Theatre studies Books
The University of Michigan Press This Is My Body
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£28.45
LUP - University of Michigan Press Toward a Theater of the Oppressed
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£64.95
The University of Michigan Press The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy
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£60.95
The University of Michigan Press Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right
Book SynopsisExplores the complex relationship between avant-garde art and politics to reveal links with right-wing or fascist causes
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Plautus Poenulus A Student Commentary
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAdmirably clear and full, introducing the reader to a wide range of modern Plautine scholarship and not straying into its wilder fantasies." - Keith Maclennan, Classics For All
£70.85
LUP - University of Michigan Press Spectacular Disappearances
Book SynopsisHow can the modern individual control his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is not a new one. Julia Fawcett traces it back to 18th-century London - and to the strange and spectacular self-representations performed there by England's first modern celebrities.Trade Review“Well-written and packed with interesting information about a coterie of performer/writers whom we don’t typically read as a coterie. Fawcett’s scholarship makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ways in which some of the first public celebrities coped with their fame.” —Judith Pascoe, University of Iowa“This powerfully argued and beautifully written study adds rich historical perspective to celebrity studies.” —Misty Anderson, University of Tennessee
£40.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans
Book SynopsisExamining play texts, theatrical reviews, political discourse, and public performances of Jewish rights and rituals, Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans argues that Jewish stage types shed light on our understanding of the status of Jewish Americans during a critical historical period.Trade ReviewA formidable study, based upon a prodigious amount of research, for which the author is to be heartily commended. The breadth of archival coverage and the wide array of primary sources she has identified and consulted is exemplary."" - Eli Faber, John Jay College""A seminal study that will influence our continuing efforts to understand the 19th century American theatre. Nathans has pulled together various strands of Jewish history—religious, secular, theatrical—to weave a convincing pattern about the way Jewish plays and characters changed as the culture changed. This book has set a high bar for research in 19th century American theatre."" - Tice Miller, University of Nebraska
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Textures of Mourning
Book SynopsisHow does mourning emerge to reshape Japanese visual culture? Textures of Mourning addresses this question by examining engrossing literary and visual portrayals of death and its aftermath from The Tale of Genji and its adaptations.
£87.79
The University of Michigan Press Contemporary Mormon Pageantry
Book SynopsisLooks at Mormon pageants, outdoor theatrical productions that celebrate church theology, reenact church history, and bring to life stories from the Book of Mormon. Megan Sanborn Jones examines four pageants in the US - the Hill Cumorah Pageant in New York, the Manti Pageant in Utah, the Nauvoo Pageant in Illinois, and the Mesa Easter Pageant.Trade ReviewContributes to a richer understanding of religious performance by exploring aspects of a faith that isn't known for being liturgical and whose other sacred ritual performances are closed to outsiders-analysis of present-day Mormon practice is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature . . . An important and highly readable book that will interest readers across several different fields."" - Tona Hangen, Worcester State University""Reveals the distinctive relationship between theology and theater in the Mormon church. Through compelling and astute analyses of several annual pageants, Jones demonstrates how elements such as space, acting style, and spectacle are deployed in order to strengthen the relationship between the living and the dead, both for actors and spectators . . . this book [will be] accessible to a broad audience and a significant contribution to scholarship on religion and theater."" - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Ruins
Book SynopsisTheorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theatre - the aesthetics of ruins.Trade ReviewIt has been a long time since I read a work of great and serious scholarship with such enjoyment. Impressive in expression, content, and imbued by an encompassing imaginative 'presence' unusual in academic writing . . . As a scholar who has spent his life researching within the realms (sometimes arcane) of ancient theatre, I repeatedly encountered both facts previously unknown to me, or interpretations of familiar subjects cast in a manner that displayed and illuminated them in such an entirely new light, that they seemed freshly fashioned and novel. I admire this book greatly."" - Richard C. Beacham, King's College, London""A gripping study of classical theatre's preservation of its own goneness. This is a learned, innovative, and wonderfully readable book that overthrows the methodological constraints of archeo-historicism to elaborate (from rich evidence) the self-forgetting that conditions the theatre at its roots . . . a powerful, marvelous book."" - Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago
£65.50
The University of Michigan Press Scenes from Bourgeois Life
Book SynopsisProposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility. This engagingly written treatise on history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of “why theater matters”, and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.Trade ReviewRidout’s prose is a pleasure to read; his glosses on theory are illuminating; his excavations of primary texts are surprising; his argument is timely, and substantial enough to influence the course of scholarship in the field." —Julia Jarcho, New York University"An important contribution to theater studies and the study of the role of spectatorship... the book also deepens our understanding of the public character of theater (and art in general) and their relationship to the social and cultural processes in capitalism." —Bojana Kunst, Justus Liebig University Giessen"Ridout identifies what other scholars of spectatorship have failed to see: that the ongoing wrenching of hands about how spectators watch suffering on a stage but feel an inability to do anything about it is a historical condition that can be changed. This is the new necessary book on spectatorship." —Maurya Wickstrom, CUNY Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island
£56.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Sound Changes Improvisation and Transcultural
Book SynopsisResponds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance.
