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Lincoln and Shakespeare (Paperback): Michael Anderegg Lincoln and Shakespeare (Paperback)
Michael Anderegg
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Lincoln Prize Finalist It was the measure of Shakespeare's poetic greatness, an early commentator remarked, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. "If this be so," Walt Whitman wrote, "I should say that what Shakespeare did in poetic expression, Abraham Lincoln essentially did in his personal and official life." Whitman was only one of many to note the affinity between these two iconic figures. Novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights have frequently shown Lincoln quoting Shakespeare. In Lincoln and Shakespeare, Michael Anderegg for the first time examines in detail Lincoln's fascination with and knowledge of Shakespeare's plays. Separated by centuries and extraordinary circumstances, the two men clearly shared a belief in the power of language and both at times held a fatalistic view of human nature. While citations from Shakespeare are few in his writings and speeches, Lincoln read deeply and quoted often from the Bard's work in company, a habit well documented in diaries, letters, and newspapers. Anderegg discusses Lincoln's particular interest in Macbeth and Hamlet and in Shakespeare's historical plays, where we see themes that resonated deeply with the president-the dangers of inordinate ambition, the horrors of civil war, and the corruptions of illegitimate rule. Anderegg winnows confirmed evidence from myth to explore how Lincoln came to know Shakespeare, which editions he read, and which plays he would have seen before he became president. Once in the White House, Lincoln had the opportunity of seeing the best Shakespearean actors in America. Anderegg details Lincoln's unexpected relationship with James H. Hackett, one of the most popular comic actors in America at the time: his letter to Hackett reveals his considerable enthusiasm for Shakespeare. Lincoln managed, in the midst of overwhelming matters of state, to see the actor's Falstaff on several occasions and to engage with him in discussions of how Shakespeare's plays should be performed, a topic on which he had decided views. Hackett's productions were only a few of those Lincoln enjoyed as president, and Anderegg documents his larger theatergoing experience, recreating the Shakespearean performances of Edwin Booth, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest, and others, as Lincoln saw them.

Catalogue of a Valuable and Interesting Collection of Books Formed by a Prominent American Playwright, Consisting of an... Catalogue of a Valuable and Interesting Collection of Books Formed by a Prominent American Playwright, Consisting of an Unusually Choice and Desirable Assemblage of Books Relating to the Drama, Shakespeariana, History of the English and American Stage, ... (Hardcover)
George A. Leavitt Co
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare - The Undiscovered Diary of His Strange Eventful Life and Loves (Hardcover): Terry... The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare - The Undiscovered Diary of His Strange Eventful Life and Loves (Hardcover)
Terry Tamminen
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke's Company (Hardcover): Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Richard Schoch Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke's Company (Hardcover)
Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Richard Schoch; Series edited by Farah Karim-Cooper, Peter Holland
R2,848 Discovery Miles 28 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how - and why - the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare's lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke's Company, Sir William Davenant influenced how Shakespeare was performed in a profound and lasting way. This open access book provides the first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, exploring the precursors to Davenant's approach to Restoration Shakespeare, the cultural context of Restoration theatre, the theatre spaces in which the Duke's Company performed, Davenant's adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, acting styles, and the lasting legacy of Davenant's approach to staging Shakespeare. The eBook editions of this work are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Queens University Belfast.

Poking the WASP Nest - Young People, Applied Theatre, and Education about Race (Paperback): Andre de Quadros, Dave Kelman,... Poking the WASP Nest - Young People, Applied Theatre, and Education about Race (Paperback)
Andre de Quadros, Dave Kelman, Julie White, Christopher C. Sonn, Alison M. Baker
R1,371 Discovery Miles 13 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This innovative project wrapped research around a youth theatre project. Young people of colour and from refugee backgrounds developed a sustained provocation for the people of Geelong, a large regional centre in Australia. The packed public performance-at the biggest venue in town-challenged locals to rethink assumptions. The audience response was insightful and momentous. The companion workshops for schools had profound impact with adolescent audiences. Internationally, this book connects with artistic, educational, and research communities, offering a substantial contribution to understandings of racism. This book is a provocative, transdisciplinary meditation on race, culture, the arts and change.

The Shaksperian Stage (Hardcover): Victor Emanuel 1878- Albright The Shaksperian Stage (Hardcover)
Victor Emanuel 1878- Albright; Created by Benno 1854-1919 Loewy
R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Australian Theatre after the New Wave - Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist (Paperback): Julian Meyrick Australian Theatre after the New Wave - Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist (Paperback)
Julian Meyrick
R2,408 Discovery Miles 24 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Australian Theatre after the New Wave, Julian Meyrick charts the history of three ground-breaking Australian theatre companies, the Paris Theatre (1978), the Hunter Valley Theatre (1976-94) and Anthill Theatre (1980-94). In the years following the controversial dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government in 1975, these 'alternative' theatres struggled to survive in an increasingly adverse economic environment. Drawing on interviews and archival sources, including Australia Council files and correspondence, the book examines the funding structures in which the companies operated, and the impact of the cultural policies of the period. It analyses the changing relationship between the artist and the State, the rise of a managerial ethos of 'accountability', and the growing dominance of government in the fate of the nation's theatre. In doing so, it shows the historical roots of many of the problems facing Australian theatre today. "This is an exceptionally timely book... In giving a history of Australian independent theatre it not only charts the amazing rise and strange disappearance of an energetic, radical and dynamically democratic artistic movement, but also tries to explain that rise and fall, and how we should relate to it now." - Prof. Justin O'Connor, Monash University "This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Australian theatre and, more broadly... to the global discussion about the vexed relationship between artists, creativity, government funding for the arts and cultural policy." - Dr. Gillian Arrighi, The University of Newcastle, Australia

