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An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance (Paperback): Robert Leach An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance (Paperback)
Robert Leach
R2,714 Discovery Miles 27 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political, and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach's masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people, and ethnic minorities, as well as the regional theatres of Wales and Scotland. Highly-illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props.

In Search of Stanislavsky's Creative State on the Stage - With a Practice as Research Case Study (Hardcover): Gabriela... In Search of Stanislavsky's Creative State on the Stage - With a Practice as Research Case Study (Hardcover)
Gabriela Curpan
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state. Filtered through the lens of his unaddressed Christian Orthodox background, as well as his yogic or Hindu interest, the practical work followed the odyssey of the artist, from being oneself towards becoming the character, being structured in three major horizontal stages and developed on another three vertical, interconnected levels. Throughout the book, Gabriela Curpan aims to question both the cartesian approach to acting and the realist-psychological line, generally viewed as the only features of Stanislavski's work. This book will be of great interest to theatre and performance academics as well as practitioners in the fields of acting and directing.

The Jew of Malta (Paperback, Critical edition): Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta (Paperback, Critical edition)
Christopher Marlowe; Edited by Lloyd Kermode
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1633 quarto (Q) text-the only authoritative version-with modernised spelling and silent alteration of obvious errors, of confusing punctuation and of word-form changes. A Textual Notes section follows the play. Editorial matter by Lloyd Kermode. Six illustrations and one map. An unusually rich selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century contexts, thematically organised to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Theater and Marlowe", "Machiavelli and Mediterranean Identities" and "Ideas of the Jew". Twenty-seven critical interpretations spanning three centuries and including seven considerations of The Jew of Malta in performance. A chronology and a selected bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

The City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond - Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies (Hardcover): Alexandra F... The City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond - Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies (Hardcover)
Alexandra F Johnston; Edited by edited by David N. Klausner
R3,937 Discovery Miles 39 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected Studies CS1062 This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of Alexandra F. Johnston, which along with similar volumes by the late David Mills, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies". Alexandra Johnston, the founding director of the research project, Records of Early English Drama, is one of these four key scholars whose work has had a profound influence on the study of medieval and early modern English drama. This collection of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers' documents that initiated the project itself; on the theology and christology of the plays; on the relationship between the plays and contemporary administrative bodies, both civic and national; and on the performance of the York plays in modern times. A further group of articles considers documentary evidence for the wide range of drama and mimetic ceremony in the Midlands and the West Country, reinforcing our understanding that these events took place predominately on a local parish level. The collection is rounded out with a survey of the immense changes that our reading of early English drama have undergone over the past half century.

Nigerian Female Dramatists - Expression, Resistance, Agency (Hardcover): Bosede Funke Afolayan Nigerian Female Dramatists - Expression, Resistance, Agency (Hardcover)
Bosede Funke Afolayan
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book showcases the important, but often understudied, work of Nigerian women playwrights. As in many spheres of life in Nigeria, in literature and other creative arts the voices of men dominate, and the work of women has often been sidelined. However, Nigerian women playwrights have made important contributions to the development of drama in Nigeria, not just by presenting female identities and inequalities but by vigorously intervening in wider social and political issues. This book draws on perspectives from culture, language, politics, theory, orality and literature, to shine a light on the engaged creativity of women playwrights. From the trail blazing but more traditional contributions of Zulu Sofola, through to contemporary postcolonial work by Tess Osonye Onwueme, Julie Okoh, and Sefi Atta, to name just a few, the book shows the rich variety of work being produced by female Nigerian dramatists. This, the first major collection devoted to Nigerian women playwrights, will be an important resource for scholars of African theatre and performance, literature and women's studies.

I and You (Paperback): Lauren Gunderson I and You (Paperback)
Lauren Gunderson
R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Sharp and funny. Gunderson taps into a buoyant spirit ... the touching 'barbaric yawp' (Whitman's phrase) of these two deeply engaging kids." The Washington Post Housebound by illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she has only social media for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in - uninvited and armed with waffle fries, a scruffy copy of Walt Whitman's poetry and a school project due the next day... Caroline is unimpressed, but an unlikely friendship develops and a seemingly mundane piece of homework starts to reveal the pair's hopes and dreams - as well as a deep and mysterious bond that connects them even further. Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2014. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Julie Felise Dubiner.

