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Author | : David Wiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003-10-02 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521012744 |
This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.
Author | : María Inés Saravia de Grossi |
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Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : John Russell Brown |
Publisher | : Oxford Illustrated History |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192854421 |
A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
Author | : David Wiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521766362 |
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Author | : Arthur Jacobs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Music |
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Author | : Robert Leach |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2018-12-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0429873360 |
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacts with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. This first volume spans from the earliest forms of performance to the popular theatres of high society and the Enlightenment, tracing a movement from the outdoor and fringe to the heart of the social world. The Illustrated History acts as an accessible, flexible basis for students of the theatre, and for pure fans of British theatre history there could be no better starting point.
Author | : Simon Trussler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2006-05-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521535922 |
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Author | : Graham Ley |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 022615467X |
Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles. Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, Graham Ley here discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. In addition to photos of scenes from Greek vases that document theatrical performance, this new edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts, as well as an updated bibliography. An ideal companion to The Complete Greek Tragedies, also published by the University of Chicago Press, Ley’s work is a concise and informative introduction to one of the great periods of world drama. "Anyone faced with Athenian tragedy or comedy for the first time, in or out of the classroom, would do well to start with A Short Introduction to Ancient Greek Theater."—Didaskalia
Author | : Lisa Lewis |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1786832437 |
This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three aspects central to the investigation – notions of people, memory and place, all of which are central to definitions of Welsh cultural performance – the book explores these aspects in relation to specific case studies taken from the museum, from heritage, festival, and theatre.
Author | : Dorita Hannah |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1135053774 |
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ‘performative architecture’. ‘Event’ was of immense significance to modernism’s revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism – and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself. Event-Space analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.