History of Performing Arts

Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama.

This collection investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space and identity.

This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them.

First English translation of the memoirs of the vaunted theater producer Aufricht, providing an inside account of the late Weimar theater scene in Berlin and much else of interest.

This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative.

In examining the relationship between the spectacular, iconic and vibrant New York of the musical and the off-screen history and geography of the real city-this book explores how the city shaped the genre and equally how the genre shaped representations of the city.

An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew.

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Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century.

This book is an anthology focused on Shaw's efforts, literary and political, that worked toward a modernizing Ireland.

This collection of essays sets out to challenge the dominant narrative about Victorian theatre by placing the practices and products of the Victorian theatre in relation to Victorian visual culture, through the lens of the concept of 'Ruskinian theatre', an approach to theatre which values its educative purpose as well as its aesthetic expression.

The beloved television show Bridgerton breaks racial barriers as it explores an alternate history in which biracial Queen Charlotte elevated people of color to dukes and earls, welcoming new perspectives in Regency London.

The traditional view of Shakespeare's mastery of the English language is alive and well today.

Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens.

This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power.

This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb's ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy.

Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras.

This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth century, a period bookended by two of its stars: David Garrick and Sarah Siddons.

This ground-breaking volume is the first of its kind to examine the extraordinary prevalence and appeal of the Gothic in contemporary British theatre and performance.

Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its own needs, which are often at odds with those of the powerful sponsoring organisations.

Shaul Bassi is AssociateProfessor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University ofVenice, Italy.

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Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies.

This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland.

Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict.

This book is a feminist reading of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnogata, of the Kabuki theatre.

Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence.

In past decades portrayals of mental illness on television were limited to psychotic criminals or comical sidekicks.

2015 George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association)This book describes the "e;glory years"e; of Ira Aldridge's first Continental tour, during which he won more awards and honors, often conferred by royalty, than any other actor of his day.

This book offers the first full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End.

The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of "e;Unity of Time"e; and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the hours of a single day; externally, the new social and cultural conformance to the time-keeping schedules of labour and business that had become more urgent with the industrial revolution.

A reflection on one of Broadway's most iconic flops, this memoir follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen's most powerful personalities.

Die Krise und Reform des Theaters wird nicht erst seit den 2000er Jahren kontrovers diskutiert – bereits im 19.

Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century.

This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.

Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane.

Theatre in America has had a rich historyfrom the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway.

Since the Enlightenment, French theatre has occupied a prominent place within French thought, society and culture, but as a subject of study it has remained a purview of theatre historians, literary scholars and aestheticians.

This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era.

Winner of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's 2021 Bevington Award for Best New BookSounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period.

What do Euphoria, Normal People, Atlanta, Ramy, Vida, I May Destroy You, Stranger Things, and Lovecraft Country have in common?

Life in the theatre is often a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows.

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello , Titus Andronicus , King Henry IV Part 1 , Macbeth , Hamlet , and The Tempest.

Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15.

Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching.