History of the Theatre
Author | : Oscar Gross Brockett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Oscar Gross Brockett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Don B. Wilmeth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1998-02-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521472043 |
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Russell Brown |
Publisher | : Oxford Illustrated History |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192854421 |
A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
Author | : Glynne Wickham |
Publisher | : Phaidon |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Outlines the development of drama throughout the world over the last 3000 years, from its origins in primitive dance rituals to the 1990s.
Author | : Katarzyna Fazan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108752756 |
Poland is celebrated internationally for its rich and varied performance traditions and theatre histories. This groundbreaking volume is the first in English to engage with these topics across an ambitious scope, incorporating Staropolska, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Enlightenment and Romanticism within its broad ambit. The book also discusses theatre cultures under socialism, the emergence of canonical practitioners and training methods, the development of dramaturgical forms and stage aesthetics and the political transformations attending the ends of the First and Second World Wars. Subjects of far-reaching transnational attention such as Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor are contextualised alongside theatre makers and practices that have gone largely unrecognized by international readers, while the participation of ethnic minorities in the production of national culture is given fresh attention. The essays in this collection theorise broad historical trends, movements, and case studies that extend the discursive limits of Polish national and cultural identity.
Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Milling |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 0521650682 |
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Author | : Christopher Baugh |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350316156 |
Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice. Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.
Author | : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231538928 |
Evolutionary theory made its stage debut as early as the 1840s, reflecting a scientific advancement that was fast changing the world. Tracing this development in dozens of mainstream European and American plays, as well as in circus, vaudeville, pantomime, and "missing link" performances, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times. The stage proved to be no mere handmaiden to evolutionary science, though, often resisting and altering the ideas at its core. Many dramatists cast suspicion on the arguments of evolutionary theory and rejected its claims, even as they entertained its thrilling possibilities. Engaging directly with the relation of science and culture, this book considers the influence of not only Darwin but also Lamarck, Chambers, Spencer, Wallace, Haeckel, de Vries, and other evolutionists on 150 years of theater. It shares significant new insights into the work of Ibsen, Shaw, Wilder, and Beckett, and writes female playwrights, such as Susan Glaspell and Elizabeth Baker, into the theatrical record, unpacking their dramatic explorations of biological determinism, gender essentialism, the maternal instinct, and the "cult of motherhood." It is likely that more people encountered evolution at the theater than through any other art form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Considering the liveliness and immediacy of the theater and its reliance on a diverse community of spectators and the power that entails, this book is a key text for grasping the extent of the public's adaptation to the new theory and the legacy of its representation on the perceived legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of scientific work.