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  • Enter the Undead Author

    Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s

    by George Pate ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    Many narratives of theater history suggest that the 1960s marked the start of a turning away from traditional, script-based, playwright-centric production practices. Literary studies in this period began exploring the concept of the “death of the author” along similar lines. But the author refused to die quietly, and authorship reasserts itself in even revolutionary and avant-garde theaters ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Tracks of the Devil

    by George Pate ...
    Captain Nieminen’s last voyage before retirement seemed ordinary enough—a simple trip from Canada to Riga in the Baltic Sea. The sea, however, always provides the unexpected. The Master of the cargo ship Lake Ladoga will be confronted with illicit cargo, murder, and a heartless fiend before reaching his destination. The resolution to these problems will cost him dearly. George Pate worked for ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22: Broadway and Beyond

    Commercial Theatre Considered

    by David S. Thompson, Dean Adams, John Patrick Bray, Tony Gunn, Boone J. Hopkins, Jae Kyoung Kim, Jacek Mikolajczyk, George Pate, Erin Scheibe0, Jeff Turner1, Chris Woodworth2 ...
    Series Book 22 - Theatre Symposium Series
    That theatre is a business remains a truth often ignored by theatre insiders and consumers of the performing arts alike. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 22 explore theatre as a commercial enterprise both historically and as a continuing part of the creation, production, and presentation of contemporary live performance.The eleven contributors to this fascinating collection illuminate many ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "South Pacific" has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive research in the Rodgers and the Hammerstein papers, including Hammerstein's personal notes on James A. ... Read more

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  • The Pocket Guide to Musicals

    by Kieran Hughes ...
    Everything you need to know about musical theater in one handy guide by leading expert Maureen Hughes who has herself created 8 musicals and teaches musical theater. The Pocket Guide to Musicals covers everything from the composers and lyricists to a comprehensive A-Z listing of musicals from around the world. Accessibility is a key selling point with fact boxes highlighting key or curious facts ... Read more

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  • Artaud and His Doubles

    by Kimberly Jannarone ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Artaud and His Doublesis a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals Artaud's affinities with a disturbing array of anti-intellectual and reactionary writers and artists whose ranks swelled catastrophically between the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Stages of Emergency

    Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense

    by Tracy C. Davis ...
    In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • How to Write About Theatre

    A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers

    by Mark Fisher ...
    What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are you prepared to receive toilet paper in the post? What if the show you just damned turns out to be a classic? If you gave it a five-star rave will anyone believe you?Drawing on his long years of experience as a national newspaper critic, Mark Fisher answers such ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare

    Place, "Race," Politics

    by Shaul Bassi ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, with Laura Tosi, and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures,with Annalisa Oboe. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611

    Metaphor and National Identity

    by Jane Pettegree ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Theatre of Good Intentions

    Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change

    by D. Snyder-Young ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Theatre of Good Intentions examines limitations of theatre in the creation of social and political change. This book looks at some of the reasons why achieving such goals is hard; examining what theatre can and can't do. It examines a range of applied and political theatre case studies, focusing on theatre's impact on participants and spectators. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Performing (for) Survival

    Theatre, Crisis, Extremity

    Edited by Patrick Duggan, Lisa Peschel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance – social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground – is employed as a mechanism for survival. The chapters treat a wide range of what can be considered 'survival', ranging from sheer physical ... Read more

    $89.09 USD