A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre (Hardcover): Jess Thorpe, Tashi Gore A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre (Hardcover)
Jess Thorpe, Tashi Gore
R2,865 Discovery Miles 28 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the 2021 Music & Drama Education Award for Outstanding Drama Education Resource Much of the theatre we make starts with a script and a story given to us by someone else. But what happens when we're required to start from scratch? How do we begin to make theatre using our own ideas, our own perspective, our own stories? A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre, written by the artistic directors of the award-winning young people's performance company Junction 25 and is aimed at those new to devising or wanting to further develop their skills. It explores creative ways to create original theatre from a contemporary stimulus. It offers a structure within which to approach the creative process, including ideas on finding a starting point, generating material, composition and design; it offers practical ideas for use in rehearsal; and it presents grounding in terminology that will support a confident and informed approach to production. The book features contributions from some of the young performers who have been a part of Junction 25's work to date, as well as key artists and companies that work professionally in devised theatre, including case studies from Quarantine, the Team, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Nic Green and Ontroerend Goed. The work of Junction 25 is used to illustrate the concepts and ideas set out in the book. Ideal for any student faced with the challenge of creating work from scratch, A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre offers constructive guidance, which supports the requirements of students taking Drama and Theatre Studies courses. The book includes a foreword by theatre critic Lyn Gardner.

Wondrous Strange - Seven Brief Thoughts on New Plays (Paperback): Chris Mead Wondrous Strange - Seven Brief Thoughts on New Plays (Paperback)
Chris Mead
R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hardcover): William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Performing Citizenship (Hardcover): Gesa Ziemer, Kathrin Wildner, Sibylle Peters Performing Citizenship (Hardcover)
Gesa Ziemer, Kathrin Wildner, Sibylle Peters
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Two Noble Kinsmen (Hardcover): William Shakespeare The Two Noble Kinsmen (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (Hardcover): Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (Hardcover)
Oscar Wilde
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Applied Theatre: Facilitation - Pedagogies, Practices, Resilience (Hardcover): Sheila Preston Applied Theatre: Facilitation - Pedagogies, Practices, Resilience (Hardcover)
Sheila Preston
R3,985 Discovery Miles 39 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Applied Theatre: Facilitation is the first publication that directly explores the facilitator's role within a range of socially engaged theatre and community theatre settings. The book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding critical facilitation in contemporary dilemmatic spaces and features a range of writings and provocations by international practitioners and experienced facilitators working in the field. Part One offers an introduction to the concept, role and practice of facilitation and its applications in different contexts and cultural locations. It offers a conceptual framework through which to understand the idea of critical facilitation: a political practice that that involves a critical (and self-critical) approach to pedagogies, practices (doing and performing), and resilience in dilemmatic spaces. Part Two illuminates the diversity in the field of facilitation in applied theatre through offering multiple voices, case studies, theoretical positions and contexts. These are drawn from Australia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel/Palestine, Rwanda, the United Kingdom and North America, and they apply a range of aesthetic forms: performance, process drama, forum, clowning and playmaking. Each chapter presents the challenge of facilitation in a range of cultural contexts with communities whose complex histories and experiences have led them to be disenfranchised socially, culturally and/or economically.

The Trial of William Shakespeare - A dramatization of the authorship controversy in which the audience renders a verdict... The Trial of William Shakespeare - A dramatization of the authorship controversy in which the audience renders a verdict (Hardcover)
J. Ajlouny
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Chess Concepts - The Evolution of Chess Ideas (Hardcover, 1st): Daniel Elman Chess Concepts - The Evolution of Chess Ideas (Hardcover, 1st)
Daniel Elman
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Death of Teddy Ballgame - A Play (Paperback, Edition ! ed.): Robert Malier Anderson The Death of Teddy Ballgame - A Play (Paperback, Edition ! ed.)
Robert Malier Anderson; Illustrated by Sandow Brik
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ibsen in Practice - Relational Readings of Performance, Cultural Encounters and Power (Hardcover): Frode Helland Ibsen in Practice - Relational Readings of Performance, Cultural Encounters and Power (Hardcover)
Frode Helland
R2,196 R1,727 Discovery Miles 17 270 Save R469 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Second only to Shakespeare in terms of performances, Ibsen is performed in almost every culture. Since Ibsen wrote his plays about bourgeois family life in Northern Europe, they have become part of local theatre traditions in cultures as different as the Chinese and the Zimbabwean, the Indian and the Iranian. The result is that today there are incredibly many and different 'Ibsens' around the world. A play like Peer Gynt can be staged on the same continent and in the same year as a politically progressive piece of theatre for development in one place, and as a nationalistic and orientalistic piece of elite spectacle in another. This book charts differences across cultures and political boundaries, and attempts to understand them through an in-depth analysis of their relation to political, social, ideological and economic forces within and outside of the performances themselves.Through the discussion of productions of Ibsen plays on three continents, this book explores how Ibsen is created through practice and his work and reputation maintained as a classics central to the theatrical repertoire.

