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Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism

Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502642
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism written by Toril Moi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a fuddy-duddy old realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to modern theater. In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism , Toril Moi makes a powerful case not just for Ibsen's modernity, but for his modernism. Situating Ibsen in his cultural context, she shows how unexpected his rise to world fame was, and the extent of his influence on writers such Shaw, Wilde, and Joyce who were seeking to escape the shackles of Victorianism. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism also rewrites nineteenth-century literary history; positioning Ibsen between visual art and philosophy, the book offers a critique of traditional theories of the opposition between realism and modernism. Modernism, Moi argues, arose from the ruins of idealism, the dominant aesthetic paradigm of the nineteenth century. She also shows why Ibsen still matters to us today, by focusing on two major themes-his explorations of women, men, and marriage and his clear-eyed chronicling of the tension between skepticism and the everyday. This radical new account places Ibsen in his rightful place alongside Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Manet as a founder of European modernism.

The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy

Author : David Kornhaber
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810132621
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy written by David Kornhaber and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche's love affair with the theater was among the most profound and prolonged intellectual engagements of his life, but his transformational role in the history of the modern stage has yet to be explored. In this pathbreaking account, David Kornhaber vividly shows how Nietzsche reimagined the theatrical event as a site of philosophical invention that is at once ancestor, antagonist, and handmaiden to the discipline of philosophy itself. August Strindberg, George Bernard Shaw, and Eugene O'Neill— seminal figures in the modern drama's evolution and avowed Nietzscheans all—came away from their encounters with Nietzsche's writings with an impassioned belief in the philosophical potential of the live theatrical event, coupled with a reestimation of the dramatist's power to shape that event in collaboration with the actor. In these playwrights' reactions to and adaptations of Nietzsche's radical rethinking of the stage lay the beginnings of a new direction in modern theater and dramatic literature.

The Birth of the Modern Theatre

Author : Richard Roy Dunham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of the Modern Theatre written by Richard Roy Dunham and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Unfinished Art of Theater

Author : Sarah J. Townsend
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137429
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Art of Theater written by Sarah J. Townsend and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A certain idea of the avant-garde posits the possibility of a total rupture with the past. The Unfinished Art of Theater pulls back on this futuristic impulse by showing how theater became a key site for artists on the semiperiphery of capitalism to reconfigure the role of the aesthetic between 1917 and 1934. The book argues that this “unfinished art”—precisely because of its historic weakness as a representative institution in Mexico and Brazil, where the bourgeois stage had not (yet) coalesced—was at the forefront of struggles to redefine the relationship between art and social change. Drawing on extensive archival research, Sarah J. Townsend reveals the importance of projects and texts that belie the rhetoric of rupture and immediacy associated with the avant-garde: ethnographic operas with ties to the recording industry, populist puppet plays, children’s radio programs about the wonders of technology, a philosophical drama about the birth of a new race, and an antifascist spectacle written for (but never performed at) a theater shut down by the police. Ultimately, the book makes the case that the very category of avant-garde art is bound up in the experience of dependency, delay, and the uneven development of capitalism.

FIRST THEATER IN AMERICA BY CHARLES P. DALY LL.D.

Author : CHARLES P. DALY LL.D.
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book FIRST THEATER IN AMERICA BY CHARLES P. DALY LL.D. written by CHARLES P. DALY LL.D. and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the earliest roots of American drama in First Theater in America by Charles P. Daly LL.D. This authoritative work meticulously documents the genesis and growth of theater in America, revealing its cultural significance and evolution over time. From its origins in colonial times to its blossoming into a vibrant institution, Daly's in-depth analysis offers readers a comprehensive history of American theater. Embark on a theatrical journey with First Theater in America. Order your copy today and witness the birth of a nation's drama.

