Adapturgy

Adapturgy
Author: Jane Barnette
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0809336278

"Challenging the binary categories of "new play" and "production" dramaturgy, this book offers both a theoretical model for understanding adaptation for the stage and a practical guide for dramaturgs and others involved in the creation of theatrical adaptations"--

Reincarnation

Reincarnation
Author: Edward Dwight Walker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1888
Genre: Reincarnation
ISBN:

Fever/dream

Fever/dream
Author: Sheila Callaghan
Publisher: Samuel French Trade
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2011
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573699245

Comedy Characters: 3 male, 3 female, flexible castingChained to his desk in the basement of customer service hell, Segis suddenly finds himself set free in the CEO's penthouse-but is it a dream? This raucous reinvention of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream gleefully skewers corporate America with razor-sharp wit "Enjoyably stylish [with an] antic pace and witty aesthetic" - Washington Post"Ambitious, often uproarious." - City Paper "A pizzazz-filled concoction that skewers corporatism with a generous supply side of laughs. [Callaghan] is without doubt the purveyor of top-shelf American wit." - Metro Weekly "[Callaghan has] a keen eye for the outlandish. Exudes the kind of infectious zaniness that occasionally attracts cult followings." - Variety "I can't remember the last time a play made me laugh so hard. Between the chuckles and belly laughs, the dialog is surprisingly layered, and gives the audience plenty to think about. Fever/Dream is about as funny as the sharpest Hollywood comedy, and far more rewarding." -BrightestYoungThings.com

Comparative Poetics

Comparative Poetics
Author: Earl Roy Miner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1990-10-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780691014906

"Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more than comparing two great German poets, and something different from a Chinese studying French literature or a Russian studying Italian literature." But what would a true intercultural poetics be? This work proposes various ways to "study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple annals of one cultural parish at one historic moment." The first developed account of theories of literature from an intercultural standpoint, the book shows that an "originative" or "foundational" poetics develops in cultures with explicit poetics when critics define the nature and conditions of literature in terms of the then most esteemed genredrama, lyric, or narrative. Earl Miner demonstrates that these definitions and inferences from them constitute useful bases for comparative poetics.

V

V
Author: Tony Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1985
Genre: CAS EN 310
ISBN: 9780906427989

Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. Channel Four's film of v. prompted extreme political and media reaction documented in the book's second edition (1989).