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Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107095939
A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521795362
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
Author : David Glover,Scott McCracken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521513371
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521576806
This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.
Author : Steven Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107079724
This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they're more closely aligned than they typically appear.
Author : Christine Gledhill,Linda Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231543194
For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or narrowly focused on the dilemmas of women. Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama is a transgeneric mode that has long spoken to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Pointing to melodrama’s roots in the ancient Greek combination of melos and drama, and to medieval Christian iconography focused on the pathos of Christ as suffering human body, the volume highlights the importance to modernity of melodrama as a mode of emotional dramaturgy, the social and aesthetic conditions for which emerged long before the French Revolution. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres. They examine how melodrama has traveled to and been transformed in India, China, Japan, and South America, whether through colonial circuits or later, globalization; how melodrama mixes with other modes such as romance, comedy, and realism; and finally how melodrama has modernized the dramatic functions of gender, class, and race by orchestrating vital aesthetic and emotional experiences for diverse audiences.
Author : Ton Hoenselaars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494336
While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.
Author : Terrell Carver,James Farr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037007
Offers the latest contextual and biographical scholarship with innovative interpretations and is supplemented by the first and latest English translations.
Author : Helen E. M. Brooks,Michael Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108754323
The first comprehensive guide to British theatre's engagement with the First World War over the last century, providing accessible and lively coverage of theatre's role in the representation and remembrance of events, focusing on topics including regionality, politics, popular performance, Shakespeare, class, race and gender.
Author : Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521617774
This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and original insights into the world of the stage, its most influential playwrights and the professional lives of celebrated performers such as James Quin, George Anne Bellamy, John Philip Kemble, Dora Jordan, Fanny Abington and Sarah Siddons. The volume includes essential chapters about eighteenth-century acting, production and audiences, important surveys of key theatrical forms such as tragedy, comedy, melodrama and pantomime as well as a range of exciting thematic essays on subjects such as private theatricals, 'black' theatre and the representation of empire.
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521886994
Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521016576
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Author : Jen Harvie,Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108386296
British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as funding, unionisation, devolution, immigration, and changes to legislation. Divided into four parts, it guides readers through changing attitudes to theatre-making (acting, directing, writing), theatre sectors (West End, subsidised, Fringe), theatre communities (audiences, Black theatre, queer theatre), and theatre's relationship to the state (government, infrastructure, nationhood). Supplemented by a valuable Chronology and Guide to Further Reading, it presents up-to-date approaches informed by critical race theory, queer studies, audience studies, and archival research to demonstrate important new ways of conceptualising post-war British theatre's history, practices and potential futures.
Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521008735
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Author : Andrew Filmer,Juliet Rufford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474247993
Performing Architectures offers a coherent introduction to the fields of performance and contemporary architecture, exploring the significance of architecture for performance theory and theatre and performance practice. It maps the diverse relations that exist between these disciplines and demonstrates how their aims, concerns and practices overlap through shared interests in space, action and event. Through a wide range of international examples and contributions from scholars and practitioners, it offers readers an analytical survey of current practices and equips them with the tools for analyzing site-specific and immersive theatre and performance. The essays in this volume, contributed by leading theorists and practitioners from both disciplines, focus on three key sites of encounter: * Projects: examines recent trends in architecture for performance; * Practices: looks at cross-currents in artistic practice, including spatial dramaturgies, performance architectonics and performative architectures; and * Pedagogies: considers the uses of performance in architectural education and architecture in teaching performance. The volume provides an essential introduction to the ways in which performance and architecture, as socio-spatial processes and as things made or constructed, operate as generating, shaping and steering forces in understanding and performing the other.