Challenging the Hierarchy

Mark Weinberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• Collective theatres are collectively organized and run performing groups, usually socially conscious and politically oriented, often aligned with the ... Lees meer

Thatcher's Theatre

D Keith Peacock

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British theatre and drama. It is now roughly a decade sinc... Lees meer

Shakespearean Intertextuality

Stephen J Lynch

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• In reshaping Lodge's Rosalynde into As You Like It, Shakespeare not only undermines the Petrarchan and pastoral traditions of the romance, but also re... Lees meer

Spotlight on the Child

Roger Bedard, C John Tolch

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• Although children's theatre has been a part of American culture from early times, historians have not always included it in the documentation of our t... Lees meer

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography

Diana Price

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• As the world's greatest author, Shakespeare has attracted attention from scholars and laypersons alike. But more and more people have questioned wheth... Lees meer

The Theatre Team

Sidney Berger

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• Successful theatrical productions are a team effort and require the close cooperation of the playwright, producer, director, designers, and actors. Th... Lees meer

Assessing the Achievement of J. M. Synge

Alexander G. Gonzalez

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• Though J. M. Synge is considered a major figure of Irish drama and an important canonical playwright, he is the subject of fewer and fewer books and c... Lees meer

On Playing Shakespeare

Leigh Woods

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• This compendium opens the stagedoor for those with little or no practical experience in acting. For actors and other theatre specialists grappling wit... Lees meer

Tony Pastor Presents

Susan Kattwinkel

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• Tony Pastor, a vaudeville performer and manager, was known as the Dean of Vaudeville. He is credited with cleaning up the bawdy variety shows of the m... Lees meer

From Belasco to Brook

Samuel L Leiter

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• This multifaceted study, the companion volume to Leiter's From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage (Greenwood Pre... Lees meer

Jung's Advice to the Players

Sally F Porterfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• Shakespeare's problem plays present an unusually fertile field for Jungian tillage. Like a face glimpsed in a crowd and then lost, these works seem to... Lees meer

Dramatists and the Bomb

Charles A Carpenter

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• While the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki secured an American victory in the Pacific and hastened the end of World War II, it also ushered in... Lees meer

Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices

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• The theatre and drama of the 1920s reflect a synergy of art, glitter, and glitz--a decade of great mainstream playwrights and a flourishing popular an... Lees meer

Reinventing Drama

Bruce Shapiro

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• Dramatic performance involves an intricate process of rehearsal based upon imagery inherent in the dramatic text. A playwright first invents a drama o... Lees meer

Broadway Talks

Arvid F Sponberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• In this book, Arvid F. Sponberg provides a view of what some of the most important people in the commercial theater think about the state of their bus... Lees meer

Documentary Theatre in the United States

Gary Dawson

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• American documentary theatre records the social issues that continue to shape the United States at the close of the twentieth century. This book provi... Lees meer

Maria Irene Fornes and Her Critics

Assunta B Kent

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• This first book dedicated to US-Cuban playwright/director Maria Irene Fornes is a lucid theoretical, historical, and production-oriented study of Forn... Lees meer

Eugene O'Neill in China

Haiping Liu, Lowell Swortzell

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• The year 1988 was notable for being the centennial of playwright Eugene O'Neill's birth and a time of unprecedented democratization in the People's Re... Lees meer

Is the Theatre Still Dying?

Eric Salmon

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• Eric Salmon contends that modern theatre is artistically endangered. This book is his evaluation of the present state of English-speaking theatre and ... Lees meer

Eugene O'Neill in Ireland

Edward L Shaughnessy

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• Shaughnessy's Eugene O'Neill in Ireland: The Critical Response is both more and less than a detailed study of how O'Neill's plays have fared in his an... Lees meer

Actor as Anti-Character

Lesley Wade Soule

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• Working from the premise that the stage performer's primary functions derive from celebrative rituals, this book describes the figure of the actor as ... Lees meer

Theatre for Working-Class Audiences in the United States, 1830-1980

Daniel Friedman, Bruce McConachie

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• This collection of essays defines and explores American theatres that consciously appealed primarily to workers. The scope of the book extends from th... Lees meer

Eugene O'Neill's Century

Richard Moorton

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• This collection commemorating the centennial of American playwright Eugene O'Neill's birth presents a spectrum of critical views unusual for its varie... Lees meer

The Critics' Canon

Richard Palmer

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• Palmer clearly states that his purpose is to explain 1the ways of critics to theatre practitioners, the ways of theatre to inexperienced reviewers, an... Lees meer