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Author : Günter Ahrends
Release : 1994
Genre : Cruelty in literature
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Book Rating : 379/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chapters from the History of Stage Cruelty by : Günter Ahrends
Download or read book Chapters from the History of Stage Cruelty written by Günter Ahrends. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bert Cardullo
Release : 2013
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 045/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theories of the Avant-garde Theatre by : Bert Cardullo
Download or read book Theories of the Avant-garde Theatre written by Bert Cardullo. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays by avant-garde theatre's most creative practitioners--directors, playwrights, performers, and designers--these writings provide direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating playwriting and performance of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Anja Müller-Wood
Release : 2007
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 90X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Theatre of Civilized Excess by : Anja Müller-Wood
Download or read book The Theatre of Civilized Excess written by Anja Müller-Wood. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage's professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion - their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror - testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners' attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.
Author : Robert Knopf
Release : 2015-04-28
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 54X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 by : Robert Knopf
Download or read book Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 written by Robert Knopf. This book was released on 2015-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism. Each play is accompanied by a bio-critical introduction by the editor, and a critical essay, frequently written by the playwright, which elaborates on the play’s dramatic and aesthetic concerns. A new introduction by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten contextualizes the plays in light of recent critical developments in avant-garde studies. By examining the groundbreaking theatrical experiments of Jarry, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Artaud, and others, the book foregrounds the avant-garde’s enduring influence on the development of modern theater.
Author : Don Rubin (Series Editor)
Release : 2003-09-02
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 854/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 4: The Arab World by : Don Rubin (Series Editor)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 4: The Arab World written by Don Rubin (Series Editor). This book was released on 2003-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first internationally published overviews of theatrical activity across the Arab World. Includes 160,000 words and over 125 photographs from 22 different Arab countries from Africa to the Middle East.
