Theatre studies Books
Oxford University Press The Globe in Print
Book SynopsisHow did the popular drama of Shakespeare''s age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the stage; returning it to the stage for modern audiences is not a simple or straightforward process, nor can we simply read backwards from the texts that have come down to us to deduce what Shakespeare''s or Jonson''s (or Aristophanes''s or Sophocles''s) audiences saw.Editorial efforts since the first folio of 1623 have attempted to establish a correct, final text of Shakespeare''s plays, as the folio promises the true, original copies. Yet the text in the theater changed constantly, as the actors adapted the plays to take into account their changing audiences. The publisher of the folio of Beaumont and Fletcher''s plays in 1647 acknowledges that his texts include more than the plays on the stage--all that was acted and all that was not. In performan
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Oxford University Press, USA How Plays Work
Book SynopsisWhy are readers who are generally at home with narrative and discursive prose, and even readily responsive to poetry, far less confident and intuitive when it comes to plays? The complication lies in the twofold character of the play as it exists on the page - as a script or score to be realized, and as literature. Martin Meisel''s engaging account of how we read play plays on the page shows that the path to the fullest imaginative response is an understanding of how plays work. What is entailed is something like learning a language - vocabulary, grammar, syntax - but learning also how the language operates in those concrete situations where it is deployed.Meisel begins with a look at matters often taken for granted in coding and convention, and then - under ''Beginnings'' - at what is entailed in establishing and entering the invented world of the play. Each succeeding chapter is a gesture at enlarging the scope: ''Seeing and Hearing'', ''The Uses of Place'', ''The Role of the AudiencTrade Reviewlearned and jargon-free * Alex Danchev, Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The art of reading plays ; 2. Beginnings ; 3. Seeing and hearing ; 4. The uses of place ; 5. The role of the audience ; 6. The shape of the action ; 7. The action of words ; 8. Reading meanings ; 9. Primal attractions
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Oxford University Press, USA Shakespeares Names Oxford Shakespeare Topics Hardcover
Trade ReviewMaguire seems to have enjoyed writing Shakespeare's Names and it is correspondingly enjoyable to read. * Tom Rutter Notes and Queries *...a crucial text not only for those interested in Shakespearian drama but for anyone interetsed in language more generally... * Edel Lamb MLR *Her detailed account of performances...are hugely illuminating. This is a book as much for theatre lovers as for linguists. And anyone who tries to be both will be delighted that she has written it. * David Crystal, Around the Globe *[a] stimulating book... criticism of such distinction * Alastair Fowler, Times Literary Supplement *engaging, learned, and far-reaching... Shakespeares Names is, to borrow a phrase from Loves Labours Lost, a great feast of language (5.1.36-7), both in its graceful writing and its endearing subject. * David Bevington, Modern Philology *the book's tone and level of discussion will appeal to a wide variety of readers...it evinces... the antiquary's delighted love for his or her material, a form of delight that this book communicates with intelligence and generosity. * Philip Schwyzer, Times Higher Education *[A] witty and learned study * Stratford-upon-Avon Herald *a reader-friendly delight to academics, students and Shakespeare nuts alike. * Annie Martirosyan, Huffington Post *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. What's in a name? ; 2. The patronym: Montague and Capulet ; 3. The mythological name: Helen ; 4. The diminutive name: Kate ; 5. The place name: Ephesus ; Works Cited
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Oxford University Press, USA Theatre Censorship From Walpole to Wilson
Book SynopsisUsing previously unpublished material from the National Archives, this book provides a thoroughgoing account of the introduction and abolition of theatre censorship in England, from Sir Robert Walpole's Licensing Act of 1737 to the successful campaign to abolish theatre censorship in 1968. It concludes with an exploration of possible new forms of covert censorship.Trade Review`This book, well researched, cogently argued, and frequently revealing, is an important addition to the scholarly literature on theatrical censorship in Britain.' Jeffrey M. Richards, Comparative Drama`a lucid and thorough account' Alec Patton, Theatre JournalTable of ContentsTimeline. Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 1. Theatre Censorship under the Royal Prerogative ; 2. Statutory Theatre Censorship: 1737-1892 ; 3. The 1909 Challenge to Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 4. The Inter-War Years ; 5. The 1949 Bid to end Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 6. Further Attempts to end Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 7. The 1960s and the 1968 Theatres Act ; 8. The Aftermath: British Theatre following the Abolition of Statutory Censorship ; Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Modern Drama A Very Short Introduction Very Short
Book SynopsisThe story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has become, and how vibrant and diverse in both text and performance. This Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, covering two decades per chapter, from early modernist theatre through post-war developments to more recent and contemporary theatre. Shepherd-Barr tracks the emergence of new theories from the likes of Brecht and Beckett alongside groundbreaking productions to illuminate the fascinating evolution of modern drama.ABOUT THE SERIES:The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewShepherd-Barr manages to survey over a hundred years of Western drama in this pocket-sized book ... Providing a cursory, but considered, overview that introduces the reader to the richness and diversity of the topic in an engaging and readily comprehensible manner. That is no mean feat. * Adrian Curtin, Studies in Theatre and Performance *an excellent and insightful short introduction to modern drama * Adrian Curtin, Studies in Theatre and Performance *Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction, is something of a marvel. A clear case is made for each of the eras of modern drama while also demonstrating the lasting influence of directors, playwrights, and styles. * Lee Jacobus, Emeritus Prof. of English, UConn, Storrs *Table of Contents1. 1880-1900: realism, naturalism and symbolism ; 2. 1900-1920: sex, suffrage, and scandal ; 3. 1920-1940: metatheatre and modernity ; 4. 1940-1960: salesmen , southerners, anger and ennui ; 5. 1960-1980: absurdism, protest and commitment ; 6. 1980-2000: bearing witness ; 7. 2000-present: contemporary theatre