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Global White Snake
Book SynopsisThe story of The White Snake is one of the ""four great narratives"" of China and yet it is almost unknown in the West. The Global White Snake is a major, accessible contribution to our knowledge of the story, its traditional interpretations and its importance throughout history.Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Chapter 1. Introduction to White Snake Legends Gender and Species, Media and Politics Metamorphoses and Regenerations Legends of the White Snake The Power of Transmigration Aspirations in the Remaking of the Legends Theoretical Implications Part I. White Snake at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 2. The White Snake Problem versus The White Snake Industry The White Snake Problem Inspirations from Kentucky Mystery of the White Snake Hangchow, the “City of Heaven” The White Snake Industry New White Snake Performances, 1870s to 1920s The Popularity of jingju, tanci, and yueju Stage Performance, Urban Gossip, Print Culture, and Intellectual Lamentations Sounding the White Snake: Shaping New Media, New Practice, and New Sensibilities Rong Stage Dominates White Snake Performances Concluding Remarks: The Fall of the Pagoda and the Burning of the Monastery Chapter 3. Fall of the Pagoda and Rise of the White Snake: Visualization and Canonization Fall of the Pagoda and the Visualization of a Vanished Past Bricks, Scriptures, and Visuality: Relics from and Memories of the Thunder Peak Legend, Art Photography, and War Drawing: Timely Journalism and Chinese Popular Imagination Shadows of the Pagoda: Coming to Terms with the Fall through Visual and Textual Representations The Rise of the White Snake and Canonization of “The White Snake Modern” Lu Xun’s Verdict and The Righteous Snake on the Silver Screen The Pagoda in the Film Concluding Remarks: The White Snake Modern Part II Profound Humanity of the Nonhuman during the Cold War Chapter 4. The White Snake Legend in Postwar Japanese Cinema Exquisite Paradise and Forbidden Love in Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu Between Light and Shadow: Infinite Shades of Gray Sound and Look of a Lady Wakasa Film: Pottery, Water, and Mutual Enchantment White Pearl, Red Scarf, and “The Witchcraft of Love” in Byaku fujin no yoren Red Scarf, Manifested Desire, and Significance of Color Special Effects and Technologies of the “Witchcraft of Love” From Hong Kong to Southeast Asia Flowers, Animals, and Humans: Animating the White Snake Legend in Hakujaden From Live-action to Animation “Disney of the East” and Connections between China and Japan Concluding Remarks: A Token of Love Chapter 5. Reconfiguring the White Snake in Korean Cinema in an Inter-Asian Context Sino-Korean Cinematic Connections Shin Sang-ok and the 1960 Madam White Snake The Shadow of Ugetsu and Holding Hands at First Sight Dance to Seduce and Lovers’ Chat in a Moonlit Garden Mutual Love and Devotion, and the Humanity of the Nonhuman Humanity Aided by Special Effects Shin’s Forgotten Second Attempt at a “White Snake” Film: Snake Woman in 1969 A Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Coproduction? Love of the White Snake in 1978 The Taiwan Connection in the Context of a Hong Kong-Singapore Cinematic Matrix Concluding Remarks: The Korean Connection in an Inter-Asian Context Part III. The Specter of the Past in Contemporary Popular Culture Chapter 6. Dancing White Snake, Writing Green Snake: Reconfiguring the Legend in Mainland China and Hong Kong Writing and Dancing, the Text and the Body The Expressiveness of the Hybrid Body and the Iconoclasm of the Green Snake Writing Women of China A Dancing White Snake: Centered on the “Untold Stories” Writing, Dancing, and the Cultural Revolution as Memory and Imagination Concluding Remarks: Lingering Echoes Chapter 7. The White Snake Legend in the United States in the Twenty-First Century: Opera, Drama, and Digital Video From Chinese Legend to Pulitzer-Prize Winning Western Opera: Madame White Snake Green Snake the Storyteller Righteousness against Love, Truth against Freedom The Singaporean and Mainland Chinese Origins The Powers and Possibilities of Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake The Wuzhen Experience More Inspirations from Kentucky Students A Female Writer of Socialist China: Zhao Qingge and Her 1956 Novel The CTC Production in Washington D. C. Poetry, Photography, and Fashion: Digital Challenges from Indrani Chapter 8. Nothing Ever Dies: The Eternal Bodies of the White Snake Korean Webtoon Lady White and Her Afterlife in Chinese The Return of the Powerful Hybrid in the 2019 Internet Drama Legend of White Snake Queering an Icon, Becoming a Demon in the 2019 Animation White Snake: The Legend Begins Everlasting Bodily Memory: From the 1992 New Legend of Madame White Snake to the 2016 Star of Tomorrow The Bodies of the Green Snake and the White Snake Concluding Remarks: The Multiplicity and Openness of the Eternal Bodies of the Snake Women Notes Selected Chronological List of White Snake Texts Selected Bibliography Glossary Index
£65.50
The University of Michigan Press Feeling the Future at Christian EndTime
Book SynopsisExplores this prevalent human desire to envision the End by analysing how various live End-Time performances allow people to live in and through future time. The book’s main focus is contemporary Christian End-Time performances and how they theatrically construct encounters with future time.
