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Cambridge University Press Beckett in Performance
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Cambridge University Press Theatre in Spain 1490 1700
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Cambridge University Press Comparative Criticism
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Cambridge University Press Molire Don Juan Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press Ibsen A Dolls House
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Cambridge University Press Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre Industry in NineteenthCentury France
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Cambridge University Press Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre 81 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 81
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Cambridge University Press Smart Products Smarter Services Strategies for Embedded Control
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Cambridge University Press Theatre and State in France 17601905
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Cambridge University Press Church and Stage in Victorian England
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Cambridge University Press The Edwardian Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Wilde
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Cambridge University Press African American Theatre An Historical and Critical Analysis 1 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage
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Cambridge University Press Women and Victorian Theatre
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of American Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Drama and Politics in the English Civil War
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Cambridge University Press AngloAmerican Interplay in Recent Drama
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Cambridge University Press The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage
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Cambridge University Press Oscar Wilde
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Cambridge University Press Players of Shakespeare v3 Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company
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Cambridge University Press Ibsen A Dolls House Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press Molire Don Juan Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to PostColonial Theatre
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre in America during the Revolution 4 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Sophocles
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Cambridge University Press Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press Theatre and Fashion
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Time and the Victorians A Pictorial Exploration
Book SynopsisTime and the visual sense were two essential preoccupations of the Victorians, and both were central to their presentations of Shakespeare's plays. In this extensive new study, Stuart Sillars examines multiple facets of this complex relationship. The desire for authenticity in production, in the work of Charles Kean and his followers, leads to elaborate sets that define and direct the performances' movement through time. Visual artists of all kinds fracture and extend the plays' movements, the Pre-Raphaelites through new techniques and approaches, illustrators through new forms of engraving and printing, and photographers through the emerging forms of the medium. The book also considers the multiple forms in which performances were recorded and re-created visually, and absorbed into the memories of their viewers. With many previously unpublished images, it draws together multiple fields to offer a new perspective on one of the most productive and various periods of Shakespeare activityTrade Review'… an exhilarating gallery of Shakespearean images as these featured on the nineteenth century stage, as well as on canvas and print. This richly illustrated book offers new insights into Victorian cultural history, as Shakespeare the chronicler of the past morphs into Shakespeare the timeless moralist … Specialists in art and theatre history will revel in the range and scholarship of this engaging analysis.' Catherine Belsey, Swansea University'Multidisciplinary in scope and imaginatively illustrated, Stuart Sillars's wonderfully well-informed study casts a bright light on Victorian philosophy and on the period's artistic and theatrical aesthetics.' Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust'If you want to know anything about Shakespeare and the visual arts then Stuart Sillars is your man.' Around the Globe'The author provides a lavish selection of colour plates of Victorian Shakespeare pairings … Sillars' treatment of Victorian Shakespeare is visually compelling and intellectually rewarding.' Choice'Sillars' focus remains predominantly aesthetic, and he is unquestionably a master of the form … Few scholars can match Sillars for his close readings of how images disclose themselves to viewers … Every reader stands to profit from the author's exemplary understanding of how images work in themselves and how they work upon those who look at them.' Shakespeare Quarterly'It will remain an outstanding contribution to this field for many years to come … an outstanding book on one significant element within Victorian culture.' J. B. Bullen, Memori Di ShakespeareTable of Contents1. History, theatre and Shakespeare; 2. Dress, attribute and image; 3. Pre-Raphaelite Meridian; 4. Charles Kean, staging and time; 5. Memorialising performance; 6. Ars et Veritas: photography and the Victorian stage; 7. Fragmentation, excision and dispersal; 8. Painting beyond Pre-Raphaelitism; 9. Later stagings and the debate with painting; 10. Encounters and memories; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespearean Stage 15741642
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Cambridge University Press Menander
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Cambridge University Press Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press The Making of the West End Stage
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Cambridge University Press Native American Drama
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Cambridge University Press Theatre and Empowerment
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Cambridge University Press Henslowes Diary
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Violence
