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Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : New York : Atheneum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Commitment, and Other Essays on Drama in Our Society written by Eric Bentley and published by New York : Atheneum. This book was released on 1967 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003809871
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Commitment written by Eric Bentley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967 The Theatre of Commitment presents miscellaneous collection of seven essays written over fifteen years. Eric Bentley deals with themes like is the drama an extinct species; the American drama; what is theatre; the pro and con of political theatre; letter to a would-be playwright and the theatre of commitment. For most people, theatre of commitment is political theater, though Bentley indicates that the word commitment is broad enough to embrace the work of any serious writer even if the commitment is to non-commitment. This is an interesting read for students of theatre and performance studies.
Author : Oscar G. Brockett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110856522
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Studies in Theatre and Drama written by Oscar G. Brockett and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Studies in Theatre and Drama".
Author : Austin E. Quigley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131761965X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Modern Stage and Other Worlds (Routledge Revivals) written by Austin E. Quigley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is of primary importance in particular plays; to focus on their differences is to note the novelty of the plays without increasing their accessibility. In this study, first published in 1985, Austin E. Quigley takes as his paradigm case the relationship between the world of the stage and the world of the audience, and explores various modes of communication between domains. He asks how changes in the structure of the drama relate to changes in the structure of the theatre, and changes in the role of the audience. Detailed interpretations of plays by Pinero, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter question principles about the modern theatre and establish links between drama structure and theatre structure, theme, and performance space.
Author : I. Saal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230608833
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book New Deal Theater written by I. Saal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe. Rather than radicalizing content and form, New Deal theater insisted that the political had to be made commensurable with the language of a mass audience steeped in consumer culture.The resulting vernacular praxis emphasized empathy over alienation, verisimilitude over abstraction. By examining the cultural vectors that shaped this theater, Saal shows why it was more successful on the American stage than its European counterpart and develops a theory of vernacular political theater which can help us think of the political in art in other than modernist terms.
Author : Ivo Supičić
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780918728357
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Music in Society written by Ivo Supičić and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this study has two distinct but not unrelated aspects: first, an investigation into the sociology of music as an autonomous and specialized discipline; and second, an examination of certain fundamental facts that may be considered within the purview of the sociology of music itself. If an analysis and study even a preliminary one of these facts is to be properly focused and fruitful, we must first try to determine the subject and methods of the sociology of music, its position and boundaries in respect to musicology, and, most especially, its relation to the aesthetics of music and music history. It is equally indispensable to ascertain what the sociology of music as a separate scholarly discipline embraces, where its investigation leads, and, finally, to establish its position vis-a-vis sociology in general. (From the Author's Introduction.)
Author : Simon Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134565291
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Drama/Theatre/Performance written by Simon Shepherd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the concept of these related terms and considers the complex relationship that exists between all three. This useful guidebook is an essential read for any student of literature, drama, theatre and performance studies.
Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140815451X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Brian Friel written by Christopher Murray and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Friel is Ireland's foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has won numerous awards, including three Tonys and a Lifetime Achievement Arts Award. Author of twenty-five plays, and whose work is studied at GCSE and A level (UK), and the Leaving Certificate (Ire), besides at undergraduate level, he is regarded as a classic in contemporary drama studies. Christopher Murray's Critical Companion is the definitive guide to Friel's work, offering both a detailed study of individual plays and an exploration of Friel's dual commitment to tradition and modernity across his oeuvre. Beginning with Friel's 1964 work Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Christopher Murray follows a broadly chronological route through the principal plays, including Aristocrats, Faith Healer, Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa, Molly Sweeney and The Home Place. Along the way it considers themes of exile, politics, fathers and sons, belief and ritual, history, memory, gender inequality, and loss, all set against the dialectic of tradition and modernity. It is supplemented by essays from Shaun Richards, David Krause and Csilla Bertha providing varying critical perspectives on the playwright's work.
Author : Julie Adam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349213632
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Versions of Heroism in Modern American Drama written by Julie Adam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its starting-point the 'death of tragedy' debate, and focusing on the supposed disappearance from the stage of the individual tragic hero, the book views selected plays and writings on the theatre by Miller, Williams, Maxwell Anderson and O'Neill as exemplifying four versions of heroism: idealism, martyrdom, self-reflection and survival. Julie Adam shows that these diverse playwrights share a desire to redefine tragic heroism in individualistic liberal terms.
Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136119000
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Author : Eugene Lunn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520315200
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Marxism and Modernism written by Eugene Lunn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Author : Catherine O'Leary
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661110
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Antonio Buero Vallejo written by Catherine O'Leary and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the complex relationship between Antonio Buero Vallejo [1916 - 2000] and the ideologies of Francoist and post-Franco Spain. This monograph examines the complex relationship between Antonio Buero Vallejo [1916 - 2000] and the ideologies of Francoist and post-Franco Spain. The central focus of the study is Buero's political theatre and his employment ofmyth and history to challenge the notion of an España eterna. It also considers Buero's creation of his own myths and his revision of history in order to rationalize and justify his own stance. In his determination towrite and stage committed drama in a repressive society, Buero's choice, with its inherent contradictions and ambiguities, was posibilismo. This book looks at this pragmatic employment of language and silence, both in his art and in his dealings with the censors and with other representatives of the hegemony and analyses how posibilismo both aided and limited him. The monograph also considers Buero's neglected post-Franco theatre, examining the reasons for its initial negative reception and its renewed importance in today's Spain. In these days of digging up the past, Buero's post-Franco insistence on rejecting the pacto de olvido is perhaps more relevantthan ever before. CATHERINE O'LEARY lectures in Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Author : Charles Blattberg
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191584010
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics written by Charles Blattberg and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moral and political philosophy of pluralism has become increasingly influential. To pluralists, when values genuinely conflict we should aim to strike an appropriate balance or trade-off between them, though this means accepting that compromise will be inevitable. Politics, as a result, appears as a thoroughly tragic affair. Drawing on a 'hermeneutical' conception of interpretation, the author develops an original account of practical reasoning, one which assumes that, though making compromises in the face of conflicts is indeed often unavoidable, there are times when reconciliation, as distinct from compromise, is feasible. For this to be so, however, citizens must strive to converse - and not just negotiate - with each other, thus fulfilling the good that is at the heart of their shared political community. This is the central message of the patriotic alternative to pluralist politics that the author defends here.
Author : Sam Smiley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128509
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Playwriting written by Sam Smiley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incidence of melanoma has increased by 2000% since 1930 and one person dies each hour from the disease. This cutting edge guide provides scientifically accurate information which patients and their families need, to understand melanoma and its treatment and to receive necessary reassurance. It is also a vitally important resource for those who want information about preventing the disease or finding it early when it is most curable. Catherine M. Poole, a melanoma survivor and melanoma patient advocate for many organisations, and Dr. DuPont Guerry, an internationally renowned melanoma expert, have collaborated to provide current, correct and easily understood information on the disease. The authors have had first-hand contact with a multitude of patients with melanoma, and they understand exactly how to empower patients to gain control of their situations and obtain the best treatment.
Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108389
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Critical Companion to Arthur Miller written by Susan C. W. Abbotson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Miller, best known for his works The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, is one of America's most important dramatists.
Author : B. Chandrika
Publisher : Academic Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9788171880430
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Private Garden written by B. Chandrika and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Billy J. Harbin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472068586
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (685 download)
Download or read book The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy written by Billy J. Harbin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