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Oxford University Press Inc Philip Roth
Book SynopsisThis new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth's friends and associates.Trade ReviewNadel's research is so thorough that even Beth Roth's recipe for marble pound cake appears in full in the endnotes (chapter 8, note 101). There will be other biographies of Roth and his work, biographies that offer different understandings, but they will likely always find themselves competing with this volume, which for now at least is in the class of the heavyweights. * J. A. Zoller, emeritus, Houghton College *This deeply thought book is rich with information and insight and will be a huge benefit to the scholarly community mushrooming up around Roth's works as well as to the general reader interested in the riveting life of an important American writer. * Brett Ashley Kaplan, Cercle *Sizeable, solidly researched, intelligently wrought. * London Review of Books *In its critical substance — scholarship and literary insight – it's really a better book, a more understanding book, than Bailey's. * Josh Gidding, Metapsychology.net *Well researched and clearly written... full of insights. * Jewish Chronicle *Ira Nadel's Philip Roth: A Counterlife is an intense and illuminating study of the life, times, and work of the Jewish man from Newark who became one of America's most original and provocative writers. * Kristine Morris, Foreword Reviews *In Philip Roth: A Counterlife, Ira Nadel exposes the multifaceted disposition of this major voice in American letters: Roth the realist, the ironist, the ventriloquist, the impersonator, the bard. In navigating the intricacies and dualities of the public and private Roth, Nadel shows the complexities, the contradictions, and the counterlives both lived and imagined. As literary sleuth, Nadel has enriched the myriad possibilities for understanding this exacting and defiant writer and his work. * Victoria Aarons, O.R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Department of English, Trinity University *Professor Nadel's study is always very readable and compelling but its discussion of material that has never been accessed before is particularly exciting. * David Brauner, Professor of Contemporary Literature, The University of Reading *Philip Roth: A Counterlife engages and illuminates the scenes of discontent, betrayal, illness, and rage in Roth's own life that allow for new understandings of his work and relationships. Drawing on such primary source material as interviews, personal correspondence, and site visits, Nadel's biography penetrates the carefully composed narrative Roth presented publicly in order to present a "counter" Philip Roth, one who is at once more sympathetic to his readers than critics realize and more dynamic than even his self-creation allows. Nadel seamlessly weaves his interpretations of Roth's most provocative texts into the story of Roth's own life: a life shadowed by pain, illness, and personal injustices, but also illuminated by the joys of writing, ideas, and friendships that will persist long after his death. * Aimee Pozorski, Co-executive editor of Philip Roth Studies, Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Newark, Newark 2. Declaration of Independence 3. An Education in Intensity 4. "Walked out on the Platinum!" or New York, New York 5. Death and Freedom 6 Portnoy: Let it Rip! 7. Jewish Wheaties 8. Traveling with Kafka 9. Supercarnal Productions 10. Zuckerman Live! 11. Psychoanalysis and Laxatives, or Democracy in America 12. Quintet or The Jersey Style 13. Coda: "It's a miserable life" Index
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Oxford University Press Landscape of the Now A Topography Of Movement Improvisation
Book SynopsisLandscape of the Now takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of movement improvisation. Based on interviews with Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Nancy Stark Smith, and others, this book offers the rare opportunity to find some clarity in what is often a complex and confusing creative experience.Trade ReviewDe Spain is a master storyteller. More than that, he is a philosopher who uses his exceptional analytical skills to get to the heart of what defines postmodern improvisation as improvisation. This quest - a personal passion for De Spain - energizes the book. * David Gere, co-editor, Taken By Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader *Improvisation is the alchemy of giving form to the present moment. Contained within are essentially master classes in addressing some of the varied mysteries and issues that can emerge from the practice of improvisation. De Spain's book shines a bright light on how these eight groundbreaking artists wrap words around their processes of inquiry and their experiences of the embodied mind in motion. * Eric Handman, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Utah *I began to read and realized I had started my next dance. De Spain's invitation to your own practice is waiting. De Spain, with his curiosity and engagement, has brought eight master artists to our studio doors. * Bebe Miller, Artistic Director, Bebe Miller Company *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; What and Who ; Section One: Issues ; Agendas ; Tracking ; Verbal/Nonverbal Awareness ; The Audience/Improviser Relationship ; Intentionality ; What is Good? ; The Transpersonal ; Section Two: Resources ; Body ; Movement ; The Senses ; Space ; Time ; Artistic Form ; Images and the Imagination ; Cognitive Skills ; Emotion ; Memory ; Structures ; Attention ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Suggested Reading ; Index
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Oxford University Press Gestures of Music Theater The Performativity Of Song And Dance
Book SynopsisGestures of Music Theater explores examples of Song and Dance as performative gestures that entertain and affect audiences. The chapters interact to reveal the complex energies of performativity. In experiencing these energies, music theatre is revealed as a dynamic accretion of active, complex and dialogical experiences.Trade ReviewThis book makes for a very rewarding read: it combines an excellent selection of emerging and established scholars and practitioners' voices and despite its diversity with regard to genre, time, methodology and focus, it is held together firmly by a very specific and timely common research question: how song and dance can be read as performative gestures. The editors and contributors demonstrate vividly how song and dance are not merely the concern of a limited group of musicologists and dance scholars, but are omnipresent in our culture and provide a fascinating prism through which to see and understand human communication. * Dr. David Roesner, University of Kent *This impressive volume offers important new insights on the act of music theatre and the performativity of song and dance. The collection of essays on vocality and physical gesture expands our understanding of how voices and bodies can be located in multiple theatrical contexts. * Dr. William A. Everett, University of Missouri-Kansas City *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Singing the Dance, Dancing the Song ; Chapter 1: The Song's the Thing: Capturing the "Sung" to Make it "Song" ; Chapter 2: The (Un)Pleasure of Song: On the Enjoyment of Listening to Opera ; Performativity as Dramaturgy ; Chapter 3: Relocating the Song: Julie Taymor's Jukebox Musical Across the Universe (2007) ; Chapter 4: Dynamic shape: the Dramaturgy of Song and Dance in Lloyd Webber's Cats (1981) ; Performativity as Transition ; Chapter 5: Dance Breaks and Dream Ballets: Transitional Moments in Musical Theater ; Chapter 6: "Love Let Me Sing you": The Liminality of Song and Dance in La Chiusa's Bernarda Alba (2006) ; Performativity as Identity ; Chapter 7: Tapping the Ivories: Jazz and Tap Dance in Jelly's Last Jam (1992). ; Chapter 8: Everything's Coming up Kurt: the Broadway Song in Glee ; Chapter 9: Angry Dance: Postmodern Innovation, Masculinities and Gender Subversion ; Performativity as Context ; Chapter 10: Deconstructing the Singer: the Concerts of Laurie Anderson ; Chapter 11: Singing and a Song: The "Intimate Difference" in Susan Philipsz's Lowlands (2010) ; Chapter 12: Acting Operatically: Body, Voice and the Actress in Beckett's Theater ; Performativity as Practice ; Chapter 13: Vox Elettronica: Song, Dance and Live Electronics in the Practice of Sound Theater ; Chapter 14: From Ear to Foot: How Choreographers Interpret Music ; Chapter 15: Singing from Stones: Physiovocality and Gardzienice's Theater of Musicality ; Performativity as Community ; Chapter 16: Singing the Community: the Musical Theater Chorus as Character ; Chapter 17: Singing and Dancing Ourselves: The Politics of the Ensemble in A Chorus Line (1975) ; Performativity as Writing ; Bibliography ; Index ; Bibliography
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Pearson Education (US) Theatre
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsACT ONE Theatre and Its Audience CHAPTER 1 CULTURAL COLLABORATION: Theatre and Society Theatre as Entertainment and Art The Social Functions of Theatre Social Control of Theatre Theatrical Choice in North America Cultural Context and Personal Experience CHAPTER 2 EXPERIENCING THEATRE: Collaboration of Actor, Audience, and Space The Audience The Nature of Acting From Play to Production Space Theatre and Transformation C HAPTER 3 ANALYZING THEATRE: Thinking and Writing About Live Performance Theatre, Film, and Television Analyzing Production Thinking About Actor Performances Thinking About Space and Design Understanding Style Evaluating Production The Role of the Critic Writing About Production When It All Works CHAPTER 4 UNDERSTANDING THE PLAY: A Theatrical Blueprint Plot Character Thought Language Music Spectacle CHAPTER 5 INTERPRETING THE PLAY: Understanding Genre, Reading, and Writing Dramatic Genre Reading a Play Writing About a Play ACT TWO Collaboration in Art and Practice CHAPTER 6 THE DIRECTOR: Vision and Leadership Has Someone Always Been in Charge? Interpretation Developing Concept Communicating and Managing the Artistic Vision Collaborating with the Playwright Directors and Absent Playwrights Collaborating with Designers Collaborating with Actors Collaborating with the Stage Manager The Rehearsal Process Opening the Production CHAPTER 7 THE ACTOR: From Mask to Contemporary Performance Development of the Actor Acting Styles and Methods The Actor’s Work CHAPTER 8 THE PLAYWRIGHT: Imagination and Expression The Changing Position of the Playwright The Playwright and Production Development of New Plays CHAPTER 9 THE DESIGNER: Materializing Conception and the World of the Play The Development of the Designer The Designers’ Choices The Scenic Designer’s Work The Lighting Designer’s Work The Costume Designer’s Work The Sound Designer’s Work Integrating All the Designs CHAPTER 10 THE PRODUCER: Coordination, Promotion, Economics Early Producers The Role of the Producer The Economics of Theatre ACT THREE Collaboration in History CHAPTER 11 FOUNDATIONS: Classical Theatrical Forms Classical Greece Classical Rome Medieval Europe Classical India Classical China Classical Japan CHAPTER 12 REINTERPRETATIONS: Europe Rediscovers the Western Classics The Italian Renaissance Elizabethan England The Spanish Golden Age Seventeenth-Century France Restoration England Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Americas CHAPTER 13 REVOLUTIONS: Romanticism to Postmodern Experiment Romanticism Nineteenth-Century Melodrama Nineteenth-Century Realism and Naturalism The Avant-Garde from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s Modern and Contemporary Popular Theatre The Recent Avant-Garde and Postmodern Experiment
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Pearson Education History of the Theatre Foundation Edition
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Taylor & Francis Inc Play Directing Analysis Communication and Style
Book SynopsisPlay Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play, to working with actors and designers to bring the production to life. The authors emphasize that the role of the director as an artist-leader collaborating with actors and designers who look to the director for partnership in achieving their fullest, most creative expressions. The text emphasizes how the study of directing provides an intensive look at the structure of plays and acting, and of the process of design of scenery, costume, lighting, and sound that together make a produced play.Table of ContentsDedicationPreface and Credits for Photographs. 1. Why the Director? 2. What Is a Play? Analysis and Improvisation.I. PLAY-ANALYSIS: TAKING A PLAY APART. 3. The Foundation and Facade of the Playscript: Given Circumstances and Dialogue. 4. The Core of the Playscript: Dramatic Action and Characters. 5. Idea and Rhythm-Mood Beats. 6. The Director's Preparation.II. COMMUNICATION 1: THE DIRECTOR-ACTOR RELATIONSHIP AND STAGE BLOCKING 7. Directing Is Working with Actors 1. 8. Learning to See: The Games of Visual Perception. 