£60.95
University of California Press Great Reckonings in Little Rooms
Book SynopsisDeals with theater phenomenon. This title focuses on the activity of theater making itself out of its essential materials: speech, sound, movement, scenery, text, etc.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One: The Scene 1. The World on Stage 2. The Scenic Illusion: Shakespeare and Naturalism 3. The Scenic Illusion: Expressionism and After Part Two: The Actor 4. Actor /Text 5. Actor /Audience Index
£25.65
University of California Press Art of Suppression
Book SynopsisA study that asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts. To answer this question, it investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts have been colored by politics of the Cold War.Trade Review"[Potter's] book unquestionably provides a ground-breaking historiographic foundation for understanding the mechanisms that stood behind the descriptions and analyses of the Third Reich and the cultural and artistic life of the Nazi state...She raises significant questions related to myths about the unrestricted power of authoritarian and dictatorial regimes in all matters related to culture. And, most important, she hints at anti-democratic, authoritarian trends found in liberal and Western societies today where cultural life is ostensibly immune to intervention and coercion." Ha'aretz
£46.75
University of California Press Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
Book SynopsisExplores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. This book shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies - over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration.Trade Review"Obligatory reading for anyone interested in Greek tragedy, reception studies, the history of the theater, or US cultural history... Essential." -- P. Nieto, Brown University Choice "[A] monumental mosaic of a book." -- Oliver P. Foley The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction CHAPTER ONE. Greek Tragedy Finds an American Audience 1. Setting the Stage 2. American Theater Makes Greek Tragedy Its Own CHAPTER TWO. Making Total Theater in America: Choreography and Music 1. Hellenic Influences on the Development of American Modern Dance 2. American Gesamtkunstwerke 3. Musical Theater 4. Visual Choreography in Robert Wilson's Alcestis CHAPTER THREE. Democratizing Greek Tragedy 1. Antigone and Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Boston 1890 Antigone 2. Performance Groups in the 1960s--1970s: Brecht's Antigone by The Living Theatre 3. The 1980s and Beyond: Peter Sellars's Persians, Ajax, and Children of Heracles 4. Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound in the United States: From the Threat of Apocalypse to Communal Reconciliation CHAPTER FOUR. Reenvisioning the Hero: American Oedipus 1. Oedipus as Scapegoat 2. Plagues 3. Theban Cycles 4. Deconstructing Fatality 5. Abandonment CHAPTER FIVE. Reimagining Medea as American Other 1. Setting the Stage: Nineteenth-Century Medea 2. Medea as Social Critic from the Mid-1930s to the Late 1940s 3. Medea as Ethnic Other from the 1970s to the Present 4. Medea's Divided Self: Drag and Cross-Dressed Performances Epilogue Appendix A. Professional Productions and New Versions of Sophocles' and Euripides' Electras Appendix B. Professional Productions and New Versions of Antigone Appendix C. Professional Productions and New Versions of Aeschylus's Persians, Sophocles' Ajax, and Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound Appendix D. Professional Productions and New Versions of Oedipus Tyrannus Appendix E. Professional Productions and New Versions of Euripides' Medea Appendix F. Professional Productions and New Versions of Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis and Iphigeneia in Tauris Appendix G. Other Professional Productions and New Versions Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press Behind the Scenes
Book SynopsisBehind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved the spirited participation of actors, audiences, press, and financiers as well as of the famous poet-playwright who was its co-director. His book unfolds an entertaining and suspenseful tale, centered on the undeniably autocratic personality of W.B. Yeats and with the political struggles of Ireland as a backdrop. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally p
£64.00
University of California Press Henry Irvings Waterloo
£63.90
University of California Press The Operetta Empire
Book SynopsisCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 When the world comes to an end, Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, all the big city orchestras will still be playingThe Merry Widow. Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár'sThe Merry Widowwere preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves intothis vibrant theatrical culture, whosecreators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment.Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth-century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranelloestablishes operetta as an important element ofTrade Review“Ultimately, The Operetta Empire makes a powerful case for us to engage with operetta afresh with a new awareness of its complicated ambitions, the ambivalent mixture of emotions it conveys, and its difficult reception in history. . . . It all adds up to a deeply satisfying and fascinating book that no one interested in operetta—or this period of Vienna’s musical history—will want to miss.” * Opera Magazine *"This is an excellent study of the musical, historical, economic, social, and political background of the Silver Age Viennese operetta, which is generally supposed to have begun with Franz Lehár’s composition The Merry Widow in 1905. Baranello brings operetta into the mainstream of musicological studies, continuing a trend toward scholarly consideration of popular forms of music theater, such as the American musical." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Map of Vienna Introduction: Operetta in Vienna 1. Die lustige Witwe and the Creation of Silver Age Viennese Operetta 2. Sentimentality, Satire, and Labor 3. Hungary, Vienna, and the "Gypsy Operetta" 4. Operetta and the Great War 5. Exotic Liaisons 6. Operetta in the Past Tense Notes Bibliography Index
£46.75
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Eastman Theatre
Book SynopsisThe Eastman Theatre: Fulfilling George Eastman's Dream provides a stunning celebration of the history and renovation of the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York. The book is richly illustrated with period imagery as wellas breathtaking photographs by award-winning photographer Andy Olenick. Part one of the book presents the importance of music to George Eastman; part two traces the development of the Eastman School of Music; and part three bringsthe story to the present day, focusing on the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Eastman Theater, and the Eastman School of Music. Elizabeth Brayer lives in Rochester, NY. She has served on both the George Eastman Legacy and the Landscape committees at the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film. She writes about the history of central and Western New York State and is author of George Eastman: A Biography (University of Rochester Press).
£29.69
John Wiley and Sons Ltd English Drama
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive account of the cutlural history of English drama. Drawing upon new empirical research and the latest theoretical models, Shepherd and Womack show how the character of a given theatrical ''age'', as traditionally described, is packed with contradictions and uneven in development. Focusing on key historical moments and modes, they offer chapters on Medieval Theatre, Renaissance Drama, Restoration Comedy, Melodrama, and Naturalism, and conclude with accounts of Post-War British Theatre and the State, and Drama in the Age of Television.Trade Review"There is much here to stimulate the thinking student and to galvanize the curious into further reading." Christine Dymkowski, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. User's Guide. 1. Medieval Theatre. 2. The Beginning of the Story of Drama. 3. Renaissance Drama. 4. The Image of Elizabethan Drama. 5. Restoration Comedy. 6. Bawdy, Manners and the English National Character. 7. Melodrama. 8. The Unacceptable Face of Drama. 9. Naturalism. 10. 'You Make Me Feel Mighty Real': Proper Drama. 11. Post-War British Theatre and the State. 12. Drama in the Age of Television. Chronological List of Plays. References. Index.
£48.40
Harvard University Press Dancing the Dharma
Book SynopsisDancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Understanding noh’s allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories.Trade ReviewTakes a fresh and illuminating approach to the interpretation of Noh texts. …This book is deeply interdisciplinary, and Klein is painstaking in her efforts to address the religious and historical contexts needed to capture a glimpse of how Muromachi readers and audiences may have thought about these texts. Dancing the Dharma should appeal to a broad range of readers, including specialists in literary studies, history, drama, poetics, and religious studies, and it makes a significant contribution to scholarship in all those fields. -- Shelley Fenno Quinn * Journal of Asian Studies *If we wish to understand better the ways in which medieval Japanese people understood their world (I know I do), then we would do well to attend to allegoresis and the esoteric, sometimes outlandish, readings they applied to the same classic texts we are reading today for different reasons. … Klein has plowed through them with aplomb and constructed interesting but convincing readings of these difficult texts. A worthy follow-up to her previous book, Dancing the Dharma makes a significant contribution to our understanding of medieval Japanese literature, religion, and drama. -- Paul S. Atkins * Monumenta Nipponica *…The author’s research and argumentation remain meticulous and precise, with painstakingly detailed discussions and contextualizations that point to new implications for each play. In this sense, Dancing the Dharma performatively enacts the analytical strategies of its object of study: by disentangling the intricate layers of meaning in nō plays that are not immediately apparent to the uninitiated, Klein instructs the readers about the ways in which such plays should be experienced and understood more fully. -- Terry Kawashima * Journal of Japanese Studies *
£50.11
Harvard University Press Naqqali Trilogy
Book SynopsisWidely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. Naqqali Trilogy blends traditional Iranian storytelling with contemporary philosophy and technique in a cycle of mythological revisionism. This volume presents a pinnacle of world drama for the first time in English translation.
£12.30
Harvard University Press The Cornucopian Stage
Book SynopsisAriel Fox's The Cornucopian Stage examines a body of influential yet understudied early modern Chinese plays by a circle of Suzhou playwrights. These plays about long-distance traders and small-time peddlers, impossible bargains and broken contracts, place commercial forms not only at center stage but at the center of a new world coming into being.
£35.66
Princeton University Press The Proof Stage
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Abbott proves a companionable guide to the coincident developments in mathematics and theater, breaking down in layman’s terms such concepts as non-Euclidian geometry and explaining just how they relate to Stoppard, Beckett, Brecht, Jarry, and other avant-garde playwrights."---Robert Erickson, The New Criterion"[Abbott] masterfully interweaves mathematical ideas and theatrical works. . . . A wonderful gem for anyone interested in mathematics or theater—or both. Encore!"---J. Johnson, Choice"Extraordinary."---Paul J. Campbell, Mathematics Magazine
£27.00
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Histoire et Recueil des Lazzis
Book SynopsisPendant l’hiver 1731-32 à Paris, l’actrice Jeanne-Franoise Quinault réunit dans le plus grand secret un petit groupe de sept amis pour une série de soupers fins accompagnés de représentations théâtrales.Trade ReviewWe have here almost a compendium of popular culture, ranging from a costume ball, a magic-lantern show [...] to parades, parodies and couplets [...] essential reading for anyone interested in either the theatre or the social history of the period.Ce texte fort bien présenté prendra place à côté de ceux de Gueullette et de Collé.Table of ContentsIntroductionHistoire et recueil des LazzisBibliographieIndex
£98.30
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Madame de Genlis et le th233226tre d201ducation
Book SynopsisNotre parcours des œuvres de madame de Maintenon, de madame de Genlis, de Moissy, de madame de la Fite, de Saint-Marc, de Berquin, de Garnier, de Nougaret et de madame Campan montre que le théâtre d’éducation est une réalité littéraire et éditoriale.Table of ContentsIntroduction I Aux origines du théâtre d’éducationII Etude d’un cas: le théâtre de madame de Genlis III Diversité et tendances du théâtre d’éducationConclusionBibliographieIndex des noms d’auteurs
£98.30
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Poison et le rem232de th233226tre morale et
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsListe des illustrationsRemerciementsI Des mots et des imagesII Entre les mots et les actesIII Les figures de la négationIV Hommes d’Eglise et hommes de lettresV Entre-deux VI Du ciel vers la terre VII Une éloquence nouvelleConclusionBibliographieIndex
£98.30
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Th233226tre 224 Montpellier 17551851
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage posthume de Pierre Jourda propose une histoire du théâtre de Montpellier de 1755, date de la construction de la première salle, à 1851.Trade Review'Cet ouvrage précis, rigoureux et admirablement méticuleux s’adresse en particulier à tous ceux qu’intéresse de près ou de loin l’histoire de la vie théâtrale en France.'The French Review'Jourda’s focused study allows us to see, in microcosm, a range of issues and this should be of value for researchers in diverse fields.'ECCBTable of ContentsPierre Jourda (1898-1978)Liste des illustrationsPréface, Michel BideauxAvant-proposI De 1755 à la Revolution1 La salle2 La vie théâtraleII Dix-neuvième siècle. Du Premier au Second Empire3 Les pouvoirs publics et le théâtre4 L’organisation et le théâtre5 Les directeurs6 les finances7 La troupe8 Le public 9 Le répertoire 10 La crise du théâtreAppendicesGlossaire relatif aux emplois de comédiensBibliographieIndex analytiqueIndex des noms de personnes
£98.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd In Praise of Theatre
Book SynopsisIn Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage.Trade Review"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!" Slavoj iek "Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda." Terry Eagleton "One of the most important philosophers writing today." Joan Copjec "An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser." New StatesmanTable of ContentsContents Alain Badiou and the untimely stage: translator�s introduction by Andrew Bielski 1. Defense of an endangered art 2. Theatre and philosophy, story of an old couple 3. Between dance and cinema 4. Political stages 5. The place of the spectator Translator�s notes Index
£11.77
McGill-Queen's University Press The Theatricality of Robert Lepage
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£999.99
Cornell University Press Places of Performance The Semiotics of Theatre
Book Synopsis"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of...
