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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pinter and the Object of Desire: An Approach
Book SynopsisHarold Pinter was fascinated by film long before the theatre, but the importance of his screenplays, based on the work of other writers, has been overlooked. Renton shows him working from manuscript to final text to engage the spectator in a relationship of desire, or anxiety, with what is unseen. A newly discovered poem links Pinter to the Surrealists, and through the Surrealists to their contemporary, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-81). The present study shows Pinter working differently from mainstream cinema, places him at the forefront of film theory, and offers a fresh insight into his entire output.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Note on Manuscripts, Abbreviations, 1 Vision and the Object of Desire, 2 The Object of Desire in the Screenplay Adaptations, 3 The Remains of the Day: The Lost Object of Desire, 4 The Handmaid's Tale: The Object Almost Achieved, 5 Victory: The Object of Anxiety, 6 The Object of Desire in the Plays and Other Works, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
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Maney Publishing Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni
Book SynopsisThis work takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1707-93). The dramatization of femininity and masculinity is explored in conjunction with that of other social categories (class, the family, and age). The plays reinforce the patriarchal association of femininity with the body, with spectacle, and with theatricality, while the dramatic backdrop of Venice and carnival provides a context for the staging of issues relating to identity, disguise and fashion. In the plays, pretence and theatricality vie with bourgeois Enlightenment values of morality, honesty and respectability to produce dramatic tension with distinct gender implications.Table of ContentsIntroduction; I: Honest Women: Morality and Idealized Femininity; II: Off Limits: Femininity and the Stage; III: A Woman's Place: The Angel in the House; IV: Artful Women: Staging Subversion; V: Surface Mobilities: Identity, Disguise and Fashion; VI: Masculinity and Materialism: Money, Sex and Power; VII: Class Acts: The Drama of Difference; VIII: Fear of Fiction: Theatricality, Pretence and Femininity
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University of Hertfordshire Press Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a
Book SynopsisDon Chapman tells for the first time the story of the "Oxford Playhouse", to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of its present home in Beaumont Street, Oxford. He traces the history of this great theater back to its earliest roots in a production of Agamemnon in 1880 which led to the founding of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, the rebuilding of Oxford's New Theater and, eventually, the launch of the Playhouse itself. Jane Ellis was the 'young, obscure actress' from London who made it happen, motivated by a desire for a venue where she herself might play decent roles. She asked J.B. Fagan (who was to produce the first successful Chekhov play in England) to be the theater's first director. Subsequent directors who made their mark included Stanford Holme, Eric Dance (who rebuilt the theater in Beaumont Street in 1938), Frank Shelley, Peter Hall, Peter Wood, Frank Hauser, Minos Volanakis, Gordon McDougall, Nicolas Kent and Richard Williams.The book also celebrates a galaxy of actors including Flora Robson, John Gielgud, Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Judi Dench and Helena Bonham-Carter and records the first steps of countless students from Peter Brook to Maria Aitken, Diana Quick to Rowan Atkinson, including a few, like Edward Heath and Joanna Trollope, who gained distinction in other spheres. Most fascinating is the role of the University of Oxford. Using the legal powers invested in Vice Chancellors, Dr Lewis Farnell almost stifled the Playhouse at birth in 1923. And even from 1961 to 1987, when the Playhouse was the University Theater, Dr Chapman describes its relationship with the University as 'a shotgun marriage that ended in a messy divorce'.Since reopening in 1991 following a four-year closure, the theater has flourished as an independent trust with support from the University, Arts Council England and other donors, staging a varied program to delight audiences old and new and benefiting in the process from the sea change in academic attitudes to drama. Thea Shurrock, Rosamund Pike and Holly Kendrick are just three of more recent students who have followed in the footsteps of Michael Palin, Imogen Stubbs and Mel Smith and made names for themselves.Table of Contents1 Oxford rediscovers serious drama2 A 'young, obscure actress' provides a venue3 A highbrow programme4 A tepid response5 A lowbrow programme fails too6 The move to Beaumont Street7 A period of prosperity8 The postwar collapse9 Highbrow again10 The university takes over11 The Arts Council flatters to deceive12 Making subsidy go further13 Under siege14 The dream collapses15 A fresh beginning and a multimillion pound facelift
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making
