Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
Beckett's Art of Salvage
Writing and Material Imagination, 1932–1987
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This innovative exploration of the recurring use of particular objects in Samuel Beckett's work is the first study of the material imagination of any single modern author. Across five decades of aesthetic and formal experimentation in fiction, drama, poetry and film, Beckett made substantial use of...
The Play’S the Thing
The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988–2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
The Play's the Thing: The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988-2012
Kathleen Keena
iUniverse, 187 pages, (paperback) $17.95, 978-1-4917-6151-9
(Reviewed: June 2015)
The Play's the Thing is Kathleen Keena's theater diary starting at Manchester Community College...
by François Bon
Language: French
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Bernard-Marie Koltès meurt en avril 1989, après 11 ans d'écriture très dense, qui bouleversera les formes et le statut du théâtre, y introduisant la ville, la nuit, la dérive des êtres, dans une langue à la fois chargée de tous les symboles d'une époque et ses marges, et d'un classicisme...
by Joshua Landy
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels so inscrutable? And why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits anymore? In a series of captivating chapters on Mark, Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Chaucer, Joshua Landy not...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1994
In the history of modern theatre, Ibsen is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of this 1994 Companion explore his life and work, providing an invaluable reference work for students. In chronological terms they range from an account of Ibsen's earliest pieces, through the years of rich...
Electra and the Empty Urn
Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Metatheater, or "theater within theater," is a critical approach often used in studies of Shakespearian or modern drama. Breaking new ground in the study of ancient Greek tragedy, Mark Ringer applies the concept of metatheatricality to the work of Sophocles. His innovative analysis sheds...
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers....
by Christopher Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy Mahon
On the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto...
Showing Off, Showing Up
Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The interdisciplinary essays in Showing Off, Showing Up examine acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. Acts of showing highlight those dimensions of performance...
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature
A Philosophical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing...
L'Illusion comique de Pierre Corneille
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
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Comment défendre le théâtre et les comédiens au moyen du théâtre ? Comment, lorsqu’on est Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), poète dramatique de bientôt trente ans, déjà assez connu à Paris, auteur d’une tragi-comédie...
Bajazet de Jean Racine
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
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Britannicus (1669) était, selon certains, trop immoral et trop complexe, Bérénice (1670) trop élégiaque et trop simple.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Bajazet...
Le Roi Lear de William Shakespeare
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
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Publié pour la première fois en 1608, Le Roi Lear, dont Victor Hugo admirait la « construction inouïe », est l’une des grandes tragédies de la maturité de William Shakespeare (1564-1616), l’une des plus intensément...
Don Carlos de Friedrich von Schiller
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
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Don Carlos, Infant d’Espagne est écrit entre 1783 et 1787. Cette longue période de composition reflète les hésitations de Schiller quant à l’orientation générale et à la forme de sa pièce.
Une fiche de lecture...