£45.00
MB - Cornell University Press Collaborations with the Past
Book Synopsis"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and...Trade ReviewCollaborations with the Past is a thought-provoking analysis of Shakespeare's role in key periods of English cultural history, from the Romantics, represented by Sir Walter Scott, through to present-day film, television, and stage productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Henry V. * Review of English Studies *The most probing and productive collaborations with Shakespeare, the English past, and the 'woman's part’ recorded in these pages are arguably those undertaken by Diana E. Henderson herself, in a performance made the more compelling by the unusual blend of intelligence and sheer scholarly panache with which it is tendered. * Comparative Drama *Table of ContentsShake-shifting: An IntroductionPart One: Novel Transformations1. Bards of the Borders: Scott's Kenilworth, the Nineteenth Century’s Shakespeare, and the Tragedy of Othello2. A Fine Romance: Cymbeline, [Jane Eyre], and Mrs. DallowayPart Two: Media Crossings3. The Return of the Shrew: New Media, Old Stories, and Shakespearean Comedy4. What’s Past Is Prologue: Shakespeare’s History and the Modern Performance of Henry VBibliography Index
£55.25
Cornell University Press Laughing Matters
Book SynopsisSara Beam, in revealing how theater and politics were intimately intertwined, shows how the topics we joke about in public reflect and shape larger religious and political developments.Trade ReviewSara Beam rightly claims that the story of farce is a useful gauge of the evolving climate of early modern France.... Most fascinating is Beam's account of how, in the early seventeenth century, satire of a type that had decades earlier been found in the theater made its way into printed pamphlets published in the name of noted performers of farce. -- Julia Prest * Times Literary Supplement *Sara Beams's book is packed with engaging information on the history of farce and its evolution within the political, religious, and cultural contexts of early modern France.... The writing is clear and engaging, and the content never less than interesting. In exploring a topic that has received too little scholarly attention, Beam brings to light the significant relationship between farce and politics in early modern France. * Comparative Drama *
£63.90
Cornell University Press Stagestruck
Book SynopsisStagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution.Trade ReviewClay uses rich and diverse sources to prove that dramatic performance, like luxury goods and other examples of material culture, reached a great number of French subjects during the eighteenth century.... Stagestruck is a carefully argued attack against the narrative of Parisian primacy that still dominates cultural discourses today, and a necessary read for any student of eighteenth-century French theatre as well as political, cultural, and economic history. -- Logan J. Connors * French Studies *"Lauren Clay's important new study documents a veritable theater boom whose extent had never been fully apprehended. She achieves a delicate balance between geographic and temporal breadth of coverage and depth of researchwriting a truly national yet locally grounded history that does justice to individuals taking actions in specific situations. By documenting the formation and day-to-day operations of a national marketplace for culture in eighteenth-century FranceStagestruck makes vital contributions to our fledgling understanding of markets in an increasingly commercial society." —Thierry Rigogne,The Journal of Modern HistoryLauren Clay's study of the business of theatre in eighteenth-century France is a model of ambitious thoughtful research. This is the rare work of French history that is truly national in scale and the author offers well-reasoned contributions to multiple fields of history.... [An] elegantly written and stunningly researched book. -- Clare Haru Crowston * Canadian Journal of History *Lauren R. Clay's take on the business of theatre in eighteenth-century France feels both vital and fresh, thanks to its focus on provincial France and its colonies rather than a more frequent Paris-centric take.... Her study is an engaging and necessary one, providing scholars and students alike with a new perspective from which to understand cultural production in the eighteenth century. -- Claire Trevien * French History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Making of a French Theater Industry1. Investing in the Arts2. Designing the Civic Playhouse3. The Extent and Limits of State Intervention4. Directors and the Business of Performing5. The Work of Acting6. Consumers of Culture7. The Production of Theater in the ColoniesEpilogue: Culture, Commerce, and the StateAppendix: Timeline of Inaugurations and Significant Renovations of Dedicated Public Theaters in France and the French Colonies, 1671–1789Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Index
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Cornell University Press Collaborations with the Past
Book SynopsisLike the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and surroundings; we are left to supplement the traces. In recovering that past, the present takes on greater clarity and contrast. But the proof must be in the telling. A writer lifts a pen. Enter the multiple forcespolitical and economic, psychological, formal, and technicalthat serendipitously transform imagination into memory. Let the collaborative play begin.from the IntroductionFocusing on key writers, actors, theater directors, and filmmakers who have kept Shakespeare at the center of their endeavors over the past two hundred years, Collaborations with the Past illuminates not only the playwright''s work but also the choices and responsibilities involved in re-creating culture, and the ingenuity and peril of the artistic processTrade ReviewCollaborations with the Past is a thought-provoking analysis of Shakespeare's role in key periods of English cultural history, from the Romantics, represented by Sir Walter Scott, through to present-day film, television, and stage productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Henry V. * Review of English Studies *The most probing and productive collaborations with Shakespeare, the English past, and the 'woman's part’ recorded in these pages are arguably those undertaken by Diana E. Henderson herself, in a performance made the more compelling by the unusual blend of intelligence and sheer scholarly panache with which it is tendered. * Comparative Drama *Table of ContentsShake-shifting: An IntroductionPart One: Novel Transformations1. Bards of the Borders: Scott's Kenilworth, the Nineteenth Century’s Shakespeare, and the Tragedy of Othello2. A Fine Romance: Cymbeline, [Jane Eyre], and Mrs. DallowayPart Two: Media Crossings3. The Return of the Shrew: New Media, Old Stories, and Shakespearean Comedy4. What’s Past Is Prologue: Shakespeare’s History and the Modern Performance of Henry VBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Places of Performance
Book Synopsis"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of...
