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Author : Julia Jarcho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989739368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Minor Theater written by Julia Jarcho and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minor Theater collects three plays by Julia Jarcho, including GRIMLY HANDSOME, which won a 2013 OBIE for Best New Play.
Author : Robert Thomas Titlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (618 download)
Download or read book A History of the Minor Theatre, Arcata, California, 1914-1924 written by Robert Thomas Titlow and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739128183
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Rising from the Flames written by Samuel L. Leiter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 15, 1945, when the war ended, almost all of Tokyo and Osaka's theaters had been destroyed or heavily damaged by American bombs. The Japanese urban infrastructure was reduced to dust, and so, one might have thought, would be the nation's spirit, especially in the face of nuclear bombing and foreign occupation. Yet, less than two weeks after the atom bombs had been dropped, theater began to show signs of life. Before long, all forms of Japanese theater were back on stage, and from death's ashes arose the flower of art. Rising from the Flames contains sixteen essays, many accompanied by photographic illustrations, by thirteen specialists. They explore the triumphs and tribulations of Occupation-period (1945-1952) theater, and cover not only such traditional forms as kabuki, no, kyogen, bunraku puppet theater (as well as the traditional marionette theater, the Yuki-za), and the comic narrator's art of rakugo, but also the modern genres of shingeki, musical comedy, and the all-female Takarazuka Revue. Among the numerous topics discussed are censorship, theater reconstruction, politics, internationalization, unionization, the search for a national identity through drama, and the treatment of the emperor on the pre- and postwar stage. The essays in this volume examine how Japanese theater, subject to oppressive thought control by prewar authorities, responded to the new--if temporarily limited--freedom allowed by the American occupiers, attesting to Japan's remarkable resilience in the face of national defeat.
Author : Marvin Edward McAllister
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854501
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (545 download)
Download or read book White People Do Not Know how to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour written by Marvin Edward McAllister and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McAllister offers a history of black theater pioneer William Brown's career and places his productions within the broader context of U.S. social, political, and cultural history.
Author : Philipp Ther
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612493300
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Center Stage written by Philipp Ther and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon which this book concentrates. This volume, a revised and extended version of two well-reviewed books published in German and Czech, explores the social and political background to this "opera mania" in nineteenth century Central Europe. After tracing the major trends in the opera history of the period, including the emergence of national genres of opera and its various social functions and cultural meanings, the author contrasts the histories of the major houses in Dresden (a court theater), Lemberg (a theater built and sponsored by aristocrats), and Prague (a civic institution). Beyond the operatic institutions and their key stage productions, composers such as Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Bedřich Smetana, Stanisław Moniuszko, Antonín Dvořák, and Richard Strauss are put in their social and political contexts. The concluding chapter, bringing together the different leitmotifs of social and cultural history explored in the rest of the book, explains the specificities of opera life in Central Europe within a wider European and global framework.
Author : Jeffrey Masten
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810123088
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Drama 34 written by Jeffrey Masten and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance. This issue of Renaissance Drama, devoted to the topic of "Media, Technology, and Performance" is co-edited by W.B. Worthen, Wendy Wall, and Jeffrey Masten. The various articles displayed here address the interface between drama and its various modes of production over the past four centuries. This volume explores the relationship of drama to other forms of early modern spectacle (pageantry, masques), to the specificities of typography and the economics of the book industry, to the intersection of drama with film and DVD production, and to the way that stage technologies and theatrical economies of the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries define plays and playing. Rather than thinking of the early modern text as something simply reconstituted in its different incarnations, these essays make clear that different media force a rethinking of the terms that we use to envision, conceptualize, and even to see the work of drama.
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Total Pages : 2310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Northwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 2310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 082327375X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Muses on Their Lunch Hour written by Marjorie Garber and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice of higher education today. With the ease born of deep knowledge, Marjorie Garber moves from comical journalistic quirks (“Fig Leaves”) to the curious return of myth and ritual in the theories of evolutionary psychologists (“Ovid, Now and Then”). Two themes emerge consistently in Garber’s latest exploration of symptoms of culture. The first is that to predict the “next big thing” in literary studies we should look back at ideas and practices set aside by a previous generation of critics. In the past several decades we have seen the reemergence of—for example—textual editing, biography, character criticism, aesthetics, and philology as “hot” new areas for critical intervention. The second theme expands on this observation, making the case for “cultural forgetting” as the way the arts and humanities renew themselves, both within fields and across them. Although she is never represented in traditional paintings or poetry, a missing Muse—we can call her Amnesia—turns out to be a key figure for the creation of theory and criticism in the arts.
