Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Hamlet Protestantism and the Mourning of Contingency Not to Be
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Negotiating Shakespeares Language in Romeo and Juliet Reading Strategies from Criticism Editing and the Theatre Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeare Politics and Italy Intertextuality on the Jacobean Stage AngloItalian Renaissance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marriage Performance and Politics at the Jacobean Court Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeares Companies William Shakespeares Early Career and the Acting Companies 15771594 Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 8 Special section European Shakespeares
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England
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Taylor & Francis Arnold Wesker A Casebook Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
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Taylor & Francis Horton Foote A Casebook 2038 Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
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Taylor & Francis Joe Orton
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Taylor & Francis Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed
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Taylor & Francis Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London
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Taylor & Francis The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Environment on Stage
Book SynopsisThe Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a pertinent voice of theatrical performance within the production and reception of ecotheatre. Theatre ecologies, unavoidably enmeshed in the environment, describe the system of sometimes perverse feedback loops running through theatrical events, productions, performances and installations. This volume applies an ecoaware spectatorial lens to explore live theatre as a living ecosystem in a literal sense. The vibrant chemistry between production and reception, and the spiralling ideas and emotions this generates in some conditions, are unavoidably driven by flows of matter and energy, thus, by the natural environment, even when human perspectives seem to dominate. The Environment on Stage is an intentionally eclectic mix of observation, close reading and qualitative research, undertaken with the aim of exploring ecocritical ideas embedded in ecotheatre from a range of perspectives. Individual chaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Ecotheatrical SceneChapter One: The Environment on Stage in Production and ReceptionChapter Two: Natural Disasters as Ecotheatrical ShapeshiftersChapter Three: An Ecotheatrical Perspective on Dearth in PerformanceChapter Four: The Environment in Performance – Stage Invasion or Deus ex Machina?Chapter Five: Environmental Theatre, Site Specificity and Theatre EcologiesChapter Six: Frugal Modes of Story-telling as EcotheatreChapter Seven: Bicycles on Stage – Shapeshifters or Scenery?Chapter Eight: Reperforming Reception – The Skriker in 1994 and 2015Chapter Nine: On the Importance of Intrinsic Environmental Responsibility
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Embodied Playwriting
Book SynopsisEmbodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising is the first book to compile new and adapted exercises for teaching playwriting in the classroom, workshop, or studio through the lens of acting and improvisation.The book provides access to the innovative practices developed by seasoned playwriting teachers from around the world who are also actors, improv performers, and theatre directors. Borrowing from the embodied art of acting and the inventive practice of improvisation, the exercises in this book will engage readers in performance-based methods that lead to the creation of fully imagined characters, dynamic relationships, and vivid drama. Step-by-step guidelines for exercises, as well as application and coaching advice, will support successful lesson planning and classroom implementation for playwriting students at all levels, as well as individual study. Readers will also benefit from curation by editors who have experience with high-iTable of ContentsPart 1: Creating Characters 1. The Meet and Greet: Creating Opportunities for Surprise and Discovery 2. Improvising Between the Lines: Enhancing the Script by Embodying Subtext 3. Using Improv to Create Original Plays: Respectfully Writing Diverse Characters 4. Character’s Search for Authenticity: Improvisation for the Revision Process Part 2: Body and Mind 5. The Picture Project: Originating Story through Movement 6. Physical Expressions in Devised Playwriting 7. Active Group Playwriting: Psychodramatic Techniques Adapted for Playmaking Part 3: Playing Games 8. Building the World of the Play Through Collaborative Performance 9. It’s All About Play: Locating the Game in Embodied Playwriting 10. Folkgames as Creative Stimulus for Devising: The Case of Chaskele Part 4: Changemaking 11. ‘Laughter that shatters’: Improv Techniques for Social Justice Comedy Playwriting 12. Writing for Change: Guiding Activist Playwrights in Classrooms and Communities 13. Community-Based Play Creation 14. Writing Climate Justice: Personal Storytelling and Source Material Devising as Embodied Methodology Part 5: Curated Exercises 15. Embodied Playwriting Exercises for Classroom, Workshop, and Studio: Skill-Building and Content Generation 16. Embodied Playwriting Exercises for Classroom, Workshop, and Studio: The Revision Process