9. Helping Actors Communicate through Groundplans.10. Composition: Helping Actors Discover and Project Basic Relationships.11. Helping Each Actor Intensify: Gesture and Improvisation with Properties.12. Picturization: Helping a Group Intensify.13. The Dynamic Tool of Movement.14. Coordinating the Blocking Tools in Director-Actor Communication.15. Helping Actors “Speak” a Play16. Directing is Working with Actors 2.Major Project 1A: Scene Practice.Major Project 1B: Diagnostic Criticism.COMMUNICATION THROUGH STAGING OPTIONS .17. The Director’s Responsibility for Working Effectively with Design.18. The Director and the Stage Machine: Symbolization and Synthesis.19. Director's Options: Choice of the Stage.20. Director's Options: Scenery, Properties, and Lighting.21. Director's Options: Costume, Makeup, and Sound.HELPING AUDIENCES RECEIVE A PLAY.22. Responsibility to Audiences.Major Project 2: Designing and Directing Your Own One-Act Play Production.III. INTERPRETATION: A MATTER OF STYLE.23. Style Is Individual Expression.24. Style in Playwriting and Playwrights.25. The Director's Analysis of Style in a Playscript.26. Style in Production: Making Decisions.27. Style in Production: Modern Plays.28. Style in Production: New Plays.29. Style in Production: Plays of Past Ages.IV. COMMUNICATION 2: THE DIRECTOR-DESIGNER RELATIONSHIP30. Preparing To Be a Collaborator in the Design Process31. Directing Is Working with DesignersMajor Project 3: Directing a Full-Length, Fully-Produced Play with DesignersAppendix 1. Directing Musical Theatre and Opera.Appendix 2. The Director and the Dramaturg.Appendix 3. Your Future as a Director.Bibliography.Index.
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Pearson Education (US) Managing Business Professional Communication
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Preface UNIT I Foundations of Business and Professional Communication CHAPTER 1 Introducing Business and Professional Communication 1 Communication Gaps in the Workplace What General Communication Competencies Are Needed in Organizations? Communication Competencies Expected in Organizations Definition and Model of Business and Professional Communication Assumptions About Communication: A Word on Axioms Business and Professional Communication in Four Contexts In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 2 Managing Leadership Communication in Organizational Cultures Organizational Culture as a Context for Communication Features of Organizational Culture Leadership in Organizational Cultures: Structures and Styles In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References UNIT II Interpersonal Communication in Business and Professional Communication CHAPTER 3 Managing Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace Interpersonal Communication Principles in the Workplace Social Equity Theory Managing Interpersonal Communication Skills Managing Social Networking as Interpersonal Communication In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 4 Managing Listening Communication in the Workplace The Significant of Listening in Organizations Concepts That Explain Listening Deficits Avoid Communication Omission How to Improve Listening Skills Active Listening In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 5 Managing Nonverbal Communication in the Workplace Defining Nonverbal Communication Importance of Nonverbal Communication in the Workplace Functions and Rules of Nonverbal Communication Elements of Nonverbal Communication Using Nonverbal Communication in the Workplace In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 6 Managing Communication Conflict in the Workplace Conflict in the Workplace Communication Skills in Managing Conflict Communication Skills in Managing Negotiation In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 7 Managing Intercultural Communication in the Workplace Definition and Model of Intercultural Communication Understanding Cultural Diversity Importance of Managing Cultural Diversity Intercultural Communication Strategies for Promoting Unity In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References Unit III Small Groups and Teams in Business and Professional Communication CHAPTER 8 Managing Group Communication and Workplace Teams Defining Small-Group Communication Group Outcomes Communication Networks in Small Groups Leadership in Teams and Small Groups Conducting Results-Oriented Group Communication Strategies for Conducting Large Group Meetings Strategies for Team Building in the Workplace Definition and Model of Teams How to Facilitate High Functioning Workplace Teams What Makes a Successful Team? Outcomes of Successful Teams In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 9 Managing Interviews in the Workplace Importance of Interviewing Types of Interviews Structuring Effective Interviews Interview Questions In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References UNIT IV Public Presentations in Business and Professional Communication CHAPTER 10 Managing Public Presentations in the Workplace Importance of Making Public Presentations Building Credibility Building Confidence Consulting for Audience Analysis In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 11 Managing Presentational Skills in the Workplace Elements of Language Style Elements of Delivery Methods of Delivery Presentation Technology and Communication Ethics and Presentations In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 12 Managing Informative Presentations in the Workplace Developing Informative Presentations Principles for Topic Selection In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 13 Managing Persuasive Presentations in the Workplace Persuasion Changes or Reinforces Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and Behaviors Beginning Theories Underlying Persuasion Developing Persuasive Presentations In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 14 Managing Customers and Client Communication and Sales Definition and Model of Customer Service Communicating to Enhance Customer Service Changing the Organizational Culture to Enhance Customer Service Managing Sales Presentations in the Workplace Principles of Sales Communication Strategies for Effective Sales Communication In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References What Can You Do with a Communication Major ? Appendix A: Communication Style in the Workplace Appendix B: Changes in Organizational Cultures Appendix C: Communication Networks in the Workplace Appendix D: Written Communication in the Workplace: Reports, Proposals, Resumes, Letters, and Email Etiquette Appendix E: Speech Evaluation Forms Glossary Index Photo Credits
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University of Chicago Press Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests
Book SynopsisDrawing on hundreds of operas, sing-spiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, this book argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them.Trade Review"This book brings to the fore, for the first time, a significant aspect of eighteenth-century opera, providing a new means of understanding elements of the marvelous, the supernatural, and the magical that operate across genres and national boundaries. The reach of David Buch's investigation - over such a broad time span and including such vast repertories - is outstanding. Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests is an astonishing achievement." - Marita P. McClymonds, University of Virginia"
