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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913, Weavers of Dreams, Unite! explores the history of actors' unionism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the onset of the Great Depression. Drawing upon hitherto untapped archival resources in New York and Los Angeles, Sean P. Holmes documents how American stage actors used trade unionism to construct for themselves an occupational identity that foregrounded both their artistry...

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "staged" in a double sense. On the one hand, this study analyzes science in performance: the way that science and scientists were made a public spectacle in comedies, farces, and pantomimes for purposes that could range from...

Genre litteraire emblematique du XVIIIe siecle, le roman-memoires s'approprie le langage du theatre au profit d'une fiction de l'interiorite. Ce livre montre comment son ecriture s'elabore a partir d'emprunts et de procedes caracteristiques de la scene, temoignant du role que joue la reference theatrale dans l'invention du recit de soi. A literary genre emblematic of the eighteenth century, fictional memoir appropriates the language of the theatre for the benefit of a novel of interiority. This...

Walter Hasenclever, der mit seinem engagierten, expressionistischem Drama -Der Sohn- in die Literaturgeschichte eingegangen ist, begann schon wenige Jahre spater mit der Produktion leichtgewichtiger, heiter-sachlicher, antiexpressionistischer Komodien. Diese Komodien sollen hier erstmals umfassend dargestellt werden. Die Autorin unternimmt den Versuch, die Wandlung Hasenclevers vom hervorstechenden Vertreter des literarischen Expressionismus zum Verfasser unterhaltsamer Komodien im Kontext der g...