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This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenological accounts of movement experience and the insights of cognitive science, neuroscience, acting theory, dance theory,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-20
Collection :
Transnational Theatre Histories
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Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-16
Collection :
New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
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This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage’s scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage’s technique is defined here as ‘scenographic dramaturgy’, a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-10
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This volume is a collection of scholarly articles and interviews with intermedial artists working with the concepts of public sphere at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It explores the response of socially-engaged artistic practices to the current crisis in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-05
Collection :
Avant-Gardes in Performance
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This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies. Growing from the idea that change is an under-interrogated category that over-determines theatre and performance as an artistic, social, educational, and material...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-01
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This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright’s creative process: ‘We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage’. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre practitioners and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-20
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Dieser theatergeschichtliche Band fokussiert neben schwarzen Performances im amerikanischen Minstrelformat erstmals weiße Inszenierungen in der Blackface-Maske. In beiden Fällen funktionierte 'Schwarzsein' als Chiffre, um Handlungsräume in einer weißen Gesellschaft...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-10-06
Collection :
Szene & Horizont. Theaterwissenschaftliche Studien
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What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-03
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Talking Shakespeare is a collection of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and politics and their impact in the world today. Originally given as provocative talks on Shakespeare at some of the most prestigious universities, conferences, and theatres around the world, they...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-28
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'A sparkling memoir ... A delight from start to finish' NINA STIBBE 'Anyone who loves the theatre will love this book' ZOË WANAMAKER In 1980s London, Sweetpea Slight is en route to drama school when she is snapped up to work as an assistant to the maverick theatre...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-07-06
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The author presents the method of research and creation in dance and theater in Brazil, called Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (Dancer-Researcher-Performer, BPI), which was created by the author herself. Through field research of ritual and Brazilian popular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-09
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This volume sets out a novel approach to theatre historiography, presenting the history of performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as the history of the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class throughout that period. Philhellenism and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-14
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This volume sets out a novel approach to theatre historiography, presenting the history of performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as the history of the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class throughout that period. Philhellenism and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-14
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This book presents a new approach to early English theatre by exposing a genuine relationship between monastic performances and theatricality. It argues that modern theatre was reinvented in Anglo-Saxon monasteries by monks who were required to transform themselves by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-11
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This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology--currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing. It presents in full the evidence behind the choices made...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-10
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Have you ever prepared a speech until you knew it by heart and then found out that, when the moment arrives, the surprise and uniqueness of hic et nunc are inevitable? No matter how much you prepare a text, it will need improvisation to be used on a stage or in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-11-24
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No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-09
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This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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