Walking Artists: Uber Die Entdeckung Des Gehens in Den Performativen Kunsten
by Ralph Fischer
My Favorite Plays (Theatre and Performing Arts, #1)
by Tara Kachaturoff
This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that at...
Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays
by Prof Lawrence Manley and Prof Sally-Beth MacLean
For a brief period in the late Elizabethan Era an innovative company of players dominated the London stage. A fellowship of dedicated thespians, Lord Strange's Men established their reputation by concentrating on "modern matter" performed in a spectacular style, exploring new modes of impersonation, and deliberately courting controversy. Supported by their equally controversial patron, theater connoisseur and potential claimant to the English throne Ferdinando Stanley, the company included Edwar...
The Routledge Anthology of US Drama: 1898-1949
The first half of the Twentieth Century was a vibrant period for U.S. theatre. As the United States emerged as a significant military, economic, political and cultural power, so its theatre began to distinguish itself from the prevailing European model. The plays and dramatic texts in this anthology demonstrate the vital and volatile relationship between U.S. theatre, its society, and the ways in which that theatre has both supported and challenged prevailing systems of thought and action. This...
Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin
by Dr Len Platt, Dr, Tobias Becker, and David Linton
Inua Ellams has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in British and international theatre. Collected together for the first time are four of Ellams' acclaimed plays, including The 14th Tale, Untitled, Black T-Shirt Collection and Knight Watch.
Using previously unexploited sources, Philip Sadgrove provides a comprehensive account of the early history of theatre in Egypt, from the time of the French expeditionary force led by Napoleon in 1798, to the British occupation in 1882. His study looks at traditional forms of indigenous Arabic drama, the rise of European theatre, the first abortive attempts to create a modern Arabic theatre in the early 1870s and the project for a National Theatre. Finally, it tells the story of the emigre Syria...
The Method. Ein Überblick über die Schauspieltheorie nach Konstantin S. Stanislawski und Lee Strasberg
by Katharina Mrak
Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse (Routledge Voice Studies)
by Amanda Glauert
Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven’s songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe. The book offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when composing songs. It also offers detailed commentaries on possible responses to specific songs, responses designed to open up new ways for performing, hearing and appreciating this provocative song repertoire....
La Seconde Interdiction de Tartuffe: Avec La Lettre Sur La Comedie de l'Imposteur, 1667 (Arts)
by Edouard Thierry