Book SynopsisThis book traces the development of pastoral drama as it evolved over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Italy. It considers how writers of pastoral drama responded to social, cultural and intellectual pressures and innovations, regarding critical attitudes towards theatre and the arts.Trade ReviewHandsomely produced (a tribute to its publishers and copy-editor), meticulously researched, agreeably written,with copious notes, a generous bibliography, and English translationsof all the original quotations, it is packed full with fascinating and thought-provoking information. -- Modern Language Review Modern Language Review Vanno complimentati, infine, anche gli editori di Legenda (la fruttuosa collaborazione tra Maney Publishing e la Modern Humanities Research Association) che hanno curato questa pubblicazione impeccabile, e che hanno dato ampio spazio - scelta felice - ai citati originali in italiano (provveduti sempre di una traduzione inglese della stessa studiosa). In aggiunta alle note concise poste alla fine di ogni capitolo, la bibliografia e l'indice generale che concludono il libro costituiranno un utile strumento di consultazione ai molti studenti e ricercatori che troveranno una ricchissima fonte d'informazioni preziose (dalla descrizione meticolosa delle innumerevoli opere individuali, al contesto sociale, culturale e politico sempre ottimamente documentato) in questa monografia, la quale combina una chiarezza di argomentazione con un'analisi sfaccettata di un fenomeno significativo - se non proprio determinante - nel campo culturale della prima epoca moderna. -- Italian Studies Italian StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Earliest Examples of Pastoral Drama: The Self-Conscious Evolution of a New Genre 3. Tasso's Aminta: Raising the Profile of the Pastoral Play 4. Imitations and Innovations after Tasso's Aminta: Accommodating a Female Voice 5. Guarini's Pastor fido: The Establishment of an Ethical and Political Model of Pastoral Drama 6. Performing Pastoral Drama 7. Pastoral Drama in the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
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Hansib Publications Limited A History Of Theatre In Guyana 1800-2000
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of 200 years of theatre in Guyana.
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Hansib Publications Limited An Introduction To The Theatre Arts
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Theatre Arts in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
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Just Press The Spanner Experiment: Rediscovering Two Minor
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Just Press Taking on the Empire: How We Saved the Hackney
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Maney Publishing The Tradition of the Actor-author in Italian
Book SynopsisThis book brings together critical essays on the role of the actor-author, spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present. It surveys the works of Dario Fo, De Filippo, and Bene, and casts light on a tradition which continues into Neapolitan and Sicilian theatre today.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Actor-Author in Castiglione's 'Il Cortegiano': 'lo esser travestito porta seco una certa libertà e licenzia' 2. Perché molte cose stanno ben nella penna che nella scena starebben male' Reading Between the Lines of the Surviving Ruzante Texts 3. Isabella Andreini's Stage Repertoire: The 'Lettere' and 'Fragmenti' 4. Commedie fortunate…’: 'Le due comedie in comedia' di Giovan Battista Andreini 5. The Actor and the Author: Renaissance Theatre in England and Italy 6. Goldoni, Gozzi, e il lavoro con l'attore 7. Napoli tra Ottocento e Novecento: dalla drammaturgia dell'attore alla drammaturgia dell'autore e ritorno 8. Il dilemma del teatro: 'La parte di Amleto' di Eduardo De Filippo 9. Characters in an English Adaptation of 'Napoli milionaria!' 10. La scrittura 'sul pubblico': The Fo-Rame Method 11. Franca Rame's Dowry How the Rame Family Tradition Lives On in the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame 12. Il 'funerale dell'orale'. Carmelo Bene: la scena e la scena della pagina 13. The Actor-Narrator 14. Marco Baliani's Theatrical Storytelling of Wonderment 15. Sguardi su una Napoli contemporanea attraverso il teatro di Annibale Ruccello 16. Il buio in fondo al sacco Parole in fuga e corpi senza scampo nel teatro di Spiro Scimone
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Aurora Metro Publications The Marvellous Adventures of Mary Seacole
Book SynopsisIn this acclaimed one-woman play, the true story of Mary Seacole is brought vibrantly to life, revealing how this fearless medical practitioner used traditional remedies to treat the sick and wounded, challenged racism in high places and won the hearts and minds of those she helped across the globe. Considered the greatest of all Black Britons, discover why and how she came to be so highly regarded, although she was an immigrant and a woman of colour in Victorian England.Trade Review"Thank you for such an excellent rendition of Mary. It was truly brilliant." - Lord Soley "... equally at home in a school as on a West End stage." - Nick Awde, The Stage "I could happily have spent much longer with this Mary Seacole than the hour the performance lasts." -Howard Loxton, British Theatre Guide
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UEA Publishing Project UEA MA Scriptwriting Anthology 2024
Book SynopsisIntroduced by James McDermott, with a foreword by Alice Nutter, the 2024 MA Scriptwriting cohort presents the full spectrum of comedy, tragedy and everything in between.
