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'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'
This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-12
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At once strange and familiar, bearer of a narrative and initiator of a relationship, the theatrical object has a status in its own right within the performance, and constantly encourages the actor to reassess the quality of his relationship with his immediate...
Editeur :
Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2024-01-23
Collection :
Les points dans les poches
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The Brian Friel Papers at the National Library of Ireland are a record of a life’s work in progress. They represent a way of working and of making art over a period spanning more than fifty years. This book is the first of its kind in its attempt to interrogate the role...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-04
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This book speaks to those interested in where and why Shakespeare’s work is used to capture the transformative intentions of different areas of Applied Theatre practice (Prison, Disability, Therapy), representing a foundational study which considers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-30
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This book offers the reader an in-depth understanding of Utpal Dutt’s entire career in drama. Covering Dutt’s career in proscenium, street theatre and Jatra, it analyzes the interesting exchange of dramatic art with politics in his theatre. Owing to a plethora of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-21
Collection :
Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia
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«With astuteness and feeling, Stina Barchan captures the wonderful friendship between Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters and their artistic affinities. She deftly traces how each threaded together archival treasures and different forms of three-dimensional montage in their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-11-01
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This book makes a compelling case for ‘performance fieldwork’ as a vital new approach to interdisciplinary collaboration. Refocussing the histories and practices of field research, it shows how creative methods and artistic processes can contribute to an embodied and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-28
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In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young urban black males. Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain is an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-02-07
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Comedy has been a constant presence in the history of Catalan theatre, but it is rarely recognized as a separate generic identity, worthy of academic study as a whole. This volume is the first concentrated attempt to analyse Catalan theatre under the comic lens, with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-19
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This monograph is the first study to critically examine works of performance made for an audience of one. Despite being a prolific feature of the performance scene since the turn of the millennium, critical writing about this area of contemporary practice remains...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-24
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Lo studio rilegge il teatro in volgare del Quattrocento concentrandosi sulle corti padane di Mantova, Ferrara e Milano. L’esame complessivo dei tre centri permette di «fare sistema», di delineare una storia unitaria delle rappresentazioni quattrocentesche, che...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-29
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«Just like Prisoner and Wentworth, this book is an instant cult classic. Written with love by a collective of expert aca-fans, TV Transformations & Transgressive Women takes us on a fascinating journey through the cultural legacies of Australia’s favourite prison TV...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-31
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Over the last twenty years Deirdre Kinahan has emerged as a significant and original female voice in Irish theatre, with her plays produced in Ireland, the UK, the USA and across mainland Europe. Her work explores issues of personal and communal identity, bringing...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-02-11
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music showcases the latest international research into the captivating and vast subject of the many uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, extending from the Bard's own time to the present day.The coverage is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-02-11
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How can the afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance enliven contemporary imaginaries of social justice? Where can the legacies of authoritarianism be spatially located and challenged? And what roles can film play in reckoning with these spectral...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-02-01
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This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-08
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This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-02
Collection :
Transnational Theatre Histories
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Bullying is a social phenomenon that defines the contemporary workplace with much of the emphasis on psychosocial rather than physical suffering. In France, workplace bullying has emerged as a subject of intense interest and controversy among scholars, policy makers and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-10-04
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This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British
theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health,
and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings
of mental health. Carefully, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-30
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In the latter part of the twentieth century, against the backdrop of the Sharpeville Massacre and the Soweto Uprising, theatre became a central means of artistic resistance in apartheid South Africa. One of the most significant plays from this time was Woza Albert!,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-08-30
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