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Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas

Author : Dario Fo
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137777
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas written by Dario Fo and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwriting into a comedy of complete originality. In a first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is a brilliant, vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to America. Told by a last-minute conscript assigned to clean the shipboard pig stalls, who goes on to be adopted by a tribe of Indians and help them fight conquistadors, it posits a riotous alternate history in which the dynamics between native and white, male and female, history and comedy are never what they seem.

Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame

Author : Stefania Taviano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351898272
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame written by Stefania Taviano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first extended treatment of the English translations, stagings, and reception of the political plays of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Focusing on the United Kingdom and the United States, Stefania Taviano offers a critique of the cultural stereotyping and political conservatism that have pursued these playwrights in translation and argues for the possibility of remaining true to Fo and Rame's political commitment while preserving the comic nature of their plays. Taviano shows how the choices made by the translators and stagers of Fo and Rame's political theatre reveal attitudes toward foreign cultures and theatre generally and Italy in particular. Among the questions she poses are 'What characterizes the process of acculturation that takes place when political theatre is transposed from one culture to another?' 'To what extent are images of foreign literary production affected by dominant translation practices and theatre traditions?' Perhaps most important, 'What constitutes political theatre in a given society, and how are such definitions used to categorize and contain theatre texts that are disturbing, challenging, and difficult to stage?' Her book concludes with an investigation of the meaning of Fo and Rame's political theatre today that points the way for future critical studies of the politics behind the translation and stage production of political theatre outside its culture of origin.

Dario Fo

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809323357
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Dario Fo written by Joseph Farrell and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Farrell and Antonio Scuderi present an international collection of essays reevaluating the multifaceted performance art of Nobel laureate Dario Fo. The contributors, all of whom either have previously published on Fo or have worked with him, are the major Dario Fo scholars of three continents. Going beyond the Marxist criticism of the 1970s and 1980s, the editors and contributors try to establish an appropriate language in which to debate Fo's theater. They seek to identify the core of Fo's work, the material that will be of lasting value. This involves locating Fo in history, examining the nature of his development through successive phases, incorporating his politics into a wider framework of radical dissent, and setting his theatrical achievements in a context and a tradition. The essays cover every aspect of Dario Fo: as actor, playwright, performer, and songwriter. They also provide the historical background of Fo's theater, as well as an in-depth analyses of specific works and the contribution of Franca Rame.

The Fool in European Theatre

Author : T. Prentki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230357504
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Fool in European Theatre written by T. Prentki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society? Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, Büchner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines the art of telling truth to power and surviving long enough to have a laugh.

Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature

Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0304704644
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature written by Peter Bondanella and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487531907
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Millennial Stages

Author : Robert Sanford Brustein
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030013536X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Millennial Stages written by Robert Sanford Brustein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Brustein examines crucial issues relating to theatre in the post-9/11 years, analysing specific plays, various performers, and theatrical production throughout the world. This work explores the connections between theatre and society theatre and politics, and theatre and religion.

Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity

Author : Katia Pizzi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136620494
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity written by Katia Pizzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a 'fluid identity,' informed with transition, difference, joie de vivre, otherness, displacement, and metamorphosis, making Pinocchio a truly modern, indeed postmodern and posthuman, cultural icon. Pinocchio, Puppets and Modernity explores this crucial and as yet little visited field, reassessing Pinocchio's genealogy and progeny, as well as illuminating both the wider context and more specific cultural manifestations of the mechanical-human interface in the domains of theatre, the fine arts, literature, radio, and even virtual reality coherently with the digital metamorphosis of our times. The wide-ranging scope of this exploration encompasses Italian, French, and English literature, dummies and marionettes in modernist and contemporary theatre, the fairytale tradition, and traditional and contemporary painting, as well as the older and newer media of radio, television, cinema, and the Internet. The diverse, comparative, and multimedia focus of this original discussion testifies to the enduring transcultural legacy of Pinocchio. Eminently sellable as a traditional cultural icon, Pinocchio is equally impactful and relevant for a globalized, multicultural, and virtual society, from Collodi to Disney and beyond. Katia Pizzi is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has published volumes on cultural identities, including A City in Search of an Author (2001) and The Cultural Identities of European Cities (2010), and on children's literature and illustration.

Voices in Translation

Author : Gunilla M. Anderman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1853599824
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Voices in Translation written by Gunilla M. Anderman and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2007 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes contributions on dialect translation as well as other studies concerned with the problems facing the translator in bridging cultural divides.

EIL, ELF, Global English

Author : Cesare Gagliardi
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034300100
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book EIL, ELF, Global English written by Cesare Gagliardi and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you teach the English language to global English speakers? Can English be taught as an international language? Is it worth teaching? Isn't it more proper and profitable to learn a standard variety of English? How realistic and useful is the identification of an EIL/ELF variety? Can an EIL/ELF standard be identified? These are some of the questions the present volume has addressed with the contribution of some of the most qualified scholars in the field of English linguistics. The book is divided into four sections. The first part deals with the definition of English as an international language and English as a lingua franca. Section two takes six different teaching issues into consideration. The third section examines some learning issues and the last part of the volume debates the relationship between teacher and student in an English as a lingua franca environment.