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Palgrave Macmillan Pandemic Play
Book SynopsisChapter 1- Going Viral: Cultivating COVID Play. Part I: Making Pandemic Play(s).- Chapter 2 -Facing Up to Death: Nigeria and Its Creative Industry in the Era of COVID-19.- Chapter 3- Distributed Performance as Systems of Mutual Care.- Chapter 4 -Variant of Concern: University Theatre Pandemic Production through the Zoom Lens.- Chapter 5- Finding Catharsis in the Pandemic: Reading Greek Tragedy Online.- Part II - Adapting to the Virtual.- Chapter 6: A Love that Began as a Game: Gameboys, Filipino Boys Love (BL), & the COVID19 Pandemic.- Chapter 7- Digitally Dairakudakan: An Examination of the 20202021 Pandemic Performance Season.- Chapter 8 -Calling from Canada: Exploring the Shift to Telephonic Theatre during COVID-19.- Part III - Crossing Media Chapter 9 - Mixed Media Encounters: Finding the Future of Immersive Work through the Pandemic.- Chapter 10 -No Longer Merely Players: Porting the Elements of Theatre into Video Gaming.- Chapter 11- Sing Along with the Common People: Glastonbury and the Future of Festivals in the Age of Corona.- Part IV: Community Formation & Support.- Chapter 12- Performing Dramaturgies of Care in Quarantine: Aging, Inclusivity, and Aesthetics in a Virtual World.- Chapter 13-The Telelibrary Conspiracy: An Autonomous Audience and their Creation of Remote Community.- Chapter 14- Cyberpunk'd 2020: Megacorps, Nook's Cranny, and the New Normal.- Chapter 15- Humor and Introspection in the Pandemic.
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Palgrave Macmillan Theatrimusicality
Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Theatricality, Musicality, Theatrimusicality.- 2. Theatrimusicality as Otobiography: Seeing the Music of Margaret Leng Tan.- 3. Theatricalising (String) Music: Choreographic Musicality.- 4. Reflexive Theatrimusicality: The Encounter as Sonic Theatre.- 5. Conclusion.
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Bohlau Verlag Cosima Wagner: Ein widerspruchliches Leben
Book SynopsisIn 33 Annäherungen zeichnet die Autorin Sabine Zurmühl ein differenzierteres Bild der heute vorwiegend mit Antisemitismus und künstlerischem Starrsinn assoziierten Cosima Wagner. Deren langes, sich Skandalen aussetzendes Leben ist mit vielen Brüchen und dem Wechsel der Aufenthalte und Sprachen durchzogen. Die mit dem Dirigenten Hans von Bülow verheiratete Tochter des Starpianisten Franz Liszt und der französischen Hochadeligen Marie d'Agoult entscheidet sich frei und mutig zum skandalisierten Liebesverhältnis mit Richard Wagner, schützt und stützt den Komponisten bei seinem Weg zur Anerkennung. Nach Wagners Tod etabliert sie die Bayreuther Festspiele und schreibt damit Theatergeschichte. Mit ihrer Leidenschaft, ihrer Selbständigkeit, ihrer Hartnäckigkeit und ihrer unbeirrbaren Klarheit als Person des öffentlichen Interesses lebte Cosima Wagner ein provokantes und auf ihre Weise selbstbestimmtes Leben jenseits vorgegebener Regeln und Normen.
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Bohlau Verlag Musiktheater Und Kommerz: Untersuchungen Zum
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V&r Academic Das Wiener Hetzamphitheater 17551796
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V&r Academic Emil Preetorius Ein Bühnenbildner im 20.
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tredition Die Erfindung des Sandmännchens
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BÃhlau Verlag KÃln Aus dem Geiste der Bewegung geboren
Book SynopsisDas Moskauer Kammertheater und die russische Kulturpolitik der 1920er und 30er Jahre
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Steiner Franz Verlag Schiffbruch
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wbg academic Kafkas Theater
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AV Akademikerverlag Bertolt Brecht und Hella Wuolijoki
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Harwood-Academic Publishers Edward Bond Letters: Volume 5
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1994. Edward Bond Letters, Volume V, contains over thirty letters and papers covering Bond's controversial views on violence and justice, plays, writers and directors, and a postscript that is Bond's discussion of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. The explosive content of these letters applies to Bond's plays and society as a whole; Bond believes that all violence is the manifestation of an unbalanced and dangerous society. As with the four preceding volumes in this collection, Edward Bond is critical of present theatre, but at the same time his observations are useful in indicating how theatre can be changed. Bond's illustrations provide accompaniment to the letters.Table of ContentsPart 1 Acting and directing: letter to - Michael Fuller, Mark Ellis, Nigel Jamieson, Oleg Yefremov, Calum Mac Crimmon, Patricia Bond. Part 2 Theatre events: letter to - Moshen Baraket, John Clemo, Benjamin May, Peter Smith. Part 3 Politics: letter to - Ria Julian, Gulsen Sayin, Roberta Galeotti, Ahmed Elhag, Geoff Gillham, Hilde Klein, Benjamin May. Part 4 Productions: letter to - Ian Stuart, Adrian Noble, David Jansen, Max Stafford-Clark, Ruby Cohn.