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The University of Chicago Press Murder by Accident Medieval Theater Modern Media
Book SynopsisDrawing on four medieval events in which a theatrical performance precipitated deadly consequences, this book contends that the marginalization of intention in critical discourse is a mirror for the marginalization - and misunderstanding - of theater.Trade Review"Jody Enders's Murder by Accident offers an extraordinary amalgam of historical work and contemporary theory. We have here, as in her earlier work, richly detailed evocations of the social world of medieval spectacle. But we also have the theoretical and ethical concerns that her historical readings raise brought front and center. This book engages issues critical to anyone interested in art or in accountability (legal and moral) - that is, all of us." - Julie Stone Peters, Harvard University"
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The University of Chicago Press Five Tales for the Theatre
Book SynopsisFor Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual effects. This collection brings together for the first time modern English translations of five of Gozzi's most famous plays: The Raven, The King Stag, Turandot, The Serpent Woman, and The Green Bird, each annotated by the translators and preceded by the author's preface. Ted Emery's Introduction places Gozzi in his social and historical context, tracing his world view in both the content and the form of his tales. In the ten works he called fiable or fairy tales, Gozzi intermingled characters from the traditional and improvised commedia dell'arte with exotic figures of his own invention. During Gozzi's lifetime, Goethe and Schiller translated and produced some of his dramas at the Weimar Theatre. In our century, the dramas have reasserted
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The University of Chicago Press Five Tales for the Theatre
Book SynopsisFor Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual effects. This collection brings together for the first time modern English translations of five of Gozzi's most famous plays: The Raven, The King Stag, Turandot, The Serpent Woman, and The Green Bird, each annotated by the translators and preceded by the author's preface. Ted Emery's Introduction places Gozzi in his social and historical context, tracing his world view in both the content and the form of his tales. In the ten works he called fiable or fairy tales, Gozzi intermingled characters from the traditional and improvised commedia dell'arte with exotic figures of his own invention. During Gozzi's lifetime, Goethe and Schiller translated and produced some of his dramas at the Weimar Theatre. In our century, the dramas have reasserted
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press The National Stage Paper Theatre and Cultural
Book SynopsisThe idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisisfrom the challenge of socialism in late nineteenth-century Europe to the struggle to salvage democracy in Depression AmericaKruger poses a fundamental question: in the formation of nationhood, is the citizen-audience spectator or participant? The National Stage answers this question by tracing the relation between theatre institution and public sphere in the discourses of national identity in Britain, France, and the United States. Exploring the boundaries between history and theory, text and performance, this book speaks to theatre and social historians as well as those interested in the theoretical range of cultural studies.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater
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University of Chicago Press Persecution Plague and Fire Fugitive Histories
Book SynopsisPresents a study of playhouse catastrophes and the theory of performance they convey. Bringing together dramatic theory,theatrical, religious, and cultural history, this title reveals the period's radical take on the history and the future of the stage to show just how critical the relation was between early modern English theater and its public.Trade Review"Persecution, Plague, and Fire is a provocative and important book, one of the few - in some senses, the only - to engage both pro- and antitheatrical discourse in early modern England. MacKay's effort to track a kind of conceptual aporia in the early modern theater's understanding of its historical position, and indeed of its effective means, is developed in great detail and with significant interpretive flair and originality. It's a very powerful book." (W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeares Lyric Stage Myth Music and Poetry
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utteranceswhich should invite consolation, revelation, and connectionsomehow fall short of the listener's expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare's late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up lyric as a displaced and sometimes desperate antidote to situations of duress or powerlessness. Lerer argues that the theme of lyric misalignment running throughout The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Henry VIII, and Cymbeline serves a political purpose, a last-ditch effort at transformation for characters and audiences who had lived through witch-hunting, plague, regime change, political conspiracies, and public executions. A deep dive into the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this book also explores what Shakespearean lyric is able to recupera
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeares Lyric Stage Myth Music and Poetry in
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utteranceswhich should invite consolation, revelation, and connectionsomehow fall short of the listener's expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare's late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up lyric as a displaced and sometimes desperate antidote to situations of duress or powerlessness. Lerer argues that the theme of lyric misalignment running throughout The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Henry VIII, and Cymbeline serves a political purpose, a last-ditch effort at transformation for characters and audiences who had lived through witch-hunting, plague, regime change, political conspiracies, and public executions. A deep dive into the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this book also explores what Shakespearean lyric is able to recupera
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The University of Chicago Press The Public Mirror Moliere the Social Commerce
Book SynopsisPairing close readings of Moliere's comedies with accounts of French social history and aesthetics, this book aims to show how Moliere perceived satire as a public mirror provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images.
