A Cultural History Of Theatre In The Age Of Empire

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire

Author : Peter Marx
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135013547X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire by : Peter Marx

Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire written by Peter Marx and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilization of the middle classes. The theatre of the era reflected these significant developments as well as helped to catalyse them. Populist theatre and purposebuilt playhouses flourished in the ever-growing urban and cosmopolitan centres of Europe and in expanding global networks. This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1800 to 1920. Highly illustrated with 51 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity

Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135291
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity by : Martin Revermann

Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity written by Martin Revermann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, satyr play, mime and pantomime operate in Antiquity alongside the conception of theatre as both an entertainment for the masses and a vehicle for intellectual, political and artistic expression. Drawing together contributions from scholars in Classics and Theatre Studies, this volume uniquely examines the Greek and Roman cultural spheres in conjunction with one another rather than in isolation. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire

Author : Michael Gamer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155063
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by : Michael Gamer

Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire written by Michael Gamer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment

Author : Mechele Leon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135453
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment by : Mechele Leon

Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment written by Mechele Leon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'. During the Enlightenment, the advancement of radical ideas along with the emergence of the bourgeois class contributed to a renewed interest in theatre's efficacy, informed by philosophy yet on behalf of politics. While the 18th century saw a growing desire to define the unique and specific features of a nation's drama, and audiences demanded more realistic portrayals of humanity, theatre is also implicated in this age of revolutions. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment examines these intersections, informed by the writings of key 18th-century philosophers. Richly illustrated with 45 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age

Author : Robert Henke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135372
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age by : Robert Henke

Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age written by Robert Henke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity. Emerging in the context of new capitalistic modes of production, the birth of the nation state and the rise of absolute monarchies, theatre also proved a highly mobile medium across geolinguistic boundaries. This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1400 to 1650, and examines the socioeconomically heterodox nature of theatre and performance during this period. Highly illustrated with 48 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135313
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages by : Jody Enders

Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages written by Jody Enders and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality plays cohabited with song, dance, farces and other public spectacles, frequently sharing ecclesiastical and secular inspiration. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre between 500 and 1500, and imaginatively pieces together the puzzle of medieval theatre by foregrounding the study of performance. Each of the ten chapters of this richly illustrated volume takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

A Cultural History of Animals: In the medieval age

Author : Linda Kalof
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Animals: In the medieval age written by Linda Kalof and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age

Author : Kim Solga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135496
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age by : Kim Solga

Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age written by Kim Solga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance. Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Humanism, Drama, and Performance

Author : Hana Worthen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030440664
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Humanism, Drama, and Performance written by Hana Worthen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history and studies today. From Aristotle onward, theatre has been regulated by three strains of critical poiesis: the literary, segregating theatre and the practices of the spectacular from the humanizing work attributed to the book and to the internality of reading; the dramatic, approving the address of theatrical performance only to the extent that it instrumentalizes literary value; and the theatrical, assimilating performance to the conjunction of literary and liberal values. These values have been used to figure not only the work of theatre, but also the propriety of the audience as a figure for its socializing work, along a privileged dualism from the aestheticized ensemble—harmonizing actor, character, and spectator to the essentialized drama—to the politicized assembly, theatre understood as an agonistic gathering.

Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad

Author : Cecilia Morgan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013275
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad by : Cecilia Morgan

Download or read book Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad written by Cecilia Morgan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture. Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad writes the lives of women who, despite their renown during their lifetimes, have been all too easily forgotten. Cecilia Morgan examines these “sweet girls’” childhoods, their experiences of work, touring, and company management, the plays in which they appeared, and the celebrity they enjoyed. In so doing she shows how women helped convey messages about race, empire, and white identity in popular culture. Investigating a period from the 1870s to the 1940s, Morgan demonstrates how actresses evolved within a period of change in theatre, how they coped with new challenges, and how they brought their craft to new media. Paying particular attention to the careers of Margaret Bannerman, Tony Award-winner Beatrice Lillie, Margaret Anglin, Julia Arthur, and Frances Doble, among many others, this book explores how being an actress abroad became work as well as profession for Canadian women. Extensively researched and generously illustrated, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad argues for the importance of theatre, both to Canadian women’s history and to our understanding of Canada in a transnational world.

The Globalization of Theatre 18701930

Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487890
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Globalization of Theatre 18701930 written by Christopher B. Balme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E. Bandmann and his global theatrical circuit in the early twentieth century.

The Theater of Electricity

Author : Ulf Otto
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3476059618
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Theater of Electricity written by Ulf Otto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants. A mysterious force, which was still traded as romantic life force by some and for others had already come to stand in for progress, entered performance venues. Engineering knowledge, control techniques and supply chains changed fundamentally how theater was made and thought of. The mechanical image machine from Renaissance and Baroque times was transformed into a thermodynamic engine. Modern theater turned out to be electrified theater. – Retracing what happened backstage before the Avantgarde took to the front stage, this book proposes to write the genealogy of theaters modernity as a cultural history of theater technology.

Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires

Author : Joachim Küpper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110536889
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires written by Joachim Küpper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference “Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain”, held in 2012 as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet). Implementing the concept of culture as a virtual network, it investigates Early modern European drama and its global dissemination. The 12 articles of the volume – all written by experts in the field teaching in the United Kingdom, the USA, Russia, Switzerland, India and Germany – focus on a selection of English and Spanish dramas from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Analysing and comparing motifs, formal parameters as well as plot structures, they discuss the commonalities and differences of Early modern drama in England and Spain.

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781350009943
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age by : John Dixon Hunt

Download or read book A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age written by John Dixon Hunt and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be discussed and interpreted in the twenty-first. New materials and responses to different social conditions, along with new attitudes to how gardens are perceived and interpreted and above all the relationship of built work to the larger landscape of territory and society - all have challenged long-held practices of garden-making, even while those same traditions continue to be at the centre of both designers and users.

Romanticism and the Contingent Self

Author : Michael Falk
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303149959X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and the Contingent Self written by Michael Falk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theatre: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648612
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Theatre: A Very Short Introduction written by Marvin Carlson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this Very Short Introduction Marvin Carlson takes us through Ancient Greece and Rome, to Medieval Japan and Europe, to America and beyond, and looks at how the various forms of theatre have been interpreted and enjoyed. Exploring the role that theatre artists play — from the actor and director to the designer and puppet-master, as well as the audience — this is an engaging exploration of what theatre has meant, and still means, to people of all ages at all times. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity

Author : Dimitra Andrianou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350279900
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity written by Dimitra Andrianou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found in houses, tombs and temples as narrated through the archaeological evidence. The earliest furniture can be seen as an attempt by humans to enhance their safety, comfort and social standing but it can also offer opportunities for understanding human behavior, values and thought: fine furniture was among the most valuable of possessions in the ancient world so it expressed power, wealth and status. It was appreciated as art, used in diplomacy (both as a gift and as tribute) and recorded as booty. At the same time, its practical and ceremonial uses yield important clues about the domestic environment and daily life in antiquity, as well as revealing aspects of sacred belief and funerary practices. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.