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Harwood-Academic Publishers Edward Bond: Letters 2
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1996. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. It consists of monographs on influential figures, studies of movements and ideas in theatre, as well as primary material consisting of theatre-related documents, performing editions of plays in English, and English translations of plays from various vital theatre traditions worldwide. Complementing the first volume of Edward Bond's letters, which provided a theoretical introduction to many of the social and political issues in his plays, Edward Bond Letters Volume II is organized into seven chapters which explore Bond's approach to some of the plays in performance.Trade Review". . .`acting' must be created in the space in the head - a new form of humanity for the future which confronts the audience, for the struggle in the present: that's the connection between the space of the stage and the space of the brain. The space stage is limitless because you can artistically extend it to infinity - your fingernail can be the place of armies: the head is limitless because imagination has speculation constantly encroaches on its ignorance."Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Worlds; Chapter 2 Summer; Chapter 3 Human Cannon; Chapter 4 War Plays; Chapter 5 Restoration; Chapter 6 Jackets; Chapter 7 Olly’s Prison;
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Brill U Fink Screening the Creative Process: Genius, Gender,
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Brill I Fink Uben Uben
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Schwabe Verlag Basel Spielweisen und Wissen
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Universitätsverlag Winter Elende totgeborene Machwerke
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transcript Verlag Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe
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Alexander Verlag Berlin Not Even a Game Anymore The Theatre of Forced
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Alexander Verlag Berlin The Art of Assembly
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Spector Books Human Space Machine: Stage Experiments at the
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Ergon Conrad Ekhof
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Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U Las amazonas de España: La hazaña mayor de
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Damiani Hello Stranger
Book SynopsisHello Stranger is the new book by the theater group Motus, whose hybrid work has unleashed dramaturgy and artistic languages as well as produced new scenic forms since its founding in the early 1990s. Hello Stranger is an “atlas of images” and textual fragments focused on eight thematic chapters. These topoi have been transformed throughout the years, through the evolution of time and the bodies that have inhabited Motus’s stage. Built around the photographic images of the almost 100 shows that Motus has created, the words are a “choral” accompaniment, almost a polyphonic soundtrack, featuring the short contributions of company members, their fellow artists, and critics.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What's So Funny?: Sketches from My Life
Book SynopsisIllustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her acute observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with major figures (Palucca, Voskovec and Werich, Brecht, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hans Sahl, and Marilyn Monroe), revealing to the reader the world of a great artist in movement and mime.What's So Funny? includes texts by Horst Koegler, Voskovec and Werich, Joel Schechter, and Bertolt Brecht.Trade Review"Her name is Goslar, but she was born in Dresden. She wanted to become a dancer and studied with Palucca, but she became a mime and a clown and created for herself her own form that she called 'Pantomime Circus'. Clive Barnes, until recently the all-powerful critic of The New York Times, took the easy way out and called her simply 'divine'." -- Horst KoeglerTable of ContentsChapter 1 How Sweet It Is; Chapter 2 First Memories; Chapter 3 Palucca; Chapter 4 So Much Luck (I); Chapter 5 The Disgruntled; Chapter 6 Up and Out; Chapter 7 The Peppermill Theater; Chapter 8 The Liberated Theater; Chapter 9 The Dancing Clown, Voskovec, Werich; Chapter 10 The Fortune Teller; Chapter 11 Off to America; Chapter 12 A Propos Aging; Chapter 13 So Much Luck (II); Chapter 14 On Tour: Road Signs; Chapter 15 To The Rescue; Chapter 16 A New World; Chapter 17 The Turnabout Theater; Chapter 18 My Film Career; Chapter 19 Cats I’ve Met; Chapter 20 The Dancing Hausfrau; Chapter 21 Lotte Goslar’s Circus Scene, Joel Schechter; Chapter 22 TV; Chapter 23 Magic; Chapter 24 Not So Magic; Chapter 25 A New Experience; Chapter 26 Marilyn; Chapter 27 A Large Landscape; Chapter 28 What’s So Funny?;
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Gordon and Breach The Simpleton
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2000. The Simpleton, which was written in 1968 and could not be performed for political reasons, saw the light of day only in 1994. Its complex games of power and identity, played out among a group of actors, remain entirely contemporary today. Set in a theatre, The Simpleton, in the age-old tradition of Russian drama, tackles the timeless problems of personal freedom and inner independence. It is anything but a simple play with its complicated chameleon-like nature new levels of reality continually moving in to push their predecessors out of the way. The mystification begins at the outset with the future arsonist, the Fop, prowling through the gall grumbling about the presence of spectators... The Simpleton is unlike anything else that was being written in the Soviet Union at the time and aside from its searing thematic content, it is astonishingly inventive in its theatricality.
