The Drama Of History

Author : Kristin Gjesdal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190070762

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The Drama of History by Kristin Gjesdal Pdf

The Drama of History plumbs the rich relationship between drama and philosophy. Kristin Gjesdal offers a lively and accessible discussion of the philosophical aspects of Henrik Ibsen's work. She shows how well-known nineteenth-century philosophers such as Hegel and Nietzsche develop their thoughts in interaction with the dramatic arts. At the heart of this interaction is a shared interest in exploring the existential condition of human life as lived andexperienced in history. In this sense, Gjesdal engages philosophy's capacity beyond its narrow academic confines.

Author : John D. Cox,David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0231102437

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A New History of Early English Drama by John D. Cox,David Scott Kastan Pdf

Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.

Author : Ben Quash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139446099

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Theology and the Drama of History by Ben Quash Pdf

How can theology think and talk about history? Building on the work of the major twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as well as entering into sharp critical debate with him, this book sets out to examine the value and the potential of a 'theodramatic' conception of history. By engaging in dialogue not only with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar, Hegel and Barth, but with poets and dramatists such as the Greek tragedians, Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the book makes its theological principles open and indebted to literary forms, and seeks to show how such a theology might be applied to a world intrinsically and thoroughly historical. By contrast with theologies that stand back from the contingencies of history and so fight shy of the uncertainties and openness of Christian existence, this book's theology is committed to taking seriously the God who works in time.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415180600

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History of European Drama and Theatre by Erika Fischer-Lichte Pdf

This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity. Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include: * ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Molière * the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama * the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz * romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, Büchner, and Nestroy * the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski * the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Müller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444343748

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A History of Modern Drama, Volume I by David Krasner Pdf

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretations Includes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global view of modern drama Considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society, and politics on the formation of modern dramatic literature Takes an interpretative and analytical approach to modern dramatic texts rather than focusing on production history Includes coverage of the ways in which staging practices, design concepts, and acting styles informed the construction of the dramas

Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351606936

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Closet Drama by Catherine Burroughs Pdf

Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection unleashes a provocative array of theoretical concerns about the phenomenon of the closet play—a dramatic text written for reading rather than acting.

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521109310

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A History of English Drama 1660-1900 by Allardyce Nicoll Pdf

Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

Author : Joachim Küpper,Jan Mosch,Elena Penskaya
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110604276

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History and Drama by Joachim Küpper,Jan Mosch,Elena Penskaya Pdf

Aristotle’s neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past – arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate their “emplotments” (White) from literary inventions, this thirteen-essay collection takes a fresh look at the production of historico-political knowledge in literature and the intricacies of reality and fiction. Written by experts who teach in Germany, Austria, Russia, and the United States, the articles provide a thorough interpretation of early modern drama (with a view to classical times and the 19th century) as an ideological platform that is as open to royal self-fashioning and soteriology as it is to travestying and subverting the means and ends of historical interpretation. The comparative analysis of metapoetic and historiosophic aspects also sheds light on drama as a transnational phenomenon, demonstrating the importance of the cultural net that links the multifaceted textual examples from France, Russia, England, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Author : Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015008227087

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A Short History of the Drama by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger Pdf

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743272513

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The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory Pdf

The only survivor of the ambitious Boleyn family, lady-in-waiting Jane Boleyn testifies against Henry VIII's latest queen, Anne of Cleeves, and conspires to place her young cousin, Catherine Howard, on the throne. By the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

Author : David Loewenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521372534

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Milton and the Drama of History by David Loewenstein Pdf

This book explores the role of history in Milton's literary works. It focuses on the writer's imaginative responses to the historical process - his interpretations of the past, visions of the future, and sense of the contemporary historical moment.

Author : Charles S. Watson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780813188898

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The History of Southern Drama by Charles S. Watson Pdf

Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias. Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams's changing depiction of the South—from sensitive analysis to outraged indictment—in response to the Civil Rights Movement. Watson links the work of the early Charleston dramatists and of Espy Williams, first modern dramatist of the South, to later twentieth-century drama. Strong heroines in plays of the Confederacy foreshadow the spunk of Tennessee Williams's Amanda Wingfield. Claiming that Beth Henley matches the satirical brilliance of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Watson connects her zany humor to 1840s New Orleans farces. With this work, Watson has at last answered the call for a single-volume, comprehensive history of the South's dramatic literature. With fascinating detail and seasoned perception, he reveals the rich heritage of southern drama.

Author : Fritz Richard Stern
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300076223

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Dreams and Delusions by Fritz Richard Stern Pdf

This collection of essays by historian Fritz Stern ponders the promise and catastrophe of twentieth-century German history. It is now reissued with a new introduction by the author.

Author : Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107117587

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The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays by Isabel Karremann Pdf

This book sheds new light on the dramatic devices Shakespeare developed for turning history into theatre in his history plays.

Author : Kimberly Poppiti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351382373

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A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States by Kimberly Poppiti Pdf

A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States documents the history of equestrian drama in the United States and clarifies the multi-faceted significance of the form and of the related stage machinery developed to produce hippodramas. The development of equestrian drama is traced from its origins and influences in the sixteenth century, through the height of the form’s popularity at the turn of the twentieth century. Analysis of the historical significance of the genre within the larger context of U.S. theatre, the elucidation of the importance of the horse to theatre, and an evaluation of the lasting impact on theatre technology are also included.