Birth and After Birth

Author : Tina Howe
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573696107
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Birth and After Birth written by Tina Howe and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / 3m, 2f / Int. Newly revised! Recently produced in 2006 at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City, this witty and sophisticated satire by the author of One Shoe Off and other popular comedies, this play takes place during a child's fourth birthday party. The boy's parents have invited another couple, anthropologists renowned for their international studies of childhood behavior. The adults become so involved in debating various theories of child rearing and telling each other s

The Birth of Modern Theatre

Author : Norman S. Poser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429820038
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Modern Theatre written by Norman S. Poser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scene—a time when the theatre took on many of the features of our modern stage. A natural and psychologically based acting style replaced the declamatory style of an earlier age. The theatres were mainly supported by paying audiences, no longer by royal or noble patrons. The press determined the success or failure of a play or a performance. Actors were no longer shunned by polite society, some becoming celebrities in the modern sense. The dominant figure for thirty years was David Garrick, actor, theatre manager and playwright, who, off the stage, charmed London with his energy, playfulness, and social graces. No less important in defining eighteenth-century theatre were its audiences, who considered themselves full-scale participants in theatrical performances; if they did not care for a play, an actor, or ticket prices, they would loudly make their wishes known, sometimes starting a riot. This book recounts the lives—and occasionally the scandals—of the actors and theatre managers and weaves them into the larger story of the theatre in this exuberant age, setting the London stage and its leading personalities against the background of the important social, cultural, and economic changes that shaped eighteenth-century Britain. The Birth of Modern Theatre brings all of this together to describe a moment in history that sowed the seeds of today’s stage.

Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway

Author : Eve Golden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813128733
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway written by Eve Golden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Époque, she epitomized everything that was glamorous, sophisticated, and suggestive about turn-of-the-century Broadway. Overcoming an impoverished life as an orphan to become a music-hall star in Paris, Held rocketed to fame in America. From 1896 to 1910, she starred in hit after hit and quickly replaced Lillian Russell as the darling of the theatrical world. The first wife of legendary producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Held was the brains and inspiration behind his Follies and shared his knack for publicity. Together, they brought the Paris scene to New York, complete with lavish costumes and sets and a chorus of stunningly beautiful women, dubbed ""The Anna Held Girls."" While Held was known for a champagne giggle as well as for her million-dollar bank account, there was a darker side to her life. She concealed her Jewish background and her daughter from a previous marriage. She suffered through her two husbands' gambling problems and Ziegfeld's blatant affairs with showgirls. With the outbreak of fighting in Europe, Held returned to France to support the war effort. She entertained troops and delivered medical supplies, and she was once briefly captured by the German army. Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway reveals one of the most remarkable women in the history of theatrical entertainment. With access to previously unseen family records and photographs, Eve Golden has uncovered the details of an extraordinary woman in the vibrant world of 1900s New York.

The Birth of Drama

Author : Miranda Spekes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Drama written by Miranda Spekes and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Birth of Theatre

Author : Philip Freund
Publisher : Unesco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Theatre written by Philip Freund and published by Unesco. This book was released on 2003 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Moscow in the late 1960s, at a time when Khrushchev-era liberalization is being threatened by the return to personality cult and repression following the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia. This book earned the author a life in exile from the Soviet Union and was blacklisted there until its collapse.

The Connection

Author : Jack Gelber
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802132857
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book The Connection written by Jack Gelber and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theater Will Rock

