Missing Persons: Essays on Character and Characterization in Modern Drama, Gruber William E.

Автор: Storm William
Название: Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character
ISBN: 1316509060 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316509067
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: From ancient Greece to the modern theatre, this book delivers a wide-ranging look at how characters have been conceived for the stage at pivotal moments in history. Topics are highlighted throughout that remain vital and pertinent for practitioners, scholars, teachers, students, and general audiences.

Автор: Storm
Название: Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character
ISBN: 1107145759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107145757
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: From ancient Greece to the modern theatre, this book delivers a wide-ranging look at how characters have been conceived for the stage at pivotal moments in history. Topics are highlighted throughout that remain vital and pertinent for practitioners, scholars, teachers, students, and general audiences.

Автор: Cristina Delgado-Garc?­a
Название: Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity
ISBN: 3110403900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110403909
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane’s Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas’s Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch’s ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-Garcia demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated.

Автор: Siegfried Mews, Herbert Knust
Название: Essays on Brecht: Theater and Politics
ISBN: 1469657953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469657950
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: These essays represent the push to provide interdisciplinary Brecht research to English-speaking audiences following his death in 1956 and offer novel readings of his works indicative of the major literary questions of the time. The essays explore both Brecht's theoretical approach and political thought, with many also taking a comparative approach to analysis of individual plays.

The contributors are Reinhold Grimm, Karl-Heinz Schoeps, Herbert Knust, Hans Meyer, Siegfried Mews, Raymond English, James Lyon, Darko Suvin, Gisela Bahr, Grace Allen, Ralph Ley, John Fuegi, Andrzej Wirth and David Bathrick.

Автор: Sanders
Название: Ben Jonson in Context
ISBN: 1107637090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107637092
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Описание: In this book, established and emergent Jonson scholars react to major advances in thinking about the writer and his canon of works. Generously illustrated throughout, the first part of the volume considers Jonson`s career from biographical, critical, and performance-based angles; the second looks at cultural and historical contexts.

Автор: Bartels
Название: Christopher Marlowe in Context
ISBN: 1107559367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107559363
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Описание: This collection sets Marlowe`s plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by the most exciting critics writing on approaches to Marlowe`s writings discuss both major and lesser-known works. Topics include history and politics, religion, modern film adaptations and Marlowe and Shakespeare.

Автор: David Price
Название: The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin: Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany
ISBN: 1469656647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469656649
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Описание: This is the first comprehensive study of the dramas of Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), one of the most versatile and complex playwrights of early modern Germany. Frischlin's broad range encompassed biblical, confessional, and historical drama, all of which expressed bold social and political criticism. His plays were influential, frequently printed and translated, and often controversial. He ended his short life trying to escape prison, where he was being held for threatening further political publications.

Price analyzes Frischlin's dramatic output, as well as humanist literary theory, in particular Renaissance approaches to rhetoric and imitation, to explain how humanists modified or even subverted classical forms to accommodate political and theological activism.

Автор: Alan P. Cottrell
Название: Goethe`s Faust: Seven Essays
ISBN: 146965721X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469657219
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Описание: The essays in this collection range from close textual analysis to discussions of larger problems such as Goethe's relation to Christianity as illuminated by the theme of sacrifice in Faust. This work is viewed with particular reference to Goethe's natural scientific epistemology and to the problems confronting Western man in our own times. A study of Faust's blindness and the inner light complete the collection.

Автор: Norwood
Название: Essays on Euripidean Drama
ISBN: 1107647797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107647794
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Описание: Originally published in 1954, this book examines dramaturgical elements of three Euripidean plays: The Bacchae, Hippolytus and Suppliant Women. Norwood takes a character-driven approach to Euripides` dramas, while also examining practical problems such as the arrangement of the chorus.

Автор: Thomas C. Crochunis
Название: Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays
ISBN: 0415859840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415859844
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Описание: This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era. Contributors offer: *contextual material for those new to Baillie's work *examinations of the relationships between her plays and the philosophical and scientific writing of the era *discussion of Baillie's theatrical methods *extended interpretations of individual plays. Ending years of neglect of Baillie's crucial work, this volume is essential reading for those working on Romanticism, women's writing, or drama of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Автор: Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Название: The Masks of Tragedy: Essays on Six Greek Dramas
ISBN: 0292741618 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741614
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: In exploring the characters and the situations of the plays he has chosen, the author transports his reader to the world of fifth-century B.C. Greece, and establishes the relevance of that world to our own experience.

Автор: Ralph F. Voss
Название: Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 0817358412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817358419
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Описание: In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.  Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A Streetcar Named Desire and Night of the Iguana, continue to capture America's popular imagination, a significant legacy. Though he died in 1983, only recently have Williams's papers become available to the public, bringing to light a number of intriguing discoveriesletters, drafts, and several unpublished and unproduced plays. These recent developments make a reassessment of Williams's life and work both timely and needed. The essays in this collection originated as presentations at the 27th annual Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature at The University of Alabama in 1999. The book addresses a wide range of topics, among them the influence of popular culture on Williams's plays, and, in turn, his influence on popular culture; his relationship to Hollywood and his struggles with censorship, Hollywood standards, and the competing vision of directors such as Elia Kazan; his depictions of gender and sexuality; and issues raised by recently discovered plays. Anyone interested in American literature and drama will find this collection of fresh, accessible essays a rewarding perspective on the life, work, and legacy of one of the bright stars of American theatre.