Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator, 

Автор: Rachel Bryant Davies
Название: Victorian Epic Burlesques: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer
ISBN: 1350027170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350027176
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso by J.R. Planch (1834); The Iliad; or, the Siege of Troy by Robert Brough (1858) and Ulysses; or the Ironclad Warriors and the Little Tug of War by F.C. Burnand (1865).

Beloved legend, archaeological riddle and educational staple: Homer's epic tales of the Trojan War and its aftermath were vividly reimagined in nineteenth-century Britain. Classical burlesques-exceptionally successful theatrical entertainments-continually mined the Iliad and Odyssey to lucrative comic effect. Burlesques combined song, dance and slapstick comedy with an eclectic kaleidoscope of topical allusions. From namedropping boxing legends to recasting Shakespearean combats, epic adaptations overflow with satirical commentary on politics, cultural highlights and everyday current affairs.

In uncovering Homer's irreverently playful afterlife, this selection showcases burlesque's development and wide appeal. The critical introduction analyses how these plays contested the accessibility of classical antiquity and dramatic performance. Textual and literary annotations, with contemporary illustrations, illuminate the juxtaposed sources to establish these repackaged epics as indispensable tools for unlocking nineteenth-century social, cultural and political history.

Resources for further study are available online.

Автор: James Moran
Название: The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence: Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator
ISBN: 1472570383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472570383
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to give an in-depth analysis of Lawrence's interaction with the theatre industry during the early twentieth century. It connects and examines his performance texts, and explores his reaction to a wide-range of theatre (from the sensation dramas of working-class Eastwood to the ritual performances of the Pueblo people) in order to explain Lawrence's contribution to modern drama.

F. R. Leavis influentially labelled the writer 'D. H. Lawrence: Novelist'. But this book foregrounds Lawrence's career as a playwright, exploring unfamiliar contexts and manuscripts, and drawing particular attention to his three most successful works: The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Daughter-in-Law, and A Collier's Friday Night. It examines how Lawrence's novels are suffused with theatrical thinking, revealing how Lawrence's fictions - from his first published work to the last story that he wrote before his death - continually take inspiration from the playhouse.

The book also argues that, although Lawrence has sometimes been dismissed as a restrictively naturalistic stage writer, his overall oeuvre shows a consistent concern with theatrical experiment, and manifests affinities with the dramatic thinking of modernist figures including Brecht, Artaud, and Joyce. In a final section, the book includes contributions from influential theatre-makers who have taken their own cue from Lawrence's work, and who have created original work that consciously follows Lawrence in making working-class life central to the public forum of the theatre stage.

Автор: Frank
Название: Nabokov`s Theatrical Imagination
ISBN: 1107479797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107479791
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Drawing on unpublished archival material, this study offers a comprehensive assessment of the importance of theatrical performance in Vladimir Nabokov`s thinking and writing. Siggy Frank argues that despite Nabokov`s anti-theatrical stance as a drama critic, theatricality is actually at the heart of his own practice as both playwright and novelist.

Автор: Deutermann Allison
Название: Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England
ISBN: 1474426085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474426084
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book traces the dialectical development of auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical marketplace with focused attention to specific plays .

Автор: Scott Virginia
Название: Moliere: A Theatrical Life
ISBN: 0521782813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521782814
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Цена: 82370.00 T
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Описание: Moliere is an important figure in European literature and drama, whose plays are still taught and performed throughout the world. This full-length biography, first published in 2000, will appeal to the general reader as well as the specialist.

Автор: Lopez
Название: Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama
ISBN: 0521820065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521820066
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In this comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Lopez proposes that understanding the potential for theatrical failure - the way playwrights anticipated it and audiences responded to it - is crucial for understanding how the drama succeeded on the stage.

Автор: Melnikoff Kirk
Название: Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade
ISBN: 1107126207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107126206
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Presents the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe`s complex place in the canon both bibliographically and theatrically. The collection considers Marlowe`s deliberate engagement with page and stage, the textual transmission of his work, and the reception of `Marlowe` as style, perspective, and author.

Автор: Anna S. Uhlig
Название: Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus
ISBN: 1108481833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108481830
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The first book-length comparative study of Pindar and Aeschylus in more than six decades, this volume will appeal to students of Greek poetry and modern performance alike. By addressing commonalities rather than differences, Uhlig offers a novel perspective on poetic performance in the `song culture` of early fifth-century BC Greece.

Автор: J. Sanders
Название: Ben Jonson`s Theatrical Republics
ISBN: 0333676629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333676622
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson`s stage worlds - his `theatrical republics` - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially `anti-theatrical`.

Автор: Brown
Название: History as Theatrical Metaphor
ISBN: 1137473355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137473356
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues of ideology, national identity, historiography, mythology, gender and especially Scottish language. Covering topics up to the end of World War Two, the book addresses the work of many key figures from the last century of Scottish theatre, including Robert McLellan and his contemporaries, and also Hector MacMillan, Stewart Conn, John McGrath, Donald Campbell, Bill Bryden, Sue Glover, Liz Lochhead, Jo Clifford, Peter Arnott, David Greig, Rona Munro and others often neglected or misunderstood.Setting these writers’ achievements in the context of their Scottish and European predecessors, Ian Brown offers fresh insights into key aspects of Scottish theatre. As such, this represents the first study to offer an overarching view of historical representation on Scottish stages, exploring the nature of ‘history’ and ‘myth’ and relating these afresh to how dramatists use – and subvert – them.Engaging and accessible, this innovative book will attract scholars and students interested in history, ideology, mythology, theatre politics and explorations of national and gender identity.

Автор: Ganim John M.
Название: Chaucerian Theatricality
ISBN: 0691601437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691601434
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer`s poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illumi

Автор: Worrall
Название: The Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832
ISBN: 0230518028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230518025
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.