Author : Daniel Gustafson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482135
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Lothario's Corpse written by Daniel Gustafson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lothario’s Corpse unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain’s eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While standard theater histories emphasize libertine drama’s gradual disappearance from the nation’s acting repertory following the dispersal of Stuart rule in 1688, Daniel Gustafson traces its persistent appeal for writers and performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent liberal subject and the tensions of that subject with sovereign absolutism. With its radical, absolutist characters and its scenarios of aristocratic license, Restoration libertine drama became a critical force with which to engage in debates about the liberty-loving British subject’s relation to key forms of liberal power and about the troubling allure of lawless sovereign power that lingers at the heart of the liberal imagination. Weaving together readings of a set of literary texts, theater anecdotes, political writings, and performances, Gustafson illustrates how the corpse of the Restoration stage libertine is revived in the period’s debates about liberty, sovereign desire, and the subject’s relation to modern forms of social control. Ultimately, Lothario’s Corpse suggests the “long-running” nature of Restoration theatrical culture, its revived and revised performances vital to what makes post-1688 Britain modern. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Julia Jarcho
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350066370
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Grimly Handsome written by Julia Jarcho and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last night I woke up and found that I was not at home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. And then I wasn't sure. Maybe they were my clothes, and I was someone else. In an unnamed American city, two strangers sell Christmas trees on the sidewalk; two cops work to solve a killing spree; and a young woman finds herself transforming in ways she could never have imagined. A darkly comic thriller exploring the margins of a city and the violent fantasies they inspire. Julia Jarcho's Obie Award-winning American play has its UK premiere at The Site, a new space at the Royal Court in December 2017.
Author : Ronald Bogue
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135777195
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Deleuze on Literature written by Ronald Bogue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive introduction to Deleuze's work on literature. It provides thorough treatments of Deleuze's early book on Proust and his seminal volume on Kafka and minor literature. Deleuze on Literature situates those studies and many other scattered writings within a general project that extends throughout Deleuze's career-that of conceiving of literature as a form of health and the writer as a cultural physician.
Author : Michael Goddard
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557535523
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form written by Michael Goddard and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form provides a new and comprehensive account of the writing and thought of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. While Gombrowicz is probably the key Polish modernist writer, with a stature in his native Poland equivalent to that of Joyce or Beckett in the English language, he remains little known in English. As well as providing a commentary on his novels, plays, and short stories, this book sets Gombrowicz's writing in the context of contemporary cultural theory. The author performs a detailed examination of Gombrowicz's major literary and theatrical work, showing how his conception of form is highly resonant with contemporary, postmodern theories of identity. This book is the essential companion to one of Eastern Europe's most important literary figures whose work, banned by the Nazis and suppressed by Poland's Communist government, has only recently become well known in the West.
Author : Diane Piccitto
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132881
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830 written by Diane Piccitto and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the stage
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135160225X
Total Pages : 2448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 2448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 11-volume set reissues a host of classic titles on Continental Philosophy. Written by leading scholars in the field, they form an essential reference resource that tackles philosophers and subjects such as Deleuze, Derrida, hermeneutics and phenomenology.
Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824863216
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Kabuki's Forgotten War written by James R. Brandon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a myth constructed after Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki’s Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling case that, up to the very end of the Pacific War, kabuki was a living theater and, as an institution, an active participant in contemporary events, rising and falling in consonance with Japan’s imperial adventures. Drawing extensively from Japanese sources—books, newspapers, magazines, war reports, speeches, scripts, and diaries—Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan’s Fifteen-Year Sacred War. He reveals, for example, that kabuki stars raised funds to buy fighter and bomber aircraft for the imperial forces and that pro-ducers arranged large-scale tours for kabuki troupes to entertain soldiers stationed in Manchuria, China, and Korea. Kabuki playwrights contributed no less than 160 new plays that dramatized frontline battles or rewrote history to propagate imperial ideology. Abridged by censors, molded by the Bureau of Information, and partially incorporated into the League of Touring Theaters, kabuki reached new audiences as it expanded along with the new Japanese empire. By the end of the war, however, it had fallen from government favor and in 1944–1946 it nearly expired when Japanese government decrees banished leading kabuki companies to minor urban theaters and the countryside. Kabuki’s Forgotten War includes more than a hundred illustrations, many of which have never been published in an English-language work. It is nothing less than a com-plete revision of kabuki’s recent history and as such goes beyond correcting a significant misconception. This new study remedies a historical absence that has distorted our understanding of Japan’s imperial enterprise and its aftermath.
Author : Gilbert B. Cross
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838716465
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Next Week--East Lynne written by Gilbert B. Cross and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines plot, character, setting, and spectacle, viewing the plays in performance. Discusses the importance of costume, makeup, gesture, and audience participation, and relates the subject matter of the plays to contemporary society, especially as it reflected England's change from a semi-feudal to an increasingly democratic society. Illustrated.
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Total Pages : 1630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Moving Picture World and View Photographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
