Convention Et Theatre
Download Convention Et Theatre full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Convention Et Theatre ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Playing Culture
Author | : Vicki Ann Cremona |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2014-01-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 940121039X |
Playing Culture represents one of the corner stones in the model of the Theatrical Event, as developed by the Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR). In this volume, thirteen scholars contribute to illuminate the significance and possibilities of playing within the framework of theatrical events. Playing is understood as an essential part of theatrical communication, from acting on stage to events far from theatre buildings. The playfulness characterizing academic traditions sets the tone in the introduction, illustrating the four sections of the book: Theories, Expansions, Politics and Conventions. The theoretical chapters depart from the classical Homo Ludens and offer a number of new perspectives on what play and playing implies in today’s mediatized culture. The contributions to the second section on extensions, deal with playing in non-theatrical circumstances such as market places, passports and stock holders’ meetings. The third section on the politics of playing focuses on wood-chopping women, saints and youngsters in South African townships – all demonstrating their social and political ambitions and purposes. The last section returns to the stage on which performers intend to represent, respectively, themselves, Bunraku puppets or the audience. Playing appears in many forms and in many places and constitutes a basic principle of theatre and performance. This book touches upon important theoretical implications of playing and offers a wide range of historical and contemporary examples. Playing Culture – Conventions and Extensions of Performance is the third book of the IFTR Working Group on The Theatrical Event. The first volume, entitled Theatrical Events – Borders Dynamics Frames was published in 2004, followed by Festivalising! Theatrical Events, Politics and Culture in 2007. The present volume continues to expand the vision of the Theatrical Event as a theory and model for the study of playing, theatre, performance and mediated events.
From Art to Theatre
Author | : George R. Kernodle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Renaissance |
ISBN | : |
Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama
Author | : Jeremy Lopez |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2002-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139436678 |
This book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses on the relationship between the demanding repertory system of the time and the conventions and content of the plays. Lopez argues that the limitations of the relatively bare stage and non-naturalistic mode of early modern theatre would have made the potential for failure very great, and he proposes that understanding this potential for failure is crucial for understanding the way in which the drama succeeded on stage. The book offers perspectives on familiar conventions such as the pun, the aside and the expository speech; and it works toward a definition of early modern theatrical genres based on the relationship between these well-known conventions and the incoherent experience of early modern theatrical narratives.
Theatricality
Author | : Elizabeth Burns |
Publisher | : [London] : Longman |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Mask and Scene
Author | : Diana Devlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9780333399248 |
Mask and Scene is an introduction to theatre history for students approaching the subject for the first time. Each theatrical convention is examined in an attempt to reveal how the illusion of theatre has been created by occasion, stage, space, mask and costume, speech, play movement and gesture, scenery and music.
The Two Theatres: Dramatic Structure and Convention in English Public and Private Plays, 1599-1613
Author | : John H. Reibetanz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
The English Stage
Author | : J. L. Styan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1996-07-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521556361 |
The English Stage tells the story of drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. With a wide sweep of coverage, John Styan analyses the key features of staging, including early street theatre and public performance, the evolution of the playhouse and the private space, and the pairing of theory and stagecraft in the works of modern dramatists. He focuses on the conventions by which a playwright, actors and their audience create the phenomenon of theatre and the way such conventions have changed over time. Styan can be considered among a small number of influential scholars who have helped to develop theatre history from its origins in literary studies into an independent and respected field. From the vantage point of a lifetime's study he examines and illustrates the multitude of factors which have brought and continue to bring plays to life.