Author : Elizabeth L. Wollman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472034022
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Theater Will Rock written by Elizabeth L. Wollman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A much-needed study of the impact of rock music on the musical theater and its resulting challenges, complexities, failures, and successes. Anyone interested in Broadway will learn a great deal from this book." ---William Everett, author of The Musical: A Research Guide to Musical Theatre "As Wollman weaves her historical narrative, she compellingly returns to . . . the conflict between the aesthetics and ideologies of rock music and the disciplined and commercial practices of the musical stage." ---Theatre Research International "This well-written account puts the highs and lows of producing staged rock musicals in New York City into perspective and is well worth reading for the depth of insight it provides." ---Studies in Musical Theatre The tumultuous decade of the 1960s in America gave birth to many new ideas and forms of expression, among them the rock musical. An unlikely offspring of the performing arts, the rock musical appeared when two highly distinctive and American art forms joined onstage in New York City. The Theater Will Rock explores the history of the rock musical, which has since evolved to become one of the most important cultural influences on American musical theater, and a major cultural export. Despite the genre’s influence and fame, there are still some critics who claim that the term “rock musical” is an oxymoron. The relationship between rock and the musical theater has been stormy from the start, and even the comparatively recent success of Rent has done little to convince theater producers that rock musicals are anything but highly risky ventures. Elizabeth L. Wollman explores the reasons behind these problematic connections and looks at the socioeconomic forces that underlie aesthetic decisions. She weighs the influence on the rock musical by mass media, sound, and recording technology, and the economic pressures that have affected New York theater in general over the past three decades. Finally, Wollman offers a meditation on the state of the musical, its relation to rock, and, ultimately, its future. Packed with candid commentary by members of New York's vibrant theater community, The Theater Will Rock traces the rock musical’s evolution over nearly fifty years, in popular productions such as Hair, The Who's Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Little Shop of Horrors, Rent, and Mamma Mia!—and in notable flops such as The Capeman. Elizabeth L. Wollman is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College of the City University of New York.

A Thief in the Theater

Author : Sarah Masters Buckey
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781593692940
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book A Thief in the Theater written by Sarah Masters Buckey and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, while preparing to write a newspaper story about a theater production of Macbeth in her hometown of Cincinnati, twelve-year-old Kit discovers that a thief is stealing from the box office.

Something Wonderful Right Away

Author : Jeffrey Sweet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621538257
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Something Wonderful Right Away written by Jeffrey Sweet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters—The Compass and The Second City—where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Building scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a fine way to develop great actors, directors, and writers. Alumni went on to create such groundbreaking works as The Graduate, Groundhog Day, and Don’t Look Up. Many of them also became stars on Saturday Night Live. Something Wonderful Right Away features the pioneers of the empire that transformed American comedy. This new edition tells even more of the story. Included for the first time is an interview with Viola Spolin, the genius who invented theater games that were the foundation of improvisational theater. Also included are dozens of follow-up stories about Mike Nichols, Barbara Harris, Del Close, Joan Rivers, Alan Arkin, and Gilda Radner, plus “You Only Shoot the Ones You Love,” the story of how this book’s author, playwright Jeffrey Sweet, became so involved in the community he covered that he was captured by it.

Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway

Author : Eve Golden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813180767
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway written by Eve Golden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Held was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Époque, she epitomized everything that was glamorous and provocative about turn-of-the-century Broadway. Overcoming an impoverished life as an orphan to become a music hall star in Paris, Held rocketed to fame in America. From 1896 to 1910, she starred in hit after hit and quickly replaced Lillian Russell as the darling of the theatrical world. The first wife of legendary producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Held was the brains and inspiration behind his Follies. Together, they brought the Paris scene to New York, complete with lavish costumes and sets and a chorus of stunningly beautiful women, dubbed "The Anna Held Girls." While Held was known for a champagne giggle as well as for her million-dollar bank account, there was a darker side to her life. She concealed her Jewish background and her daughter from a previous marriage. She suffered through her two husbands' gambling problems and Ziegfeld's conspicuous affairs with showgirls. With the outbreak of fighting in Europe, Held returned to France to support the war effort. She entertained troops and delivered medical supplies, and was once briefly captured by the German army. Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway reveals one of the most remarkable women in the history of theater. With access to previously unseen family records and photographs, Eve Golden has uncovered the details of an extraordinary woman's life in 1900s New York.

The Birth of a Theater

Author : Ronald E. Surtz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of a Theater written by Ronald E. Surtz and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell

Author : Noelia Hernando-Real
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488328
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell written by Noelia Hernando-Real and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founding member of the Provincetown Players, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, best-selling novelist and short story writer Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was a great contributor to American literature. An exploration of eleven plays written between the years 1915 and 1943, this critical study focuses on one of Glaspell's central themes, the interplay between place and identity. This study examines the means Glaspell employs to engage her characters in proxemical and verbal dialectics with the forces of place that turn them into victims of location. Of particular interest are her characters' attempts to escape the influence of territoriality and shape identities of their own.