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Author : Peter Davison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349051772
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Drama and the Popular Dramatic Tradition in England written by Peter Davison and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-12-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hubert Davison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349051786
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Drama and the Popular Dramatic Tradition in England written by Peter Hubert Davison and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389208204
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Modern British Farce written by Leslie Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: The Nature of Farce; A.W. Pinero and the Court Farces; Ben Travers and the Aldwych Farces; Brian Rix and the Whitehall Farces; Post-Whitehall Farces; Joe Orton; Farce and Contemporary Drama: I; Farce and Contemporary Drama: II; Conclusion; ^R Appendix: a Chronological List of Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Author : Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133585
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)
Download or read book The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama written by Elizabeth Hale Winkler and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.
Author : P.H. Davison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349051802
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Popular Appeal in English Drama to 1850 written by P.H. Davison and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-06-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521278812
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Modern French Drama 1940-1980 written by David Bradby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since 1940, French theatre has been transformed both institutionally and artistically. This book compares all the major traditions and tendencies at work in French theatre since the outbreak of the Second World War, not only in Paris, but also in the Centres Dramatiques and Maisons de la Culture. Previous books have stopped short at the end of the fifties when the influence of Artaud was strong and the Absurd Theatre had become the new orthodoxy. David Bradby reassesses Beckett, lonesco, Adamov and Genet and challenges the notion that the sixties and seventies were a period of decline in French theatre. The book proceeds chronologically, offering a critical survey of the principal directors, actors and companies as well as of the playwrights, who are its major concern. Important productions are illustrated with black and white photographs. The political background is explained and all quotations are in English.
Author : Korbinian Stöckl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110714760
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Love in Contemporary British Drama written by Korbinian Stöckl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary British Drama reflects the appeal of love as a topic and driving force in dramatic works with in-depth analyses of eight pivotal plays from the past three decades. Following an interdisciplinary and historical approach, the study collects and condenses theories of love from philosophy and sociology to derive persisting discourses and to examine their reoccurrence and transformation in contemporary plays. Special emphasis is put on narratives of love’s compensatory function and precariousness and on how modifications of these narratives epitomise the peculiarities of emotional life in the social and cultural context of the present. Based on the assumption that drama is especially inclined to draw on shared narratives for representations of love, the book demonstrates that love is both a window to remnants of the past in the present and a proper subject matter for drama in times in which the suitability of the dramatic form has been questioned.
Author : David T Thompson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134907277X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Pinter written by David T Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-04-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Chaney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000831531
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Fictions of Collective Life written by David Chaney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, Fictions of Collective Life argues that the distinctive forms of modern popular culture can only be understood through the ways we dramatize public life, and that in the dramatic ‘fiction’ of collective experience we represent the terms of social order. The argument is richly illustrated with chapters on the theoretical character of performance in modernity; photography as the first means of mass representation; the nature of public discourse in mass democracy; and the elaboration of space for theatrical performance; and the marketing of culture and communication through mass systems of distribution. The book aims to provide a framework within which any of the popular cultural forms of modernity can be understood. Drawing upon and adapting the extensive literature of cultural studies, the author offers a distinctive and original sociological perspective on the relationship between individual and community in popular culture. The author also sets out the distinctive features of change in late-modern and postmodern culture. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, cultural studies, and related fields.
Author : Adam Ainsworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474247350
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Popular Performance written by Adam Ainsworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause or heckling. Performer and role are interlaced, so that we are left uncertain about just how the persona we see onstage might relate to the private person who presents it to us. Popular Performance defines and surveys varieties of performance where the main purpose is to entertain, and where there is no shame in being trivial, frivolous or nonsensical as long as people go home happy at the end of the show. Contributions by new and established scholars focus particularly on how it is made, explaining the techniques of performance and production that make it so appealing to audiences. With sections examining how popular performance works in a range of historical and contemporary examples, readers will gain insights into: * performance forms associated with the variety tradition: music hall, vaudeville, cabaret, variety * performance forms associated with circus: wild west shows, clowning * issues relating to the identity of the performer in relation to magic, burlesque, pantomime in contemporary performance * issues relating to venue and audience in relation to contemporary street theatre, stand-up, and live sketch comedy.
