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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France
Book SynopsisCollecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.Trade Review"Bringing together game studies and 18th-century French studies, Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France is a most welcome contribution to the study of French literature, history, and culture. The collection introduces us to understudied works and provides fresh approaches to canonical texts, broadening our understanding of the interaction between play, culture, and politics." -- Tracy Rutler * co-creator of Legacies of the Enlightenment *"An enjoyable and stimulating collection, this volume will be of much interest to students and scholars alike. It will undoubtedly spur new scholarly work on the history of play which, as the editors and contributors so convincingly show, is no trivial matter." -- Gemma Tidman * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Fayçal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis 1 Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales Rori Bloom 2 The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language Jean-Alexandre Perras 3 Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage’s Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane Zeina Hakim 4 Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l’Abbé Prévost Masano Yamashita 5 Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune’s Relation du monde de Mercure Erika Mandarino 6 The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera Katharine Hargrave 7 Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Société Maria Teodora Comsa 8 Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution Annelle Curulla 9 The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater Yann Robert 10 Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater Jeffrey M. Leichman Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Sourcebooks When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of
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Art Gallery of New South Wales Theatre of Dreams, Theatre of Play: No and Kyogen
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Baraka Books Bigotry on Broadway
Book SynopsisIn this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplished writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing bigotry on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities.How do intellectuals and scholars feel about how members of their ethnic groups are portrayed on Broadway? How would we know? Very few of them have the power to rate which plays and musicals are worthy and which are flops, and above all, be heard or read. The American critical fraternity is an exclusive club.In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplishes writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing bigotry on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities.Contributors include Lonely Christopher, Tommy Curry, Jack Foley, Emil Guillermo, Claire J. Harris, Yuri Kageyama, Soraya McDonald, Nancy Mercado, Aimee Phan, Betsy Theobald Richards, Shawn Wong, David Yearsley, and the editors.Under review are Madame Butterfly, the Irving Berlin songbook, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Color Purple, The Book of Mormon, West Side Story and Hamilton.
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Reaktion Books The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern
Book SynopsisThe English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting – deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays – through the flourishing of the craft in the Renaissance to modern methods that followed the advent of film and television. The biographies of the most notable and celebrated actors are also explored, right up to the present day. In this book, Ackroyd gives us an original and superbly entertaining appraisal of how actors have acted – and how audiences have responded – since the medieval period, and what we mean by the ‘magic of the stage’.
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Intellect Books A Holocaust Cabaret: Re-making Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto
Book SynopsisTwo scripts were created in 2017 from the same source materials: preserved song lyrics from a performance created in 1943 in the Terezin Ghetto called Prince Bettliegend (the Bedridden Prince), the popular 1930s jazz melodies to which those lyrics were set, and fragments of testimony by survivors who performed in or witnessed that production. The development processes took place under the auspices of the £1.8 million AHRC-funded project Performing the Jewish Archive. PtJA co-investigator Lisa Peschel has spent the past two decades researching theatrical performance in Terezin, and the project’s planned performance festivals in Australia and South African in the summer of 2017 afforded a unique opportunity to allow Prince Bettliegend to speak to our present. Peschel synthesized the existing materials into a rough plot outline, then collaborated with local production teams at the University of Sydney (produced by Joseph Toltz, directed by Ian Maxwell) and Stellenbosch University (directed by Amelda Brand) to reconstruct/recreate/re-imagine the play. Both teams were extraordinarily sensitive to questions of trauma and pleasure in the original performance, and those questions manifested themselves in different underlying themes that emerged with each production. During the first, month-long development process at the University of Sydney (July 2017), Peschel, Maxwell and Toltz worked together to refine the plot outline, Toltz and musical director Kevin Hunt explored the 1930s music with the entire production team, then the actors, recruited from Sydney’s alternative theatre scene, developed the performance through improvisation. Due to fortuitous accidents of casting, a theme soon emerged that dovetailed with the historical reality of the ghetto: the desire of the older prisoners to protect the youth. While the Australian production was still in development, the South African team at Stellenbosch University, led by Amelda Brand, began creating their own version. Their performance was based on the same plot outline and, to some extent, the same text developed by the Sydney performers, but their production diverged radically due to their interest in addressing issues of more immediate interest to the multi-racial student case: race and power. Their musical approach also diverged: music director Leonore Bredekamp created a hybrid of 1930s jazz and klezmer music. Part I of the book is composed of a series of essays about the original material and about each production. The essays, written by Peschel and key