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Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781557832795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Applause Books). Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing.
Author: Una Chaudhuri
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780472065899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Author: Jeremy Ekberg
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015-09-18
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1443883360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Myth of Identity in Modern Drama is the first book-length study on existential authenticity and its relation to ontological embodiment treated via analyses of characters of modern drama. Furthermore, it offers new methods of exploring characters and characterization and new ways of thinking about identity. Through its investigations of the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre, the book shows that the study of embodiment will allow for a new method of analyzing characters and how they form, or attempt to form, ever-changing identities.
Author: Peter Szondi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780804744027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book's three studies each concentrate on a different Celan poem. "The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105" investigates a historical turn from a poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only promises to do so. "Reading 'Engführung'" follows the movement of poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason. "Eden" addresses "Du liegst," a poem on the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; Szondi actually was with Celan when the poem was written. It analyzes the relation between the historical facts to which a poem refers and its composition. The book contains, as appendixes, Szondi's notes for three more projected studies of Celan poems, left unwritten at the time of his death in 1971.
Author: Peter Szondi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780804743952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.
Author: George William Brandt
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780198711391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edwin Wong
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1525537555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.
Author: Stephen Watt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780472108725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.
Author: J. L. Styan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521296281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
Author: Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 158729642X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.
