The Place of the Stage
Author: Steven Mullaney
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780472083466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProbes English society in the age of Shakespeare
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Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Andrew Bozio
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0198846568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe way that characters in early modern theatrical performance think through their surroundings is important in our understanding of perception, memory, and other forms of embodied affective thought. This book explores this concept in dramatic works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson.
The National Stage
Author: Loren Kruger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992-08
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780226454979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisis—from the challenge of socialism in late nineteenth-century Europe to the struggle to "salvage democracy" in Depression America—Kruger poses a fundamental question: in the formation of nationhood, is the citizen-audience spectator or participant? The National Stage answers this question by tracing the relation between theatre institution and public sphere in the discourses of national identity in Britain, France, and the United States. Exploring the boundaries between history and theory, text and performance, this book speaks to theatre and social historians as well as those interested in the theoretical range of cultural studies.
Worldly Stage
Author: Sophie Volpp
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-23
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 168417435X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites, and notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. In this study of late-imperial Chinese theater, Sophie Volpp offers fresh readings of major texts such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) and Kong Shangren’s Peach Blossom Fan (Taohua shan), and unveils lesser-known materials such as Wang Jide’s play The Male Queen (Nan wanghou). In doing so, Volpp sheds new light on the capacity of seventeenth-century drama to comment on the cultural politics of the age. Worldly Stage arrives at a conception of theatricality particular to the classical Chinese theater and informed by historical stage practices. The transience of worldly phenomena and the vanity of reputation had long informed the Chinese conception of theatricality. But in the seventeenth century, these notions acquired a new verbalization, as theatrical models of spectatorship were now applied to the contemporary urban social spectacle in which the theater itself was deeply implicated."
Out on Stage
Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780300081022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis intriguing, authoritative book tracks stage representations of lesbians and gay men from Oscar Wilde to the present day and examines scores of British and American plays and playwrights, including works by Wilde, Maugham, Coward, Hellman, O'Neill, Le Roi Jones, and Joe Orton.
Fences
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0593087585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.
A Source Book in Theatrical History
Author: A. M. Nagler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 0486315541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed passages includes views by observers from ancient Greece to modern times on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, props, much more.
Beyond Scenography
Author: Rachel Hann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0429950985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, Beyond Scenography explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics (that which orientate acts of worlding, of staging). With sections on installation art and gardening as well as marketing and placemaking, this book is an argument for what scenography does: how assemblages of scenographic traits orientate, situate, and shape staged events. Established stage orthodoxies are revisited - including the symbiosis of stage and scene and the aesthetic ideology of 'the scenic' - to propose how scenographics are formative to all staged events. Consequently, one of the conclusions of this book is that there is no theatre practice without scenography, no stages without scenographics. Beyond Scenography offers a manifesto for a renewed theory of scenographic practice for the student and professional theatrical designer.
Introduction to Light Microscopy
Author: Dee Lawlor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-05-31
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 3030053938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a beginner’s guide to using light microscopes. It begins with a brief introduction to the physics of optics, which will give the reader a basic grasp of the behaviors of light. In turn, each part of the microscope is explained using clear and simple English, together withdetailed photographs and diagrams. The reader will learn the function, care and correct use of each part. A troubleshooting section also helps resolve some of the most common issues encountered in light microscopy. Most people have a general idea of how to use a microscope, but many never get the full benefit, because they receive no training. With easy-to-follow steps and detailed images, this guide will help everyone achieve the best results, and be confident using their microscope. This book is intended for anyone using a light microscope, such as university students, people in lab environments, hobbyists, educators who teach science to young children, and anyone with a general interest in these valuable tools.
The Shakespearean Stage Space
Author: Mariko Ichikawa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1107020352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.
