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Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding of early modern kabuki as a subversive entertainment and a threat to shogunal authority, Shimazaki argues that kabuki instilled a sense of shared history in the inhabitants of Edo (present-day Tokyo) b...

This volume deals with the commitment in the defense of egalitarian values by theatrical creators of the Spanish republican exile of 1939. Their innovative narrative and visual discourse offer models of masculinity and femininity that represent the change in gender paradigms derived from the rising leading role of women in the public sphere.

This is a fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery. We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. There's more real salt in the plays than we first expect. Shakespeare's dramatic ocean spans the God-sea of the ancient world and the immense blue vistas that early modern mariners navigated. Throughout his career, from the opening shipwrecks of "The Comedy of Errors" through "The Tempest", S...

This book takes a fresh 'how to' approach to Practice as Research. At the 'performance turn' it argues that old prejudices should be abandoned and that a PaR methodology and its modes of 'doing-knowing' should be fully accepted in the academy. It refines Robin Nelson's earlier models for PaR but sustains the dynamic and dialogic interplay between different modes of knowledge-production in a multi-mode research inquiry. It advances strategies for articulating and evidencing the research inquiry a...

Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang provides an in-depth study of his plays and other works in theatre. Beginning with his "Trilogy of Chinese America", Esther Kim Lee traces all major phases of his playwriting career. Utilizing historical and dramaturgical analysis, she argues that Hwang has developed a unique style of meta-theatricality and irony i...

Nach dem Mauerbau 1961 bis zur Wende 1989 verliessen etwa einhundert Schriftsteller die DDR. Die Studie stellt Hintergrunde der Ausburgerungen dar und analysiert die Grunde und Motive fur den Entschluss von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern, die DDR zu verlassen. Es wird gezeigt, wie vielstimmig und auch kontrovers die Autoren die DDR kritisierten und wie sich in den verschiedenen Kritikansatzen und Ausreisemotiven allgemeinere Prozesse der Desillusionierung uber den realen Sozialismus wid...

Samuel Beckett & Compagnie est l'histoire d'une quete infinie a la recherche de l'autre. L'autre tel qu'il echoit dans les textes, surgit dans les figures theatrales, se faufile parmi les ombres. Cette Compagnie sera mal vue et mal dite avant de s'evader " Cap au Pire ". La Compagnie, c'est aussi Marcel Proust, Claude Simon, Robert Pinget, Christian Oster, Gilles Deleuze.

This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues...

Bertolt Brecht is widely considered one of the most important figures in Twentieth Century literature. While there is a broad corpus of scholarship which analyzes the formalistic elements of Brecht's work, much of this has been limited by formalistic approaches and has neglected his unique contributions to Marxist philosophy. This book serves to remedy this by reconstructing Brecht's social and political philosophy into a single theoretical framework for the first time. It presents Brecht's thou...

Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. It is the first book to discuss work by The Sydney Front (1986 - 1993) and Open City (1987 - ), and engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory to analyse performances by these artists, as well as theatre productions by Jenny Kemp and others. These performance practitioners are considered as part...

The Shaw Festival is the premier, world-class festival devoted to the performance of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries. Since 1962, The Shaw Festival has established the standard for Shaw performances and the Festival now attracts a world wide audience. This book is a complete, updated and fully annotated record of each and every performance, performer, director, designer, etc., for every performance of the Festival. For anyone interested in the contemporary production of the Shaw plays...