collaborators on each development team, explore the Terezin production and both reconstructions. Part II comprises the scripts. Although the texts themselves are similar, detailed stage directions and illustrations make clear how each manifested its own themes. Part of Intellect's Playtext series.Table of Contents List of Figures Preface Prologue Joseph Toltz and Petrus du Preez Part I Introduction to A Holocaust Cabaret: Remaking Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto Lisa Peschel ‘There must be some way to protect this young man’: Remaking Prince Bettliegend Ian Maxwell Student Ethnographers in the Rehearsal Room: Witnessing Prinz Bettliegend Laura Ginters Singing Up the Past and Stompin’ with the Prinz: Jaroslav Ježek and the Music of Prinz Bettliegend Joseph Toltz and Kevin Hunt Conversation I: Prinz Bettliegend in Australia and Bearing the Gift Forward Amelda Brand, Ian Maxwell and Lisa Peschel (Edited by Lisa Peschel) Prinz Bettliegend in the Western Cape, South Africa: Permission to Play Amelda Brand Out of the Shadows: Notions of Memory and Remembrance Leonore Bredekamp Race, Power … and Clowning: The Stellenbosch Cast Reflects Amelda Brand and the Stellenbosch cast (Edited by Lisa Peschel) Conversation II: The Prinz and Pedagogy, Identity and Cultural Appropriation Amelda Brand, Ian Maxwell and Lisa Peschel (Edited by Lisa Peschel) Part II Prince Bettliegend Performance Script: Australia, August 2017 Prinz Bettliegend Performance Script: Western Cape, South Africa, March 2018 Conclusion Lisa Peschel Appendix 1: Plot outline and songs Notes on Contributors Index
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Parthian Books Now Youre Talking Drama in Conversation
Book SynopsisInsightful and informative, this volume of essays offers a fresh outlook and critical appraisal of contemporary plays.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods The Ramlila of
Book SynopsisThe Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi is a unique theatrical and religious event, an annual, month-long enactment of the Ramayana story. The performance covers a whole town and involves an entire community. Documenting the unique tradition, this book talks about the svarupas, effigies, masks, Ramayanis, Vyasas, gods, goddesses, demons and monkeys.
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd East End Jews and Left-Wing Theatre: Alfie Bass,
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The University of Michigan Press Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession,
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The Library of America George S. Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies (LOA
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Apollo Publ LLC Making Rent
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Rutgers University Press Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural
Book SynopsisHow do upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean migrants leverage their cultural heritage to buy into the American Dream? In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities to assimilate to the dominant culture. For Latinx Caribbean immigrants, exiles, and refugees this means abandoning Spanish, rejecting forms of communal inter-dependence, and adopting white, middle-class forms of embodiment to mitigate any ethnic and racial identity markers that might hinder their upwardly mobile trajectories. This transactional process of acquiring and trading in various kinds of material and embodied practices across traditions is a phenomenon author Israel Reyes terms “transcultural capital,” and it is this process he explores in the contemporary fiction and theater of the Latinx Caribbean diaspora. In chapters that compare works by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nilo Cruz, Edwin Sánchez, Ángel Lozada, Rita Indiana Hernández, Dolores Prida, and Mayra Santos Febres, Reyes examines the contradictions of transcultural capital, its potential to establish networks of support in Latinx enclaves, and the risks it poses for reproducing the inequities of power and privilege that have always been at the heart of the American Dream. Embodied Economies shares new perspectives through its comparison of works written in both English and Spanish, and the literary voices that emerge from the US and the Hispanic Caribbean.Trade Review"Embodied Economies is a thought-provoking Caribbean diasporic voyage that challenges us to rethink our expectations about Latinx culture under neoliberalism. In his accessible yet profoundly learned prose, Israel Reyes offers inspired queer, feminist, and social-science inflected readings of relevant literary and theatrical works in English and Spanish by prize-winning playwrights, novelists, and performers. This book is an eagerly awaited contribution to transnational, hemispheric studies of the Americas." -- Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes * author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance *"Embodied Economies offers a welcome expansion and deepening of current critical conversations about the work of contemporary US Latinx literature and literary studies. Reyes effectively balances the ambition of his theoretical and methodological interventions with a finely tuned, elegant praxis of granularly close textual readings. He engages established scholars and new students in the field with a generative critical inquiry and exchange whose value and necessity will be proven in the very kind of work they will make newly possible." -- Ricardo L. Ortiz * Georgetown University *"Embodied Economies is a thought-provoking Caribbean diasporic voyage that challenges us to rethink our expectations about Latinx culture under neoliberalism. In his accessible yet profoundly learned prose, Israel Reyes offers inspired queer, feminist, and social-science inflected readings of relevant literary and theatrical works in English and Spanish by prize-winning playwrights, novelists, and performers. This book is an eagerly awaited contribution to transnational, hemispheric studies of the Americas." -- Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes * author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance *"Embodied Economies offers a welcome expansion and deepening of current critical conversations about the work of contemporary US Latinx literature and literary studies. Reyes effectively balances the ambition of his theoretical and methodological interventions with a finely tuned, elegant praxis of granularly close textual readings. He engages established scholars and new students in the field with a generative critical inquiry and exchange whose value and necessity will be proven in the very kind of work they will make newly possible." -- Ricardo L. Ortiz * Georgetown University *Table of ContentsNote on Translations and Terminology Introduction 1. A Future for Cuban Nostalgia in Plays by Nilo Cruz and Eduardo Machado 2. Decolonizing Queer Camp in Novels by Edwin Sánchez and Ángel Lozada 3. Zero-Sum Games in Fiction by Junot Díaz and Rita Indiana Hernández 4. The Gentrification of Our Dreams in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Musical Theater 5. Race, Sex, and Enterprising Spirits in Works by Dolores Prida and Mayra Santos Febres Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural
Book SynopsisHow do upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean migrants leverage their cultural heritage to buy into the American Dream? In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities to assimilate to the dominant culture. For Latinx Caribbean immigrants, exiles, and refugees this means abandoning Spanish, rejecting forms of communal inter-dependence, and adopting white, middle-class forms of embodiment to mitigate any ethnic and racial identity markers that might hinder their upwardly mobile trajectories. This transactional process of acquiring and trading in various kinds of material and embodied practices across traditions is a phenomenon author Israel Reyes terms “transcultural capital,” and it is this process he explores in the contemporary fiction and theater of the Latinx Caribbean diaspora. In chapters that compare works by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nilo Cruz, Edwin Sánchez, Ángel Lozada, Rita Indiana Hernández, Dolores Prida, and Mayra Santos Febres, Reyes examines the contradictions of transcultural capital, its potential to establish networks of support in Latinx enclaves, and the risks it poses for reproducing the inequities of power and privilege that have always been at the heart of the American Dream. Embodied Economies shares new perspectives through its comparison of works written in both English and Spanish, and the literary voices that emerge from the US and the Hispanic Caribbean.Trade Review"Embodied Economies is a thought-provoking Caribbean diasporic voyage that challenges us to rethink our expectations about Latinx culture under neoliberalism. In his accessible yet profoundly learned prose, Israel Reyes offers inspired queer, feminist, and social-science inflected readings of relevant literary and theatrical works in English and Spanish by prize-winning playwrights, novelists, and performers. This book is an eagerly awaited contribution to transnational, hemispheric studies of the Americas." -- Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes * author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance *"Embodied Economies offers a welcome expansion and deepening of current critical conversations about the work of contemporary US Latinx literature and literary studies. Reyes effectively balances the ambition of his theoretical and methodological interventions with a finely tuned, elegant praxis of granularly close textual readings. He engages established scholars and new students in the field with a generative critical inquiry and exchange whose value and necessity will be proven in the very kind of work they will make newly possible." -- Ricardo L. Ortiz * Georgetown University *"Embodied Economies is a thought-provoking Caribbean diasporic voyage that challenges us to rethink our expectations about Latinx culture under neoliberalism. In his accessible yet profoundly learned prose, Israel Reyes offers inspired queer, feminist, and social-science inflected readings of relevant literary and theatrical works in English and Spanish by prize-winning playwrights, novelists, and performers. This book is an eagerly awaited contribution to transnational, hemispheric studies of the Americas." -- Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes * author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance *"Embodied Economies offers a welcome expansion and deepening of current critical conversations about the work of contemporary US Latinx literature and literary studies. Reyes effectively balances the ambition of his theoretical and methodological interventions with a finely tuned, elegant praxis of granularly close textual readings. He engages established scholars and new students in the field with a generative critical inquiry and exchange whose value and necessity will be proven in the very kind of work they will make newly possible." -- Ricardo L. Ortiz * Georgetown University *Table of ContentsNote on Translations and Terminology Introduction 1. A Future for Cuban Nostalgia in Plays by Nilo Cruz and Eduardo Machado 2. Decolonizing Queer Camp in Novels by Edwin Sánchez and Ángel Lozada 3. Zero-Sum Games in Fiction by Junot Díaz and Rita Indiana Hernández 4. The Gentrification of Our Dreams in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Musical Theater 5. Race, Sex, and Enterprising Spirits in Works by Dolores Prida and Mayra Santos Febres Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Les Belles Lettres Trois Pieces Du Theatre Des Yuan
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Klincksieck La Lecon de Comedie
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Classiques Garnier Alexandre Hardy Et Le Theatre de Ville Francais
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Classiques Garnier Theatre: Tome II
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Classiques Garnier La Permission Et La Sanction: Theories Legales Et
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Classiques Garnier Dramaturgies de la Crise (Xxe-Xxie Siecles)
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Classiques Garnier Albert Camus Et l'Etat de Siege: Genese d'Un
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Classiques Garnier Melodrames. Tome IV: 1809-1810
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Classiques Garnier Les Arts Du Spectacle Et La Reference Antique
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Classiques Garnier Jules Verne Et l'Invention d'Un Theatre-Monde
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Et Liberalisme (Paris, 1830-1848)
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Classiques Garnier Metamorphoses Du Temps Et de l'Espace
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Classiques Garnier Agresser Le Spectateur: Genealogie d'Une
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Classiques Garnier Hippolyte (1573) La Troade (1579)
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome IV
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Classiques Garnier Jephtias Tragoedia / La Fille de Jephte, Tragedie
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Classiques Garnier Theatre. Tome I
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