Theatre Histories

Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli,Bruce McConachie,Gary Jay Williams,Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134042944

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Theatre Histories by Phillip B. Zarrilli,Bruce McConachie,Gary Jay Williams,Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei Pdf

This new edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre historians. Completely revised and renewed in color, enhancements and new material include: a full-color text design with added timelines to each opening section a wealth of new color illustrations to help convey the vitality of performances described new case studies on African, Asian, and Western subjects a new chapter on modernism, and updated and expanded chapters and part introductions fuller definitions of terms and concepts throughout in a new glossary a re-designed support website offering links to new audio-visual resources, expanded bibliographies, approaches to teaching theatre and performance history, discussion questions relating to case studies and an online glossary.

Author : Bruce McConachie,Tobin Nellhaus,Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei,Tamara Underiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135041137

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Theatre Histories by Bruce McConachie,Tobin Nellhaus,Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei,Tamara Underiner Pdf

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers a critical overview of global theatre and drama, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods. Bringing together a group of scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds to add fresh perspectives on the history of global theatre, the book illustrates historiographical theories with case studies demonstrating various methods and interpretive approaches. Subtly restructured sections place the chapters within new thematic contexts to offer a clear overview of each period, while a revised chapter structure offers accessibility for students and instructors. Further new features and key updates to this third edition include: A dedicated chapter on historiography New, up to date, case studies Enhanced and reworked historical, cultural and political timelines, helping students to place each chapter within the historical context of the section Pronunciation guidance, both in the text and as an online audio guide, to aid the reader in accessing and internalizing unfamiliar terminology A new and updated companion website with further insights, activities and resources to enable students to further their knowledge and understanding of the theatre.

Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli,Gary Jay Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415462235

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Theatre Histories by Phillip B. Zarrilli,Gary Jay Williams Pdf

Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.

Author : Paul Kuritz
Publisher : PAUL KURITZ
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0135478618

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The Making of Theatre History by Paul Kuritz Pdf

Author : S.E. Wilmer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587295218

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Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories by S.E. Wilmer Pdf

Historians of theatre face the same temptations and challenges as other historians: they negotiate assumptions (their own and those of others) about national identity and national character; they decide what events and actors to highlight--or omit--and what framework and perspective to use for telling the story. Personal biases, trends in scholarship, and sociopolitical contexts influence all histories; and theatre histories, too, are often revised to reflect changing times and interests. This significant collection examines the problems and challenges of formulating national theatre histories.The essayists included here--leading theatre scholars from all over the world, many of whom wrote essays specifically for this volume--provide an international context for national theatre histories as well as studies of individual nations. They cover a wide geographical area: Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America. The essays contrast large countries (India, Indonesia) with small (Ireland), newly independent (Slovenia) with established (U.S.A.), developed (Canada) with developing (Mexico, South Africa), capitalist (U.S.A.) with formerly communist (Russia), monolingual (Sweden) with multilingual (Belgium, Canada), and countries with stable historical boundaries (Sweden) with those whose borders have shifted (Germany).The essays also explore such sociopolitical issues as the polarization of language groups, the importance of religion, the invisibility of ethnic minorities, the redrawing of geographical borders, changes in ideology, and the dismantling of colonial legacies. Finally, they examine such common problems of history writing as types of evidence, periodization, canonization, styles of narrative, and definitions of key terms.Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories will be of special interest to students and scholars of theatre, cultural studies, and historiography.

Author : Mark Pizzato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030127275

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Mapping Global Theatre Histories by Mark Pizzato Pdf

This textbook provides a global, chronological mapping of significant areas of theatre, sketched from its deepest history in the evolution of our brain's 'inner theatre' to ancient, medieval, modern, and postmodern developments. It considers prehistoric cave art and built temples, African trance dances, ancient Egyptian and Middle-Eastern ritual dramas, Greek and Roman theatres, Asian dance-dramas and puppetry, medieval European performances, global indigenous rituals, early modern to postmodern Euro-American developments, worldwide postcolonial theatres, and the hyper-theatricality of today's mass and social media. Timelines and numbered paragraphs form an overall outline with distilled details of what students can learn, encouraging further explorations online and in the library. Questions suggest how students might reflect on present parallels, making their own maps of global theatre histories, regarding geo-political theatrics in the media, our performances in everyday life, and the theatres inside our brains.

Author : Millie Taylor,Adam Rush
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350293779

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Musical Theatre Histories by Millie Taylor,Adam Rush Pdf

Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York. Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the Narrative, however, depicts the musical as neither American nor British, but both and more, having grown out of frequent and substantial interactions between both centres (and beyond). Through multiple thematic 'histories', Millie Taylor and Adam Rush take readers on a series of journeys that include the art form's European and American origins, African American influences, negotiations arounddiversity, national identity, and the globalisation of the form, as well as revival culture, censorship and the place of social media in the 21st century. Each chapter includes case studies and key concept boxes to identify, explain and contextualise important discussions, offering an accessible study of a dynamic and ever evolving medium. Written and developed for undergraduate students, this introductory textbook provides a newly focused and alternative way of understanding musical theatre history.

