Aphra Behn: The Comedies
Aphra Behn: The Comedies

Author: Kate Aughterson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1350317926

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Kate Aughterson provides readers with an approachable and fascinating critical guide to the dramatic works of an important seventeenth-century woman writer. Aughterson analyses Aphra Behn's abilities as a playwright, showing particularly how she skillfully employs comic and dramatic conventions to radical ends, and how she forces her audience to engage with issues about gender and sexuality whilst retaining her witty and accessible style. Chapters in the first part of the book provide close readings of the comedies, addressing such topics as openings, endings, character types, staging, and politics and society. In the second part, Aughterson not only examines Behn's literary career and the Restoration contexts of her plays, but also looks at some sample criticism and explores Behn's drama as performance.

Carnival Masks of Venice
Carnival Masks of Venice

Author: J. C. Brown

Publisher: Artist's and Photographers' Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904332831

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Each year in Venice the weeks preceeding the privations of Lent are forgotten in the exuberant release of carnival. The dissolute behaviour of its citizens in the 18th century reached such depths that the use of masks was banned, but revived in the 1970s it has since become the prevailing image of Carnevale. In this elegantly- designed book the reader is offered a concise introduction to the history of the carnival and mask-wearing, illustrated by J.C. Brown's moody and evocative photos of Venetian masks and the beautiful city.

Masquerade Politics
Masquerade Politics

Author: Abner Cohen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0520912578

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Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest street festival," which in 1976 occasioned a bloody confrontation between black youth and the police and which has since become a fiercely contested cultural event. Cohen contrasts the development of the London carnival with the development of other carnivalesque movements, including the Renaissance Pleasure Faire of California. His valuable analysis of these relatively little-explored urban cultural movements advances further the theoretical formulations developed in his previous studies.

West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals

Author: Raphael Chijioke Njoku

Publisher: Rochester Studies in African H

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781580469845

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A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts

Kakaamotobe
Kakaamotobe

Author: Courtnay Micots

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-06-24

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1793643105

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Kakaamotobe, meaning to scare, is known across southern Ghana, West Africa, as Fancy Dress performance. Masqueraders dress in colorful costumes and wear fancy and fierce masks; they dance energetically to drums or brass band music through the main streets of town during holidays, especially during Christmastime. Competitions held in two towns are intense annual events. This lively secular masquerade is a carnival form that has been practiced for well over a century primarily by coastal Fante people, and many additional ethnicities participate today. Kakaamotobe: Fancy Dress Carnival in Ghana explores the fascinating history, aesthetics, performance, and underlying messages of this masquerade with ties to other carnivalesque practices in the Black Atlantic. While Fancy Dress may engage with global cultures through some of its aesthetics, the practice is profoundly African. The utilization of elaborate costumes, masks, and brass bands expresses not a desire to imitate outside cultures, but rather the impulse of youth to adapt traditional culture to the contemporary environment. Courtnay Micots argues that the outward impression of folly belies the more serious refashioning of power, identity, and modernity in the community.

Masquerade
Masquerade

Author: Kylie Fornasier

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2014-07-23

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0857976206

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It's the Carnevale of 1750 and Venice's ballrooms, theatres, palazzos and squares are filled with delicious gossip, devilish fun and dangerous games. In this glittering masked world, everyone has a secret... Set in an age of decadence made famous by Casanova, Masquerade uncovers the secrets of seven teens, from the highest aristocrat to the lowest servant - their dreams, desires, loves, loyalties ... and betrayals. All the world's a stage. Let the show begin.

Thea Stilton and the Venice Masquerade (Thea Stilton #26)
Thea Stilton and the Venice Masquerade (Thea Stilton #26)

Author: Thea Stilton

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1338159275

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The Thea Sisters are headed to Venice, Italy! They'll be there for the Carnival, an annual festival that's famouse for its elaborate masks. They mouselets love exploring the city's bridges and canals, and seeing the beautiful costumes mice wear to Carnival celebrations. But a mysterious thief strikes while they are there! Can they catch and unmask him before the festival ends?