The Modern Stage And Other Worlds Routledge Revivals

Author : Austin E. Quigley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317619642

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The Modern Stage and Other Worlds (Routledge Revivals) by Austin E. Quigley Pdf

Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is of primary importance in particular plays; to focus on their differences is to note the novelty of the plays without increasing their accessibility. In this study, first published in 1985, Austin E. Quigley takes as his paradigm case the relationship between the world of the stage and the world of the audience, and explores various modes of communication between domains. He asks how changes in the structure of the drama relate to changes in the structure of the theatre, and changes in the role of the audience. Detailed interpretations of plays by Pinero, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter question principles about the modern theatre and establish links between drama structure and theatre structure, theme, and performance space.

Author : Austin E. Quigley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317619659

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The Modern Stage and Other Worlds (Routledge Revivals) by Austin E. Quigley Pdf

Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is of primary importance in particular plays; to focus on their differences is to note the novelty of the plays without increasing their accessibility. In this study, first published in 1985, Austin E. Quigley takes as his paradigm case the relationship between the world of the stage and the world of the audience, and explores various modes of communication between domains. He asks how changes in the structure of the drama relate to changes in the structure of the theatre, and changes in the role of the audience. Detailed interpretations of plays by Pinero, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter question principles about the modern theatre and establish links between drama structure and theatre structure, theme, and performance space.

Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351983709

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Routledge Revivals: David Rabe (1988) by Philip C. Kolin Pdf

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that covers three sections: a short biography, a summary and evaluation of his formative journalism for the New Haven Register, and a detailed and cohesive stage history of his work. The second part presents the most comprehensive and authoritative primary bibliography of Rabe to date, with the third section containing a secondary bibliography — including a section on biographical studies.

Author : C. J. Sisson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317499763

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The Boar's Head Theatre (Routledge Revivals) by C. J. Sisson Pdf

The Boar’s Head Theatre, first published in 1972, provides an account of one of the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres. It is a reconstruction of considerable importance in our understanding of the performance conditions affecting Elizabethan drama, the mode of presentation and the nature of the audience. C. J. Sisson (1885-1966) was known especially for his research into Elizabethan court cases and the light they can throw on the literature and drama of the period. His discoveries included material on the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres which provides unquestionable evidence of great importance in relation to the evolution of the theatre in England. This book, which has been edited for publication by Stanley Wells, was to have been his major work on the subject. Historians of the theatre of this period will find this book indispensable, and those with a more general interest in the greatest age of English drama will be engrossed by the detailed and intimate glimpses of the theatre world which this story affords.

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317539797

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Reading the Renaissance (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Hart Pdf

Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of the Renaissance period. The Renaissance, which extends from about 1300 to 1700 depending on the country, was originally a rebirth of the arts but has also come to apply to the wider cultural change in the face of modernization. The essays represent a plural Renaissance and explore the boundaries between genre and gender, languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance and the medieval, the early modern and the postmodern, world and theatre. There is also a plurality of methods that is fitting for the variety of topics and the richness of the Renaissance. This book is ideal for students of literature and theatre studies.

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317945239

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Reading the Renaissance by Jonathan Hart Pdf

Approaching the Renaissance from many perspectives-historicism, genre studies, close reading, anthropology, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and postmodernism-these original essays explore the boundaries between genre and gender, languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, the early modern and the post-modern, world and theater. They offer a new way of looking at the Renaissance and at literature and history generally-through the lens of cultural pluralism, which reflects the changing nature of Western society. The collection reveals that the study of literature should take into account its cultural context and that it is enriched by an examination of other literatures.

Author : James Lull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317908128

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Inside Family Viewing (Routledge Revivals) by James Lull Pdf

First published in 1990, this title presents a rich account of how television intersects with family life in American and other world cultures. From an analysis of the political and cultural significance of China’s most important television series to detailed descriptions of how families in the United States interpret and use television at home, James Lull’s ethnographic work marks an important stage in the study of the role of the mass media in contemporary culture. This title will be of interest not only to those in media and communications, but also to those in the broader fields of cultural anthropology and sociology.

