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Restoration Comedy in Performance (Paperback): J.L. Styan Restoration Comedy in Performance (Paperback)
J.L. Styan
R1,660 Discovery Miles 16 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Restoration comedy disappeared from the stage for nearly 200 years until it was revived early this century. Without the benefit of a performance tradition has suffered from an inappropriate literary and moralistic criticism which continues to this day. Yet this brilliant court and coterie comedy of sexual and social behaviour was an extraordinary success in its own time, and enjoys a unique place in theatrical history as an example of the interplay possible between the stage and the audience. In this book John Styan persuades us that only through a performance approach to the great plays of Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Shadwell, Vanbrugh, Congreve and Farquhar can we recover a sense of their value. Restoration Comedy in Performance is liberally illustrated with contemporary drawings and modern photographs, and it draws extensively upon documentary and visual evidence of the seventeenth century in order to suggest the importance of the costume and customs, manners and behaviour of the age to an understanding of the sort of theatre and drama it produced. Professor Styan also discusses the problems encountered in the early attempts to revive the comedies in the twentieth century, and pauses frequently in order to offer a descriptive account of a moment of staging or to recreate a scene or a sequence of comic repartee or action. The book aims to bring back to life, therefore, something of a lost art form, not as a piece of conventional stage or production history, but as a true attempt to recognize the virtues of Restoration comedy as a performing art.

The Shakespeare Revolution (Paperback, Revised): J.L. Styan The Shakespeare Revolution (Paperback, Revised)
J.L. Styan
R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How do our ways of perceiving and producing Shakespeare differ from those of the nineteenth century, and how interrelated has the work of scholars and directors become over this century? Professor Styan's purpose in this book is to discuss the 'revolution' in Shakespeare studies implied by these questions.

Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre (Hardcover): J.L. Styan Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre (Hardcover)
J.L. Styan
R2,459 Discovery Miles 24 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Buchner is the forerunner of expression, followed by Wedekind and Strindberg. The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O'Neill, Wilder and the later O'Casey. Important producers are Reinhardt and Meyerhold. Epic theatre is studied from Piscator and Brecht to Durrenmatt and Weiss, Arden and Bond, and is seen as flourishing in offshoots of documentary theatre. This book was first published in 1981.

Chekhov in Performance 095298 (Paperback, New Ed): J.L. Styan Chekhov in Performance 095298 (Paperback, New Ed)
J.L. Styan
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For a full understanding of any text, careful consideration must be given to its life in performance. In this rewarding study of four of Chekhov's major plays - Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters - J. L. Styan demonstrates the development of Chekhov's skills as a dramatist and discusses stage action, portrayal of character, differing twentieth-century productions and the audience reactions they evoked.

The Dark Comedy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): J.L. Styan The Dark Comedy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
J.L. Styan
R1,032 Discovery Miles 10 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not straightforwardly heroic; the subject-matter seems at some times grimly realistic and at others nearer to pure fantasy. Professor Styan explains and illuminates the nature of this dark, paradoxical comedy. He reminds us, first, that this is not a purely modern phenomenon: many great plays of the past have similarly defied classification and have called for an equally vacillating response from their audience. But nonetheless this dramatic genre has had its clearest expression in the last sixty years: we are shown in detail how its techniques have developed from Ibsen and Chekhov to Pirandello, Brecht and contemporary playwrights such as Ionesco, Beckett, Tennessee Williams and Pinter. The author brings us to realize that the playwright, by creating complex tensions in the action of the play between the actor and the audience and within the individual spectator, is able to explore new areas of human feeling and response. In this second edition of The Dark Comedy Professor Styan has brought the book up to date in relation to recent plays and theatrical developments. He has modified some earlier judgements and added detailed analyses of scenes from Brecht's Mother Courage and from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Anyone who takes an intelligent interest in theatre-going will find profit and stimulus in this book. It covers a wide range of subject-matter; but its underlying theme is clear, forceful and unified.

Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism (Paperback, Revised): J.L. Styan Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism (Paperback, Revised)
J.L. Styan
R830 R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Save R54 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A tri-volume, heavily illustrated history of drama from Ibsen to the present concentrates on different dramatic genres and includes photographs that illustrate first performances, theaters and stage designs.

The Elements Of Drama (Paperback): J.L. Styan The Elements Of Drama (Paperback)
J.L. Styan
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Elements Of Drama (Hardcover): J.L. Styan The Elements Of Drama (Hardcover)
J.L. Styan
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre (Paperback, Revised): J.L. Styan Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre (Paperback, Revised)
J.L. Styan
R829 R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Save R54 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Büchner is the forerunner of expression, followed by Wedekind and Strindberg. The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O’Neill, Wilder and the later O’Casey. Important producers are Reinhardt and Meyerhold. Epic theatre is studied from Piscator and Brecht to Dürrenmatt and Weiss, Arden and Bond, and is seen as flourishing in the more recent offshoots of documentary theatre.

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