Drama Standard Grade (F/G/C) SQA Past Papers
Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama fills a gap in the literature by examining the origins of these texts, and investigating their growing importance and influence in the theatre of the period. This topic-led discussion of prologues and epilogues deals with the origins of these texts, the difficulty of definition, and the way in whi...
Honed by the author's 35 years of teaching, this advanced book offers different warm-up exercises concentrating on the actor's sense of smell, sound, sight, and touch; sensory tools for conveying the climate and environment of the text; tips for suggesting a character's physical conditions; and much more. Individual exercises will help actors to free the voice and body, create a character, find the action and condition of scenes, and explore the subconscious for effective emotional recall. Reade...
The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original. The book follows the Masks of Arlecchino, Pedrolino and Pulcinella as they gradually migrate and mutate into Harlequin, Mr. Punch and seaside Pierrot troupes. What happened to Pantalone, Scaramouche, Colombina and the male Lover is also investigated, though they had no final forms of their own. This st...
Hamlet after Deconstruction (Adaptation in Theatre and Performance)
by Aneta Mancewicz
Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies. Such features are at odds with the traditional model of adaptation, which focuses on expanding and explaining the source. Inspired by Derrida’s deconstruction, this book introduces a new interpretative paradigm. Central to this paradigm is the idea that an act of adaptation consists in foregrounding gaps and incoherencies in the source; it is about questioning rather than clarifying. The book explores this pa...
Hecuba (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations) (BCP Greek Texts)
by Euripides
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Die Persoenliche Bibliothek A.P. Cechovs in Jalta (Slavische Literaturen, #6)
by Alla Vasil Chanilo
Im Unterschied zu der Arbeit S.D. Baluchatyjs -Die Bibliothek Cechovs-, die langst zu einer Raritat geworden ist, bietet die Publikation von A.V. Chanilo die vollstandigste Beschreibung der "Jaltaer" Bibliothek des grossen Schriftstellers, d.h. der Bucher, von denen sich Cechov zeitlebens nicht getrennt hat. Die Arbeit enthalt nicht nur eine detaillierte bibliographische Bestandsaufnahme der Bibliothek, sondern auch die Beschreibung samtlicher Randbemerkungen Cechovs wie auch eine Beschreibung d...
Kommunikationsinstrumente, -techniken und -mechanismen der nationalsozialistischen Propaganda
by Bettina Kahlenberg
