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Author : Thomas R. Whitaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783794808
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Fields of Play in Modern Drama written by Thomas R. Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas R. Whitaker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871778
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Fields of Play in Modern Drama written by Thomas R. Whitaker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view—those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characters—as a series of "critical fictions" lead him toward the experience of each play in performance. The author supplies detailed readings of the plays in various modes. The styles of the chapters vary according to the issues dominant in the plays discussed, and the reader experiences simultaneously a sense of approaching the meaning of performance and of gaining a deeper understanding of the play through a subtle and allusive commentary. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ric Knowles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442658630
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama written by Ric Knowles and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research. Modern Drama – a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars – investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances of the terms inherent in the concepts of 'modern' and 'drama,' delving into a range of theoretical questions on the history of modernism, modernity, postmodernism, and postmodernity as they have intersected with the shifting histories of drama, theatre, and performance. Using incisive analyses of both modern and postmodern plays, the contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice. Including work by Sue-Ellen Case, Elin Diamond, Harry J. Elam Jr, Alan Filewod, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Stanton B. Garner Jr, Shannon Jackson, Loren Kruger, Josephine Lee, David Savran, Michael Sidnell, and Ann Wilson, the collection highlights the importance of continuing to investigate not only critical texts but also the terms of the debate themselves. Incorporating both drama history and modern studies, this compilation will be an invaluable work to all scholars of theatre and drama, and as well as those students of the humanities and modernism.
Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286871
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater written by W. B. Worthen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296281
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
Author : Richard Paul Knowles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086211
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama written by Richard Paul Knowles and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810887045
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Theories of the Avant-garde Theatre written by Bert Cardullo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays by avant-garde theatre's most creative practitioners--directors, playwrights, performers, and designers--these writings provide direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating playwriting and performance of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Thomas R. Whitaker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472110254
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Mirrors of Our Playing written by Thomas R. Whitaker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the major paradigms that have influenced modern English-speaking theater
Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144118421X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. G. Bishop
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521550866
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder written by T. G. Bishop and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder, T. G. Bishop argues that wonder provides a turbulent space, rich at once in emotion and self-consciousness, where the nature and value of knowing is brought into question. Bishop compares the treatment of wonder in classical philosophy and drama, and goes on to examine English cycle-plays, charting wonder's ambivalent relation to dogma and sacrament in the medieval religious theatre. Through extended readings of three of Shakespeare's plays - The Comedy of Errors, Pericles and The Winter's Tale - Bishop argues that Shakespeare uses wonder as a key component of his dialectic between affirmation and critique. Wonder is shown as vital to the characteristic self-consciousness of Shakespeare's plays as acts of narrative enquiry and renovation.
Author : Howard D. Pearce
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753538
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Human Shadows Bright as Glass written by Howard D. Pearce and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh approach to the dramatic experience is attempted in this book. It begins with a consideration of Edmund Husserl's attempt to clarify our understanding of immediate experience and takes into account Martin Heidegger's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's movements from the phenomenology toward the individual's complex interactions and involvements in a world.
Author : Mary F. Brewer
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025565
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter written by Mary F. Brewer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter's political activism on his dramatic production, among others. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example's of Pinter's work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing. Each contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The collection offers essays that approach The Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance.
Author : Andrew White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136281851
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky written by Andrew White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanislavsky’s system of actor-training has revolutionised modern theatre practice, and he is widely recognised to be one of the great cultural innovators of the twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky is an essential book for students and scholars alike, providing the first overview of the field for the 21st century. An important feature of this book is the balance between Stanislavsky’s theory and practice, as international contributors present scholarly and artistic interpretations of his work. With chapters including academic essays and personal narratives, the Companion is divided into four clear parts, exploring Stanislavsky on stage, as an acting teacher, as a theorist and finally as a theatre practitioner. Bringing together a dazzling selection of original scholarship, notable contributions include Anatoly Smeliansky on Stanislavsky’s letters; William D. Gunn on staging ideology at the Moscow Art Theatre; Sharon Marie Carnicke and David Rosen on opera; Rosemary Malague on the feminist perspective of new translations; W.B. Worthen on cognitive science; Julia Listengarten on the avant-garde; David Krasner on the System in America; and Dennis Beck on Stanislavsky’s legacy in non-realistic theatre.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1914 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam Gilbert
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312090777
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Modern and Contemporary Drama written by Miriam Gilbert and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 1994 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 02 This anthology offers a collection of 28 outstanding modern and contemporary plays. Introductions to each period and dramatist along with photographs and reviews give students a sense of how the plays are staged and witnessed.
Author : Gina Bloom
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053817
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Gaming the Stage written by Gina Bloom and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play; they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped them become better theatergoers. Examining dramas written for these theaters alongside evidence of analog games popular then and today, Bloom argues for games as theatrical media and theater as an interactive gaming technology. Gaming the Stage also introduces a new archive for game studies: scenes of onstage gaming, which appear at climactic moments in dramatic literature. Bloom reveals plays to be systems of information for theater spectators: games of withholding, divulging, speculating, and wagering on knowledge. Her book breaks new ground through examinations of plays such as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and A Game at Chess; the histories of familiar games such as cards, backgammon, and chess; less familiar ones, like Game of the Goose; and even a mixed-reality theater videogame.
Author : David Krasner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern Drama, Volume I written by David Krasner and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2012 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period 1879 to 1959, from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is an examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights and connecting themes. Includes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global view of modern drama. Considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society, and politics on the formation of modern dramatic literature