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Money Politics in Ibsen Shaw and Brecht
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Davies and Penhalls Sunny Afternoon
Book SynopsisWhen You Really Got Me' exploded on Swinging London in 1964, The Kinks forever changed the course of rock 'n' roll. Ray Davies and Joe Penhall's Olivier Award-winning Sunny Afternoon (2014) covers the band's formative years of 1964-7, when four working-class North London lads broke through to become one of the most unlikely and influential rock bands of the 1960s. Mixing the comic adventures of Dave the Rave' with the touching introspection of Ray's sometimes fragile psyche, Joe Penhall's script weaves Ray Davies' songs, both the hits and lesser-known works, into one of the finest jukebox musicals of the new millennium. Drawing on a wealth of background material, John Fleming examines the blend of events and songs selected, reconsidering the relationship between biography and drama to shed new light on The Kinks and the musical that tells their story.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Principal Players 2. Act One 3. Act Two Appendix A: Sunny Afternoon Fact Sheet Appendix B: The Songs of Sunny Afternoon Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Shakespeare in Singapore Performance Education
Book SynopsisShakespeare in Singapore provides the first detailed and sustained study of the role of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education, and culture.This book tracks the role and development of Shakespeare in education from the founding of modern Singapore to the present day, drawing on sources such as government and school records, the entire span of Singapore's newspaper archives, playbills, interviews with educators and theatre professionals, and existing academic sources. By uniting the critical interest in Singaporean theatre with the substantial body of scholarship that concerns global Shakespeare, the author overs a broad, yet in-depth, exploration of the ways in which Singaporean approaches to Shakespeare have been shaped by, and respond to, cultural work going on elsewhere in Asia.A vital read for all students and scholars of Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Singapore offers a unique examination of the cultural impact of Shakespeare, beyond its usual footing in the Western world.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: A Taste of Home – 1819 to 1900 Part 2: ‘A great and perceptive love’ – 1900 to 1942 Part 3: Shakespeare in the Final Days of British Rule – 1942 to 1963 Part 4: Playing Balthazar – 1963 to 1980 Part 5: ‘Not pukka’ – 1980 to 1990 Part 6: ‘If I profane with my unworthiest hand’ – 1990 to 2000 Part 7: ‘To shake the head, relent, and sigh’ – 2001 to 2019 …and exits Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Georg Buchners Woyzeck
Book Synopsis''Everyone''s an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.'' -- WoyzeckGeorg Büchner's Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author's death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the first modern' drama in the history of European theatre. Its fragmentary form and critical socio-political content have had a lasting influence on artists, readers and audiences to this day. The abuse, exploitation, and disenfranchisement that Woyzeck's titular protagonist endures find their mirror in his own murderous outburst. But beyond that, they also echo in the flux and confusion of the various drafts and versions in which the play has been presented since its emergence.In this fresh engagement with a modern classic, Gritzner examines the revolutionary dimensions of Büchner's political and creative practice, as well as modern approaches to the play in performance.Table of Contents1 Woyzeck the open wound2 History, politics, tragedy3 The fragmentary demand4 Woyzeck in performanceReferences Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Consulting Process as Drama: Learning from
Book SynopsisDrawing comparisons between consultancy and the classical tragedy King Lear, the author explores the core theme of responsibility. Arguing that King Lear is vital in gaining an understanding of consulting, leadership and management, the author explores in detail the positive lessons to be learnt from this tragedy for the manager and the management consultant. An intriguing premise that uncovers key strategies for managers.'This book gives a summary of key issue in management consulting, in a step-by-step chronological way. However, it is directed mainly at those consultants who know from experience that consulting does not work as smoothly as the manuals suggest, and who have learned through trials and tribulations to take a tragic outlook on the art of consulting.'