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Author : David L. Smith,Richard Strier,David Bevington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526159
A collection of interdisciplinary essays on the 'theatrical' in Renaissance London.
Author : Jean E. Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202304
Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished. In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city—the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners—and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Actors
ISBN : CUB:U183021651125
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107006836
The first in-depth study of theatre's relationship to the public sphere in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.
Author : Thomas Postlewait,Bruce A. McConachie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:49015003129419
Author : Michael McKinnie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442669444
In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Locating theatre companies – their sites and practices – in Toronto’s urban environment, Michael McKinnie focuses on the ways in which the theatre has adapted to changes in civic ideology, environment, and economy. Over the past four decades, theatre in Toronto has been increasingly implicated in the civic self-fashioning of the city and preoccupied with the consequences of the changing urban political economy. City Stages investigates a number of key questions that relate to this pattern. How has theatre been used to justify certain forms of urban development in Toronto? How have local real estate markets influenced the ways in which theatre companies acquire and use performance space? How does the analysis of theatre as an urban phenomenon complicate Canadian theatre historiography? McKinnie uses the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts as case studies and considers theatrical companies such as Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Workshop Productions, Buddies in Bad Times, and Necessary Angel in his analysis. City Stages combines primary archival research with the scholarly literature emerging from both the humanities and social sciences. The result is a comprehensive and empirical examination of the relationship between the theatrical arts and the urban spaces that house them.
Author : Mary C. Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015060054924
Mary Henderson's definitive history of theatre in New York City spans over three centuries and relates the development of theatre to the social, political, economic, and cultural climate of the time.
Author : A. Oddey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230590724
Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of making theatre-art, revealing its spirit and nature; searching for space and contemplation in a hectic twenty-first century landscape.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : English drama
ISBN : IND:30000047477249
Author : Solomon Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : BL:A0018139534
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004502888
Theatrical Events. Borders, Dynamics and Frames is written to develop the concept of ‘Eventness’ in Theatre Studies. The book as a whole stresses the importance of understanding theatre performances as aesthetic-communicative encounters of a wide range of agents and aspects. The Theatrical Event concept means not only that performers and spectators meet, but also that the specific mental sets, backgrounds and cultural contexts they bring in, strongly contribute to the character of a particular event. Moreover, this concept gives space to the study of the role societal developments – such as technological, political, economical or educational ones – play in theatrical events.
Author : J. Leep
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230612556
Theatrical Improvisation provides an in-depth analysis of short form, long form, and sketch-based improv - tracing the development of each form and the principles that define and connect the styles of performance. Brimming with original interviews from leaders in the field such as Ron West, Charna Halpern, John Sweeny and Margaret Edwartowski, Theatrical Improvisation presents straightforward improvisational theory, history, and trends. Includes easy-to-follow resources on teaching improvisation, with assessment tools, exercises, games, and classroom assignments to enable instructors to incorporate and assess improv in the classroom. Leep offers a practical, essential, and engaging guide for anyone who wants to better understand the art, teach, or perform improvisation.
Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521029902
Explores the vital relationship between city and court in the drama of Shakespeare's time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590973344
Author : Brendan Prawdzik
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474421027
Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage-to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate-rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.
