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Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000 (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): P... Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000 (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
P Sieber
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and international cultural contexts, but adds a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship, and the regulatory discourses of desire. The book argues that, particularly between 1550 and 1680, Chinese elite editors rewrote and printed early plays and songs, so-called Yuan-dynasty zaju and sanqu, to imagine and embody new concepts of authorship, readership and desire, an interpretation that contrasts starkly with the national and racially-oriented reception of song-drama developed by European critics after 1735 and subsequently modified by Japanese and Chinese critics after 1897. By analyzing the critical and material facets of the early song and play tradition across different historical periods and cultural settings, Theaters of Desire presents a compelling case study of literary canon formation.

Passing Judgement - The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine (Hardcover): Helene E Bilis Passing Judgement - The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine (Hardcover)
Helene E Bilis
R1,942 Discovery Miles 19 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The royal judge was an archetypal character in French tragedy during the 17th century. This figure impersonated the king by asserting his judicial authority and bringing order to an otherwise chaotic world. In Passing Judgment, Helene Bilis examines how an overlooked character-type-the royal judge-remained a constant of the tragic genre throughout the 17th century, although the specifics of his role and position fluctuated as playwrights experimented with changing models of sovereignty onstage. Her readings analyze how this royal decision-maker stood at the intersection of political and theatrical debates, and evolved through a process of trial and error in which certain portrayals of kingship were deemed obsolete and were discarded, while others were promoted as culturally allowable and resonant. In tracing the royal judge's persistent presence and transformation, Bilis argues that we can better grasp the weighty political stakes of theatrical representations under the ancien regime.

Uruguayan Theatre in Translation - Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Sophie Stevens Uruguayan Theatre in Translation - Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Sophie Stevens
R2,699 Discovery Miles 26 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
He Says/She Says Shakespeare (Hardcover): Francesco Aristide Ancona, Mary Ives Thompson He Says/She Says Shakespeare (Hardcover)
Francesco Aristide Ancona, Mary Ives Thompson
R2,038 Discovery Miles 20 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

He Says/She Says Shakespeare is a contemporary and groundbreaking approach to the timeless work of the great Bard. Six of Shakespeare's best known plays are critiqued from both the male and female perspectives-a "he says/she says" scholarly bantering, or more aptly put, a vigorous yet good-natured "sparring" (in true Elizabethan fashion) in continuance of the proverbial "battle of the sexes." As a result, these beloved texts are imbued with a new life, an energy designed to awaken young scholars to an interest in Shakespeare studies. Through the persuasive essays, students get to read first one approach then the other to formulate a richer understanding of the material, a better understanding of character motivation, and an epiphany about the nature of art: Opposing, complementary perspectives can be simultaneously correct without the narrowing mindset of a "winner" and a "loser." Thus, the purpose is to create a lively forum for open debate in which students can readily participate, simply because of the familiarity they naturally possess with gender issues. This text is an excellent book to utilize as an introduction to Shakespeare studies on the college and honors high school levels. It is fun, exciting, and well-argued tongue-in-cheek commentary that blurs the distinction between sarcasm and blunt honesty. It is a perfect vehicle to stimulate classroom discussion and illustrate the fine arts of argumentation and debate.

Frogs (Paperback): Aristophanes Frogs (Paperback)
Aristophanes; Edited by Jeffrey Henderson
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an English translation of Aristophanes' popular comedy in which the god Dionysus seeks to bring the great dramatist Euripides from Hades, where he encounters another great Classical playwright, Aeschylus. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. The Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture and the roots of contemporary thought.

The Comedy of Errors (Hardcover): William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Doctor Faustus - A critical guide (Hardcover): Sara Munson Deats Doctor Faustus - A critical guide (Hardcover)
Sara Munson Deats
R4,571 Discovery Miles 45 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe's most popular play andis often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arousing violent critical controversy

Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama - Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (Hardcover): Garrett A Sullivan Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama - Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (Hardcover)
Garrett A Sullivan
R2,702 Discovery Miles 27 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Engaging with current debates over the nature of subjectivity in early modern England, this fascinating and original study examines sixteenth and seventeenth century conceptions of memory and forgetting, and their importance to the drama and culture of the time. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. discusses memory and forgetting as categories in terms of which a variety of behaviours - from seeking salvation to pursuing vengeance to succumbing to desire - are conceptualized. Drawing upon a range of literary and non-literary discourses, represented by treatises on the passions, sermons, anti-theatrical tracts, epic poems and more, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster stage 'self-recollection' and, more commonly, 'self-forgetting', the latter of which provides a powerful model for dramatic subjectivity. Focusing on works such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Dr. Faustus and The Duchess of Malfi, Sullivan reveals memory and forgetting to be dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of embodiment, selfhood and social practice.

Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Lindsey Row-Heyveld Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Lindsey Row-Heyveld
R2,630 Discovery Miles 26 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the way counterfeit disability captivated the Renaissance stage. Through detailed case studies of both lesser-known and canonical plays (by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marston, and others), Lindsey Row-Heyveld demonstrates why counterfeit disability proved so useful to early modern playwrights. Changing approaches to almsgiving in the English Reformation led to increasing concerns about feigned disability. The theater capitalized on those concerns, using the counterfeit-disability tradition to explore issues of charity, epistemology, and spectatorship. By illuminating this neglected tradition, this book fills an important gap in both disability history and literary studies, and explores how fears of counterfeit disability created a feedback loop of performance and suspicion. The result is the still-pervasive insistence that even genuinely disabled people must perform in order to, paradoxically, prove the authenticity of their impairments.

Documentary Theatre in the United States - An Historical Survey and Analysis of Its Content, Form, and Stagecraft (Hardcover,... Documentary Theatre in the United States - An Historical Survey and Analysis of Its Content, Form, and Stagecraft (Hardcover, New)
Gary F. Dawson
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

American documentary theatre records the social issues that continue to shape the United States at the close of the twentieth century. This book provides an historical and critical survey of documentary theatre in the United States since John Reed's The Pageant of the Paterson Strike (1913). It defines documentary theatre as a dramatic representation of societal forces using a close reexamination of events, individuals, or situations. While documentary theatre reinvents itself from time to time, this study demonstrates that its constituent parts remain roughly the same. Because documentary theatre is rooted in oral traditions, it offers an alternative to conventional journalistic treatments of social history. Through a close look at the history of documentary theatre, the volume concludes that a new period of expression is presently underway in the United States. Numerous social issues have marked the growth of the United States, and many of these continue to shape contemporary American culture. While many of these issues have been treated in novels, they have also captured the attention of playwrights. Documentary theatre explores the issues and events at the very heart of society. But in spite of its significance, this dramatic form continues to escape, for the most part, the awareness of the theatre community and its public. This book is an historical and critical survey of documentary theatre in the United States since John Reed's The Pageant of the Paterson Strike (1913). It defines documentary theatre as a dramatic representation of societal forces using a close reexamination of events, individuals, or situations. By listing current and more distant examples of American documentary theatre, the book shows that the genre is richly steeped in the oral history tradition. Therefore, American documentary theatre is an alternative to conventional journalism. For the theatre practitioner, the volume provides valuable insight about the process of making a documentary play. For the investigative researcher, the book shows that documentary theatre possesses a non-Aristotelian dramatic structure, in contrast to the strictly narrative form generally found in conventional drama. Through an overview of numerous plays, the book observes that even though documentary theatre reinvents itself from time to time, its constituent parts remain roughly the same. It concludes that a new period of expression is presently underway in the United States, one that affirms that the theatre is a vital part of society and is as important as religion, education, and government.

Shakespeare's Life and Art (Hardcover, New edition): Peter Alexander Shakespeare's Life and Art (Hardcover, New edition)
Peter Alexander
R2,229 Discovery Miles 22 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through historical and bibliographical research, and through analysis of Shakespeare's work, the author places Shakespeare among the supreme artists of the world. In the first two chapters he examines the facts about Shakespeare's career as a dramatist and summarizes the unfavorable judgments created by his early biographers. In subsequent chapters Professor Alexander establishes an order among the plays that reveals a gradual development of Shakespeare's art.

Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy - On Echoes and Voices (Hardcover): Dorota M. Dutsch Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy - On Echoes and Voices (Hardcover)
Dorota M. Dutsch
R4,365 Discovery Miles 43 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As literature written in Latin has almost no female authors, we are dependent on male writers for some understanding of the way women would have spoken. Plautus (3rd to 2nd century BCE) and Terence (2nd century BCE) consistently write particular linguistic features into the lines spoken by their female characters: endearments, soft speech, and incoherent focus on numerous small problems. Dorota M. Dutsch describes the construction of this feminine idiom and asks whether it should be considered as evidence of how Roman women actually spoke.

Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 1984-2000 - The Destined Livery (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Robert A Barker Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 1984-2000 - The Destined Livery (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Robert A Barker
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using nine recent theatrical and cinematic productions as case studies, it considers the productive contradictions and tensions that occur when contemporary actors perform the gender norms of previous cultures. It will be of interest to theatre practitioners as well as to students of early modern drama, of performance, and of gender studies.

Naming Theatre - Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance (Hardcover): J. Frieze Naming Theatre - Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance (Hardcover)
J. Frieze
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Closely reading a range of performance work from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, "Naming Theatre" is a ground-breaking study of theater's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How do theater-makers such as Ping Chong, Anne Bogart, Suzan-Lori Parks, Forced Entertainment, Lightwork, Ridiculusmus, Theodora Skipitares, Paula Vogel, and Riot Group intervene in naming practices across domains such as medicine, political activism, philosophy, horror films, television and print journalism, anthropology, advertising and brand development, semiotics, military training, and genetics?

The Comedy of Errors (Hardcover): William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Staging Politics and Gender - French Women's Drama, 1880-1923 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): C. Beach Staging Politics and Gender - French Women's Drama, 1880-1923 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
C. Beach
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Staging Politics and Gender , Cecilia Beach examines the political and feminist plays of French playwrights who have largely been overlooked until now. Beach highlights the importance of theatrical endeavors which women perceived as a powerful way to promote political opinions. The author analyzes the work of Louise Michel, Nelly Roussel, Marie Leneru, Vera Starkoff, and Madeline Pelletier and discusses anarchist theatre and forms of social protest theatre at the turn of the century.

The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620-1650 (Hardcover, New): Julie Sanders The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620-1650 (Hardcover, New)
Julie Sanders
R2,824 Discovery Miles 28 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analyzed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.

Antony and Cleopatra (Hardcover): William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): S Weller Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
S Weller
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.

Music, Theater, and Society in the Comedies of Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1833-1846) - Amidst the Lundu, The Aria, and the... Music, Theater, and Society in the Comedies of Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1833-1846) - Amidst the Lundu, The Aria, and the Alleluia (Hardcover)
Luiz Costa-Lima Neto; Translated by Stephen Thomson Moore
R3,085 Discovery Miles 30 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book clarifies the musical dramaturgy of comedy writer and musician Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1815-48) - a notion that encompasses both the theatrical text and its performance. The corpus for this analysis is composed of twelve comedies by Martins Penna written between 1833 and 1846, divided into three groups, which I have called Lundu, Aria, and Alleluia. The sound universe made up by the three groups of comedies covers African-Brazilian genres and musical-choreographic styles (batuque, fado, lundu, miudinho, muquirao), the transnational urban popular universe (lundu, tirana, quadrilha, marcha, waltz, caxuxa, tonadilla, polka), and modinhas and Italian opera, in addition to romantic concertos, Gregorian chant and Iberian religious theater (loas). To evaluate the multiple meanings acquired by the musical allusions inserted into the comedy texts and theatrical performances, this research reveals the network which included the author, actors, theater owners, publishers and the public, and other agents, such as black Catholic irmandades (brotherhoods), Freemasonry, and institutions linked to the imperial government. The sound universe of the comedies of Martins Penna are compared to the comedic axes of the Western theatrical tradition (a study of situations and characters) and the axes of performance (solo and chorus), contemplating the relationship between the repertoires written by Martins Penna and the repertoires of Brazilians and Portuguese artists, a mix of actors, singers and dancers, who performed in his comedies. The research questions the notion of authorship and reveals the importance of the partnership between theatrical writers, artists and publishers, through which the comedies of Martins Penna have reached the second half of the nineteenth century through the present.

Contemporary Black British Playwrights - Margins to Mainstream (Hardcover): L. Goddard Contemporary Black British Playwrights - Margins to Mainstream (Hardcover)
L. Goddard
R2,822 Discovery Miles 28 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture (Hardcover, Parental Adviso): C. Fitzgerald The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture (Hardcover, Parental Adviso)
C. Fitzgerald
R1,515 Discovery Miles 15 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a needed new interpretation of the complex cultural meanings of the late medieval, guild-produced, biblical plays of York and Chester, England, commonly known as mystery plays. It argues that the plays are themselves a "drama of masculinity," that is, dramatic activity specifically and self-consciously concerned with the fantasies and anxieties of being male in the urban, mercantile worlds of their performance. It further contends that the plays in their historical performance contexts produced and reinforced masculine communities defined by occupation, thus visibly naturalizing the world of work as masculine. The book offers welcome insight into a significant, canonical genre of dramatic literature that has been studied previously in devotional and civic contexts, but not yet in its role in the cultural history of masculinity.

Dark Attractions (Hardcover): Brian Woolland Dark Attractions (Hardcover)
Brian Woolland
R1,826 Discovery Miles 18 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A major study of the work of one of Britain's best-known dramatists Peter Barnes was one of the UK's most significant, prolific and enduring playwrights. This book offers a major critical appraisal of the canon of Barnes' work, including a detailed study of his best-known plays, The Ruling Class, Bewitched, Laughter!, Red Noses, and Dreaming, as well as a selection of his television and radio plays which illuminate his thematic concerns, and offer key insights into his dramatic methods. Through this examination, Brian Woolland shows that many of Barnes' plays have remarkable contemporary relevance, and are formally far more innovative than has hitherto been recognised. Woolland analyses the ways in which Barnes uses and subverts theatrical traditions, and relates his work to relevant critical contexts: theatrical, critical and socio-political. Deservedly, Barnes' use of comedy is given special attention. It is a sad truth that Barnes' great talents have not always been acknowledged by the theatrical establishment. In this exciting study, Barnes finally gets the recognition he deserves, as one of the most original, daring and exuberant dramatists of his generation.

Adorno and Modern Theatre - The Drama of the Damaged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker and Kane (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): K.... Adorno and Modern Theatre - The Drama of the Damaged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker and Kane (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
K. Gritzner
R2,882 R1,919 Discovery Miles 19 190 Save R963 (33%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The book engages with key principles of Adorno's aesthetic theory and cultural critique and examines their influence on a generation of seminal post-war dramatists.

Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Mary Luckhurst, Jane Moody Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Mary Luckhurst, Jane Moody
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. This is the first book to investigate the construction and production of celebrity in the British theatre. These exciting essays explore aspects of fame, notoriety and transgression in a wide range of performers and playwrights including David Garrick, Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Laurence Olivier and Sarah Kane. This pioneering volume examines the ingenious ways in which these stars have negotiated their own fame. The essays also analyze the complex relationships between discourses of celebrity and questions of gender, spectatorship and the operation of cultural markets.

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