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The University of Chicago Press The Public Mirror Moliere and the Social Commerce
Book SynopsisPairing close readings of Moliere's comedies with accounts of French social history and aesthetics, this book aims to show how Moliere perceived satire as a public mirror provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Theaters of Madness
Book SynopsisIn the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums - many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. This work prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.
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The University of Chicago Press The Acoustic World of Early Modern England
Book SynopsisIn this journey into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, the text explores the physical aspects of human speech (ears, lungs, tongue) and the surrounding environment (buildings, landscape, climate), as well as social and political structures.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre
Book SynopsisIn Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight straTrade Review"One comes away from Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre with a renewed appreciation not just of the politics of adapting cultural texts, but of the plays discussed as truly impressive works of Canadian theatre. In a series of intellectually thorough and ethically careful analyses, Kailin Wright walks her reader through some of the ways that Canada is facing up to its past – and its future." Barry Freeman, University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Blowing up the Skirt of History Recovered and
Book SynopsisReviving a dramatic past in which women playwrights used theatre to empower their culture and themselves.Trade Review“Kym Bird’s Blowing up the Skirt of History is a dynamic and compelling anthology [that] collects some of the earliest English plays from different regions in Canada. With verve and humour, Bird uses public theory and feminism to analyze the plays’ constrained performance of nationalism and racial privilege. Bird’s energetic writing style will certainly appeal to undergraduate students and help make early Canadian theatre more accessible. Blowing up the Skirt of History is an important work for anyone interested in early Canadian drama and feminist literature.” Canadian Literature
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McGill-Queen's University Press Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad
Book SynopsisBy the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture.Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad writes the lives of women who, despite their renown during their lifetimes, have been all too easily forgotten. Cecilia Morgan examines these sweet girls' childhoods, their experiences of work, touring, and company management, the plays in which they appeared, and the celebrity they enjoyed. In so doing she shows how women helped convey messages about race, empire, and white identity in popular culture. Investigating a period from the 1870s to the 1940s, Morgan demonstrates how actresses evolved within a period of change in theatre, how they coped with new challenges, and how they brought their cra
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Book SynopsisHijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shocking and serene.Trade Review“The newly published paperback edition of Bruce Baird’s … is perfectly timed to ride the current wave of interest in butoh. … Baird provides detailed descriptions of all of Hijikata’s dances, including quotations from primary sources and records, and with photographs throughout.” (William Andrews, The Japan Times, japantimes.com, May, 2016)"The book is a veritable treasure trove of information and reflects the many years it took to complete the project . . . it is also a book which rewards the curious reader who wants to learn about postwar Japan from a different perspective." - Tokyo Notice Board "A meticulously researched description and analysis of Hijikata's most significant choreographic and textual productions . . . Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh is a major contribution to the Anglophone literature on butoh, particularly through its extensive referencing and explication of archival materials and texts not available outside of Japan. For scholars of postwar avant-garde Japanese arts, Baird's work brings dance fully into the conversation, particularly with literature and visual art. For butoh dancers, this book is significant for the way Baird challenges the mystification and mythologizing that has grown up around Hijikata (and was indeed often generated by Hijikata himself) . . . Baird presents his readers with the many socially constructed layers of Hijikata that influenced and were reflected in his productions (e.g., the Tohoku of his childhood, Tokyo in the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese and European surrealists and avant-garde artists), while leaving open the possibility of other interpretations. This openness to interpretation is Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh's greatest gift." - Asian Theater Journal "Baird's Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh offers English-language readers the single most rigorous treatment of Hijikata's work to date, with a meticulous examination of Hijikata's major works from the late 1950s to the 1970s." - Monumenta Nipponica"The book is a veritable treasure trove of information . . . which rewards the curious reader who wants to learn about postwar Japan from a different perspective." - SFAQ: San Francisco Arts Quarterly Table of ContentsIntroduction: And, And, And Outline of the Book Forbidden Eros and Evading Force: Hijikata's Early Years A Story of Dances that Sustain Enigma Pivoting Panels and Slashing Space: Rebellion and Identity My Mother Tied Me on Her Back: Story of Smallpox The Possibility Body: Embodying the Other, Negotiating the World Metaphorical Miscegenation in Memoirs: Hijikata Tatsumi in the Information Age Epilogue: The Emaciated Body in the World
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and the City
Book SynopsisJEN HARVIE isProfessor of Contemporary Theatre and Performanceat Queen Mary, University of London, UK.She is co-editor of the Theatre& series, author of Staging the UK (2005), co-author ofThe Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (2006) and co-editor of Making Contemporary Theatre (2009).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Theatre and Politics 25
Book SynopsisJOE KELLEHER is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Roehampton University, UK.He co-edited Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion (2006)andis the co-author of The Theatre of Societas RaffaelloSanzio (2007).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Human Rights
Book SynopsisPAUL RAE is Assistant Professor on the Theatre Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore.