Author : Jacqueline S. Bratton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521794633

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New Readings in Theatre History by Jacqueline S. Bratton Pdf

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Author : Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350034303

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography by Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson Pdf

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers the key themes and methods that are current in theatre history research, with a particular focus on expanding the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are eighteen specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draws on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the Handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, as well as providing up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.

Author : Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817371142

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Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39 by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta Pdf

Author : David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521766364

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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History by David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski Pdf

A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.

Author : Steve Tillis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030483432

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The Challenge of World Theatre History by Steve Tillis Pdf

The future of theatre history studies requires consideration of theatre as a global phenomenon. The Challenge of World Theatre History offers the first full-scale argument for abandoning an obsolete and parochial Eurocentric approach to theatre history in favor of a more global perspective. This book exposes the fallacies that reinforce the conventional approach and defends the global perspective against possible objections. It moves beyond the conventional nation-based geography of theatre in favor of a regional geography and develops a new way to demarcate the periods of theatre history. Finally, the book outlines a history that recognizes the often-connected developments in theatre across Eurasia and around the world. It makes the case that world theatre history is necessary not only for itself, but for the powerful comparative and contextual insights it offers to all theatre scholars and students, whatever their special areas of interest.

Author : Clare Summerskill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429594861

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Creating Verbatim Theatre from Oral Histories by Clare Summerskill Pdf

Offering a roadmap for practicing verbatim theatre (plays created from oral histories), this book outlines theatre processes through the lens of oral history and draws upon oral history scholarship to bring best practices from that discipline to theatre practitioners. This book opens with an overview of oral history and verbatim theatre, considering the ways in which existing oral history debates can inform verbatim theatre processes and highlights necessary ethical considerations within each field, which are especially prevalent when working with narrators from marginalised communities. It provides a step-by-step guide to creating plays from interviews and contains practical guidance for determining the scope of a theatre project: identifying narrators and conducting interviews, developing a script from excerpts of interview transcripts and outlining a variety of ways to create verbatim theatre productions. By bringing together this explicit discussion of oral history in relationship to theatre based on personal testimonies, the reader gains insight into each field and the close relationship between the two. Supported by international case studies that cover a wide range of working methods and productions, including The Laramie Project and Parramatta Girls, this is the perfect guide for oral historians producing dramatic representations of the material they have sourced through interviews, and for writers creating professional theatre productions, community projects or student plays.

Author : Bruce McConachie,Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei,Tamara Underiner,Tobin Nellhaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1111 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135041120

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Theatre Histories by Bruce McConachie,Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei,Tamara Underiner,Tobin Nellhaus Pdf

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers a critical overview of global theatre and drama, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods. Bringing together a group of scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds to add fresh perspectives on the history of global theatre, the book illustrates historiographical theories with case studies demonstrating various methods and interpretive approaches. Subtly restructured sections place the chapters within new thematic contexts to offer a clear overview of each period, while a revised chapter structure offers accessibility for students and instructors. Further new features and key updates to this third edition include: A dedicated chapter on historiography New, up to date, case studies Enhanced and reworked historical, cultural and political timelines, helping students to place each chapter within the historical context of the section Pronunciation guidance, both in the text and as an online audio guide, to aid the reader in accessing and internalizing unfamiliar terminology A new and updated companion website with further insights, activities and resources to enable students to further their knowledge and understanding of the theatre.

Author : John Kenrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474267021

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Musical Theatre by John Kenrick Pdf

Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form and a business. Using anecdotes, biographical profiles, clear definitions, sample scenes and select illustrations, Kenrick focuses on landmark musicals, and on the extraordinary talents and business innovators who have helped musical theatre evolve from its roots in the dramas of ancient Athens all the way to the latest hits on Broadway and London's West End. Key improvements to the second edition: · A new foreword by Oscar Hammerstein III, a critically acclaimed historian and member of a family with deep ties to the musical theatre, is included · The 28 chapters are reformatted for the typical 14 week, 28 session academic course, as well as for a two semester, once-weekly format, making it easy for educators to plan a syllabus and reading assignments. · To make the book more interactive, each chapter includes suggested listening and reading lists, designed to help readers step beyond the printed page to experience great musicals and performers for themselves. A comprehensive guide to musical theatre as an international phenomenon, Musical Theatre: A History is an ideal textbook for university and secondary school students.