Author: Thomas R. Whitaker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871778
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view—those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characters—as a series of "critical fictions" lead him toward the experience of each play in performance. The author supplies detailed readings of the plays in various modes. The styles of the chapters vary according to the issues dominant in the plays discussed, and the reader experiences simultaneously a sense of approaching the meaning of performance and of gaining a deeper understanding of the play through a subtle and allusive commentary. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Fields of Play in Modern Drama
Author: Thomas R. Whitaker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871778
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view—those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characters—as a series of "critical fictions" lead him toward the experience of each play in performance. The author supplies detailed readings of the plays in various modes. The styles of the chapters vary according to the issues dominant in the plays discussed, and the reader experiences simultaneously a sense of approaching the meaning of performance and of gaining a deeper understanding of the play through a subtle and allusive commentary. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871778
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view—those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characters—as a series of "critical fictions" lead him toward the experience of each play in performance. The author supplies detailed readings of the plays in various modes. The styles of the chapters vary according to the issues dominant in the plays discussed, and the reader experiences simultaneously a sense of approaching the meaning of performance and of gaining a deeper understanding of the play through a subtle and allusive commentary. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Modern Drama
Author: Richard Paul Knowles
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
The Book of the Play
Author: Marta Straznicky
Publisher: Massachusetts Studies in Early
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.
Publisher: Massachusetts Studies in Early
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism
Author: J. L. Styan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296281
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296281
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
Modern and Contemporary Drama
Author: Miriam Gilbert
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
ISBN: 9780312090777
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
02 This anthology offers a collection of 28 outstanding modern and contemporary plays. Introductions to each period and dramatist along with photographs and reviews give students a sense of how the plays are staged and witnessed.
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
ISBN: 9780312090777
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
02 This anthology offers a collection of 28 outstanding modern and contemporary plays. Introductions to each period and dramatist along with photographs and reviews give students a sense of how the plays are staged and witnessed.
Gaming the Stage
Author: Gina Bloom
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053817
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053817
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
Fields of Play in Modern Drama
Author: Thomas R. Whitaker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780783794808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780783794808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Author: Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441159746
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441159746
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.
New Directions in Early Modern English Drama
Author: Aidan Norrie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501514024
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501514024
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.
Kate Field's Washington
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description