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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gayle Austin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472064298
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism written by Gayle Austin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at post-war American drama by women, bridging the gap between theatrical theory and feminist theory
Author : T. Nellhaus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107958
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism written by T. Nellhaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As the first book to take a critical realist approach to culture, Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism examines theatre and its history through the interaction of society s structures, agents, and discourses. Tobin Nellhaus shows that communication structure - a culture s use and development of speech, handwriting, printing, and electronics - explains much about why, when, and how theatre has transformed.
Author : James R Russo
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800858477
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Analyzing Drama written by James R Russo and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie, Electra, Death of a Salesman, The Balcony, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Old Times. The essays are supported by a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, Bibliographical Resources, and a comprehensive Index. Written for university and advanced high school students, these critical essays provide practical models to aid and promote writing and analytical skills. The author is a close reader committed to a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of a play. He is concerned with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit to directors, designers, and even actors. Analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting can thus be translated into concepts for theatrical production. The three key benefits of ANALYZING DRAMA are: 1. Most so-called play analysis texts are books about the methods and techniques of play analysis but contain few (if any) actual play analyses. The book describes the methods and techniques of play analysis while at the same time providing numerous examples of such analysis. 2. The Topics for Writing and Discussion and Study Guides provide a wide range of set tasks for students. 3. Readings are not biased by any particular social or political doctrine. Aimed at students, teachers, educated readers, and drama aficionados with an interest in world drama in particular and drama studies in general, as well as at theatregoers with an interest in the practice of play analysis and criticism.
Author : Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472068869
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Critical Theory and Performance written by Janelle G. Reinelt and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance
Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134575432
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Acting (Re)Considered written by Phillip B. Zarrilli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edition includes five new essays and has been fully revised and updated, with discussions by or about major figures who have shaped theories and practices of acting and performance from the late nineteenth century to the present. The essays - by directors, historians, actor trainers and actors - bridge the gap between theories and practices of acting, and between East and West. No other book provides such a wealth of primary and secondary sources, bibliographic material, and diversity of approaches. It includes discussions of such key topics as: * how we think and talk about acting * acting and emotion * the actor's psychophysical process * the body and training * the actor in performance * non-Western and cross-cultural paradigms of the body, training and acting. Acting (Re)Considered is vital reading for all those interested in performance.
Author : Andrew Kimbrough
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969371
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Dramatic Theories of Voice in the Twentieth Century written by Andrew Kimbrough and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199731497
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Drama written by Jeffrey H. Richards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
Author : Tom Stern
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783486236
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting written by Tom Stern and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new essays on the philosophy of theatre and the philosophy of drama, combining historical perspectives and new directions.
Author : Amy Muse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350007803
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Drama and Theatre of Sarah Ruhl written by Amy Muse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century. Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, she has won a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, been nominated for a Tony Award for In the Next Room or the vibrator play and twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for The Clean House and In the Next Room. Ruhl is a writer unafraid of the soul. She writes not about “this or that issue,” but “about being,” creating plays that ask “big questions about death, love, and how we should treat each other in this lifetime.” In this volume, Amy Muse situates Ruhl as an artist-thinker and organizes her work around its artistic and ethical concerns. Through a finely-grained account of each play, readers are guided through Ruhl's early influences, the themes of intimacy, transcendence, and communion, and her inventive stagecraft to dramatize “moments of being” onstage. Enriched by essays from scholars Jill Stevenson, Thomas Butler, and Christina Dokou, an interview with directors Sarah Rasmussen and Hayley Finn, and a chronology of Ruhl's life and work, this is a companionable guide for students of American drama and theatre studies. Amy Muse specializes in dramatic literature and performance studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department. She is the author of “Sarah Ruhl's Sex Ed for Grownups” (Text & Presentation 2013) and essays on Romantic drama, intimate theatre, female Hamlets, and travel in Romantic Circles, Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture & Criticism, Frontiers, and other journals. METHUEN DRAMA CRITICAL COMPANIONS Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
Author : Lynn Deboeck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000887480
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book (M)Other Perspectives written by Lynn Deboeck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration. Across the breadth of these themes, we interrogate the cultural implications and politics of how we script, perform, receive, and define mothers, challenging many of the normalizing and patriarchal tropes associated with the mother-as-character. This book includes critical essays examining twenty-first century dramatic literature, first-hand ethnographic accounts of motherhood in practice, interviews, feminist manifestos, and artist reflections. In its deliberately curated variety, this collection seeks to resist homogeneity and offer instead a range of approaches to key questions: what versions of motherhood get staged, and why? And what do dramatic representations tell us about the role of mothers in our own fraught contemporary moment? This collection will be of great interest to those in academia who are teaching, researching, or studying in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, American Studies, and Feminist and Gender Studies.
Author : Matthew Roudané
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521777667
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (776 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard written by Matthew Roudané and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and scholarly audience. In this collection of seventeen original essays, American and European authors from different professional and academic backgrounds explore the various aspects of Shepard s career - his plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work. The volume covers the major plays, including Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, and True West, as well as other lesser known but vitally important works. A thorough chronology of Shepard s life and career, together with biographical chapters, a note from the legendary Joseph Chaikin, and an interview with the playwright, give a fascinating first-hand account of an exuberant and experimental personality.
Author : Rick Kemp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351690361
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science written by Rick Kemp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance studies. This rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field dynamically advances critical and theoretical knowledge, as well as driving innovation in practice. The anthology includes 30 specially commissioned chapters, many written by authors who have been at the cutting-edge of research and practice in the field over the last 15 years. These authors offer many empirical answers to four significant questions: How can performances in theatre, dance and other media achieve more emotional and social impact? How can we become more adept teachers and learners of performance both within and outside of classrooms? What can the cognitive sciences reveal about the nature of drama and human nature in general? How can knowledge transfer, from a synthesis of science and performance, assist professionals such as nurses, care-givers, therapists and emergency workers in their jobs? A wide-ranging and authoritative guide, The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science is an accessible tool for not only students, but practitioners and researchers in the arts and sciences as well.
Author : Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137501693
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Performing Age in Modern Drama written by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright. All ages across the life course are interpreted as performance and performative both on page and on stage, including professional productions and senior-theatre groups. The common admonition "act your age" provides the springboard for this study, which rests on the premise that age is performative in nature, and that issues of age and performance crystallize in the theatre. Dramatic conventions include characters who change ages from one moment to the next, overtly demonstrating on stage the reiterated actions that create a performative illusion of stable age. Moreover, directors regularly cast actors in these plays against their chronological ages. Lipscomb contends that while the plays reflect varying attitudes toward performing age, as a whole they reveal a longing for an ageless self, a desire to present a consistent, unified identity. The works mirror prevailing social perceptions of the aging process as well as the tension between chronological age, physiological age, and cultural constructions of age.
Author : R. Bank
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137397306
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Theatre/Performance Historiography written by R. Bank and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions in social and ideological organizations of historical subjects.
Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521429436
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (294 download)
Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 32: Volume 8, Part 4 written by Clive Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives.