Lachgemeinschaften? - Komik und Behinderung im Schnittpunkt von Aesthetik und Soziologie (Hardcover, New edition): Susanne... Lachgemeinschaften? - Komik und Behinderung im Schnittpunkt von Aesthetik und Soziologie (Hardcover, New edition)
Susanne Hartwig
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Obwohl Komik und Behinderung gerade in den Kunsten immer wieder zusammentreffen, gibt es so gut wie keine theoretisch und methodisch fundierten Auseinandersetzungen mit dieser Thematik in den Literatur-, Kultur- oder Sozialwissenschaften. Gerade im Kontext von Inklusionsdiskussionen jedoch sind Fragen nach dem Potential des Lachens und der Komik, aber auch nach deren Ambivalenz im Zusammenhang mit Behinderung von weitreichender Bedeutung. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme moeglicher Theorien und Analysekonzepte anhand konkreter Einzelanalysen. Die Autor:innen vertreten die Sozial-, Erziehungs-, Literatur-, Kultur-, Medien-, Theater- und Filmwissenschaften.

Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse - Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of... Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse - Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers From the Commencement of Our Theatrical Exhibitions; 2 (Hardcover)
David Erskine 1730-1767 Baker, Stephen 1763-1827 Jones, Isaac 1742-1807 Reed
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Henry IV - Followed by "The License" (Hardcover): Luigi Pirandello Henry IV - Followed by "The License" (Hardcover)
Luigi Pirandello; Translated by Martha Witt, Mary Ann Frese Witt
R837 Discovery Miles 8 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Granville Barker on Theatre - Selected Essays (Hardcover, HPOD): Harley Granville Barker Granville Barker on Theatre - Selected Essays (Hardcover, HPOD)
Harley Granville Barker; Volume editing by Colin Chambers, Richard Nelson
R3,179 Discovery Miles 31 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Granville Barker on Theatre brings together some of the most important critical theatrical writings of Harley Granville Barker, a major figure of 20th-century British theatre. Known as a pioneer of the National Theatre and Repertory Movement, and remembered mainly for his Prefaces to Shakespeare, from the 1900s to his death in the 1940s Granville Barker commented enthusiastically in newspaper items, introductions to plays, articles, essays, articles, and published lectures on a range of topics: the nature of theatre as an art form and as a social medium, the need for ensemble playing in a repertory system, the relationship between the three chief constituents of theatre - the actor, the playwright and the audience. Granville Barker on Theatre makes available again these writings in which Barker dissects the state of theatre as he saw it, with coruscating critiques of the commercial system, the long run and censorship, the vitality of theatre outside Britain, and what he saw as the welcome renaissance of theatre in non-professional groups liberated from the profit motive. These writings show a master practitioner concerned with, above all, promoting a new type of drama; vital not only for its own sake but for the sake of the health of society at large.

A Doll's House (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Henrik Ibsen
R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hamlet and Macbeth (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): William Shakespeare Hamlet and Macbeth (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays (Hardcover): Lawrence Manley, Sally-Beth Maclean Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays (Hardcover)
Lawrence Manley, Sally-Beth Maclean
R2,316 Discovery Miles 23 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For a brief period in the late Elizabethan Era an innovative company of players dominated the London stage. A fellowship of dedicated thespians, Lord Strange's Men established their reputation by concentrating on "modern matter" performed in a spectacular style, exploring new modes of impersonation, and deliberately courting controversy. Supported by their equally controversial patron, theater connoisseur and potential claimant to the English throne Ferdinando Stanley, the company included Edward Alleyn, considered the greatest actor of the age, as well as George Bryan, Thomas Pope, Augustine Phillips, William Kemp, and John Hemings, who later joined William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage in the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Though their theatrical reign was relatively short lived, Lord Strange's Men helped to define the dramaturgy of the period, performing the plays of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and others with their own distinctive flourish.
Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean offer the first complete account of the troupe and its enormous influence on Elizabethan theater. Seamlessly blending theater history and literary criticism, the authors paint a lively portrait of a unique community of performing artists, their intellectual ambitions and theatrical innovations, their business practices, and their fearless engagements with the politics and religion of their time.

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