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  • Art's Visionary Moment

    Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime

    Edited by Sidney Homan ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem symploke Studies in Theory
    The collection Art’s Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime was inspired by T. S. Eliot’s observation in his Dante (1929): “The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime. … There is a first, or an early moment which is unique, … which can never be forgotten, but … is never repeated integrally; and yet which would become destitute of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others

    Finding the Heart of the Play

    by Sidney Homan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as “a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play … a magnet to which the rest of the play, scenes before and after, adheres.” He offers his personal choices of such lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, Shepard, and Stoppard. Drawing on his own experience in the theatre as actor and director and on ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Playing with Reality

    Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is There

    Edited by Sidney Homan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume explores how and why we deny, or manipulate, or convert, or enhance reality. Finding it important to come to terms with reality, with what is there before us, and, with reality however defined, to live responsibly, this collection takes a truly multidisciplinary approach to examining the idea that history, the truth, facts, and the events of the present time can be refashioned as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Why the Theatre

    In Personal Essays, College Teachers, Actors, Directors, and Playwrights Tell Why the Theatre Is So Vital to Them

    Edited by Sidney Homan ...
    Why the Theatre is a collection of 26 personal essays by college teachers, actors, directors, and playwrights about the magnetic pull of the theatre and its changing place in society.The book is divided into four parts, examining the creative role of the audience, the life of the actor, director, and playwright in performance, ways the theatre moves beyond the playhouse and into the real world, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Fish in the Moonlight

    Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit

    by Sidney Homan ...
    The storyteller has a fascinating place in our world. Storyteller Sidney Homan tells tales of growing up in Philadelphia in the 1940s and 50s accounts of Bruzzy the Bully; of John Crapp, the television salesman; of Leslie Doober and his rotten banana; of drunken Uncle Eddie, and of the Queen of the mushrooms. Sometimes comic, sometimes bittersweet, A Fish in the Moonlight illuminates the growth of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Comedy Acting for Theatre

    The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies

    by Professor Sidney Homan, Dr Brian Rhinehart ...
    Series series Performance Books
    Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable – and hilarious – performances.Rooted in performance and performance criticism,Sidney Homan and Brian Rhinehart provide a detailed explanation of how comedy works, along with advice on how to communicate comedy from the point of view ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • How and Why We Teach Shakespeare

    College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students

    by Sidney Homan ...
    In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare. The collection is divided into four sections: studying the text as a script for performance; exploring Shakespeare by performing; implementing specific techniques for getting into the plays; and working in ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Playing Offstage

    The Theater as a Presence or Factor in the Real World

    by Gigi Argyropoulou, S. P. Cerasano, Lance Duerfahrd, Joe Falocco, Uli Jäckle, Gina MacKenzie, Daniel T. O'Hara, James Penner, Brian Rhinehart, Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Horacio Sierra, Avra Sidiropoulou, Natascha Siouzouli ...
    Series series Transforming Literary Studies
    Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what “offstage” could mean, the results were, predictably, varied. They employed a variety of critical approaches to the question of what happens when the play moves into the audience or beyond the physical playhouse itself? What are the social, cultural, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Hitler in the Movies

    Finding Der Führer on Film

    by Sidney Homan, Hernán Vera ...
    In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Führer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler. What made him … Hitler? Do our explanations tell us more about the perceiver than the actual historical figure? We ask such question by viewing the Hitler character in the movies. How have directors, actors, film critics, and audiences accounted ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    A Book About How to Read Poems

    by Stephanie Burt ...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

    Edited by John Russell Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays.The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft, their development and how they engage with playtexts. Each chapter relies upon privilieged access to its ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Shakespeare & Company Actor Training Experience

    by Tina Packer, Helen Epstein ...
    The Shakespeare & Company Actor Training Experience by Tina Packer and Helen Epstein (9,700 words)Insights and wisdom from one of America's leading Shakespearean actors and theatrical trainers on how to explore and utilize Shakespeare's work to bring your innate acting talent to surface. When each word becomes an experience, you become a better actor.For the story of how Tina Packer came to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD