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Author | : Adrian Curtin |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2019-02-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1526124726 |
This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.
Author | : Howard Barker |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780415349864 |
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre.
Author | : Elinor Fuchs |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1996-07-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0253113474 |
"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call the 'avant-garde.'" —Essays in Theatre ". . . an insightful set of theoretical 'takes' on how to think about theatre before and theatre after modernism." —Theatre Journal "In short, for those who never experienced a 'postmodern swoon,' Elinor Fuchs is an excellent informant." —Performing Arts Journal ". . . a thoughtful, highly readable contribution to the evolving literature on theatre and postmodernism." —Modern Drama "A work of bold theoretical ambition and exceptional critical intelligence. . . . Fuchs combines mastery of contemporary cultural theory with a long and full participation in American theater culture: the result is a long-needed, long-awaited elaboration of a new theatrical paradigm." —Una Chaudhuri, New York University "What makes this book exceptional is Fuchs' acute rehearsal of the stranger unnerving events of the last generation that have—in the cross-reflections of theory—determined our thinking about theater. She seems to have seen and absorbed them all." —Herbert Blau, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Surveying the extraordinary scene of the postmodern American theater, Fuchs boldly frames key issues of subjectivity and performance with the keenest of critical eyes for the compelling image and the telling gesture." —Joseph Roach, Tulane University " . . . Fuchs makes an exceptionally lucid and eloquent case for the value and contradictions in postmodern theater." —Alice Rayner, Stanford University "Arguably the most accessible yet learned road map to what remains for many impenetrable territoryan obligatory addition to all academic libraries serving upper-division undertgraduates and above." —Choice "A systematic, comprehensive and historically-minded assessment of what, precisely, 'post-modern theatre' is, anyway." —American Theatre In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. While The Death of Character engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory, Elinor Fuchs always speaks as an active theater critic. Nine of her Village Voice and American Theatre essays conclude the volume. They give an immediate, vivid account of contemporary theater and theatrical culture written from the front of rapid cultural change.
Author | : Jennifer Woodward |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0851157041 |
English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.
Author | : Peter L. Hays |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2008-03-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0826495540 |
An accessible, informative critical introduction to Miller's Death of a Salesman, a key text at undergraduate level.
Author | : Karoline Gritzner |
Publisher | : Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781902806921 |
The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection of dramatic texts, theatrical practices and cultural performances.
Author | : Nat Brandt |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2006-08-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080932721X |
A blow-by-blow account of the deadliest fire in American history retraces the final days of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, a supposedly indestructible building that burned killing more than six hundred people.
Author | : Rob Urbinati |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780573700934 |
Edward Bennett, a playwright, and his wife Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests arrive unexpectedly - a conservative politician, a fiery socialist, a nearsighted ingenue, a zany modern dancer - each with a long-held secret. When one of the guests is murdered, it's left to Bridgit, the feisty Irish maid with a macabre interest in homicide, to solve the crime.
Author | : Tom Stoppard |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 155584894X |
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the “Notable Books of 1967” by the American Library Association.
Author | : Susan Zimmerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780748633630 |
This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology.