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  • Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

    Theatres of War

    by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Rosemarie K. Bank, Amanda Boyle, Shawna Mefford Carroll, Miriam Chirico, Francisco Costa, Chrystyna M. Dail, Tanya Dean, Daniel C. Dennis0, Rodney Donahue1, Anne Fletcher2, Sara Freeman3, Kristi Good4, Jennifer Goodlander5, Anselm Heinrich6, Jeanmarie Higgins7, Bethany D. Holmstrom8, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta9, David Jortner0, Keith Byron Kirk1, Haddy Kreie2, Franklin J. Lasik3, Felicia Hardison Londré4, Lewis Magruder5, William Palmer6, Gene A. Plunka7, George Potter8, Jane Purse-Wiedenhoeft9, Adam Sheaffer0, Alan Sikes1, Li-Wen (Joy) Wang2, Ariel Watson3, Peter A. Campbell4, DeAnna M. Toten Beard5 ...
    Series Book 33 - Theatre History Studies
    Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.War and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Inexorable Modernity

    Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

    by John K. Gillespie, David G. Goodman, Charles Shiro Inouye, Mikiko Hirayama, Brenda G. Jordan, David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald, Jonah Salz, Mayu Tsuruya, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. ...
    Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • Tartuffe and Other Plays

    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere ...
    Translated by Donald M. Frame ...
    Seven plays by the genius of French theater.Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu, and The Critique of the School for Wives, this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright.Translated and with an Introduction by Donald M. FrameWith a Foreword by Virginia Scott</str... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

    by Donald Richie ...
    Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Disappearing Acts

    Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War"

    by Diana Taylor ...
    In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor’s focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people in that nation’s "Dirty War." Combining feminism, cultural studies, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Porcelain Thief

    Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

    by Huan Hsu ...
    A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre

    by Erika Fischer-Lichte ...
    In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre through analysis of performances as diverse as:Max Reinhardt's new people's theatrethe mass ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Customs and Culture of Vietnam

    by Ann Caddell Crawford ...
    A concise, information-packed background of the history and culture of Vietnam, including the country's relations with the United States.Comprehensive and authoritative, this book accurately describes this fascinating country. The author begins with a description of the geographical features of the country and the various tribes and people that inhabit it, then reviews the various religions, the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain

    Staging Crisis

    by Vicky Angelaki, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens. This book critically deals with representative plays and playwrights who have stood out in the UK and internationally in the post-recession era, delivering theatre that in the process of being truthful to the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Wonderful World of Netsuk

    With One Hundred Masterpieces of Miniature Sculpture in Color

    by Raymond Bushell ...
    Japanese netsuke-miniature carvings-are profiled in this wonderful Japanese arts book.These tiny masterpieces of sculpture (mostly in ivory and wood), of lacquer, and of metalwork captivated collectors with the charm of their conception, the intricacy of their detail, and the sheer tactile pleasure of handling them. Basically they were utilitarian in purpose, serving as toggles or pendants to ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Crispin Ier

    La Vie et l'œuvre de Raymond Poisson comédien-poète du XVIIe siècle

    Edited by A. Ross Curtis ...
    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française during the first five years of its existence. He popularized one of the French stage's best-loved stock characters, the impudent servant Crispin, while finding time to supply his troupe with short comedies in which he himself starred. This study is ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Zen Telegrams

    by Paul Reps ...
    This book of Zen poetry and art blends simple, haiku-like poetry with bold minimalist ink brush drawings.The unique books of Paul Reps have attracted countless readers since they were first published in the 1950s. His classic Zen Flesh, Zen Bones remains one of the most popular books on Zen ever published in English.Zen Telegrams is a collection of Reps's picture-poems," works of calligraphic art ... Read more

    $8.09 USD