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  • Historical Dictionary of French Theater

    by Edward Forman ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the Theater of the Absurd erupted in rationalistic France with Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean-Paul ... Read more

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    Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told

    by Kenneth Turan, Joseph Papp ...
    Free for All is an irresistible behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved and important cultural institutions.Under the inspired leadership of founder Joseph Papp, the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival brought revolutionary performances to the public for decades. This compulsively readable history of those years—much of it told in Papp’s own words—is fascinating, ... Read more

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  • Multicultural Theater in Los Angeles During the Early 1990s

    by Robin Scott Peters ...
    The primary resources examined were publications that advertise the presentation of theater. These sources included "The Drama-logue," the "Back Stage West," and the "Los Angeles Times." There were culturally specific publications available, but these sources replicated the items located in the primary resources. Also, notices were listed in the cultures indigenous language, and the listings ... Read more

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  • The Pinter Ethic

    The Erotic Aesthetic

    by Penelope Prentice ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Drama
    The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling and authoritative insights that locate and disclose the primal power of his drama in his characters' powerplay for dominance. With remarkable clarity, Penelope Prentice's close reading of Pinter's work ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Courtesans and Cuckolds

    A Glossary of Renaissance Dramatic Bawdy

    by James T. Henke ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama
    This title, first published in 1979, is a glossary of the bawdy vocabulary that was used in Renaissance Drama. One of the primary functions of this gloss of literary bawdy is to interpret imaginative uses of the language rather than simply record the generally accepted uses and meanings, with its principal task to make the dialogue of the plays more intelligible to the reader. With examples of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • An Actor's Work on a Role

    by Konstantin Stanislavski ...
    Translated by Jean Benedetti ...
    An Actor’s Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavski’s exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing truth to one’s chosen role.Originally published over half a century ago as Creating a Role, this book was the third in a planned trilogy – after An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, now combined in An Actor’s Work – ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Guide

    by Jacqueline Bolton ...
    Series series GCSE Student Guides
    Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams with confidence.Key features include a critical commentary of the play with extensive, clearly labelled analyses on themes, characters and context. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Applied Theatre: Aesthetics

    by Gareth White, Dr Sheila Preston, Prof Michael Balfour ...
    Series series Applied Theatre
    Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to performance in social settings. The disinterestedness that traditional aesthetics claims as a key characteristic of art makes little sense when making performances with ordinary people, rooted in their lives and communities, and with personal and social change as its aim. Yet practitioners of applied arts know ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Staging the People

    Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project

    by Elizabeth A. Osborne ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
    The Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal plan to fund theatre and other live artistic performances during the Great Depression, had the primary goal of employing out-of-work artists, writers, and directors, with the secondary aim of entertaining poor families and creating relevant art. These case studies explore the ties between the Federal Theatre Project and regional communities throughout the ... Read more

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  • Beat Drama

    Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as other less well-known Beat figures, also wrote plays-and these, together with their countercultural ... Read more

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  • Jane Austen and Performance

    by Marina Cano ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen’s work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and amateur theatricals, passing through mid-twentieth-century representations in Scotland and America. The book concludes with an examination of ... Read more

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  • Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. III

    Images of the Harem in Literature and Theatre.

    Edited by Michael Hüttler, Hans Ernst Weidinger, Emily M. N. Kugler ...
    Series Book 5 - Ottomania
    On 3 May 1810 George Gordon, Lord Byron, swam like the mythic Leander from Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont to Abydos on the Asian shore. The hero of his poem "Don Juan" has lived in "feminine disguise" in the sultan's harem for more than a century. To commemorate Byron's Don Juan, the third volume of the "Ottoman Empire and European Theatre" series focuses on the image of the harem ... Read more

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