Time and again, early modern plays show people at work: shoemaking, grave-digging, and professional acting are just some of the forms of labour that theatregoers could have seen depicted on stage in 1599 and 1600. Tom Rutter demonstrates how such representations were shaped by the theatre's own problematic relationship with work: actors earned their living through playing, a practice that many considered idle and illegitimate, while plays were criticised for enticing servants and apprentices fro...
This is the first full-length critical assessement of this British dramatist, whose recognition and influence is steadily extending to a position of international eminence. Particular attention is given to Barker's movements in style toward a unique form of political expressionism, his rejection of liberal humanism, his characteristically ruthless and holy vision of sexuality and its radicalizing power, the growing importance and redefinition of existentialism in a social context and the honing...
The Forest and the Field is a polemical thinking-through of the whole concept of theatre as a 'space', and a politically motivated exploration of how, and where, that theatrical space meets the real world that surrounds and suffuses it. The book begins by demolishing the notion of the 'empty space' and drawing careful and suggestive distinctions between 'space' and 'place'. It moves on to consider how the body - of the actor, or of the spectator - is read within the theatrical encounter, and ho...
This day-by-day calendar of plays produced at the major London theatres from January 1, 1940 to December 31, 1949_the only work of its kind for the period_covers 53 major west-end theatres, thus dealing with all the big productions and names (Cocteau, Fry, Sartre, Hellman, Rattigan, Coward, Maugham, O'Casey, Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Pirandello, Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, etc.), revivals of the classics, and opera and ballet productions. Wearing lists 2,409 productions (over 143,000 performances)...
Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain's most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company's aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success so important. Robert Leach has provided the definitive account in this first full-length study of Theatre Workshop and the methods of its director from 1945 to 1965, Jo...
Performing Bodies in Pain (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
by M. Carlson
The urgent debate about torture in public discourse of the twenty-first century thrusts pain into the foreground while research in neuroscience is transforming our understanding of this fundamental human experience. In late-medieval France, a country devastated by the Black Death, torn by civil strife, and strained by the Hundred Year's War with England, the notion of pain shifted within the conceptual frameworks provided by theology and medicine. Performing Bodies in Pain analyzes the cultural...
A Century of South African Theatre (Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance)
by Professor Loren Kruger
“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla’s provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African Theatre demonstrates the impact of theatre and other performances—pageants, concerts, sketches, workshops, and performance art—over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes African responses to pro-British pageants celebrating white Union in 1910, such as the Emancipation Centenary of the abolit...
This book reveals the genuity of Shaw's totalitarianism by looking at his material - articles, speeches, letters, etc but is especially concerned with analyzing the utopian desire that runs through so many of Shaw's plays; looking at his political and eugenic utopianism as expressed in his drama and comparing this to his political totalitarianism.
Juvenals Irrtum (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #17)
by Petra-Maria Einsporn
Das Buch befasst sich mit dem Zentralproblem des politischen Kabaretts, dem grundlegenden Widerspruch von Absicht und Wirklichkeit, erstrebter politischer Opposition und ausbleibender oder gegenteiliger Wirkung in der Geschichte des politischen Kabaretts. Dieses bisher von der Forschung gemiedene Problem wird hier in einem historischen Abriss fur die Geschichte der politischen Satire und des politischen Kabaretts als ihrer jungsten Erscheinungsform erstmals dargestellt und als der Satire immanen...
"Their Majesties' Servants"; Or, Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. Actors, Authors, Audiences
by Dr Doran
Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
by J. Frick
No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.
Die in diesem Band zusammengestellten narratologischen Fallstudien zur Popularkultur, zu den Unterhaltungskunsten und wissensvermittelnden Techniken fragen nach den Prozessen der Kanonisierung, Institutionalisierung und Medienkonkurrenz um 1900 und untersuchen verschiedene mediale Erzahlformen hinsichtlich ihrer bewahrenden und innovativen Potenziale. Von der Archivfunktion des Popularen uber die Modernitat und das Politikum der Popularkultur bis hin zum Wissenstransfer in popularkulturellen Med...
Romancing the Bardoffers a look at the Stratford Festival in its first fifty years as it developed from a bold venture driven by vision of a handful of eager enthusiasts to its present status as a multi - million dollar cultural and commercial enterprise. With profiles of Stratford personalities from founder Tyrone Guthrie to current artistic director Richard Monette, it provides glimpses of intrigue and conflict both offstage and on. The book traces the development of a distinctive Canadian act...
Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
by O Johnson
History, they say, has a filthy tongue. In the case of colonial theatre in America, what we know about performance has come from the detractors of theatre and not its producers. Yet this does not account for the flourishing theatrical circuit established between 1760 and 1776. This study explores the culture's social support of the theatre.
Anfang der 60er Jahre, in einer Zeit, in der die Operngattung endgultig fur tot erklart wurde, erscheint G. Ligetis -imaginare Oper- "Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures." Was hat solch eine Bezeichnung zu bedeuten: Wird die Oper als (Alp)Traum, oder umgekehrt, der Alptraum als Objekt der Oper wiedergeboren? Und noch eine weitere Frage: In der Mitte der 70er Jahre geschriebenen -Anti-Anti-Oper- "Le Grand Macabre" wird der grosse Opernapparat umfassend verwendet; ist in diesem Werk die Gattung Oper w...
Koenig Wilhelm II. ALS Maezen (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #663)
by Brigit Janzen
Seit Jahrzehnten wird das grosse Kultur-Engagement des letzten wurttembergischen Konigs Wilhelm II. (1848-1921) immer wieder betont und verklart. Doch wie zeigte sich sein Einfluss - auch im Vergleich zu Vorgangern und Amtskollegen? Die von ihm protegierten Kulturprojekte wie Schillermuseum, kunstgewerbliche Lehr- und Versuchswerkstatte, Hoftheater und Kunstgebaude stehen im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung. Diese versteht sich gleichermassen als Beitrag zu einer modernen Kulturgeschichte Wurttember...
Die Griechische Tragodie Und Ihre Aktualisierung in Der Moderne (Beitr GE Zur Altertumskunde, #224)
German #MeToo (Women and Gender in German Studies)
Responding to the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement, this volume investigates not only the ubiquity of sexual abuse and sexual violence but also the transhistorical and transnational failure to hold perpetrators accountable. From a range of disciplines, the collected essays engage current cultural and political discourses about systemic sexism, feminist theory and practice, and gender-based discrimination from an academic and activist perspective. The focus on national cultures of German-s...
If We Stand as One, Someday Becomes Somehow.
by Write Run and Paper Boy
"Epicene" is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirizes the newly fashionable and sexually ambiguous world of the West End of London, where courtly wit rubs shoulders with commercial values. This authoritative edition is based on a thorough re-examination of the earliest texts. The introduction analyses the play as originally written for the newly formed Children of the Queen's Revels, and p...