- From the PrologueTrade Review'I have never read such an elegantly literate exposition of the nuances of the consulting process. Dr. De Haan presents a robust model of the issues and choices that arise for the consultant, and brilliantly interweaves well-chosen passages from King Lear to exemplify the model. Not only is this a book to delight the philosophically inclined among us, but it also beautifully illustrates De Haan's down-to-earth approach to consulting. After forth years of consulting practice, I found insights into consultant-client relationships that had previously escaped me. De Haan's approach is highly practical; if we were to follow more closely, we and our clients would both profit thereby.'- Roger Harrison, Organisation Development Consultant and Writer, from the ForewordTable of ContentsPrologue -- Introduction -- Exposition -- Development -- Crisis and peripeteia -- Denouement -- Catastrophe and exodus -- Conclusion -- Epilogue
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance
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Cambridge University Press Moliere
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Cambridge University Press Modern British Drama The Twentieth Century By Christopher Innes published December 2002
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre in NineteenthCentury Spain
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Cambridge University Press The Middle English Mystery Play
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
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Cambridge University Press Analyzing Shakespeares Action
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Hunt
Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Hunt is a book-length 2001 study of Shakespeare's works in relation to the culture of the hunt in Elizabethan and Jacobean society. Situating Shakespeare's works in this rich cultural context, Berry illuminates the plays from fresh angles and explores topics generally unfamiliar to Shakespeareans.Trade Review'This is a comprehensive, stimulating, necessary, and very informative study …' Folio'This exploration produces an admirably immediate picture of the world of the English hunt in the decades surrounding 1600. … anyone interested in the history of hunting as sport - regardless of his or her acquaintance with Shakespeare - will find reading this book worth the effort.' The International Journal of the History of Sport'… learned and sensitive … Edward Berry's informative study is a pleasure to read, not only for the unostentatious elegance and lucidity of its style. The author succeeds in making the hunt, which at first glance may seem to provide merely a limited insight into Shakespeare's art, an issue of prime critical importance … Berry's historicist interpretations are illuminating … Shakespeare and the Hunt is a notable achievement that provides useful insights into the playwright's ambivalent relationship with Elizabethan aristocratic culture.' Shakespeare JahrbuchTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Glossary; 1. Introduction: the culture of the hunt and Shakespeare; 2. Huntresses in Venus and Adonis and Love's Labour Lost; 3. 'Solemn' hunting in Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar; 4. The 'manning' of Katherine: falconry in The Taming of the Shrew; 5. The 'rascal' Falstaff in Windsor; 6. Pastoral hunting in As You Like It; 7. Political hunting: Prospero and James I; 8. Conclusion: Shakespeare on the culture of the hunt; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Multiplicity
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Dickens
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Cambridge University Press Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama
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Cambridge University Press Subjectivity and Subjugation in SeventeenthCentury Drama and Prose
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Cambridge University Press Recovering Shakespeares Theatrical Vocabulary
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Cambridge University Press American Drama The Bastard Art 5 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of King Henry V
Book SynopsisThis is the first modernized critical edition of Shakespeare's Henry V in the form of its original staging at the Globe in 1599. Andrew Gurr provides a most extensive commentary on the Quarto text of Shakespeare's last English history.Trade Review"Gurr's contentions will ignite interest among all serious readers of Shakespeare and may detonate a barrage of scholarly responses. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty and for professional collections." Choice"The sixth release in Cambridge's useful books on the early quartos, this volume prompts fresh regard for what the quartos have to tell. Gurr's content will ignite interest among all serious readers of Shakespeare and may detonate a barrage of scholarly responses. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty and for professional collections." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; 1. The significance of the quarto text; 2. The nature of playhouse manuscripts; 3. The history of Henry V's quarto text; 4. The quarto printings; 5. The copy for and printing of Q1; 6. The so-called 'reporters' of Q1; 7. Compositor errors in Q1; 8. Mishearings from dictation; 9. Re-lineation; 10. Premeditated revisions; 11. Reassignments of parts; 12. Q's use of the cuts from F; 13. Verbal alterations for consistency; 14. Shakespeare's changes or the players'?; 15. Stage history; Note on the text; List of characters; The Play; Textual notes; Appendix 1: some of Q's re-lining of verse; Appendix 2: Q's rendering of Pistol's lines as verse; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama
