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Book Synopsis A Source Book in Theatrical History by : A. M. Nagler
Download or read book A Source Book in Theatrical History written by A. M. Nagler and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed passages includes views by observers from ancient Greece to modern times on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, props, much more.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage by : Jan Sewell
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.
Book Synopsis History of the American Stage by : Thomas Allston Brown
Download or read book History of the American Stage written by Thomas Allston Brown and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by : Thomas Allston Brown
Download or read book A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 written by Thomas Allston Brown and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making the Scene by : Oscar G. Brockett
Download or read book Making the Scene written by Oscar G. Brockett and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, beautifully illustrated history of theatrical stage design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world's leading authority, Oscar G. Brockett.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of British Theatre by : Jane Milling
Download or read book The Cambridge History of British Theatre written by Jane Milling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
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: Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
Book Synopsis America on Stage by : Stanley Richards
Download or read book America on Stage written by Stanley Richards and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by : K. Reilly
Download or read book Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History written by K. Reilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.
Book Synopsis The Theatres of Boston by : Donald C. King
Download or read book The Theatres of Boston written by Donald C. King and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theatre had a difficult time establishing itself in Massachusetts. Colonial authorities in Boston were adamantly opposed to theatrical amusements of any kind. In the mid-eighteenth century, even theatricals performed in the homes of private citizens aroused the indignant ire of puritanically minded authorities. In 1750 the General Court of Massachusetts passed an act prohibiting stage plays or any other theatrical entertainment. In 1762, the New Hampshire House of Representatives refused a theatre troupe admission to the town of Portsmouth on the ground that plays had a "peculiar influence on the minds of young people and greatly endangered their morals by giving them a taste for intriguing amusement and pleasure." The first public dramatic performance in Boston was produced at a coffeehouse on State Street by two English actors and some local volunteers. In 1775 General John Burgoyne, himself an actor and playwright, converted Boston's Faneuil Hall into a theatre, where he presented, among other pieces, The Blockade of Boston. After the Revolutionary War, in February 1794, the dramatic history of Boston may be said to have begun with the opening of the Boston Theatre. The history of Boston theatres from the eighteenth century through the present is covered in this well illustrated work. Although the theatre had a somewhat rocky beginning, by 1841 more than 15 theatre houses--including the Boston Theatre, Concert Hall, Merchants Hall, Boylston Hall, the Washington Gardens Amphitheatre, the Tremont Theatre, the Washington Theatre, the American Amphitheatre, the Federal Street Theatre, Mr. Saubert's Theatre, the Lion Theatre, the National Theatre (which boasted gas lighting), and the Howard Athenaeum--were all established. After these first theatres paved the way and puritanical restraint had been overcome, the public's enthusiasm for varied entertainment prevailed and theatres proliferated in the city. This book details the long and storied history of Boston theatre construction, alteration, restoration, and, in many cases, destruction. Information is also provided about building architecture, types of performances, ticket prices and other interesting data about each theatre's history.
Book Synopsis Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage by : Alexander Feldman
Download or read book Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage written by Alexander Feldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, and currents in contemporary historiography, this book provides a new critical idiom for discussing the major works of the genre and others that utilize its techniques. Feldman studies landmarks in the theatre history of postwar Britain by Weiss, Stoppard, Brenton, Wertenbaker and others, focusing on European revolutionary politics, the historiography of the World Wars and the effects of British colonialism. The playwrights under consideration all use the device of the play-within-the-play to explore constructions of nationhood and of Britishness, in particular. Those plays performed within the framing works are produced in places of exile where, Feldman argues, the marginalized negotiate the terms of national identity through performance.
Book Synopsis From the Score to the Stage by : Evan Baker (Opera historian)
Download or read book From the Score to the Stage written by Evan Baker (Opera historian) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life--by the stagehands who shift scenery, the scenic artists who create beautiful backdrops, the electricians who focus the spotlights, and the stage manager who calls them and the singers to their places during the performance. The first comprehensive history of the behind-the-scenes world of opera production and staging, From the Score to the Stage follows the evolution of visual style and set design in continental Europe from its birth in the seventeenth century up to today. In clear, witty prose, Evan Baker covers all the major players and pieces involved in getting an opera onto the stage, from the stage director who creates the artistic concept for the production and guides the singers' interpretation of their roles to the blocking of singers and placement of scenery. He concentrates on the people--composers, librettists, designers, and technicians--as well as the theaters and events that generated developments in opera production. Additional topics include the many difficulties in performing an opera, the functions of impresarios, and the business of music publishing. Delving into the absorbing and often neglected history of stage directing, theater architecture and technology, and scenic and lighting design, Baker nimbly links these technical aspects of opera to actual performances and performers, and the social context in which they appeared. Out of these details arise illuminating discussions of individual productions that cast new light on the operas of Wagner, Verdi, and others. Packed with nearly two hundred color illustrations, From the Score to the Stage is a revealing, always entertaining look at what happens before the curtain goes up on opening night at the opera house.
Book Synopsis History of the American Theatre by : William Dunlap
Download or read book History of the American Theatre written by William Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Living Stage by : Kenneth Macgowan
Download or read book The Living Stage written by Kenneth Macgowan and published by New York : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1955 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the personalities and events which shaped the development of acting and the theater from ancient Egypt.
Book Synopsis The Living Stage by : Kenneth Macgowan
Download or read book The Living Stage written by Kenneth Macgowan and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Carrying All Before Her by : Chelsea Phillips
Download or read book Carrying All Before Her written by Chelsea Phillips and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre's connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women's agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.
Book Synopsis The San Francisco Stage by : Edmond M. Gagey
Download or read book The San Francisco Stage written by Edmond M. Gagey and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the history of the San Francisco stage from the early 1800's through the start of the 1900's. Looks at local thespians, visiting stars, and the changing scene over the years.