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Palgrave Macmillan Theatre and The Body 24
Book SynopsisCOLETTE CONROY is Lecturer in Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is editor of Research in Drama Education's themed issue 'Disability: Creative Tensions in Applied Theatre' (14.1, 2009).
£12.24
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Actor in Costume
Book SynopsisAOIFE MONKS isLecturer inTheatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She has published on the work of the Wooster Group and Deborah Warner and global performances of Irishness.
£32.29
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Feeling
Book SynopsisERIN HURLEY is Assistant Professor of Drama and Theatre at McGill University, Canada. She won the NeMLA Book Prize for National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion. ANNE BOGART is the Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice's Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg's Miss Julie; and Charles Mee's Orestes. She is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Education
Book SynopsisHELEN NICHOLSON is Reader in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK,where she specializes in Applied Drama and Contemporary Theatre. She is editor of the journal RIDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance and author of Applied Drama (Palgrave Macmillan 2005).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Nation
Book SynopsisNADINE HOLDSWORTH is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Joan Littlewood and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (with Mary Luckhurst).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) theatreandarchitecture
Book SynopsisJULIET RUFFORD has held research and teaching posts at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Queen Mary, University of London, UK.She has co-convened the International Federation of Theatre Research's Theatre Architecture Working Group since 2010, and she was an artist contributor to the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and to the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her research interests span theatre, performance, the politics of space and the performativity of architecture and the object-world.Trade Review'Theatre & Architecture is a really rich resource. This short book is full of ideas, glancing between the opposing mirrors of theatre and architecture. A beautifully structured and wonderfully clear introduction to acknowledged areas of theory and practice that is brimming with ideas for further exploration. Rufford creates an excellent rapport with her reader, summarising complex areas deftly and handling a wealth of material in a way that is at once precise, astute and eminently readable.' - Cathy Turner, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface Introduction Architecture and Mimesis From Event-space to Space Acts Theatre, Architecture and Illusion Theatre and the Tectonic Conclusion Further ReadingIndex Acknowledgements.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Theatre and Sexuality
Book SynopsisJILL DOLAN is Professor of English and Theatre at Princeton University, USA, where she is also Director of its programme in the study of women and gender. She is the author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre and The Feminist Spectator as Critic, among other books. She writes The Feminist Spectator blog at www.feministspectator.blogspot.com.
£12.36
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Histories and Practices of Live Art
Book SynopsisDEIRDRE HEDDON is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published extensively in the field of contemporary performance practice and is the co-editor, with Jennie Klein and Nikki Milican, ofThe National Review of Live Art: 1979-2010, a personal history(New Moves International, 2010). Her monograph,Autobiography and Performancewas published in 2008, andDevising Performance: A Critical Historyin 2005 (both Palgrave). JENNIE KLEIN is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Ohio University, USA. She is the editor ofLetters from Linda M. Montano(Routledge, 2005), the co-curator (Rebecca McGrew) ofThe 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Work of Barbara T. Smith(2005), and the co-editor (Myrel Chernick) ofThe M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art(Demeter Press, 2011). She is a contributing editor forPAJ, Genders, and Art Papers.Trade Review'A comprehensive treatment of the key issues in the history of performance practice. This book provides a much needed overview of the field as it has developed over the last half century. Heddon and Klein are to be congratulated for having instigated and compiled a coherent anthology made of autonomous and yet mutually enhancing components.' - Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Writing Histories and Practices of Live Art; D.Heddon Developing Live Art; J.Klein The Time of Live Art; B.Hoffman Art, Meeting and Encounter: The Art of Action in Great Britain; R.Hunter & J.B.Hunter Site: Between Ground and Groundlessness; S.Hodge & C.Turner Intimacy and Risk in Live Art; D.Johnson All Together Now: Performance and Collaboration; C.Macdonald The Politics of Live Art; D.Heddon Bibliography Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and The Visual 44
Book SynopsisDOMINIC JOHNSON is Lecturer in Drama in the Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is the author of Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (2012). He is a performance artist himself, and has performed at venues and festivals in the UK and internationally.Trade Review'Contemporary examples are extremely well-selected and illustrate important aspects of the visual and their political provocations in contemporary performance practice.' - Christopher Baugh, Professor of Theatre, University of Hull, UKTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface Foreword Introduction PART I: HISTORIES OF LOOKING PART II: WORDLESS SPECTACLE PART III: THE PLEASURES AND PAINS OF LOOKING EPILOGUE: THE SHOCK OF THE NEW Further Reading.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Performance Studies Key Words Concepts and
