Studies in Modern Drama
Author | : Dr. Amal Qutaishat |
Publisher | : دار الفلاح للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9957552058 |
This book deals with studies of various elements of modern drama.
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Author | : Dr. Amal Qutaishat |
Publisher | : دار الفلاح للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9957552058 |
This book deals with studies of various elements of modern drama.
Author | : Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0199658773 |
This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.
Author | : Caroline Baird |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-10-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030508579 |
This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games in early modern drama. The presence of the game motif has often been noticed, but this study, the most comprehensive of its kind, shows how games operate in more complex ways than simple metaphor and can be syntheses of emblem and dramatic device. Drawing on seventeenth-century treatises, including Francis Willughby’s Book of Games, which only became available in print in 2003, and divided into chapters on Dice, Cards, Tables (Backgammon), and Chess, the book brings back into focus the symbolism and divinatory origins of games. The work of more than ten dramatists is analysed, from the Shakespeare and Middleton canon to rarer plays such as The Spanish Curate, The Two Angry Women of Abington and The Cittie Gallant. Games and theatre share common ground in terms of performance, deceit, plotting, risk and chance, and the early modern playhouse provided apt conditions for vicarious play. From the romantic chase to the financial gamble, and in legal contest and war, the twenty-first century is still engaging the game. With its extensive appendices, the book will appeal to readers interested in period games and those teaching or studying early modern drama, including theatre producers, and awareness of the vocabulary of period games will allow further references to be understood in non-dramatic texts.
Author | : W. B. Worthen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-01-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0520286871 |
The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Author | : Paul D. Streufert |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351942468 |
In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural production in early modern England. Focusing on plays that were written and performed in academic environments such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, grammar schools, and the Inns of Court, the scholars investigate how those plays strive to give dramatic coherence to issues of religion, politics, gender, pedagogy, education, and economics. Of particular significance are the shifting political and religious contentions that so frequently shaped both the cultural questions addressed by the plays, and the sorts of dramatic stories that were most conducive to the exploration of such questions. The volume argues that the writing and performance of academic drama constitute important moments in the history of education and the theater because, in these plays, narrative is consciously put to work as both a representation of, and an exercise in, knowledge formation. The plays discussed speak to numerous segments of early modern culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and religious reform, the successes and failures of the humanist program, the social profits and economic liabilities of formal education, and the increasing involvement of universities in the commercial market, among other issues.
Author | : Richard Paul Knowles |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802086211 |
The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.