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Author : John Gassner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of the Theatre: Modern drama from Oscar Wilde to Eugene Ionesco written by John Gassner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gassner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Modern drama from Oscar Wilde to Eugene Ionesco written by John Gassner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toby Zinman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140818270X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined written by Toby Zinman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist. Starting with A Doll's House, Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby Zinman explores what made the play so controversial and shocking in its day before tracing how later reimaginings have reworked Ibsen's original. The spine of plays then includes such landmark works as Strindberg's Miss Julie, Oscar Wilde's comic The Importance of Being Earnest, Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the Rattigan centenary revivals, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, ultimately arriving at Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Taking each modern play as the starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights and artists –including prominent directors and their controversial productions as well as acknowledging reworkings in film, opera and ballet.Through the course of this groundbreaking study we discover not only how theatrical styles have changed but how society's attitude towards politics, religion, money, gender, sexuality and race have radically altered over the course of the century. In turn Replay reveals how theatre can serve as both a reflection of our times and a provocation to them.
Author : Dawn B. Sova
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438129939
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Banned Plays written by Dawn B. Sova and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical listing of plays that have been banned throughout history with a short synopsis and reason for banning as well as profiles of the playwrights and other resource material.
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Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN 13 : 9326192512
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521475372
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by John Stokes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stokes offers studies of Wilde's place in the Romantic tradition, and of his relationships with such legendary figures of the fin de siecle as Aubrey Beardsley, Alfred Jarry, and Arthur Symons. And always, as part of the process of historical inquiry, Stokes considers those who came after: humanitarian disciples who kept Wilde's memory sacred, performers in his plays, actors who impersonated the man himself.
Author : William Storm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499424
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Irony and the Modern Theatre written by William Storm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.
Author : Ousmane Diakhate
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136359567
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Ousmane Diakhate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.
Author : Dra. Diani Syahputri, M.Hum
Publisher : umsu press
ISBN 13 : 6234081460
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Drama written by Dra. Diani Syahputri, M.Hum and published by umsu press. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Drama" that is in front of readers today can be said to be a book produced from the results of research provided and prepared as teaching materials. So overall this book consists of 14 main sections. Overall talking about an integral part of the elements of the drama itself. For example about the concept of drama, the development of drama, drama terms, prominent figures, characters, plot, setting, dialogue, monologue, soliloquay, side, action and actor, audience and theatre, performing drama and ends with a discussion on review journals
Author : Harvey Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197622267
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Theater and Human Flourishing written by Harvey Young and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection explores the link between theatre and human flourishing. It interrogates both the social good of theatre and the personally restorative work of a range of live embodied performances. It brings together the disciplines of theatre (and performance studies) and psychology, especially positive psychology, to explore the social benefits of theatre: creating community, encouraging interconnection, serving as a mean to reveal and share both healing and trauma"--
Author : Marietta Chicorel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Chicorel Theater Index to Plays in Anthologies, Periodicals, Discs and Tapes written by Marietta Chicorel and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yvonne Shafer
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437085403
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Changing American Theatre: Mainstream and Marginal, Past and Present written by Yvonne Shafer and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquest llibre d'assajos presenta una panoràmica del desenvolupament del teatre nord-americà des de principis del segle XIX fins a l'actualitat. Mostra els canvis que el teatre va reflectir a mesura que creixia el país i es modificava la societat. Amb cada dècada, una expressió més completa de la cultura nord-americana, amb la seva gran varietat, apareixia en obres de teatre, musicals i revistes. Els assajos analitzen els esforços de figures marginals -sobretot dramaturgs i productors no comercials, afro-americans i dones- per dur a terme una ampliació de l'espectre del teatre nord-americà quant a la dramatúrgia, disseny, representació i construcció dramàtica.
Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349035777
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by E.H. Mikhail and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-06-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara L. Horn
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lillian Hellman written by Barbara L. Horn and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed as one of America's most distinguished female playwrights, Lillian Hellman made an entrance into a largely male-dominated field in 1934 with The Children's Hour, a drama that rocked the literary establishment with its frank treatment of lesbianism while calling attention to her writing talents. Written between 1934 and 1963, Hellman's dramatic canon includes eight original plays and four adaptations. Two of these, Watch on the Rhine (1941) and Toys in the Attic (1960), received Drama Critics' Circle Awards. In addition to her dramatic activities, she wrote three memoirs and a novella, contributed articles to national magazines, edited Chekov's letters and Dashiell Hammett's mysteries, and penned several screenplays. She is probably best known for The Little Foxes (1939), her drama about a family of predatory entrepreneurs who seek to build an industrial fortune on the ruins of the old South. Both a quick reference guide and an exhaustive resource, this volume provides broad and thorough coverage of Hellman's dramatic career. It begins with a critical overview of her life, along with a chronology of her accomplishments. The bulk of the book, which treats her eight original plays and four adaptations, all written for the Broadway stage, provides detailed plot summaries, stage histories, and critical overviews. The next section offers an annotated bibliography of primary sources. This is followed by an annotated secondary bibliography, which is divided into sections on reviews, books, and articles. Entries in the bibliographies are first arranged chronologically and then alphabetically, so that the reader can gain a fuller sense of the development of Hellman's career and the response to her works over time. Detailed indexes conclude the volume and offer full alphabetical access to its contents.
Author : Siegfried Melchinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Drama written by Siegfried Melchinger and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca Housel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443804010
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book From Camera Lens To Critical Lens written by Rebecca Housel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Camera Lens to Critical Lens: A Collection of Best Essays on Film Adaptation, edited by Rebecca Housel, takes the reader through films by directors like Alfred Hitchcock to examining the relevance of twenty-first century British politics with current film; from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman to author Virginia Woolf; and, examining new theoretical approaches to international film adaptations from China, Japan, Britain, Canada, and France, as well as films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Daughters of the Dust. The collection is derived from the Popular Culture Association (PCA) film-adaptation-area conference papers, researched and written by fourteen diverse scholars from all over the world, who gathered together in San Diego, California in April 2005 to further their research by presenting their ideas on film adaptation, now in full text versions within this exciting new volume. Accessible, engaging and informative, any audience may read and enjoy this edited collection on film adaptation. The volume would also work well for pedagogical purposes, both in and out of the classroom. Such a volume may easily be used in courses for English, film studies, gender studies, women’s studies, fine art, psychology, political science, history, and more. A work of diverse international voices, this collection represents the very best on film adaptation today.
Author : Martin Esslin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307548015
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of the Absurd written by Martin Esslin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters’ inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition. Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin’s landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett’s tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre.
