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The Plays of Caryl Churchill - Theatre of Empowerment (Hardcover): Amelia Howe Kritzer The Plays of Caryl Churchill - Theatre of Empowerment (Hardcover)
Amelia Howe Kritzer
R4,228 Discovery Miles 42 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study focuses on themes and techniques of empowerment in the full range of produced plays by Caryl Churchill from 1960 to the present. The playwright is well known for combining theatrical inventiveness with uncompromising social critique. She is one of the very few contemporary women playwrights to have achieved international prominence, and she has done so on the basis of a forthright socialist-feminist stand.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams (Hardcover, New): Brenda Murphy The Theatre of Tennessee Williams (Hardcover, New)
Brenda Murphy; Contributions by Annette J. Saddik, Bruce McConachie, Felicia Hardison Londre, John S. Bak
R3,144 Discovery Miles 31 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams' dramatic work by one of America's leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid a flurry of conferences devoted to his work in 2011, and his plays a central part of any literature and drama curriculum and uibiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In Brenda Murphy's major study of his work she examines his life and career and provides an analysis of more than a score of his key plays, including in-depth studies of major works such as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others. She traces the artist figure who features in many of Williams' plays to broaden the discussion beyond the normal reference points. As with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series, this book features too essays by Bruce McConachie, John S. Bak, Felicia Hardison Londre and Annette Saddik, offering perspectives on different aspects of Williams' work that will assist students in their own critical thinking.

Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising - Prophet Motives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Christopher Wixson Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising - Prophet Motives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Christopher Wixson
R2,176 Discovery Miles 21 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book charts how promotional campaigns in which Bernard Shaw participated were key crucibles within which agency and personality could re-negotiate their relationship to one another and to the consuming public. Concurrent with the rise of modern advertising, the creation of Shaw's 'G.B.S.' public persona was achieved through masterful imitation of patent medicine marketing strategies and a shrewd understanding of the relationship between product and spokesman. Helping to enhance the visibility of his literary writing and dovetailing with his Fabian political activities, 'G.B.S.' also became a key figure in the evolution of testimonial endorsement and the professionalizing of modern advertising. The study analyzes multiple ad series in which Shaw was prominently featured that were occasions for self-promotion for both Shaw and the agencies, and presage the iconoclastic style of contemporary 'public personality' and techniques of celebrity marketing.

Theatre of Real People - Diverse Encounters at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond (Hardcover): Ulrike Garde, Meg Mumford Theatre of Real People - Diverse Encounters at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond (Hardcover)
Ulrike Garde, Meg Mumford
R3,617 Discovery Miles 36 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors. After providing a history of this mode of performance, and theoretical frameworks for its analysis, the book focuses on work developed by seminal practitioners at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) production house. It invites the reader to explore the HAU's innovative approach to Theatre of Real People, authenticity and cultural diversity during the period of Matthias Lilienthal's leadership (2003-12). Garde and Mumford also elucidate how Theatre of Real People can create and destabilise a sense of the authentic, and suggest how Authenticity-Effects can present new ways of perceiving diverse and unfamiliar people. Through a detailed analysis of key HAU productions such as Lilienthal's brainchild X-Apartments, Mobile Academy's Blackmarket, and Rimini Protokoll's 100% City, the book explores both the artistic agenda of an important European theatre institution, and a crucial aspect of contemporary theatre's social engagement.

The Merchant of Venice (Paperback, Original): William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (Paperback, Original)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
R290 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R35 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

FOLGER Shakespeare Library: the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies.

Each edition includes:
- Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
- Scene-by-scene plot summaries
- A key to famous lines and phrases
- An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
- An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
- Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare

Checking out Chekhov - A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers (Hardcover, New): Sharon Marie Carnicke Checking out Chekhov - A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers (Hardcover, New)
Sharon Marie Carnicke
R2,124 Discovery Miles 21 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Theatres world-wide embrace Chekhov's handful of plays with a fervour second only to Shakespeare's. Whatever their native language or culture, audiences often see themselves in his Russian characters, making Chekhov seem an author who easily transcends his own culture and time. Nonetheless, students, actors, and audiences alike are often initially puzzled by Chekhov's dramatic texts. Are they comic or tragic, ironic or sincere, starkly familiar or willfully elusive? How can his often seemingly irrelevant dialogue create dynamic performances? In his stories and plays alike, Chekhov challenges his readers to diagnose his characters' desires, opinions, heartaches and joys in the same way that doctors diagnose illness by attending closely to apparently trivial details. In the plays where narrative voice is absent and characters speak for themselves reading under a microscope becomes all the more necessary. The expert attention that Carnicke pays to the performative dimensions of Chekhov's plays makes her book unique among the published guides to Chekhov's works.

