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Author : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108476522
The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.
Author : David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521766364
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139828185
Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of methods and applications is used in exploration of the discipline. Bridging live art practices - theatre, performance art and dance - with technological media, and social sciences with humanities, it is truly hybrid and experimental in its techniques. This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays from leading scholars who reflect on their own experiences in Performance Studies and the possibilities this offers to representations of identity, self-and-other, and communities. Theories which have been absorbed into the field are applied to compelling topics in current academic, artistic and community settings. The collection is designed to reflect the diversity of outlooks and provide a guide for students as well as scholars seeking a perspective on research trends.
Author : Marianne McDonald,Michael Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827256
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521645921
Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.
Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052158812X
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Author : David Bradby,Andrew Calder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827294
A detailed introduction to Molière and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he and his troupes entertained with such success. It looks at his particular brands of comedy and satire. L'École des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare and Les Femmes savantes are examined from a variety of different viewpoints, and through the eyes of different ages and cultures. The comedies-ballets, a genre invented by Molière and his collaborators, are re-instated to the central position which they held in his œuvre in Molière's own lifetime; his two masterpieces in this genre, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Le Malade imaginaire, have chapters to themselves. Finally, the Companion looks at modern directors' theatre, exploring the central role played by productions of his work in successive 'revolutions' in the dramatic arts in France.
Author : Richard Paul Knowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Drama festivals
ISBN : 1108348440
"The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-todate, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the "festivalization" of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, raises questions about how alternative origin stories might impact the study of festivals, investigates the festivalized production of space in the world's "Festival Cities," and reexamines the social role and cultural work of twenty-first century theatre, performance, and multi-arts festivals. With chapters on festivals in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, the francophone world, Europe, North America, and Latin America it analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange"--
Author : Jane Moody,Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521852371
This is a contributory volume covering all aspects of theatre in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Author : Gillian Arrighi,Jim Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108485166
An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Author : Michael Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827447
August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work. The essays focus primarily on his most celebrated plays; these include the Naturalist Dramas, The Father and Miss Julie; the experimental dramas with which he created a true modernist theatre – To Damascus and A Dream Play; and the Chamber Plays of 1908 which, like so much of his work, exerted a powerful influence on much later twentieth-century drama. His plays are contextualised for what they contribute both to the history of drama and developments in theatre practice, and other essays clarify the enormous importance to these dramas of his other work, most notably the autobiographical novel Inferno, and his lifelong interest in science, the occult, sexual politics, and the visual arts.
Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Alex Mermikides,Gianna Bouchard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781472570796
This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the 'biologization' of theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings of the human body as revealed by biomedical science. In bringing together a variety of analytical perspectives, the book draws on scholars, scientists, artists and practices that are at the forefront of current creative, scientific and academic research. Its exploration of the dynamics and exchange between performance and medicine will stimulate a widening of the debate around key issues such as subjectivity, patient narratives, identity, embodiment, agency, medical ethics, health and illness. In focusing on an interdisciplinary understanding of performance, the book examines the potential of performance and theatre to intervene in, shape, inform and extend vital debates around biomedical knowledge and practice in the contemporary moment.
Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.