Utopian Drama

Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474295802

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Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre offers an illuminating appraisal of the objectives of utopianism as manifested in drama through the ages, and carefully ascertains the added value that live performance brings to the persuasion of utopian thought. Siân Adiseshiah scrutinises the distinctive intervention of utopian drama through its examination alongside the utopian prose tradition – in this way, the book establishes new ways of approaching utopian aesthetics and new ways of interpreting utopian drama. This book provides fresh understandings of the generic features of utopian plays, identifies the gains of establishing a new genre, and ascertains ways in which this genre functions as political theatre. Referring to over 40 plays, of which 18 are examined in detail, Utopian Drama traces the emergence of the utopian play in the Western tradition from ancient Greek Comedy to experimental contemporary work. Works discussed in detail include plays by Aristophanes, Margaret Cavendish, George Bernard Shaw, Howard Brenton, Claire MacDonald, Cesi Davidson, and Mojisola Adebayo. As well as offering extended attention to the work of these playwrights, the book reflects on the development of utopian drama through history, notes the persistent features, tropes, and conventions of utopian plays, and considers the implications of their registration for both theatre studies and utopian studies.

Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474295819

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Utopian Drama by Siân Adiseshiah Pdf

Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre offers an illuminating appraisal of the objectives of utopianism as manifested in drama through the ages, and carefully ascertains the added value that live performance brings to the persuasion of utopian thought. Siân Adiseshiah scrutinises the distinctive intervention of utopian drama through its examination alongside the utopian prose tradition – in this way, the book establishes new ways of approaching utopian aesthetics and new ways of interpreting utopian drama. This book provides fresh understandings of the generic features of utopian plays, identifies the gains of establishing a new genre, and ascertains ways in which this genre functions as political theatre. Referring to over 40 plays, of which 18 are examined in detail, Utopian Drama traces the emergence of the utopian play in the Western tradition from ancient Greek Comedy to experimental contemporary work. Works discussed in detail include plays by Aristophanes, Margaret Cavendish, George Bernard Shaw, Howard Brenton, Claire MacDonald, Cesi Davidson, and Mojisola Adebayo. As well as offering extended attention to the work of these playwrights, the book reflects on the development of utopian drama through history, notes the persistent features, tropes, and conventions of utopian plays, and considers the implications of their registration for both theatre studies and utopian studies.

Author : Sian Adiseshiah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Imaginary places
ISBN : 1474295827

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Utopian Drama by Sian Adiseshiah Pdf

"Utopian Drama considers utopian plays alongside the utopian prose tradition and provides fresh analyses of the generic features of utopian drama. It asks, in what dramatic genres does utopia develop? Is it productive to construct a new genre of utopian drama? Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre focuses on the utopian play, tracing its emergence in the Western tradition to ancient Greek theatre and to Old Comedy and Aristophanes' plays in particular. The book includes coverage of the early modern period, taking account of utopian plays by William Shakespeare, John Dryden and Aphra Behn, and focusing particularly on the feminist utopias of Margaret Cavendish. George Bernard Shaw's utopian theatre is discussed in the context of early twentieth-century eugenics and the biological potential of human beings, and the later twentieth century is considered through the utopian plays of Howard Brenton. The book closes with a reflection on the development of utopian drama over this considerable expanse of time, and discusses examples of utopian performance in the 21st century."--

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : PURD:32754083038889

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : M. Yde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137330208

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Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism by M. Yde Pdf

This book reveals the genuity of Shaw's totalitarianism by looking at his material - articles, speeches, letters, etc but is especially concerned with analyzing the utopian desire that runs through so many of Shaw's plays; looking at his political and eugenic utopianism as expressed in his drama and comparing this to his political totalitarianism.

Author : Dragan Klaić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024952239

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The Plot of the Future by Dragan Klaić Pdf

The Plot of the Future's forward-looking topic, previously unexamined in the dramatic sphere, maintains its relevance in an age of increasing technological advancement. It will interest teachers and students of modern drama with its timely perspective on European theater and will also appeal to those in the social sciences who study utopian theories.

Author : Kevin Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062450357

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Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson Pdf

Wilson’s ambition alone is exciting. . . . [His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact.” —Boston Globe The eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang—a warm-hearted and moving story about a young woman making a family on her own terms. When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she’s fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she’s left searching. Dr. Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own. Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a “perfect little world”—to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are. He calls it The Infinite Family Project and he wants Izzy and her son to join. This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy’s growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place. Written with the same compassion and charm that won over legions of readers with The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson shows us with grace and humor that the best families are the ones we make for ourselves.

Author : Elizabeth Russell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039113488

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Trans/Forming Utopia by Elizabeth Russell Pdf

Is the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of the collapse of ideologies? This book contains eighteen essays which are the result of the 7th International Conference of Utopian Studies held in Spain in 2006, either debating the subject, or suggesting alternative readings to some of the theoretical ideas raised within utopian studies. This volume focuses on the importance of narratives in utopian literature. They define the world we live in and the world we wish to live in. Through narratives of confession, and indeed through silence itself, the unconscious emerges and desire is articulated. The articles in this volume question and challenge the power of the word, the stability of meaning, and the relationship between thought and action in the construction of utopia and dystopia. They also point to the various literary frameworks of utopian and dystopian narratives, thus connecting stories from the past, present and future of both real and imaginary and communities.

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472025572

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Utopia in Performance by Jill Dolan Pdf

"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come." ---David Román, University of Southern California What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change. She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.

Author : Erik Paul Weissengruber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00647146M

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Utopia and Politics in the Theatre of Howard Barker by Erik Paul Weissengruber Pdf

Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : English drama
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013270537

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Introd. Additions and corrections. The origin of the English drama. The beginnings of the English regular drama. Shakespere's predecessors. Shakspere. Ben Jonson by Sir Adolphus William Ward Pdf

Author : Theophilus M'Crib
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Utopias
ISBN : NLS:V000631490

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Kennaquhair by Theophilus M'Crib Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009176251

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Contemporary Drama in English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sir William Robertson Nicoll,Thomas James Wise
Publisher : London : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPMSY

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Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century by Sir William Robertson Nicoll,Thomas James Wise Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : American essays
ISBN : UCAL:B3644141

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Cithara by Anonim Pdf