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Cornell University Press Austria as Theater and Ideology
Book SynopsisAustria''s renowned Salzburg Festival has from the outset engaged issues of cultural identity in a country that has difficulty coming to terms with its twentieth-century history. That this is the case was especially apparent in 1999, when the Austrian president opened the festival with a speech attacking its profile under the direction of Gerard Mortier and calling for a return to the ideals of its spiritual founder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal. This proved the opening shot in a renewed debate about the direction of the Festival, which is in fact a debate about the identity of Austria itself. The issues posed foreshadowed the uproar that erupted several months later when Joerg Haider''s right-wing Freedom Party joined a coalition with the conservative People''s Party, wresting control of the government from the Socialists and provoking the wrath of Austria''s partners within the European Union. What accounts for the profound intellectual and cultural ambivalences that have characterized ATrade Review"Steinberg makes the case with remarkable scholarship and analysis that summertime Salzburg . . . was the scene of an attempt to reconstitute Austria as a European cultural center after it had been marginalized by the collapse of the Habsburg empire. This new image of Austria was to be at once nationalist and, in its attachment to ideals taken from the Catholic Baroque, universalist and conservative."—Edward W. Said, The Nation"Austria as Theater and Ideology provides fascinating insights into various aspects of the culture that shaped the Salzburg Festival. . . . Integrating political history, biography, drama, and opera analyses and critique of ideology, Steinberg places the Salzburg Festival in the broad framework of Austrian intellectual history. The book is a well-researched, thoughtful, stimulating, often provocative study of one of Austria's most beloved, yet controversial, institutions."—German Studies Review"Steinberg is intent on probing just what the festival's founders saw themselves as celebrating and how their original vision can be understood against the background of forces and demands within fin de siècle Austria. . . . He shares his methods with many cultural historians and utilizes these methods with an impressive command, making his book an excellent example of what such an approach can accomplish."—Opera Quarterly"Michael P. Steinberg's book is more than a history of the Salzburg Festival. It is an important study of the relations between culture and politics in general."—Gerard Mortier, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival
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Cornell University Press Shakespeare Remains
Book SynopsisNo literary figure has proved so elusive as Shakespeare. How, Courtney Lehmann asks, can the controversies surrounding the Bard's authorship be resolved when his works precede the historical birth of that modern concept? And how is it that Shakespeare...Trade ReviewThis is a first-rate study-densely written, expertly controlled, and intellectually invigorating.... Shakespeare Remains is a rare work-an original reflection on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater and an important contribution to discussion about 'the contestatory nature of Shakespeare's inheritance.'... Will significantly change perceptions of Shakespeare in all of his historical guises. -- Mark Thornton Burnett * Shakespeare Quarterly *Overall, Lehmann's book is itself a montage of sorts, an intelligent, inventive engagement between Shakespeare studies and post-modern theory. * Virginia Quarterly Review *The issue of authorship—its history, meaning, and significance—is what Courtney Lehmann explores in her book Shakespeare Remains: Theatre to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. -- Ken Wong * Consciousness, LIterature and the Arts *Equally smart and timely, Courtney Lehmann's Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern is both original and conceptually brilliant.... Assured work by one of the best scholars of Shakespeare's films, this is a 'don't miss' book. -- Barbara Hodgdon * Studies in English Literature *Shakespeare Remains... provides readers of Shakespeare and performance practitioners with an accessible critical perspective that links the literary body of Shakespeare's received texts to contemporary film adaptations of his plays. -- Joe Falocco, Catawba College * Renaissance Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press The Medieval Theater of Cruelty
Book SynopsisWhy did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle...Trade ReviewA powerful discourse.... An eloquent reading of the blurring of the boundaries among theories of torture, rhetoric, and drama. * Theatre Journal *The contemporary cultural currency of violent yet pleasurable entertainments—and their tendency to spill over into 'real life'—lends urgency to Enders's interrogation of the dark side of medieval spectacle and performance and to her powerful argument about how and why medieval rhetoric, violence, and theater can and should matter to us all. -- Theresa Coletti * Speculum *An intellectually challenging... book that deserves serious consideration by medievalists.... The Medieval Theater of Cruelty offers invigorating new perspectives on violence in medieval drama as well as in all forms of aesthetic and rhetorical invention, and asks us to reconsider current pieties. -- Kathleen Ashley * Arthuriana *This book... should not be ignored by specialists interested in medieval drama or in the nature of violence in any period. * Choice *Enders presents her argument in such a careful manner that even the most conservative reader will find it persuasive.... I highly recommend The Medieval Theater of Cruelty not only for its content but also for its process: it stands as a fine example of how modern theory may responsibly be integrated into discussions of medieval texts.... An extremely well-written, persuasive, and stimulating book. -- Leanne Groenveld * Comparative Drama *This book is essential for those interested in late medieval theater and medieval rhetoric. It is replete with examples from both sources, and offers many readings of little-known or under-appreciated medieval plays—both mysteres and farces.... This is a very useful and interesting book, which I highly recommend. It is very thorough and very subtle in its core argumenst, and Enders is to be credited for her willingness to expand these arguments into larger theoretical contexts.... This book successfully crosses the boundary from medieval scholarship to broader, comparative issues in literary and cultural studies, and makes a powerful case for the continuing importance of the Western tradition of rhetoric in contemporary cultural life. -- Andrew Cowell * The Comparatist *This important new study returns to the topics of rhetoric and medieval drama but implicates these areas of this writer's interest and expertise with another topic about which she cares with equal passion: the historical continuity and seeming ubiquity of violence and cruelty. -- Ann Blake * Parergon *
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Cornell University Press Political Actors Representative Bodies and