A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States

Author : Kimberly Poppiti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351382373
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States written by Kimberly Poppiti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States documents the history of equestrian drama in the United States and clarifies the multi-faceted significance of the form and of the related stage machinery developed to produce hippodramas. The development of equestrian drama is traced from its origins and influences in the sixteenth century, through the height of the form’s popularity at the turn of the twentieth century. Analysis of the historical significance of the genre within the larger context of U.S. theatre, the elucidation of the importance of the horse to theatre, and an evaluation of the lasting impact on theatre technology are also included.

Speaking in Tongues

Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472026550
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Tongues written by Marvin Carlson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations. The use of multiple languages in the contemporary theatre is in part a reflection of a more globalized culture, but it also calls attention to how the mixing of language has always been an important part of the functioning of theatre. The book begins by investigating various "levels" of language-high and low style, prose and poetry-and the ways in which these have been used historically to mark social positions and relationships. It next considers some of the political and historical implications of dialogue theatre, as well as theatre that literally employs several languages, from classical Greek examples to the postmodern era. Carlson treats with special attention the theatre of the postcolonial world, and especially the triangulation of the local language, the national language, and the colonial language, drawing on examples of theatre in the Caribbean, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Finally, Carlson considers the layering of languages in the theatre, such as the use of supertitles or simultaneous signing. Speaking in Tongues draws important social and political conclusions about the role of language in cultural power, making a vital contribution to the fields of theatre and performance. Marvin Carlson is Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center. He is author of Performance: A Critical Introduction; Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present; and The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine, among many other books.

World Literature: A Non-British Approach

Author : Krishna Sharma
Publisher : Krishna Kumar Sharma
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Literature: A Non-British Approach written by Krishna Sharma and published by Krishna Kumar Sharma. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been designed to help the students who prepare for competitive exams like UGC NET, SET/SLET, PGT, Assistant Professor Exams, etc. Every important writer across the world has been covered in this book. The Caribbean, African, Canadian, Australian, German, French, Russian, Italian, Greek, Roman, New Zealandia, and several other writers have been given in the book.

Theatre Translation

Author : Angela Tiziana Tarantini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030702022
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Translation written by Angela Tiziana Tarantini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of translation on theatrical performance. The author adapts and applies Kershaw et al.’s Practice as Research model to an empirical investigation analysing the effects of translation on the rhythm and gesture of a playtext in performance, using the contemporary plays Convincing Ground and The Gully by Australian playwright David Mence which have been translated into Italian. The book is divided into two parts: a theoretical exegesis encompassing Translation Studies, Performance Studies and Gesture Studies, and a practical investigation comprising of a workshop where excerpts of the plays are explored by two groups of actors. The chapters are accompanied by short clips of the performance workshop hosted on SpringerLink. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of Translation Studies (and Theatre Translation more specifically), Theatre and Performance, and Gesture Studies.

Theatre World Volume 58 - 2001-2002

Author : John Willis
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836267
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Theatre World Volume 58 - 2001-2002 written by John Willis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 58th year, Theatre World is the complete record of the Broadway and Off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States.

The Peasants Bible

Author : Dario Fo
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802140692
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Peasants Bible written by Dario Fo and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive wit and unusual linguistic experimentation into a comedy of complete originality. The Peasants' Bible is a collection of five monologues drawn from Italian folklore but filtered through Fo's delightfully singular lens-for example, an Adam and Eve who are passionately entwined like peas in a pod; a race between two classes of men struggling for power that resembles the legend of the Hare and the Tortoise-to form a Bible of the common man. In The Story of the Tiger, we find a Fourth Army soldier injured fighting Chiang Kai-shek's army, saved from starvation by being suckled by an enormous tiger, who then comes back to defeat Kai-shek by using model tigers in combat. Together the pieces are an extraordinary addition to Fo's body of work.

Dario Fo

Author : Antonio Scuderi
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073916922X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Dario Fo written by Antonio Scuderi and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a playwright and a performer, Dario Fo (1926-) is one of the most important figures in world theatre. By the 1980s some were proclaiming him the most widely performed living playwright. In 1997 his achievements were acknowledged with the Nobel Prize for literature. Based on his interpretations of the Marxist social writer Antonio Gramsci, Fo's politically motivated theatre strives to restore dignity to the popular culture of the masses. As part of this process, his theatre is structured on popular forms that challenge the preeminence of an authoritative text. In order to create a thematic frame, akin to certain oral traditions, Fo repeats themes and motifs that run throughout his theatre. Utilizing the mechanisms found in various oral traditions, Fo reaches beyond the confines of a given performance, by referring to the greater thematic frame. Dario Fo: Framing, Festival, and the Folkloric Imagination is a close, interdisciplinary study of his thematic frame and the techniques that allow him to refer to it throughout a performance. Using the tools of folklore performance studies and anthropology-including the works of some of the scholars that influenced Fo-this book explores his use of history and aspects of European culture that hark back to the carnival as a primordial fertility rite.