Education and Dramatic Art (Paperback, 2nd edition): David Hornbrook Education and Dramatic Art (Paperback, 2nd edition)
David Hornbrook; Foreword by Stephen Daldry
R1,848 Discovery Miles 18 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To this day, Education and Dramatic Art remains the only fully worked critique of drama education in schools. Provocative and iconoclastic, this new edition brings the argument up-to-date and locates the author's proposals for a curriculum based on the making, performing and appraisal of dramas securely in the evolving culture of schools. The first section of the book traces the origins and fortunes of drama in schools in the context of changing political times and argues that by neglecting the customs and practices of the theatre, drama-in-education has often kept from the students it professes to empower, the very knowledge and understanding necessary for them to take command of their subject. Part two examines the developmental and pedagogic claims of drama-in-education. Theories of knowledge and meaning and assumptions about schools drama's power to establish a moral and social agenda, are all called to account. Finally, Education and Dramatic Art proposes a multiculturally-based, theoretical structure for the teaching of drama which pulls the theatre and the classroom together and offers teachers the foundation for a broad and balanced drama curriculum with its own distinctive body of knowledge and skills.

Terrence McNally - A Casebook (Paperback): Toby Silverman Zinman Terrence McNally - A Casebook (Paperback)
Toby Silverman Zinman
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rustaveli's 'The Man in the Panther Skin' and European Literature (Hardcover): Elguja Khintibidze Rustaveli's 'The Man in the Panther Skin' and European Literature (Hardcover)
Elguja Khintibidze
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Rustaveli's 'The Man in the Panther Skin' and European Literature (Paperback): Elguja Khintibidze Rustaveli's 'The Man in the Panther Skin' and European Literature (Paperback)
Elguja Khintibidze
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Marsha Norman - A Casebook (Paperback): Linda Ginter Brown Marsha Norman - A Casebook (Paperback)
Linda Ginter Brown
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Student Guide to Antonin Artaud - From Theory to Practice (Paperback): Lee Jamieson Student Guide to Antonin Artaud - From Theory to Practice (Paperback)
Lee Jamieson
R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Discusses Artaud's influence over theatre and investigates why his theories and the questions he asked still reverberate in contemporary culture.

Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): Lauren Taaffe Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Lauren Taaffe
R1,607 Discovery Miles 16 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian's 'women plays' in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays' ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women's rights, the value of women's work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing - Theater, Film, and Television (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Janet Neipris A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing - Theater, Film, and Television (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Janet Neipris
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing addresses all three genres of dramatic writing - for theatre, film and TV - in a comprehensive, one-semester, 14-week masterclass for the dramatic writer. Including new material alongside revised, extended selections from Janet Neipris' original and much loved book To Be A Playwright, this volume takes the writer up to a first draft and rewrite of a dramatic work. The fourteen chapters, organized like a semester, guide the writer week-by-week and step-by-step to the completion of a first draft and a rewrite. There are Weekly Exercises and progressive Assignments. Chapters include Beginnings, Creating Complex Characters, Dialogue, Escalating Conflicts, Endings, Checkpoints, Comedy, and Adaptation. For professional writers, teachers, and students, as well as anyone who want to complete their first piece. An award winning playwright and Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU, Janet Neipris has written for Screen and Television. She has also taught dramatic writers at UCLA and in China, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, Italy, and in the UK at Oxford, CSSD, University of Birmingham, and the University of East Anglia. Previous publications include To Be A Playwright (Routledge 2006). Janet Neipris's plays and letters are in the Theatre Collection of Harvard University's Houghton Library.

A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage (Hardcover): Jocelyn L. Buckner A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage (Hardcover)
Jocelyn L. Buckner
R3,902 Discovery Miles 39 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage places this renowned, award-winning playwright's contribution to American theatre in scholarly context. The volume covers Nottage's plays, productions, activism, and artistic collaborations to display the extraordinary breadth and depth of her work. The collection contains chapters on each of her major works, and includes a special three-chapter section devoted to Ruined, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. The anthology also features an interview about collaboration and creativity with Lynn Nottage and two of her most frequent directors, Seret Scott and Kate Whoriskey.

Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama - Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination (Hardcover, New Ed): Brian... Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama - Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination (Hardcover, New Ed)
Brian Sheerin
R4,347 Discovery Miles 43 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by acting as if it were there. Author Brian Sheerin contends that the motivating force behind both literary and economic inquiry at this time was the same basic quandary about the human imagination--specifically, how investments of belief can produce tangible consequences. Just as speculators were realizing the potency of collective imagination on economic circulation, readers and dramatists were becoming newly introspective about whether or not the 'lies' of literature could actually be morally 'profitable.' Could one actually benefit by taking certain fictions 'seriously'? Each of the five chapters examines a different dimension of this question by highlighting a particular dramatization of economic trust on the Renaissance stage, in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Heywood, Dekker, and Jonson. The book fills a gap in current scholarship by keeping economic and dramatic interests rigorously grounded in early modern literary criticism, but also by emphasizing the productive nature of debt in a way that resonates with recent economic sociology.