Author : Ralph Yarrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317566717

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European Theatre 1960-1990 (Routledge Revivals) by Ralph Yarrow Pdf

European theatre has been the site of enormous change and struggle since 1960. There have been radical shifts in the nature and understanding of performance, fuelled by increasing cross-cultural and international influence. Theatre has had to fight for its very existence, adapting its methods of operation to survive. European Theatre 1960-1990, first published in 1992, tells that story. The contributors - who in many cases have been theatre practitioners as well as critics - provide a wealth of fascinating information, covering Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain and Sweden, as well as Britain. The book offers an historical and descriptive overview of developments across national boundaries, enabling the reader to compare and contrast acting and directing styles, administrative strategies and the relationship between ideology and achievement. Chapters trace the evolution of theatre in all its aspects, including such elements as the end of censorship in many countries, the upsurge in political and personal awareness of the 1960s, shifting patterns of state artistic policy, and the effects on companies, directors, performers and audiences. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of theatre studies.

Author : Jerome S. Bruner,Helen Haste
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136823350

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Making Sense (Routledge Revivals) by Jerome S. Bruner,Helen Haste Pdf

'Making Sense' outlines how the growing child comes to understand the world, make sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual.

Author : Ralph Yarrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : European drama
ISBN : 131756670X

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European Theatre 1960-1990 by Ralph Yarrow Pdf

Author : Raphael Samuel,Ewan MacColl,Stuart Cosgrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 113821437X

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Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985) by Raphael Samuel,Ewan MacColl,Stuart Cosgrove Pdf

First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist -- perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment -- and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The progress of the Workers' Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and German development alongside which the parallel movements in the United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical controversies which accompanied them.

Author : Thomas Rice Henn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136472206

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The Harvest of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals) by Thomas Rice Henn Pdf

Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work in psychology and anthropology; to enquire into the significance of ‘the fact or experience called tragedy’ in the modern world; and to suggest a synthesis in terms of the Christian tradition. This is a reissue of the corrected second edition of the work, first published in 1966.

Author : John Elsom
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317557746

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Post-War British Theatre (Routledge Revivals) by John Elsom Pdf

Since the Second World War, we have witnessed exciting, often confusing developments in the British theatre. This book, first published in 1976, presents an enlightening, objective history of the many facets of post-war British theatre and a fresh interpretation of theatre itself. The remarkable and profound changes which have taken place during this period range from the style and content of plays, through methods of acting, to shapes of theatres and the organisational habits of managers. Two national theatres have been brought almost simultaneously into existence; while at the other end of the financial scale, the fringe and pub theatres have kicked their way into vigorous life. The theatre in Britain has been one of the post-war success stories, to judge by its international renown and its mixture of experimental vitality and polished experience. In this book Elsom presents an approach to the problems of criticism and appreciation which range beyond those of literary analysis.

Author : Raphael Samuel,Ewan MacColl,Stuart Cosgrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138214469

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Theatres of the Left, 1880-1935 by Raphael Samuel,Ewan MacColl,Stuart Cosgrove Pdf

First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist -- perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment -- and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The progress of the Workers' Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and German development alongside which the parallel movements in the United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical controversies which accompanied them.

Author : Claude Mossé
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317754312

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Athens in Decline (Routledge Revivals) by Claude Mossé Pdf

Athens has, at different times and from different points of view, been cited as a model of moderate democracy and triumphant humanism, or, on the contrary, as an illustration of the disorders due to demagoguery and misguided imperialism. Professor Mossé looks beyond these judgments to discuss the exceptional destiny of Athens – a city which for two centuries dominated the Eastern Mediterranean world, but then faded from the political scene when Rome extended its control over the whole Mediterranean. The history of Athenian democracy does not end in 404 BC, as is sometimes thought, when the city capitulated to Sparta at the end of its Golden Age. Athens in Decline, first published in 1973, demonstrates how the city experienced another seventy-five years of greatness, and survived, more or less curtailed, under Macedonian domination. She examines the reasons for the final collapse and follows the stages of a decline which was not wholly without grandeur.