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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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
Author: Steve Mullaney
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Published: 1999
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eliz Brown Guillory
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1990-03-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0275935663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights. It will be useful to scholars in the fields of black and women's literature and an excellent source of background reading in graduate and undergraduate courses on American women playwrights. The author's training as both a scholar and a playwright is evident in this book. Choice This important contribution to African American and women's studies analyzes the dramatic works of America's black women playwrights. The plays of such writers as Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Ntozake Shange are examined in light of the tradition from which they emerged. Brown-Guillory begins by tracing the development of African American theater with its roots in African theatrics, then moves on to discuss women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance such as Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, Mary Burrill, Myrtle Smith Livingston, Ruth Gaines-Shelton, Eulalie Spence, and Marita Bonner. Though rarely anthologized and infrequently made the subject of critical interpretation, asserts the author, the plays of these early twentieth-century black women offer much to the American theater in the way of content, tonal and structural form, characterization, as well as dialogue, and were instrumental in paving a way for black playwrights from the 1950s to the present.
Author: Andrew Bozio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-02-06
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 019258572X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their surroundings — not only how they orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations, but also how their environs function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. It then contends that these moments of thinking through place theorise and thematise the work that playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the setting of the dramatic fiction. By tracing the relationship between these two registers of thought in such plays as The Malcontent, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, King Lear, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Bartholomew Fair, this book shows that drama makes visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their surroundings. It also reveals how, in doing so, theatre altered the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and imagined place in early modern England.
Author: Andrew Sofer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003-06-17
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780472068395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
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.
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.
Author: Michael Blakemore
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0571311237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its vast new home on the South Bank. Relying on generous subsidy, it would need an extensive network of supporters in high places. Olivier, a scrupulous and brilliant autocrat from a previous generation, was not the man to deal with these political ramifications. His tenure began to unravel and, behind his back, Peter Hall was appointed to replace him in 1973. As in other aspects of British life, the ethos of public service, which Olivier espoused, was in retreat. Having staged eight productions for the National, Blakemore found himself increasingly uncomfortable under Hall's regime. Stage Blood is the candid and at times painfully funny story of the events that led to his dramatic exit in 1976. He recalls the theatrical triumphs and flops, his volatile relationship with Olivier including directing him in Long Day's Journey into Night, the extravagant dinners in Hall's Barbican flat with Harold Pinter, Jonathan Miller and the other associates, the opening of the new building, and Blakemore's brave and misrepresented decision to speak out. He would not return to the National for fifteen years.
Author: Gretchen Woelfle
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780823422814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on fact, this coming-of-age story offers a vivid picture of life behind the curtain at Shakespeare's theater. Illustrations.
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780751565362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.