Staging the End of the World - Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis (Paperback): Brian Kulick Staging the End of the World - Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis (Paperback)
Brian Kulick
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes, plagues, environmental degradations, warfare, nuclear annihilation, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Using a wide range of plays alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis. Kulick divides this litany of theatrical cataclysms into four distinct historical phases: the Ancients, including Euripides and Bhasa, the legendary Sanskrit dramatist; the Age of Belief, with the anonymous authors of the medieval mystery cycles, Shakespeare, and Pushkin; the Moderns, with Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, Beckett, and Bond; and, finally, the way the world might end now, encompassing Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and Anne Washburn. In tandem with the insights gleaned from these playwrights, the book draws upon the work of contemporary scientists, ecologists, and ethicists to further tease out the philosophical implications of such plays and their relevance to our own troubled times. In the end, Kulick shows how each of these ages and their respective authors have something essential to say, not only about humanity's potential end, but, more importantly, about the possibility for our collective continuance.

Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre - Translation, Performance, Politics (Hardcover): Sirkku Aaltonen, Areeg Ibrahim Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre - Translation, Performance, Politics (Hardcover)
Sirkku Aaltonen, Areeg Ibrahim
R4,368 Discovery Miles 43 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means, from the 19th century to the present day. Essays address the narratives that structure theatrical, textual, and performative representations and the ways the rewriting process has varied in different contexts and at different times. Drawing on concepts from Theatre and Performance Studies, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Diaspora Studies, scholars and practitioners from Egypt and the West enter into dialogue with one another, expanding understanding of the different fields. The articles focus on the ways theatre texts and performances change (are rewritten) when crossing borders between different worlds. The concept of rewriting is seen to include translation, transformation, and reconstruction, and the different borders may be cultural and national, between languages and dramaturgies, or borders that are present in people's everyday lives. Essays consider how rewritings and performances cross borders from one culture, nation, country, and language to another. They also study the process of rewriting, the resulting representations of foreign plays on stage, and representations of the Egyptian revolution on stage and in Tahrir Square. This assessment of the relationship between theatre practices, exchanges, and rewritings in Egyptian theatre brings vital coverage to an undervisited area and will be of interest to developments in theatre translation and beyond.

African American Women Playwrights - A Research Guide (Paperback): Christy Gavin African American Women Playwrights - A Research Guide (Paperback)
Christy Gavin
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Techniques In Adlerian Psychology (Hardcover): Jon Carlson, Steven Slavik Techniques In Adlerian Psychology (Hardcover)
Jon Carlson, Steven Slavik
R3,472 Discovery Miles 34 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Horror Plays of the English Restoration (Hardcover, New Ed): Anne Hermanson The Horror Plays of the English Restoration (Hardcover, New Ed)
Anne Hermanson
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author's contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man's relationship to God, power, justice and evil.

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (Hardcover, New Ed): Mathew R. Martin Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Mathew R. Martin
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contending that criticism of Marlowe's plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe's plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; however, in Marlowe's plays, a traumatic aesthetics disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin's fresh reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern period's most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe's six other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe's drama tragedy is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma.

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama - Republicanism, Stoicism and Authority (Hardcover, New edition):... Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama - Republicanism, Stoicism and Authority (Hardcover, New edition)
Daniel Cadman
R3,918 Discovery Miles 39 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as 'closet drama', during the years 1590-1613. It is the first book-length study since 1924 to consider these plays - the dramatic works of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, along with the Roman tragedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd - as a coherent group. Daniel Cadman suggests these works interrogate the relations between sovereigns and subjects during the early modern period by engaging with the humanist discourses of republicanism and stoicism. Cadman argues that the texts under study probe various aspects of this dynamic and illuminate the ways in which stoicism and republicanism provide essential frameworks for negotiating this relationship between the marginalized courtier and the absolute sovereign. He demonstrates how aristocrats and courtiers, such as Sidney, Greville, Alexander, and Cary, were able to use the neo-Senecan form to consider aspects of their limited political agency under an absolute monarch, while others, such as Brandon and Daniel, respond to similarly marginalized positions within both political and patronage networks. In analyzing how these plays illuminate various aspects of early modern political culture, this book addresses several gaps in the scholarship of early modern drama and explores new contexts in relation to more familiar writers, as well as extending the critical debate to include hitherto neglected authors.

The Mirror of Confusion - The Representation of French History in English Renaissance Drama (Paperback): Andrew M. Kirk The Mirror of Confusion - The Representation of French History in English Renaissance Drama (Paperback)
Andrew M. Kirk
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chushingura and the Floating World - The Representation of Kanadehon Chushingura in Ukiyo-e Prints (Paperback): David Bell Chushingura and the Floating World - The Representation of Kanadehon Chushingura in Ukiyo-e Prints (Paperback)
David Bell
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Kanadehon Chushingura has been one of the most popular bunraku and kabuki plays. This fascinating study explores the full spectrum of ukiyo-e (floating world) representations of the Chushingura story. Essential reading for all students of Japanese theatre, the history of Japanese art and the social history of Japan.

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