Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century

• Boek
• This stimulating compilation of essays and images reveals an essential and valuable component of Czech contributions to the world of modern theatre he... Lees meer

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles

Marlis Schweitzer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles traces the theatrical repertoire of a small group of white Anglo-American actresses as they reshaped the meanings of... Lees meer

The Making of Theatrical Reputations

Yael Zarhy-Levo

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Today's successful plays and playwrights achieve their prominence not simply because of their intrinsic merit but because of the work of mediators, wh... Lees meer

Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare

Edward Pechter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Shakespeare commentary and performance today present us with a multiplicity of interpretations constructed and reconstructed from such diverse origins... Lees meer

Our Moonlight Revels

Gary Jay Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• This text examines paradigmatic moments in the rich performance history of Shakespeare's play, from its early modern origins in the mid 1590s to postm... Lees meer

Reflecting the Audience

Jim Davis, Victor Emeljanow

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• This innovative work begins to fill a large gap in theatre studies: the lack of any comprehensive study of nineteenth-century British theatre audience... Lees meer

The Theatrical Event

Willmar Sauter

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• The Theatrical Event discusses the objectives of theatre studies by focusing on the communicative encounter between performer and spectator -- the the... Lees meer

Stagestruck Filmmaker

David Mayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources of theatre to great purpose and to great end... Lees meer

Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London

Mark Bayer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Taking to heart Thomas Heywood's claim that plays "persuade men to humanity and good life, instruct them in civility and good manners, showing them th... Lees meer

The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1825-1877

Laurence Senelick

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• This biography of the panto clown Laff Fox, renowned in his time as America's funniest performer, brings this most tragic legend to life. In his new e... Lees meer

Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre

Jeanette R. Malkin, Freddie Rokem

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• While it is common knowledge that Jews were prominent in literature, music, cinema, and science in pre-1933 Germany, the fascinating story of Jewish c... Lees meer

Othello and Interpretive Traditions

Edward Pechter

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on... Lees meer

Actors and American Culture

Benjamin McArthur

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• The 40 years from 1880 to 1920 marked the golden age of the American theatre as a national institution, a time when actors moved from being players ou... Lees meer

The Song Is You

Bradley Rogers

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Musicals, it is often said, burst into song and dance when mere words can no longer convey the emotion. This book argues that musicals burst into song... Lees meer

Susan Glaspell's Poetics and Politics of Rebellion

Emeline Jouve

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• A pioneer of American modern drama and founding member of the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) wrote plays of a kind that Robert Brust... Lees meer

Athenian Tragedy in Performance

Melinda Powers

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigat... Lees meer

Strange Duets

Kim Marra

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Autocratic male impresarios increasingly dominated the American stage between 1865 and 1914. Many rose from poor immigrant roots and built their own c... Lees meer

Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War

Marvin Carlson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• In almost every area of production, German theatre of the past forty years has achieved a level of distinction unique in the international community. ... Lees meer

Cracking Up

Katelyn Hale Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Cracking Up archives and analyzes Black feminist stand-up comedy in the United States over the past sixty years. Looking closely at the work of Jackie... Lees meer

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

Rebecca Rovit

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• New laws enacted in the wake of Hitler's ascent to power removed all Jews from their professional workplaces and banned Jewish artists from any collab... Lees meer

Irish on the Move

Michelle Granshaw

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• A little over a century ago, the Irish in America were the targets of intense xenophobic anxiety. Much of that anxiety centered on their mobility, whe... Lees meer

Theatre & Identity in Imperial Russia

Catherine A Schuler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• What role did the theatre--both institutionally and literally--play in Russia's modernization? How did the comparatively harmonious relationship that ... Lees meer

The Roots of Theatre

Eli Rozik

• Paperback | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• In The Roots of Theatre Eli Rozik offers an alternative theory of roots based on the cultural and psychological conditions that made the advent of the... Lees meer

Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife

Mechele Leon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of ... Lees meer