Lives of the Dead

Lives of the Dead
Author: Hanoch Levin
Publisher: ARC Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Hebrew literature
ISBN: 9781908376640

Hanoch Levin's poetry stands alone as a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. Levin's poetic voice - mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate - is arresting, distinctive and unusual. When this volume was published in Israel, it proved to be enormously popular and went through three editions in its first year and has continued to be reprinted since. This bilingual edition makes his poetry available to an English-language readership for the first time - to date Levin is only known in the UK as a playwright.

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Two

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Two
Author: Hanoch Levin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786829169

'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences. Plays Two contains the plays Suitcase Packers (1983), The Lost Women of Troy (1984), The Labour of Life (1989), Walkers in the Dark (1998) and Requiem (1999).

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Three

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Three
Author: Hanoch Levin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786829118

'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences. Plays Three contains the plays The Thin Soldier, Bachelors and Bachelorettes (2002), Everyone Wants to Live, The Constant Mourner (2019) and The Lamenters (2000).

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays One

Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays One
Author: Hanoch Levin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786829150

'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences. Plays One contains the plays Krum (1975), Schitz (1975), The Torments of Job (1981), A Winter Funeral (1978), and The Child Dreams (1993).

Wanderers and Other Israeli Plays

Wanderers and Other Israeli Plays
Author: Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2009
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781906497057

"An anthology of seven contemporary Israeli plays, offering a look into the variety of Israeli drama, theatre, and performance, reflecting central questions of identity in Israeli society. This volume includes a substantive introduction discussing the theatrical contexts of the plays and some of the major issues that Israeli society deals with nowadays, an overview of the dramatic and theatrical work of the playwrights as well as an analysis of the plays." "Joshua Sobol's Wanderers is a reconstruction of the life of an Israeli double-agent who goes through an identity crisis; Yosefa Even-Shoshan's The Maiden of Ludmir: A Story of a Woman Who Asked for a Man's Soul examines the place of women within orthodox texts and social structures; Taher Najib's In Spitting Distance tells the story of an actor who lives in the West Bank but holds an Israeli passport and tries to fly from Paris to Tel Aviv one year after 9/11; Hanoch Levin's Those Who Walk in the Dark: A Late-Night Spectacle is --

Songs from Bialik

Songs from Bialik
Author: Atar Hadari
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2000-06-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780815628149

Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is considered Israel's national poet and one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time. Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children's verse, were set to music and proved to be among the most popular twentieth-century Hebrew songs. An essayist, storyteller, translator, and editor, he had a unique ability to use fully the entire linguistic and conceptual inventory of the Hebrew language. Bialik's career was a turning point in Hebrew literature, bringing Biblical Hebrew into a contemporary usage and forming the basis of its renewed vigor. His legacy remains embedded in modern Hebrew literature like an immovable foundation stone. Atar Hadari's new translation of Bialik's major poetry fills a long-standing gap in English letters.

Opera Through Other Eyes

Opera Through Other Eyes
Author: David J. Levin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780804722407

This collection of 8 essays introduces literary and cultural theorists into the domain of operatic textual analysis, long the exclusive preserve of musicologists. The contributors include some of the most distinguished critics of the past 30 years, most of them writing about opera for the first time.

Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism

Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism
Author: Alfred Betschart
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2020-05-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783030384814

This edited collection re-examines the global impact of Sartre’s philosophy from 1944-68. From his emergence as an eminent philosopher, dramatist, and novelist, to becoming the ‘world’s conscience’ through his political commitment, Jean-Paul Sartre shaped the mind-set of a generation, influencing writers and thinkers both in France and far beyond. Exploring the presence of existentialism in literature, theatre, philosophy, politics, psychology and film, the contributors seek to discover what made Sartre’s philosophy so successful outside of France. With twenty diverse chapters encompassing the US, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Latin America, the volume analyses the dissemination of existentialism through literary periodicals, plays, universities and libraries around the world, as well as the substantial challenges it faced. The global post-war surge of existentialism left permanent traces in history, exerting considerable influence on our way of life in its quest for authenticity and freedom. This timely and compelling volume revives the path taken by a philosophical movement that continues to contribute to the anti-discrimination politics of today.

Theatrical Events

Theatrical Events
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2022-06-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9004502882

Theatrical Events. Borders, Dynamics and Frames is written to develop the concept of ‘Eventness’ in Theatre Studies. The book as a whole stresses the importance of understanding theatre performances as aesthetic-communicative encounters of a wide range of agents and aspects. The Theatrical Event concept means not only that performers and spectators meet, but also that the specific mental sets, backgrounds and cultural contexts they bring in, strongly contribute to the character of a particular event. Moreover, this concept gives space to the study of the role societal developments – such as technological, political, economical or educational ones – play in theatrical events.

The Play Within the Play

The Play Within the Play
Author: Gerhard Fischer
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9042022574

The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting - from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy - but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the 'self' (the 'Hamlet paradigm'), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities.