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Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works

Author : Sharon Friedman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786452390
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works written by Sharon Friedman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-visioning the classics, often in a subversive mode, has evolved into its own theatrical genre in recent years, and many of these productions have been informed by feminist theory and practice. This book examines recent adaptations of classic texts (produced since 1980) influenced by a range of feminisms, and illustrates the significance of historical moment, cultural ideology, dramaturgical practice, and theatrical venue for shaping an adaptation. Essays are arranged according to the period and genre of the source text re-visioned: classical theater and myth (e.g. Antigone, Metamorphoses), Shakespeare and seventeenth-century theater (e.g. King Lear, The Rover), nineteenth and twentieth century narratives and reflections (e.g. The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, A Room of One's Own), and modern drama (e.g. A Doll House, A Streetcar Named Desire).

Feminism and Theatre

Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136735135
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Theatre written by Sue-Ellen Case and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.

Theatre History Studies 2010, Vol. 30

Author : Rhona Justice-Malloy
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817371079
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Theatre History Studies 2010, Vol. 30 by : Rhona Justice-Malloy

Download or read book Theatre History Studies 2010, Vol. 30 written by Rhona Justice-Malloy and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Theatre History Studies journal, editor Rhona Justice-Malloy and the Mid-America Theatre Conference have collected a special-themed volume covering the past and present of African and African American theatre. Topics included range from modern theatrical trends and challenges in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and examining the history and long-range impact of Paul Robeson’s groundbreaking and troubled life and career, to gender issues in the work of Ghanaian playwright Efo Kodjo Mawugbe, and the ways that 19th-century American blackness was defined through Othello and Desdemona. This collection fills a vacancy in academic writing. Readers will enjoy it; academics can incorporate it into their curriculum; and students will find it helpful and illuminating.

Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends

Author : Verna A. Foster
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786465123
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends written by Verna A. Foster and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new essays explore the ways in which contemporary dramatists have retold or otherwise made use of myths, fairy tales and legends from a variety of cultures, including Greek, West African, North American, Japanese, and various parts of Europe. The dramatists discussed range from well-established playwrights such as Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill, and Timberlake Wertenbaker to new theatrical stars such as Sarah Ruhl and Tarell Alvin McCraney. The book contributes to the current discussion of adaptation theory by examining the different ways, and for what purposes, plays revise mythic stories and characters. The essays contribute to studies of literary uses of myth by focusing on how recent dramatists have used myths, fairy tales and legends to address contemporary concerns, especially changing representations of women and the politics of gender relations but also topics such as damage to the environment and political violence.

Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre

Author : Kailin Wright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228003245
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre by : Kailin Wright

Download or read book Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre written by Kailin Wright and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself.

Text & Presentation, 2009

Author : Kiki Gounaridou
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456663
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Text & Presentation, 2009 written by Kiki Gounaridou and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This edition includes papers from the 33rd annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Bernard Shaw's use of gardens and libraries in Widowers' Houses, Northern Ireland emergency law in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City, cannibalism and surrogation in Hamletmachine, Sergei Eisenstein's and Charlie Chaplin's use of the "montage of attraction," and adaptations of classic Greek tragedy in Mexico and Taiwan, among other topics.

Text & Presentation, 2013

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615497
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Text & Presentation, 2013 written by Graley Herren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text & Presentation, 2013 gathers some of the best work presented at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. Subjects ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st century America are covered with a variety of approaches and formats. Celebrated playwright Edward Albee's presentation is the lead piece, followed by 12 research papers, one review essay, and seven book reviews. This volume represents the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis.

Contemporary Women Playwrights

Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137270802
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women Playwrights written by Penny Farfan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad Svich, and Judith Thompson, but it also foregrounds important plays by many emerging writers. Divided into three sections-Histories, Conflicts, and Genres-the book explores such topics as the feminist history play, solo performance, transcultural dramaturgies, the identity play, the gendered terrain of war, and eco-drama, and encompasses work from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading international scholars and an introductory overview of the concerns and challenges facing women playwrights in this new century, Contemporary Women Playwrights explores the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices and examining crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.

Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage

Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283872
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage written by Helene P. Foley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources—archival, video, interviews, and reviews—Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.

Rape on the Contemporary Stage

Author : Lisa Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319708457
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Rape on the Contemporary Stage written by Lisa Fitzpatrick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the representation of rape in British and Irish theatre since the second wave of the Women’s Movement. Mainly focusing on the period from the 1990s to the present, it identifies key feminist debates on rape and gender, and introduces a set of ideas about the function of rape as a form of embodied, gendered violence to the analysis of dramaturgical and performance strategies used in a range of important and/or controversial works. The chapters explore the dramatic representation of consent; feminist performance strategies that interrogate common attitudes to rape and rape survivors; the use of rape as an allegory for political oppression; the relationships of vulnerability, eroticism and affect in the understanding and representation of sexual violence; and recent work that engages with anti-rape activism to present women’s personal experiences on stage.

A Stage of Emancipation

Author : Marguérite Corporaal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800859511
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A Stage of Emancipation written by Marguérite Corporaal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish culture and society, both historically and in more recent times. The Gate's founders, Hilton Edwards and Mich�al mac Liamm�ir, promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During Selina Cartmell's current tenure as director, cultural diversity and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the Gate's agenda, with various productions exploring issues of ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised societies. CONTRIBUTORS: David Clare, Margu�rite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Barry Houlihan, Radvan Markus, Deirdre McFeely, Justine Nakase, Siobhan O'Gorman, Mary Trotter, Grace Vroomen, Ian R. Walsh, Feargal Whelan

Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre

Author : Sirkku Aaltonen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317368274
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre written by Sirkku Aaltonen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means, from the 19th century to the present day. Essays address the narratives that structure theatrical, textual, and performative representations and the ways the rewriting process has varied in different contexts and at different times. Drawing on concepts from Theatre and Performance Studies, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Diaspora Studies, scholars and practitioners from Egypt and the West enter into dialogue with one another, expanding understanding of the different fields. The articles focus on the ways theatre texts and performances change (are rewritten) when crossing borders between different worlds. The concept of rewriting is seen to include translation, transformation, and reconstruction, and the different borders may be cultural and national, between languages and dramaturgies, or borders that are present in people’s everyday lives. Essays consider how rewritings and performances cross borders from one culture, nation, country, and language to another. They also study the process of rewriting, the resulting representations of foreign plays on stage, and representations of the Egyptian revolution on stage and in Tahrir Square. This assessment of the relationship between theatre practices, exchanges, and rewritings in Egyptian theatre brings vital coverage to an undervisited area and will be of interest to developments in theatre translation and beyond.

Violent Women in Contemporary Theatres

Author : Nancy Taylor Porter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319570064
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Violent Women in Contemporary Theatres written by Nancy Taylor Porter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings of gender, how plays thoughtfully depict this topic, and how their productions impact audiences. Truthful portrayals force consideration of both the startling reality of women's violence — not how it's been sensationalized or demonized or sexualized, but how it is — and what parameters, what possibilities, should exist for its enactment in life and live theatre. These women appear in a wide array of contexts: they are mothers, daughters, lovers, streetfighters, boxers, soldiers, and dominatrixes. Who they are and why they choose to use violence varies dramatically. They stage resistance and challenge normative expectations for women. This fascinating and balanced study will appeal to anyone interested in gender/feminism issues and theatre.

Performing Feminisms

Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801839696
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Performing Feminisms written by Sue-Ellen Case and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.

The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000815986
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism written by Catherine Burroughs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women’s writing within, and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women’s consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing, dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field, bringing to the fore a long-neglected, vibrant, intelligent, deeply informed, and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship, learning, and artistry. The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatrical Theory and Dramatic Criticism is an important intervention into the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural History, while adding new dimensions to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Woman Killer

Author : Chiori Miyagawa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578050080
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Woman Killer written by Chiori Miyagawa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WOMAN KILLER is US-based Asian dramatist Chiori Miyagawa's take on an ancient story of revenge, murder and ghosts. With an introduction by feminist scholar Sharon Friedman and afterword by scholar Martin Harries, Miyagawa's WOMAN KILLER is a porvocative text that explores the psychology of a society broken by lies and betrayals.

On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers"

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Author : Martha C. Carpentier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662206X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers" written by Martha C. Carpentier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife's motive for murdering her abusive husband. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the "mother of American drama." Her short story version of Trifles, "A Jury of Her Peers," reached an unprecedented one million readers in 1917. The play and the story have since been taught in classrooms across America and Trifles is regularly revived on stages around the world. This collection of fresh essays celebrates the centennial of Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers," with departures from established Glaspell scholarship. Interviews with theater people are included along with two original works inspired by Glaspell's iconic writings.