Book SynopsisFrom the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and...Trade ReviewIn Political Actors, Paul Friedland explores wider connections between politics and theatre in the Revolution.... Complex innovations in the theory and practice of political representation are juxtaposed with more accessible theatrical innovations before and during the Revolution; both are read as manifestations of 'a fundamental revolution in representation itself', and so connected at a high level of abstraction.... Friedland presents a wealth of interesting and often unexpected exchanges between politics and theatre. * Times Literary Supplement *Theoretical changes in theatrical and political representation also took place during the final decades of the Old Regime... but the shift in political representation was institutionalized in a single year.... Friedland achieves an impressive effect by anchoring this epistemological shift to the outbreak of the Revolution and by constructing a narrative of theatrical representation that also centers on the same year. The notorious political instability of the Revolution, and the turbulence in the French public theaters of the 1790s, were manifestations of this epochal shift in French strategies of representation. The argument, elegant and powerful, is made even more compelling by the clarity of Friedland's prose and the depth of his research. -- Jeffrey Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * H-France Book Review *This is a book about a major conceptual development in political theory. And in terms of both argument and method, it is strikingly original and thoughtful. By focusing on an issue that was central to eighteenth-century epistemology and cultural life as well as democratic thought, Friedland succeeds in making concrete what would seem otherwise to be simply a metaphor: that revolutionary politics was a modern drama. And that makes this ambitious book itself an impressive performance. -- Sophia Rosenfeld * American Historical review *Paul Friedland has developed a strong and provocative argument about how changes in abstract notions of representation—how one thing stands for another—shaped the emergence of new forms of political thought. He has uncovered remarkable and surprising parallels between changing ideas of representation in politics and in the world of theater, and also between the ideas of counter-revolutionary royalists on the one hand and the most radical Jacobins on the other. He uses these parallels to show why liberal ideas of representative democracy had such difficulty gaining acceptance in Revolutionary France. * The New Republic *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the 16th century, Italians rediscovered and reinvented an old art form: the ancient Latin comedy. In this anthology, Giannetti and Ruggiero have translated five of the most representative plays of the period, presenting the modern reader with a view of Italian Renaissance society.Trade ReviewThe translations of these bold and sometimes bawdy Italian imitations of raucous Latin comedy are readable and playable. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance An intelligently prefaced book which makes available in sensible, accurate English-to scholars and students of drama and of the Renaissance, as well as to general readers-a coherent body of theatre which is culturally and intrinsically valuable. -- Ronnie Ferguson Modern Language Review 2006Table of ContentsLa Calandra (The Comedy of Calandro) / by Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena; La mandragola (The Mandrake Root) / by Niccolao Machiavelli; Il Marescalco (The Master of the Horse) / by Pietro Aretino; Gl'ingannati (The Deceived) / by the Academy of the Intronati of Siena; La Veniexiana (The Venetian Comedy) / Anonymous.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Fritz Lang
Book SynopsisIn applying critical theory to Lang's Hollywood-made film noirs, melodramas, Westerns, and spy films, Humphries provocatively complicates auteur theory and revitalizes an unjustly neglected phase in the career of one of cinema's boldest visionaries.Trade ReviewReynold Humphries dismisses any suggestion that Lang lost his artistic soul the moment he was sucked into industrial Hollywood, and he wastes no time trying to show that Lang's American films are 'about' innocence, guilt, and destiny. Instead, he goes beyond the meaning of the films... and dismantles the techniques which Lang used to serve up what he wanted us to see. What he offers is a detailed, sometimes minute analysis of how Lang presents us with images to look at... Lang does not simply emerge as a Mabuse who makes us see faces in the wallpaper, but as an artist who exploits his audience as a functional element of the filmmaking process. -- David Coward Times Literary Supplement Sheds new light on basic theoretical problems of the interrelationship between genres, classical film narrative, and audience perceptiveness. American Cinematographer
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Johns Hopkins University Press Blackout
Book SynopsisBiesen brings prodigious archival research, accessible prose, and imaginative insights to both well-known films noir of the wartime period-The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Double Indemnity-and others often overlooked or underrated-Scarlet Street, Ministry of Fear, Phantom Lady, and Stranger on the Third Floor.Trade ReviewBiesen adds a new perspective that enhances scholarship on the subject and makes this book a must. Choice 2006 Ms Biesen describes too how film noir drew on societal anxieties as Americans faced fear, loss and shortages during the war and viewed ever-more-harrowing newsreel footage. 'As life on the homefront became increasingly hard-boiled,' she writes, 'so too did American film.' -- Nina Ayoub Chronicle of Higher Education 2006 Biesen's book is readable, informative and jargon free... Biesen uses her research into studio archives, the films' attendant publicity and the contemporary press to bring alive the wartime period of film noir and its transformation into a post-war genre for dealing with troubled veterans returning home, the coming of the Cold War, nuclear angst and the effects of McCarthyism on Hollywood and the nation at large. Times Literary Supplement 2006 Readers will come away from Blackout with a fuller understanding of the industrial and historical contexts of wartime film noir. -- Charles Maland Cineaste 2006 This text offers a compelling history of wartime Hollywood and a provocative challenge to current noir scholarship. Southern California Quarterly 2006 An important contribution to the history of film noir. -- Jan-Christopher Horak Screening the Past 2006 A film noir aficionado, Biesen provides the most detailed and thoroughly researched interpretation of this era's American film noir. -- Clayton Koppes American Historical Review 2007 The author is to be congratulated on producing an exemplary study in empirical film history. -- Brian Neve Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 2008Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Elements of Noir Come TogetherChapter 3. Hollywood in the Aftermath of Pearl HarborChapter 4. Censorship, Hard-Boiled Fiction, and Hollywood's "Red Meat" Crime CycleChapter 5. Rosie the Riveter Goes to HollywoodChapter 6. Hyphenates and Hard-Boiled CrimeChapter 7. Black Film, Red MeatNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