Book SynopsisBryan Reynolds is Chancellor's Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He has held visiting professorships at Queen Mary, University of London, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, University of Cologne, University College Utrecht, Goethe University-Frankfurt am Main, and the University of California, San Diego. His books include Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida, Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations, Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future, and Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England. He is also an internationally produced playwright, performer and director of theatre.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Ethical Drive; Bryan Reynolds 1. The 'F' Word, Feminism's Critical Futures; Elaine Aston 2. Public Sphere; Christopher Balme 3. Paramodern; Stephen Barker 4. Digital Culture; Sarah Bay-Cheng 5. Misperformance; Marin Blaževi? and Lada ?ale Feldman 6. Interval; Dylan Bolles and Peter Lichtenfels 7. Neuroaesthetics, Technoembodiment; Susan Broadhurst 8. Recursion, Iteration, Difference; Johan Callens 9. Living History, Re-enactment; Marvin Carlson 10. Performance Philosophy; Laura Cull 11. Translation, Cultural Ownership; Maria M. Delgado 12. The Intense Exterior; Rick Dolphijn 13. Cosmopolitanism; Milija Gluhovic 14. Cultural Diversity; Lynette Goddard 15. Citizenship, The Ethics of Inclusion; Nadine Holdsworth 16. Installation, Constellation; Lynette Hunter 17. Spatial Concepts; Silvija Jestrovic 18. Consensus, Dissensus; Adrian Kear 19. Counter Propaganda, Resistance; Suk-Young Kim 20. Ekstasis; Anthony Kubiak 21. Social Somatics; Petra Kuppers 22. Globalization, The Glocal, Third Space Theatre; Carl Lavery 23. Theatre of Immediacy, Transversal Poetics; Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds 24. Time in Theatre; Jerzy Limon 25. Magic in Theatre; Mihai Maniutiu 26. Empathetic Engagement; Bruce McConachie 27. Theories of Festival; Christina S. McMahon 28. Animality, Posthumanism; Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 29. Postdramatic Theatre; Patrice Pavis 30. Evo-Neuro-Theatre; Mark Pizzato 31. International/ism; Janelle Reinelt 32. Transculturation; Jon D. Rossini 33. Social Practice; Maria Shevtsova 34. City; Nicolas Whybrow Note on Contributors Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Prison
Book SynopsisCAOIMHE MCAVINCHEYis Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studiesat Queen Mary, University of London, UK.She was a Research Associate with People's Palace Projects (PPP) andhas collaborated on a number of large scale projects on the criminal justice system in Brazil and the UK including Staging Human Rights and Changing the Scene.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) An Actors Craft The Art and Technique of Acting
Book SynopsisDAVID KRASNER is Dean of the School of the Arts at Dean College, USA. His publications include American Drama, 1945-2000: An Introduction, Theatre in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology and the Errol Hill Award-winning Resistance, Parody, and Double-Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Photography 26
Book SynopsisJoel Anderson is Course Leader for the MA Theatre Studies (Performance and the City), Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface Introduction 1. An Unknown Street Performer: theatre of photography 2. Photography Onstage 3. Theatre Photography 4. Brecht's Photography and Theatre Conclusion Further Reading Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Scotland
Book SynopsisTRISH REID is Deputy Head of the School of Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University, UK. She is the author of a number of articles and chapters on contemporary Scottish theatre, including 'Post Devolutionary Theatre' in The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama and 'Anthony Neilson' in Modern British Playwriting: the 1990s.
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Palgrave Macmillan Performing Contagious Bodies Ritual Participation
Book SynopsisImages Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Spirit of Language in Things; L.Kosloff Contagious Participation; A.Hamilton The Force of the Text; A.Frankovich & M.Duchamp Contagious Redundancy; A.M.Roe The Force of Impotentiality; R.Maloy & B.Nauman The Force of the Charm; H.Wilke Notes Bibliography IndexTrade Review"The merits of this book derive not only from its rigour and attention to detail but also from Braddock's own intensive engagement with his area of study as an artist, lecturer and curator." - Martin Patrick, Massey University, New ZealandTable of ContentsImages Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Spirit of Language in Things; L.Kosloff Contagious Participation; A.Hamilton The Force of the Text; A.Frankovich & M.Duchamp Contagious Redundancy; A.M.Roe The Force of Impotentiality; R.Maloy & B.Nauman The Force of the Charm; H.Wilke Notes Bibliography Index
£89.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cymbeline The RSC Shakespeare
Book SynopsisFrom the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magical late play. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Cymbeline in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors Dominic Cooke and Emma Rice providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.Trade Review'Excellent, succinct notes and introductions to each play' - John Carey, The Sunday TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction About the Text Key Facts The Tragedy of Cymbeline Textual Notes Scene-by-scene Analysis Cymbeline in Performance: The RSC and Beyond Four Centuries of Cymbeline: An Overview At the RSC The Director's Cut: interviews with Dominic Cooke and Emma Rice Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology The History Behind the Tragedies: A Chronology Further Reading and Viewing References Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
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