Theatre Of The Book 1480 1880
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Author | : Julie Stone Peters |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199262168 |
Download Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Author | : Julie Stone Peters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : European drama |
ISBN | : 9780191698811 |
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This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Author | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472519779 |
Download Theorising Performance Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The last three decades have seen a remarkable revival of the performance of ancient Greek drama; some ancient plays - "Sophocles", "Oedipus", "Euripides", and "Medea" - have established a distinguished place in the international performance repertoire, and attracted eminent directors including Peter Stein, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Sellars, and Katie Mitchell. Staging texts first written two and a half thousand years ago, for all-male, ritualised, outdoor performance in masks in front of a pagan audience, raises quite different intellectual questions from staging any other canonical drama, including Shakespeare. But the discussion of this development in modern performance has until now received scant theoretical analysis. This book provides the solution in the form of a lively interdisciplinary dialogue, inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford, between sixteen experts in Classics, Drama, Music, Cultural History and the world of professional theatre.The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Classics and Drama alike.
Author | : Edith Hall |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0715638262 |
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Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.
Author | : S. Wilmer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2008-02-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230582915 |
Download National Theatres in a Changing Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examining the ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over time, this new collection highlights the difficulties these institutions encounter today, in an environment where nationalism and national identity are increasingly contested by global, transnational and local agendas, and where economic forces create conflicting demands.
Author | : Katrin Beushausen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316856739 |
Download Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrician Reformation through the interregnum to the Restoration, combining vivid case studies with discussion of theatre's continued importance in shaping the early modern public. Considered from the vantage point of theatre, the early modern public becomes visible as an unruly agent of political change, a force that authorities both feared and appealed to, and one that proved ultimately beyond control. It was through theatrical strategies that rulers and their opposition addressed the early modern public, and in turn it was theatre's public potential that shaped the development of the stage during the revolutionary years of the seventeenth century. In this volume, Katrin Beushausen examines sources including irreverent satirical pamphlets, regal spectacles, anti-theatrical polemic and visions of state theatres, casting new light on the development of the early modern public and theatre.
Author | : Lauren Robertson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2022-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 100922512X |
Download Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Lauren Robertson's original study shows that the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to the crises of knowledge that roiled through early modern England by rendering them spectacular. Revealing the radical, exciting instability of the early modern theater's representational practices, Robertson uncovers the uncertainty that went to the heart of playgoing experience in this period. Doubt was not merely the purview of Hamlet and other onstage characters, but was in fact constitutive of spectators' imaginative participation in performance. Within a culture in the midst of extreme epistemological upheaval, the commercial theater licensed spectators' suspension among opposed possibilities, transforming dubiety itself into exuberantly enjoyable, spectacular show. Robertson shows that the playhouse was a site for the entertainment of uncertainty in a double sense: its pleasures made the very trial of unknowing possible.
Author | : Jan-Melissa Schramm |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-05-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192560549 |
Download Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular by force of precedent and law. The maintenance of this ban was underpinned by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation, and the power of the image that persisted long after the Reformation, and that were in fact bolstered by the return of Catholicism to public prominence after the passage of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic Archbishoprics in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at mid-century reached new heights, the turn towards medievalism in the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and the 'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre- Reformation past at the centre of debates about the uses of the public stage and the functions of a truly national drama. This book explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century and the eventual return of sacred drama to English public theatres at the start of the twentieth century. Consequently, law, literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into conversation with one another in order to illuminate the history of sacred drama and Protestant ant-theatricalism in England in the long nineteenth-century.
Author | : Eric Nicholson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2016-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317006968 |
Download Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it represented material and symbolic exchanges across political, linguistic, and cultural borders (both "national" and "regional") but also in the ways that it enacted them. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, as in the case of actors traveling beyond their own regional boundaries; generalized and systemic influence, such as the diffused effect of Italian comedy on English drama; the transmission of theoretical and ethical ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles; the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing "foreign" roles; and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-Mediterranean "cultural geographies." In analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the volume emphasizes cultural relationships of exchange and reciprocity more than unilateral encounters of hegemony and domination.
Author | : P.A. Skantze |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134447264 |
Download Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form of artistic creation, philosophical investigation, a way of representing and manipulating ideas about gender and a way of acknowledging, reinforcing and making a critique of social values for the still and moving, the permanent and elapsing. The book's analysis covers the entire seventeenth-century with chapters on the work of Ben Jonson, John Milton, the pamphletheatre, Aphra Behn, John Vanbrugh and Jeremy Collier and will be of interest to scholars in the areas of literary and performance studies.