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Author : Paula Gaj Sitarz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book A History of European Theatre from the Eighteenth Century to the Present written by Paula Gaj Sitarz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paula Gaj Sitarz
Publisher : Betterway Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781558702936
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Curtain Rises: A history of European theatre from the eighteenth century to the present written by Paula Gaj Sitarz and published by Betterway Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of theater from its origin in Greece and Rome through the English restoration.
Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415180603
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book History of European Drama and Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity. Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include: * ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Molière * the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama * the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz * romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, Büchner, and Nestroy * the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski * the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Müller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.
Author : Sonia Bellavia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110759268
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Theatermania in Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Sonia Bellavia and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The group volume distinguishes itself by its multidisciplinary, comparative approach and by the network of relationships it weaves between the various European languages and cultures. The study takes shape from its different viewpoints and in its diverse contexts, to chart a detailed historical-conceptual map of the basic role theater played in forging the modern European consciousness. The thematic core of ‘theatermania’ lay in the authentic theatrical passion that manifested itself in different ways from one country to another throughout the 18th century. While the aesthetic, social and political value of theater took a variety of forms, its central feature was the privileged place it gave to collective and individual social revolutions, phenomena that could be defined as upheavals of the collective imagination, which found in theater a source of nourishment, mediation or control. The volume offers not just a series of historical-theatrical studies, but a view of history that foregrounds the passions that were regularly sparked by theater. It adds an essential feature to the profile of the century that redefined the role and importance of theater, and that led to its full re-evaluation in the Romantic age.
Author : Julie Stone Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199262168
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 written by Julie Stone Peters and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Author : Rahul Markovits
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813945550
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Staging Civilization written by Rahul Markovits and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era’s international scene. Considering the emblematic case of the theater, Rahul Markovits goes beyond the idea of "French Europe" to offer a serious consideration of the intentions and goals of those involved in making this so. Drawing on extensive archival research, Staging Civilization reveals that between 1670 and 1815 at least twenty-seven European cities hosted resident theater troupes composed of French actors and singers who performed French-language repertory. By examining the presence of French companies of actors in a wide set of courts and cities throughout Europe, Markovits uncovers the complex mechanisms underpinning the dissemination of French culture. The book ultimately offers a revisionist account of the traditional Europe française thesis, engaging topics such as transnational labor history, early-modern court culture and republicanism, soft power, and cultural imperialism.
Author : Jim Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351938304
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900 written by Jim Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice from 1750 to 1900. The selected topics focus on acting and performance, staging (including set design and lighting), and audiences, and are approached with a broad perspective as well as with in-depth, focussed analysis. The volume captures the rich, dynamic and variegated nature of European theatre throughout the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and provides a carefully selected body of significant texts on this important period of theatre history.
Author : Karl Mantzius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times: The great actors of the eighteenth century written by Karl Mantzius and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008580
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Garrick Stage written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T.F. Earle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351541145
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-century Europe written by T.F. Earle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. They prepared the way for the better-known dramatists of the next century but produced much work which is valuable in its own right, in Latin and in their own vernaculars. The popular theatre of the Middle Ages gave endless material for reinvention by playwrights, and the legacy of the ancient world became a spur to creativity, in tragedy and comedy. As soon as readers and audiences had taken in the new plays, they were changed again, taking new forms as the first experiments were themselves modified and reinvented. Writers constantly adapted the texts of plays to meet new requirements. These and other issues are explored by a group of international experts from a comparative perspective, giving particular emphasis to one of the great European comic dramatists, the Portuguese Gil Vicente. Tom Earle is King John II Professor of Portuguese at Oxford. Catarina Fouto is a Lecturer in Portuguese at King's College London.
Author : Joachim Küpper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110604272
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book History and Drama written by Joachim Küpper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle’s neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past – arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate their “emplotments” (White) from literary inventions, this thirteen-essay collection takes a fresh look at the production of historico-political knowledge in literature and the intricacies of reality and fiction. Written by experts who teach in Germany, Austria, Russia, and the United States, the articles provide a thorough interpretation of early modern drama (with a view to classical times and the 19th century) as an ideological platform that is as open to royal self-fashioning and soteriology as it is to travestying and subverting the means and ends of historical interpretation. The comparative analysis of metapoetic and historiosophic aspects also sheds light on drama as a transnational phenomenon, demonstrating the importance of the cultural net that links the multifaceted textual examples from France, Russia, England, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Author : Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 3990940058
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Theatre Capitals: From Lisbon to St. Petersburg written by Iskrena Yordanova and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of the series Cadernos de Queluz intends to broaden the conceptual and geographical perspectives on the pan-European history of music theatre. The cultural and ceremonial patterns common to eighteenth-century European courts created complex webs of meaning around the sovereigns who communicated via the arts, which found expression in an architectural, artistic, and musical code. The existence of a common artistic language among European countries facilitated the circulation of musicians, theatrical companies, architects, librettists, and craftsmen within a single network, challenging the orthodox conceptual distinctions between European cultural traditions. This book is a virtual journey among the artistic exchanges between the European capitals, weaving them into one single narrative, underlining the common patterns of musical practices throughout the Continent, from West to East. The road map starts from the kingdom of Portugal and passes through Madrid, Paris, the Papal States, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and ends in St. Petersburg.
Author : Oscar Gross Brockett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780131227477
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Century of Innovation written by Oscar Gross Brockett and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mechele Leon
Publisher : Cultural Histories
ISBN 13 : 1350277703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment written by Mechele Leon and published by Cultural Histories. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 0 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.
Author : Jan Sewell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030238288
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage written by Jan Sewell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe. The collection stretches from ancient Greece to present-day Australasia via the United States, Soviet Russia, Europe, India, South Africa and Japan, offering a series of analytical snapshots of women performers, their work and the conditions in which they produced it. Individual chapters provide in-depth consideration of specific moments in time and geography while the volume as a whole and its juxtapositions stimulate consideration of the bigger picture, underlining the challenges women have faced across cultures in establishing themselves as performers and the range of ways in which they gained access to the stage. Organised chronologically, the volume looks not just to the past but the future: it challenges the very notions of ‘history’, ‘stage’ and even the definition of ‘women’ itself.
Author : Jack Clair Watson
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre written by Jack Clair Watson and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1993 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, multicultural text presents the history of theater within a framework of cultural and social ideas.
Author : Michael Cordner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230287190
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Players, Playwrights, Playhouses written by Michael Cordner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political resonances of adultery comedy.