Book SynopsisMany of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.Trade ReviewLewis's book provides not only a wealth of information but also delightful reading. It should be part of every library as a starter point for classes on American nineteenth-century public culture. Amerikastudien / American Studies 2006 Belongs in the collection of anyone who claims to be serious about the study of American popular entertainments. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 2006 Includes a range of useful and previously inaccessible sources. Both researchers and teachers will find it a valuable reference. Australasian Journal of American Studies 2006 An impressive and judiciously selected collection of relevant documents... This compendium is notable for its broad coverage of forms, informative commentary, and superb bibliographic essay on sources. Choice 2004 An eminently useful book... It is an excellent reader for introducing students to cultural history, bringing it alive through primary sources. Cercles All-encompassing... it is likely to become a standard work, for media students as well as for American history enthusiasts. -- Stephen Bottomore Early Popular Visual Culture 2008Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: From Celebration to Show BusinessTHE DIME MUSEUM Early Museum Shows Selling and Seeing Curiosities Commentary Dog Days of the Museum MINSTRELSY Routines: Songs, Speeches, Dialogue, and Farce Commentary: Rise and Fall of "Slave" Creativity Reminiscences Musical Comedy: Harrigan's Mulligan Guard Confessions of an African American Minstrel THE CIRCUS The Circus Debated The Early Circus Big Business The Audience MELODRAMA A Plea for an American Drama Classic Melodrama Classic Melodrama's Audiences The Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodramas"LEG SHOW" BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZAS The Black Crook A Burlesque of Burlesque Reactions to the Controversy The Popular-Price CircuitTHE WILD WEST SHOW Origins Extracts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Programs Exhibiting Indians SUMMER AMUSEMENT PARKS Journalists and the "New" Coney Showmen and the "Amusement Business" Popular Responses Two Critics of Coney's BanalityVAUDEVILLE Vaudeville Defined The Business Routines
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Johns Hopkins University Press Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness AwardsLess than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years'' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O''Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of the American war for British audiences and how these convergent media attempted to articulate a post-American future for British imperial society.Building on the methodological innovations of his 2005 publication Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800, O'Quinn demonstrates how the reconstitution of British imperial subjectivities involved an almost nightly engagement with a rich entertainment culture that necessarily incorporated information circulated in the daily press. Each chapter investigates different moments in the American crisis through the analysis of scenes of social and theatrical performance and through careful readings of works by figures such as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Cowper, Hannah More, Arthur Murphy, Hannah Cowley, George Colman, and Georg Friedrich Handel. Through a close engagement with this diverse entertainment archive, O''Quinn traces the hollowing out of elite British masculinity during the 1770s and examines the resulting strategies for reconfiguring ideas of gender, sexuality, and sociability that would stabilize national and imperial relations in the 1780s. Together, O''Quinn''s two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will be of interest to scholars in theater and performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, Romanticism, and trans-Atlantic studies.Trade ReviewThe result of reading such an intense and lengthy study is a feeling of great satisfaction. -- Elizabeth Fay Wordsworth Circle Deserves a prominent place among recent publications by literary scholars... investigative, interpretative, and integrative. With Daniel O'Quinn, it is also intrepid. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research This is an erudite and entertaining book, and a brief review like this one cannot really do justice to the complexity of O'Quinn's analysis or to the sheer number and variety of texts, events, and artifacts that are examined in the course of his discussion.This is a book that will requard and enlighten any patient reader with an interest in cultural studies and the history of the British empire. AMS Press In this remarkably original and detailed study... O'Quinn's authoritative synthesis of theatricality and audience response gives us a deep and refreshing understanding of how a culture constitutes itself through creative expression and thoughtful mediation, and ultimately, how it knows that despite defeat, the show must still go on. -- Leslie Elizabeth Eckel Studies in Romanticism Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium is an engaging and erudite study of British reception of the American Revolutionary War through the combined media force of theatre and newspapers during the late eighteenth century... Ultimately, this book presents a satisfying chronological narrative that contributes to greater understanding of how media reception of social performances shaped British subjectivity during and after the American Revolution. -- Daniel Smith Theatre JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Entertainment, Mediation, and the Future of EmpireI. Diversions1. The Agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus: John Burgoyne's Remediated Pleasures2. Out to America: Performance and the Politics of Mediated SpaceII. Regime Change3. To Rise in Greater Splendor: John André's Errant Knights4. "The body" of David Garrick: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, America, and the Ends of TheatreIII. Celebrations5. Which Is the Man? Remediation, Interruption, and the Celebration of Martial Masculinity6. Days and Nights of the Living Dead: HandelmaniaCoda: "In praise of the oak, its advantage and prosperity"NotesIndex
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University of Toronto Press A Celebration of Ben Jonson
Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume were given by some of the world’s foremost Jonsonian scholars at a conference at the University of Toronto which marked the 400th anniversary of his birth. Each contributor came from a different institution, and Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and New Zealand were represented. The balance of papers likewise reflects the range of Ben Jonson’s achievement and the combination of brio and control so characteristic of him.The papers arrange themselves in pairs: ‘The Incredibility of Jonsonian Comedy,’ as discussed by Professor Clifford Leech, is of a piece with distrust and defiance of the audience as discussed in the paper ‘Jonson and the Loathèd Stage’ by Professor Jonas Barish; Professor George Hibbard in ‘Ben Jonson and Human Nature’ and Professor D.I. McKenzie in ‘The Staple of News and the Late Plays’ offer critical assessment of plays, the one wide-ranging, the ot
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