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Gordon and Breach Your Murderer
Book SynopsisFrom Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov. Your Murderer is a richly grotesque hodgepodge of different linguistic levels that defies all rules and mixes a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense. Daniel Gerould is Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. He is the Editor of Slavic and East European Performance and of harwood academic publishers's Polish and East European Theater Archive series. Your Murderer comes from Russia and is an ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable - richly grotesque and on different linguistic levels. that defies all rules, mixing a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense.
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Bloomsbury Academic Rachel Crothers
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Bloomsbury Academic Nowhere to Go but Up
Book SynopsisLily E. Hirsch is a writer, musician, and reformed academic (former professor at Cleveland State University). Her work has been featured in national publications such as Ms. Magazine, the Guardian, and the Washington Post, as well as humor sites like Slackjaw, Belladonna Comedy, and Frazzled. She is the author of eight previous books including Weird Al: Seriously and Can't Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono. She lives with her kids, husband, and very old dog in Bakersfield, California.
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Haymarket Books Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and
Book SynopsisVolume 1 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society explores the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can consolidate cohabitation and create meaningfulness, in addition to fulfilling economic and regulatory needs. As symbolic forms of collective social practices, artistic and cultural forms weave together the meaning of territories, contexts, and peoples, and also of the generations who traverse them. These forms of meaning interact with the social imaginary, mediate marginalization, transform barriers into bridges, and are indispensable tools for any social coexistence and its continuous rethinking in everyday life. The various epistemic approaches present here refer to sociology, theatre studies, cultural studies, psychology, economy of culture, and social statistics which observe theatre as a social phenomenon. Contributors are: Maria Shevstova, Ilaria Riccioni, Roberta Paltrinieri, Gerhard Glüher, Raimondo Guarino, Mariselda Tessarolo, Raffaele Federici, Marco Serino, Maria Grazia Turri, Elena Olesina, Elena Polyudova, Marisol Facuse, Vincenzo Del Gaudio, Laura Gemini, Stefano Brilli, Jessica Camargo Molano, Annalisa Cicerchia, Simona Staffieri and Giulia Cavrini.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Artistic Processes and Characteristics: Key Problems of the Sociology of the Theatre In Dialogue with Pierre Bourdieu Maria Shevtsova2 The Social and Political Impact of the Theatre in Contemporary Society Ilaria Riccioni3 Theatre at University as a Way to Increase the Sense of Citizenship and Civil Spirit Roberta Paltrinieri4 Staged Passages between Art and Everyday Life Gerhard Glüher5 Urban Environment, Places for Performance A Groundbreaking Experience: Renato Nicolini and Estate Romana (1976–1985) Raimondo Guarino6 The Theatre as the Stage of an Elusive Further Society Mariselda Tessarolo7 Paris and Popular Theatre in Robert Michels La foule and the Audience in the Years of Classical Sociology Raffaele Federici8 The Undone Discipline A Historical and Critical-Theoretical Account of the Sociology of the Theatre Marco Serino9 Theatre as Intersubjective Space for the Mediation of Collective Identity Outline of a Psychoanalytic Perspective Maria Grazia Turri10 Historical Reenactment and Theatrical Performance On New Perspectives of Educational Methods Elena Olesina and Elena Polyudova11 Political Theatre in the 20th Century Elements for Archaeology Marisol Facuse12 Blast Theory between Public Space and Social Space Vincenzo Del Gaudio13 Live/Life Sharing The Use of Social Media by Contemporary Theatre Companies in Italy Laura Gemini and Stefano Brilli14 Theatre as a Means of “Interpreting” Lockdown The Case of Staged Jessica Camargo Molano15 Cultural Welfare Theatre in the Limelight Annalisa Cicerchia and Simona Staffieri16 Measuring Culture – How and Why? Giulia CavriniIndex
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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 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 A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater
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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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