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The Drama of History

Author : Kristin Gjesdal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190070765
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of History written by Kristin Gjesdal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drama of History plumbs the rich relationship between drama and philosophy. Kristin Gjesdal offers a lively and accessible discussion of the philosophical aspects of Henrik Ibsen's work. She shows how well-known nineteenth-century philosophers such as Hegel and Nietzsche develop their thoughts in interaction with the dramatic arts. At the heart of this interaction is a shared interest in exploring the existential condition of human life as lived andexperienced in history. In this sense, Gjesdal engages philosophy's capacity beyond its narrow academic confines.

A New History of Early English Drama

Author : John D. Cox
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231102438
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Early English Drama written by John D. Cox and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.

Theology and the Drama of History

Author : Ben Quash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139446096
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Theology and the Drama of History written by Ben Quash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can theology think and talk about history? Building on the work of the major twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as well as entering into sharp critical debate with him, this book sets out to examine the value and the potential of a 'theodramatic' conception of history. By engaging in dialogue not only with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar, Hegel and Barth, but with poets and dramatists such as the Greek tragedians, Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the book makes its theological principles open and indebted to literary forms, and seeks to show how such a theology might be applied to a world intrinsically and thoroughly historical. By contrast with theologies that stand back from the contingencies of history and so fight shy of the uncertainties and openness of Christian existence, this book's theology is committed to taking seriously the God who works in time.

History of European Drama and Theatre

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415180603
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book History of European Drama and Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity. Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include: * ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Molière * the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama * the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz * romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, Büchner, and Nestroy * the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski * the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Müller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.

A History of Modern Drama, Volume I

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444343742
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Drama, Volume I written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretations Includes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global view of modern drama Considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society, and politics on the formation of modern dramatic literature Takes an interpretative and analytical approach to modern dramatic texts rather than focusing on production history Includes coverage of the ways in which staging practices, design concepts, and acting styles informed the construction of the dramas

A Short History of the Drama

Author : Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Drama written by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Southern Drama

Author : Charles S. Watson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081318889X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The History of Southern Drama written by Charles S. Watson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias. Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams's changing depiction of the South—from sensitive analysis to outraged indictment—in response to the Civil Rights Movement. Watson links the work of the early Charleston dramatists and of Espy Williams, first modern dramatist of the South, to later twentieth-century drama. Strong heroines in plays of the Confederacy foreshadow the spunk of Tennessee Williams's Amanda Wingfield. Claiming that Beth Henley matches the satirical brilliance of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Watson connects her zany humor to 1840s New Orleans farces. With this work, Watson has at last answered the call for a single-volume, comprehensive history of the South's dramatic literature. With fascinating detail and seasoned perception, he reveals the rich heritage of southern drama.

A History of English Drama 1660-1900

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109314
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of English Drama 1660-1900 by : Allardyce Nicoll

Download or read book A History of English Drama 1660-1900 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

Dreams and Delusions

Author : Fritz Richard Stern
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076226
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Delusions written by Fritz Richard Stern and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by historian Fritz Stern ponders the promise and catastrophe of twentieth-century German history. It is now reissued with a new introduction by the author.

The Human Drama

Author : Donald James Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558762237
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Human Drama written by Donald James Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in this highly acclaimed series ushers in the twentieth century, the bloodiest in world history, and arguably the century that saw more accelerated and profound changes than any previous era. The book begins by examining the vicious competition among nation-states for political and military dominance. It then expands its focus to consider the impact of new technological developments and artistic and philosophical ideas, including the discovery of relativity and innovative interpretations of the human mind. It concludes by discussing the lasting impact of colonialism, the rise of identity politics, and the new era of accelerated globalism.

History and Drama

Author : Joachim Küpper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110604272
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book History and Drama written by Joachim Küpper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle’s neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past – arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate their “emplotments” (White) from literary inventions, this thirteen-essay collection takes a fresh look at the production of historico-political knowledge in literature and the intricacies of reality and fiction. Written by experts who teach in Germany, Austria, Russia, and the United States, the articles provide a thorough interpretation of early modern drama (with a view to classical times and the 19th century) as an ideological platform that is as open to royal self-fashioning and soteriology as it is to travestying and subverting the means and ends of historical interpretation. The comparative analysis of metapoetic and historiosophic aspects also sheds light on drama as a transnational phenomenon, demonstrating the importance of the cultural net that links the multifaceted textual examples from France, Russia, England, Italy, and the Netherlands.

The Drama of American History Series

Author : James Lincoln Collier
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538426749
Total Pages : 1782 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of American History Series written by James Lincoln Collier and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. The volumes in this collection explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation. This collection features six books in the Drama of American History series, covering American history from prehistoric Native American life and culture through the Federalist era of the late eighteenth century: Pilgrims and Puritans: 1620–1676 The French and Indian War: 1660–1763 The Paradox of Jamestown: 1585–1700 Clash of Cultures: Prehistory–1638 The American Revolution: 1763–1783 Building a New Nation: The Federalist Era, 1789–1801

The Cambridge History of American Theatre

Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521472043
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.

A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States

Author : Kimberly Poppiti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351382373
Total Pages : 196 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 196 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.

Closet Drama

Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135160693X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Closet Drama written by Catherine Burroughs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection unleashes a provocative array of theoretical concerns about the phenomenon of the closet play—a dramatic text written for reading rather than acting.

Milton and the Drama of History

Author : David Loewenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521372534
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Milton and the Drama of History written by David Loewenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of history in Milton's literary works. It focuses on the writer's imaginative responses to the historical process - his interpretations of the past, visions of the future, and sense of the contemporary historical moment.

The Cambridge History of British Theatre

Author : Jane Milling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521650682
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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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: Volume Two begins in 1660 with the restoration of King Charles II to the throne and the reestablishment of the professional theater. It follows the far-reaching development of the form over more than two centuries to 1895.