This Stage-play World
Author | : Julia Briggs |
Publisher | : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Julia Briggs |
Publisher | : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Boon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2004-08-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1139453513 |
Theatre and Empowerment examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds, and it does so from a multi-cultural perspective. The communities involved include poverty-stricken children in Ethiopia and the Indian sub-continent, disenfranchised Native Americans in the USA and young black men in Britain, victims of violence in South Africa and Northern Ireland, and a threatened agricultural town in Italy. The book asserts the value of performance as a vital agent of necessary social change, and makes its arguments through the close examination, from 'inside' practice, of the success - not always complete - of specific projects in their practical and cultural contexts. Practitioners and commentators ask how performance in its widest sense can play a part in community activism on a scale larger than the individual, 'one-off' project by helping communities find their own liberating and creative voices.
Author | : Rebecca Piatt Davidson |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2003-04-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060296267 |
This is young William, His mind all ablaze, Who stays up all night Writing poems and plays. And this is a book, unforgettable and wise, that applauds inspiration, creation, story, and the world and works of William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Anita Lobel, All the World's a Stage pays tribute to the act of turning words into art.
Author | : Gretchen Woelfle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : 9780823422814 |
Based on fact, this coming-of-age story offers a vivid picture of life behind the curtain at Shakespeare's theater. Illustrations.
Author | : Dorothy Chansky |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2015-06-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317618017 |
Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic, and literary making of meaning. Through case studies, literary analyses, and performance critiques, contributors examine theatrical work from China, Japan, India, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, England, the United States, Chile, Argentina, and Zimbabwe, addressing work from classical, popular, and contemporary theatre practices. The investigation of uses of food across media and artistic genres is a burgeoning area of scholarly investigation, yet regarding representation and symbolism, literature and film have received more attention than theatre, while performance studies scholars have taken the lead in examining the performative aspects of food events. This collection looks across dramatic genres, historical periods, and cultural contexts, and at food in all of its socio-political, material complexity to examine the particular problems and potentials of invoking and using food in live theatre. The volume considers food as a transhistorical, global phenomenon across theatre genres, addressing the explosion of food studies at the end of the twentieth century that has shown how food is a crucial aspect of cultural identity.
Author | : Lauren Gunderson |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0822237725 |
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.
Author | : Paul Sills |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780573615870 |
Ten one-act plays, including "The Bremen Town Musicians, " "The Fisherman and His Wife, " and "The Golden Goose, " which may be used together as one production.
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0061983659 |
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.
Author | : Jonathan Thacker |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780853235484 |
The theatrum mundi metaphor was well-known in the Golden Age, and was often employed, notably by Calderón in his religious theatre. However, little account has been given of the everyday exploitation of the idea of the world as stage in the mainstream drama of the Golden Age. This study examines how and why playwrights of the period time and again created characters who dramatize themselves, who re-invent themselves by performing new roles and inventing new plots within the larger frame of the play. The prevalence of metatheatrical techniques among Golden Age dramatists, including Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and Guillén de Castro, reveals a fascination with role-playing and its implications. Thacker argues that in comedy, these playwrights saw role-playing as a means by which they could comment on and criticize the society in which they lived, and he reveals a drama far less supportive of the social status quo in Golden Age Spain than has been traditionally thought to be the case.
Author | : Matt Doeden |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1467725439 |
Baseball has long been dubbed America's national pastime. When the top teams face off in the World Series each season, team legacies and fans' hearts are on the line. Author Matt Doeden covers the century-long history of the World Series, from its humble beginnings to becoming a worldwide sensation. Discover the drama behind the statistics and record books that keeps the crowd enthralled!