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Cambridge University Press Performing Menken
Book SynopsisPerforming Menken, first published in 2003, uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. It discusses Menken's racial and ethnic claims and her performance of gender and sexuality in the context of the social categories of her day.Trade Review"This is a most interesting and valuable study of a performer, of a woman, and of a particular cultural movement." John W. Frick, American Historical Review"Renee Sentilles has written a scintillating book about a fascinating character. Adah Isaacs Menken was a poet, actress, publicity hound, and self-proclaimed bohemian who invented and re-invented herself dramatically in the middle years ofthe nineteenth century. This book finally puts 'the Menken,' as she was known at the peak of her fame, in the contexts that help us to understand her: the rise of celebrity culture, the shifting terms of gender, religious, and racial identity, changing public standards of taste, and the new America that was emerging during and after the Civil War." Joy Kasson, Univerisy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Vividly written, analystically sophisticated, and thoroughly fascinating, this book will be important to readers interested in cultural history, women's studies, American studies, and theater history, as well as to everyone who likes a gripping story." Joy Kasson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"In Menken's story, Renee Sentilles carries off a bravura performance of her own. Cutting her way through the numerous tales Menken told about herself, Sentilles discovers in her subject a revealing mirror of America in the Victorian age. That society, she shows with insight and wit, was far less rigid than is customarily assumed, and Menken capitalized on its desire for entertainment and its openness to change. With a chameleon-like talent for moving from one social world to another and remaking her self to fit her surround, Menken emerges as the hero of a very American adventure: a pioneer on the frontiers of identity, in an extraordinary tale of self-invention fit for a post-modern age." Robert A. Gross, College of William and Mary"In capturing Menken's creations and revealing their cultural resonances for her time and our own, Performing Menken is at once enlightening and entertaining. Sentilles commands notice as a rising star in the interdisciplinary field of American studies.Encore!" Robert A. Gross, College of William and Mary"A useful model of interdisciplinary research and analysis, the book is also a nuanced and insightful study of the agency of a particular woman at a contentious, complex, and rapidly changing moment in American history. Sentilles has seized on an utterly compelling figure in American culture and shown us how the culture may be more fascinating than the notoriously sensational actress-poet herself." LegacyTable of Contents1. Playing Deborah; 2. Playing the Pugilist's Wife; 3. Performing Mazeppa; 4. Performing Menken; 5. Among the Bohemians; 6. Becoming Mazeppa; 7. Becoming the Menken; 8. Finale; 9. Remember and rewriting Menken.
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Cambridge University Press Chekhov
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Cambridge University Press Actresses and Whores
Book SynopsisUsing biographies of historical actresses and prostitutes and interviews with contemporary sex workers, this book explores the connections between actresses and prostitutes from Nell Gwynne to Mae West. In this highly original study, Kirsten Pullen offers many insights to theatre historians and scholars of cultural, social and gender studies.Trade Review'In her riveting study of the interplay between the two professions, Kirsten Pullen places actresses and whores firmly on the ever-present stage of society - and reminds us that it is not only prostitutes we remain ambivalent about, but theatre and film workers too.' New Statesman'… riveting study.' Fiona Shaw, New Stateman'… interesting study'. The Guardian'… Pullen's close attention to both contemporary and current accounts of each of her studied figures ensures this book is authoritative and successful in its exploration of this subject. Actresses and Whores is a comprehensive study of the questions surrounding the prostitute/performer dynamic which is both illuminating and intriguing.' Theatre NotebookTable of ContentsList of illustrations; 1. Prostitution, performance, and Mae West: speaking from the whore position; 2. Betty Boutell, 'Whom All the Town Fucks': constructing the actress/whore; 3. Memoir and masquerade: Charlotte Charke, Margaret Leeson, and eighteenth-century performances of self; 4. Burlesque, breeches, and blondes: illegitimate nineteenth-century cultural and theatrical performance; 5. 'We need status as actresses!': contemporary prostitution and performance; 6. Afterpiece: millennial prostitution; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Playgoing in Shakespeares London
Book SynopsisThis is a newly revised edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical structure of the playhouses, the services provided in the auditorium, the cost of a ticket and a cushion, the size of the crowds, the smells, the pickpockets, and the collective feelings generated by the plays. As well as revising and adding new material which has emerged since the second edition, Gurr develops new sections. He considers the difference between Shakespearean and modern thinking about early staging, the complex historical process which established the permanent playhouses, and the development of a distinctly different acting style in the open-air playhouses from that of the indoor halls. Fifty new entries have been added to the list of playgoers and there are a dozen fresh quotations about the experience of playgoing.Trade Review"...a staple in Shakespeare studies. Essential." P.D. Nelsen, Marlboro College, CHOICE"This amusing glimpse into the habits of the London audiences, and the use to which Gurr puts it, are characteristic of his informative study." The Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Physical conditions; 3. Social composition; 4. Mental composition; 5. The evolution of tastes; Appendix 1: Playgoers 1567–1642; Appendix 2: References to playgoing.
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Cambridge University Press A Companion to Henslowes Diary
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Cambridge University Press Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City
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Cambridge University Press The Masks of Menander
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