The National Black Drama Anthology - Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters (Paperback): Various... The National Black Drama Anthology - Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters (Paperback)
Various Authors
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater, much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by regional theaters. This is doubly true of plays by African American authors, who, despite a few notable exceptions (August Wilson, George C. Wolfe), suffer under a commercial apartheid that keeps black plays off Broadway. Of necessity, African American theater artists have to create their own venues from the ground up. This wide-ranging anthology edited by the founder of the New Federal Theater celebrates the work of that company's black-owned, black-run peers by presenting work by 11 dramatists. Among the most interesting are Jeff Stetson's moving The Meeting, which imagines a meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and Shauneille Perry's fascinating updating of In Dahomey, the 1903 musical hit that was the first 'all-Black show' on Broadway." - Jack Helbig, Booklist

Sean O'Casey - A Research and Production Sourcebook (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Bernice Schrank Sean O'Casey - A Research and Production Sourcebook (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Bernice Schrank
R2,396 Discovery Miles 23 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sean O'Casey is recognized as one of the most important Irish playwrights of the 20th century. When he was in his early 20s, he committed himself to the nationalist struggle to free Ireland from English domination. During the Dublin General Strike and Lock-Out of 1913, he came to appreciate the importance of social class, and he rejected Irish nationalism in favor of international socialism. Though "The Shadow of a Gunman" and "Juno and the Paycock" helped save the Abbey Theatre from near bankruptcy, "The Plough and the Stars" drew open criticism in 1926, when nationalists rioted over O'Casey's treatment of the Easter Rebellion.

This reference work is a comprehensive guide to O'Casey's plays. The volume begins with an introductory essay that discusses the political themes of his plays, the controversy surrounding his works in Ireland, the response to his plays in England and other countries, and the growth of academic interest in O'Casey in the 1960s. Plot summaries and critical overviews are provided for all of his dramatic works, and production credits are given for major performances of his plays. The volume includes extensive annotated bibliographical information for secondary sources, including reviews.

Performance, Exile and 'America' (Hardcover): S. Jestrovic, Y. Meerzon Performance, Exile and 'America' (Hardcover)
S. Jestrovic, Y. Meerzon
R1,475 Discovery Miles 14 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space and identity. It looks at ways in which immigrants and outsiders are embodied in American theatre practice and explores ways in which 'America' is staged and dramatized by immigrants and foreigners.

Reading Olympe de Gouges (Hardcover): C. Sherman Reading Olympe de Gouges (Hardcover)
C. Sherman
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Olympe de Gouges, French activist and playwright, has for centuries been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned almost uniquely for her "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the female]" Citizen (1791). However, her plays and pamphlets imagine in vivid terms the consequences of natural right and their potential for transforming the autocratic state and family. She wrote nearly fifty plays, of which about a dozen have been recovered, and innumerable polemical letters, posters, brochures, and essays. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males. Here, Sherman examines and refutes the calumny de Gouges's reputation has suffered and proves that this intriguing historical figure deserves to be read instead of simply being talked about.

Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement - The Last Human Venue (Hardcover): A. Read Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement - The Last Human Venue (Hardcover)
A. Read
R2,815 Discovery Miles 28 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Theatre, Intimacy and Engagement "unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. The last human venue is the location where the sense of one's aliveness, ethical associations, and collective potential is kickstarted through the shock of theatrical affects. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the innovative theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a radical critique of performance studies: the first social science of appearance.

King Lear (Hardcover): William Shakespeare King Lear (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

A Quintet of Shakespeare Tragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear) (Hardcover): William Shakespeare A Quintet of Shakespeare Tragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear) (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hardcover): William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Library 1stworld Library, 1stworld Library
R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

VALENTINE. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. But since thou lov'st, love still, and thrive therein, Even as I would, when I to love begin. PROTEUS. Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu! Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel. Wish me partaker in thy happiness When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, For I will be thy headsman, Valentine.

Prometheus and Faust - The Promethean Revolt in Drama from Classical Antiquity to Goethe (Hardcover, New): Timothy R. Wutrich Prometheus and Faust - The Promethean Revolt in Drama from Classical Antiquity to Goethe (Hardcover, New)
Timothy R. Wutrich
R2,149 Discovery Miles 21 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The comparison made between Prometheus and Faust occurs so frequently in modern scholarship as to seem commonplace. However, while each figure has been investigated separately, no recent full-length study has brought the two characters together and examined the association. The present volume explores the Prometheus myth from its preliterary origins through treatments in Greek by Hesiod, Aeschylus, Plato, and Lucian, as well as in Latin literature and Roman theatricals. The investigation continues into hitherto unexplored connections with the Greek figure and the magus and occult scientist types of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance. The Prometheus and Faust traditions met in literature and art soon after the emergence of the historical Faustus. The traditions continued to exist independently through the 16th and 17th centuries, until Goethe began to write a play about each character. Ultimately Goethe abandoned Prometheus; however, Faust absorbed much of the Promethean persona.

Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust - Displaced Witnesses (Hardcover): P Lassner Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust - Displaced Witnesses (Hardcover)
P Lassner
R1,463 Discovery Miles 14 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In its rigorously researched analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature. Addressing the question of why the Holocaust is still being written, this study brings together Kindertransport writers, those of the Second Generation and those writers who have no personal or communal connection to the Holocaust but who have felt compelled to testify to the painful adaptations or betrayals of refugees by the nation which rescued so many.
In her significant critical interpretations of memoirs, plays, poetry and novels, Lassner shows how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence as well as to the historical and narrative relationship between endangered European Jews and Britain's cultural and political responses to them.

