Author: Jeremy Ekberg
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443883360
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The 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.
The Myth of Identity in Modern Drama
Author: Jeremy Ekberg
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443883360
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The 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.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443883360
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The 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.
Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd
Author: Carmen Dominte
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527559882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527559882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.
Studies in Modern Drama
Author: Dr. Amal Qutaishat
Publisher: دار الفلاح للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN: 9957552058
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book deals with studies of various elements of modern drama.
Publisher: دار الفلاح للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN: 9957552058
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book deals with studies of various elements of modern drama.
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Debating with the Eumenides
Author: Vayos Liapis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527514676
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, to a considerable extent, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing dialogue with the classical past. Within this dialogue between modern Greece and classical antiquity, Greek tragedy takes pride of place. In this volume, ten scholars from Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States explore the various ways in which Greek tragedy and tragic myth have been reimagined and rewritten in modern Greek drama and poetry. The book’s extensive coverage includes major modern Greek authors, such as Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos, as well as less well-known, but equally rich and rewarding, 20th- and 21st-century texts.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527514676
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, to a considerable extent, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing dialogue with the classical past. Within this dialogue between modern Greece and classical antiquity, Greek tragedy takes pride of place. In this volume, ten scholars from Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States explore the various ways in which Greek tragedy and tragic myth have been reimagined and rewritten in modern Greek drama and poetry. The book’s extensive coverage includes major modern Greek authors, such as Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos, as well as less well-known, but equally rich and rewarding, 20th- and 21st-century texts.
Christina Reid's Theatre of Memory and Identity
Author: Rachel Tracie
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319978764
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is a study of the plays, performances and writings of Christina Reid. It explores Reid’s work through her own words, both in interviews and writings; through theoretical engagements in other disciplines, such as psychology and geography; and through responses to her plays in production. It is a compilation of sorts, gathering together interviews, critical material, unpublished works and theatrical reviews to reflect the breadth and depth of Reid’s contribution to the theatrical culture of Northern Ireland, during the Troubles and beyond.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319978764
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is a study of the plays, performances and writings of Christina Reid. It explores Reid’s work through her own words, both in interviews and writings; through theoretical engagements in other disciplines, such as psychology and geography; and through responses to her plays in production. It is a compilation of sorts, gathering together interviews, critical material, unpublished works and theatrical reviews to reflect the breadth and depth of Reid’s contribution to the theatrical culture of Northern Ireland, during the Troubles and beyond.
The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
Author: Brenda Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521576802
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521576802
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.
The Living Prism
Author: Eva Kushner
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In The Living Prism Eva Kushner provides a lively panorama of reflections and experiences in comparative literature studies, showing that comparative literature in the post-World War II era has been an experimental ground for the human sciences.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In The Living Prism Eva Kushner provides a lively panorama of reflections and experiences in comparative literature studies, showing that comparative literature in the post-World War II era has been an experimental ground for the human sciences.
Modern Drama
Author: William B. Worthen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780155132207
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780155132207
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Staging Masculinity
Author: Carla J. McDonough
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786427361
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or Sam Shephard's True West are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics involved in the characters. This work looks at how contemporary playwrights, including Miller, Shepard, Eugene O'Neill, David Mamet, and August Wilson, stage masculinity in their works. It becomes apparent that male playwrights return often to the issues of troubled manhood, usually masked in other issues such as war, business or family. The plays indicate both the attractiveness of the model of traditional masculinity and the illusive nature of this image, which all too often fractures and fails the characters who pursue it. O'Neill's play The Hairy Ape and the character Yank receive much attention.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786427361
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or Sam Shephard's True West are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics involved in the characters. This work looks at how contemporary playwrights, including Miller, Shepard, Eugene O'Neill, David Mamet, and August Wilson, stage masculinity in their works. It becomes apparent that male playwrights return often to the issues of troubled manhood, usually masked in other issues such as war, business or family. The plays indicate both the attractiveness of the model of traditional masculinity and the illusive nature of this image, which all too often fractures and fails the characters who pursue it. O'Neill's play The Hairy Ape and the character Yank receive much attention.