich Pdf

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which magic can trope other concerns, and what these might be; and how magic is staged and what the representational strategies and techniques might mean. The essays range widely over both canonical plays-Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Doctor Faustus, Bartholomew Fair-and notably less canonical ones such as The Birth of Merlin, Fedele and Fortunio, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, The Devil is an Ass, The Late Lancashire Witches and The Witch of Edmonton, putting the two groups into dialogue with each other and also exploring ways in which they can be profitably related to contemporary cases or accusations of witchcraft. Attending to the representational strategies and self-conscious intertextuality of the plays as well as to their treatment of their subject matter, the essays reveal the plays they discuss as actively intervening in contemporary debates about witchcraft and magic in ways which themselves effect transformation rather than simply discussing it. At the heart of all the essays lies an interest in the transformative power of magic, but collectively they show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects or even to the subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to bring about change in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.

Author : Shane Walshe
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dialogue in motion pictures
ISBN : 3631586825

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Irish English as Represented in Film by Shane Walshe Pdf

This study is the first of its kind to analyse the representation of Irish English in film. Using a corpus of 50 films, ranging from John Ford's The Informer (1935) to Lenny Abrahamson's Garage (2007), the author examines the extent to which Irish English grammatical, discourse and lexical features are present in the films and provides a qualitative analysis of the accents in these works. The authenticity of the language is called into question and discussed in relation to the phenomenon of the Stage Irishman.

Author : Ronda Arab
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781575911595

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Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage by Ronda Arab Pdf

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.

Author : Professor Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409489962

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The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage by Professor Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. In this study Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars, and of the Julio-Claudians in particular, can be used to figure the stories of English rulers on the Renaissance stage. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare and a number of other playwrights of the period, she demonstrates how early modern English dramatists, using Roman modes of literary representation as cover, commented on the issues of the day and critiqued contemporary monarchs.

Author : Evan Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317065890

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Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 by Evan Gottlieb Pdf

Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered by agricultural and industrial modernization, political and religious reform, migration, and the building of nascent overseas empires. In mapping the literary and cultural geographies of the long eighteenth century, the volume poses three challenges to common critical assumptions about the relationships among genre, place, and periodization. First, it questions the novel’s exclusive hold on the imagining of national communities by examining how poetry, drama, travel-writing, and various forms of prose fiction each negotiated the relationships between the local, national, and global in distinct ways. Second, it demonstrates how viewing the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century through a broadly conceived lens of place brings to the foreground authors typically considered 'minor' when seen through more traditional aesthetic, cultural, or theoretical optics. Finally, it contextualizes Romanticism’s long-standing associations with the local and the particular, suggesting that literary localism did not originate in the Romantic era, but instead emerged from previous literary and cultural explorations of space and place. Taken together, the essays work to displace the nation-state as a central category of literary and cultural analysis in eighteenth-century studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5240016

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The English Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : EduGorilla Prep Experts
Publisher : EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789355569523

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RRB ASM (Assistant Station Master) Stage - II Recruitment Exam Book 2023 (English Edition) | Railway Recruitment Board | 15 Practice Tests (1800 Solved MCQs) by EduGorilla Prep Experts Pdf

• Best Selling Book in English Edition for RRB ASM (Assistant Station Master) Stage - II Exam 2023 with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus. • Compare your performance with other students using Smart Answer Sheets in EduGorilla’s RRB ASM (Assistant Station Master) Stage - II Exam Practice Kit. • RRB ASM (Assistant Station Master) Stage - II Preparation Kit comes with 15 Practice Tests with the best quality content. • Increase your chances of selection by 16X. • RRB ASM (Assistant Station Master) Stage - II Exam Prep Kit comes with well-structured and 100% detailed solutions for all the questions. • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.

Author : Edel Semple,Ronan Hatfull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350359222

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Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen by Edel Semple,Ronan Hatfull Pdf

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it uniquely identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare, his family and his social circle in theatre, film and television. Interrogating Shakespeare's afterlife across stage and screen media, the volume explores continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, which it positions as the progenitor of recent Shakespearean biofictions in Anglo-American culture. It traces these developments through the 21st century, from pivotal moments such as the Shakespeare 400 celebrations in 2016, up to the quatercentenary of the publication of the First Folio, whose portrait helped make the author a globally recognisable icon. The collection takes account of recent Anglo-American socio-political, cultural and literary concerns including feminism, digital media and the biopic and superhero genres. The wide variety of works discussed range from All is True and Hamnet to Upstart Crow, Bill and even The Lego Movie. Offering insights from actors, dramatists and literary and performance scholars, it considers why artists are drawn to Shakespeare as a character and how theatre and screen media mediate his status as literary genius.

Author : Barbara A. Suess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135454005

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Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907 by Barbara A. Suess Pdf

Progress and Identity in the Poems of W. B. Yeats explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: Always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the Other. This system, which eventually became Yeats's doctrine of the mask, provided his contemporaries with a method of changing what science, Platonism, and Victorian bourgeois ideologies claimed to be inescapable qualities of self. Progress and Identityn relocates Yeats's literary, social, and political relevance from his essentializing cultural nationalism to his later, more broad-minded definitions of progress.

Author : R. West
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403913692

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Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage by R. West Pdf

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance. The book shows that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society - social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought. Dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Webster are scrutinized for their treatment of these controversial themes.

Author : David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108498142

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Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 by David O'Shaughnessy Pdf

Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052156476X

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English Shakespeares by Peter Holland Pdf

As a regular reviewer for Shakespeare Survey and the BBC, Holland has examined the variety, the strengths and the problems of English productions. His introductory chapter points to themes which are taken up in the detailed accounts that follow: the size and scale of different theatres, the difficulties of over-familiarity, the power of director's theatre, the possibilities of design, the excitement of new actors, the discoveries of regionalism and the variety of playing spaces in which Shakespeare is performed. The main part of the book is a chronological account of productions which charts the work of several English companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, Cheek by Jowl, Northern Broadsides and the English Shakespeare Company. A final chapter compares the English experience with productions elsewhere, including America, France, Germany and Russia.

Author : John Genest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Theater
ISBN : OXFORD:300031600

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Some Account of the English Stage by John Genest Pdf