The Eugene O'Neill Companion (Hardcover): Margaret Loftus Ranald The Eugene O'Neill Companion (Hardcover)
Margaret Loftus Ranald
R3,192 Discovery Miles 31 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The broad scope of this work should provide accessible and welcome assistance to both the seasoned O'Neill scholar and the newly initiated. . . . For academic libraries, community college level and up, and public libraries. Choice

Classical Comedy 1508-1786 - A Legacy from Italy and France (Hardcover): Richard Andrews Classical Comedy 1508-1786 - A Legacy from Italy and France (Hardcover)
Richard Andrews
R2,648 Discovery Miles 26 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On Beckett - Essays and Criticism (Hardcover, Revised Edition): S.E. Gontarski On Beckett - Essays and Criticism (Hardcover, Revised Edition)
S.E. Gontarski; Introduction by S.E. Gontarski
R1,926 Discovery Miles 19 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

On Beckett: Essays and Criticism' is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century - countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues geometrically. 'On Beckett' brings together some of the most perceptive writings from the vast amount of scrutiny that has been lavished on the man; in addition to widely-read essays there are contributions from more obscure sources, viewpoints not frequently seen. Together they allow the reader to enter the world of a writer whose work has left an impact on the consciousness of our time perhaps unmatched by that of any other recent creative imagination.

Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance - Invisible Acts (Hardcover): Kim Solga Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance - Invisible Acts (Hardcover)
Kim Solga
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including "Titus Andronicus," "The Duchess of Malfi" and "The Changeling," this book reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era, and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the twentieth- and twenty-first century stages.

The Little Clay Cart - An English Translation of the Mrcchakatika of Sudraka as adapted for the stage by A.L. Basham... The Little Clay Cart - An English Translation of the Mrcchakatika of Sudraka as adapted for the stage by A.L. Basham (Paperback)
Arvind Sharma
R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is one of the best Sanskrit plays and it is known very widely. Basham's excellent adaptation makes the play more accessible in English than any previous rendering.

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage - From Shakespeare to Webster (Hardcover): R. West Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage - From Shakespeare to Webster (Hardcover)
R. West
R1,481 Discovery Miles 14 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work offers a timely alternative to theater criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance by showing that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society--social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought.

Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will (Hardcover): William Shakespeare Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Library 1stworld Library, 1stworld Library
R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough, no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price Even in a minute. So full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical.

Euripides' Medea - Translation and Theatrical Commentary (Paperback): Michael Ewans Euripides' Medea - Translation and Theatrical Commentary (Paperback)
Michael Ewans
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides' most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them. The introduction discusses the social and cultural context of the play and its likely impact on the original audience, the way in which it was originally performed, the challenges which the lead roles present today and Medea's implications for the modern audience. The text of the translation is followed by the 'Theatrical Commentary' section on the issues involved in staging each scene and chorus today, embodying insights gained from a professional production. Notes on the translation, a glossary of names, suggestions for further reading and a chronology of Euripides' life and times round out the volume. The book is intended for use by theatre practitioners who wish to stage or workshop Medea and by students both of drama, theatre and performance and of classical studies.

Student Companion to Tennessee Williams (Hardcover, New): Nancy M. Tischler Student Companion to Tennessee Williams (Hardcover, New)
Nancy M. Tischler
R1,668 Discovery Miles 16 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant "The Glass Menagerie," until his final curtain call with the 1979 production of "The Two-Character Play," Tennessee Williams never stopped experimenting with theatrical techniques and striving to explain his richly provocative ideas. This new critical study of Williams traces the shape of the playwright's life and career, both full of wanderings, failures, love, anguish, and unparalleled triumphs. Incorporating much of the new information that is emerging in the recent publication of letters, biographies, and previously unpublished plays, this Student Companion distills a vast body of scholarship to give a fresh and accessible presentation of the key elements of Williams' complicated works. In-depth analysis of 7 of Williams' plays explore the literary styles, themes, and influences Williams drew from poetry, movies, mythology, religion, and personal experiences. This book allows the general reader and theatre enthusiast a glimpse at the shape of his life, his mind, and his work. Readers will come to appreciate why plays such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947) and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955) have come to be considered American classics.

Following the successful series format, this volume introduces readers to Tennessee Williams with a richly detailed biography, followed by a Literary Heritage chapter. A full chapter is devoted to examining each of his major plays. In addition to analysis of character, plot, themes, and style, each play is also given an alternate reading from formal, feminist, psychological, gay, or theological criticism. The concluding bibliography cites all of Williams' dramatic output, as well as his poetry and prose. It also gives many sources for biographical information, criticism of individual works, and original reviews from the first staging of his plays. Students and their teachers should find this volume interesting and easy to follow.

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