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Cambridge University Press Jonson Shakespeare Early Mod
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Cambridge University Press Essays Mainly Shakespearean
Book SynopsisAnne Barton's essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries are characterized by their combination of intelligence, humanity and elegance. In this linked but wide-ranging collection she looks at both major and neglected plays and the ongoing dialogue between them.Trade Review"Humane, learned, un-showily stylish and at times moving in their tender intelligence, these essays by Anne Barton...are nourishing to the spirit." London Review of Books"[Barton's] writing is never jargon-ridden or mechanical, and she often illuminates by means of metaphor and simile." Garret, Theatre Magazine"...[a] stunning collection of essays, surely among the best assembled on Shakespeare and his epoch. Barton's breadth and depth of learning and insight are transmitted with clarity, eloquence, and sometimes painful understanding. On Shakespeare and his connection to us, there is simply no one better." Grace Tiffany, Comparative Drama"...a solid body of informed, sensitive, and sensible commentary of which any scholar could be proud and with which future writers on Shakespeare will have to be acquainted. It is a big book but not a formidable one, and a consistent pleasure to read....The book is not one to be read at a sitting, but to be studied long and meditated on longer. It's not often that a book of criticism combines a gift for critical argument with an equal gift for critical appreciation." Robert M. Adams, New York Review of Books"...I was impressed with the book as a whole, which unlike many such collections seems more than merely the sum of its parts....Barton's work is recognizably all of a piece: her focus on ethical issues, her lack of dogmatism, and her alertness to the significance of performance practice make her criticism unique in emphasis and range of perception....Barton makes inspired suggestions about the way the increasing technical sophistication of the Jacobean theater may have influenced Shakespeare's assumptions about the relationship between that familiar duo, nature and art." Katherine Eisaman Maus, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"All of the essays, in their detailed and illuminating comparisons, revitalize our sense of Shakespeare's astonishing supremacy within his age, but are also characterized by a steady respect for the less familiar plays of the period, and an evident pleasure in exploring their qualities....[Barton] drives us back to Shakespeare's text with new eyes, new questions, and new understanding." Ian Donaldson, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: 1. 'Wrying but a little': marriage, law and sexuality in the plays of Shakespeare; 2. Love's Labour's Lost (1953); 3. Shakespeare and the limits of language (1971); 4. Falstaff and the comic community (1985); 5. As You Like It and Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's 'sense of an ending' (1972); 6. 'Nature's piece 'gainst fancy': the divided catastrophe in Antony and Cleopatra (1974/1992); 7. Livy, Machiavelli and Shakespeare's Coriolanus (1985); 8. Leontes and the spider: language and speaker in Shakespeare's last plays (1980); 9. 'Enter Mariners wet': realism in Shakespeare's last plays (1986); Part II: 10. The king disguised: Shakespeare's Henry V and the comical history (1975); 11. 'He that plays the king': Ford's Perkin Warbeck and the Stuart history play (1977); 12. Oxymoron and the structure of Ford's The Broken Heart (1980) 13. Shakespeare and Jonson (1983); 14. London comedy and the ethos of the city (1979); 15. Comic London; 16. Parks and Ardens (1992); Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean Suspect Texts
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Troy Drama Politics and the Translation of Empire 22 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 22
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Cambridge University Press The Authorship of Shakespeares Plays
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Victorian Stage
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Cambridge University Press Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
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Cambridge University Press Travel and Drama in Shakespeares Time
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Cambridge University Press Performing the American Frontier 18701906 13 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 13
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