Author : Peter Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543484
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City written by Peter Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey reconstructs the texture & meaning of popular pleasure in the Victorian entertainment industry and seeks to provide a study of the pub, music-hall, theatre and comic newspaper.
Author : Hersh Zeifman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135744459
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book David Hare written by Hersh Zeifman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning that David Hare has written sixteen stage plays, eight collaborations, and eleven screenplays for film and television, one might be surprised by the fact that this leading English artist is not yet fifty years old. He was only twenty-two when his first play was performed by the Portable Theatre, and he was a major voice on the British stage before he was thirty. The present volume is the first major collection of essays devoted to Hare, and its editor, Hersh Zeifman, who is a professor at York University, Toronto, is well-qualified to assemble and supervise such a significant undertaking. As co-editor of the prestigious journal, Modern Drama, he has been exposed to all the major authors and topics of modem theatre and is ideally positioned to discern Hare's pivotal role on the contemporary stage.
Author : James K. Lyon
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135374
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Brecht Unbound written by James K. Lyon and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Except for the annual Brecht Yearbook, Brecht Unbound represents the first broad critical study of Brecht's works to appear in the United States since before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Intended to move beyond the ideological considerations that have informed so much secondary literature about Brecht, the book is a cross-disciplinary reassessment of important aspects of his work. Included are essays on his poetry, drama, theoretical writings, Brecht's influence on American film techniques and music, his relationship to and borrowings from Japanese No theater, and a comparison between aesthetic techniques in his writings and Stravinsky's "The Little Soldier.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Frederick Burwick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110117509
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Aesthetic Illusion written by Frederick Burwick and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1990 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136207244
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Theatre Audiences written by Susan Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in a brand new updated edition, Theatre Audiences now includes: • a new preface by the author • a stunning extra chapter on intercultural theatre • a revised up-to-date bibliography. Theatre Audiences is a must-buy for teachers and students interested in spectatorship and theatre audiences, and will be valuable reading for practitioners and others involved in the theatre.
Author : John Stokes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226775388
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (753 download)
Download or read book In the Nineties written by John Stokes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-10-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Stokes's lively study is an exercise in interdisciplinary criticism inspired by the decade it observes, the decade of Wilde, Shaw, Beardsley, and Sickert. No longer dismissed as merely transitional between the Victorian and the Modern, the 1890s have now come to be recognized as unique—a period of dramatic engagement between high culture and popular forms, one medium and another, art and life. Spurning fixed boundaries, Stokes relates the controversial topics of the day—the status of the "New Journalism," the "degenerative" influence of Impressionist painting, the dubious morality of the music hall, the urgent need for prison reform, and the prevalence of suicide—to primary literary texts, such as The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Importance of Being Earnest, Jude the Obscure, and Portrait of a Lady. And in the process, he explores crucial areas of sociological and psychological interest: criminality, sexuality, madness, and "morbidity." Each of the book's six chapters opens with a look at the correspondence columns of daily newspapers and goes on, with a keen eye for the hidden link, to pursue a particular theme. Locations shift from Leicester Square and the Thames embankment to the Normandy coast and the Paris morgue and feature, along with famous names, a lesser known company of acrobats, convicts, aesthetes, "philistines," and mysterious suicides. Nearly a century later, John Stokes's unrivalled knowledge of how the arts actually functioned in the nineties makes this book a major contribution to modern cultural studies.
Author : Stephen Hamrick
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030339580
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise written by Stephen Hamrick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act. Over the course of a forty-four-year career (1940-1984), Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise appropriated snippets of verse, scenes, and other elements from seventeen of Shakespeare’s plays more than one-hundred-and-fifty times. Fashioning a kinder, more inclusive world, they deployed a vast array of elements connected to Shakespeare, his life, and institutions. Rejecting claims that they offer only nostalgic escapism, Hamrick analyses their work within contemporary contexts, including their engagement with many forms and genres, including Variety, the heritage industry, journalism, and more. ‘The Boys’ deploy Shakespeare to work through issues of class, sexuality, and violence. Lesbianism, drag, gay marriage, and a queer aesthetics emerge, helping to normalize homosexuality and complicate masculinity in the ‘permissive’ 1960s.
