A revelatory portrait of Shakespeare's life before he achieved fameShakespeare at Thirty offers an original account of Shakespeare's early career by returning to a moment before his fame was assured: the spring of 1594, when he turned thirty amid plague closures, censorship, social upheaval, financial insecurity, and professional uncertainty.
Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A revelatory portrait of Shakespeare's life before he achieved fameShakespeare at Thirty offers an original account of Shakespeare's early career by returning to a moment before his fame was assured: the spring of 1594, when he turned thirty amid plague closures, censorship, social upheaval, financial insecurity, and professional uncertainty.
Conventional business marketing often suggests that the primary function of business is to market a product in order to maximize efficiency and profit.
Conventional business marketing often suggests that the primary function of business is to market a product in order to maximize efficiency and profit.
The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre tells the story of drama and performing in Scotland from the earliest traces of folk plays, performances, and royal ceremonies in the medieval period right up to the challenges of the present post-pandemic moment in the professional theatre.
In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy.
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC.
Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
From the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history.
From the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history.
Between 2012 and 2023 Ireland commemorated the centenaries of the significant revolutionary events that led ultimately to independence, through a series of performances that attempted to uncover and re-present the hidden histories of the emergence of Ireland as a ‘Free State’ and ultimately a Republic, though still partitioned.
Between 2012 and 2023 Ireland commemorated the centenaries of the significant revolutionary events that led ultimately to independence, through a series of performances that attempted to uncover and re-present the hidden histories of the emergence of Ireland as a ‘Free State’ and ultimately a Republic, though still partitioned.
Beckett on Film is a twenty-first century collection of original and extended interviews with internationally renowned actors and directors who created the Beckett on Film (2001) project.
America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s.
The overriding aim of this groundbreaking volume-whether the subject is vocal ornamentation in 19th-century opera or the collective improvisation of the Grateful Dead-is to give new recognition to performance as the core of musical culture.
Sound Knowledge: The Universal Guide to Audio provides readers with in-depth understanding of all aspects of sound creation and control, from fundamental studio principles to advanced acoustic techniques.
The overriding aim of this groundbreaking volume-whether the subject is vocal ornamentation in 19th-century opera or the collective improvisation of the Grateful Dead-is to give new recognition to performance as the core of musical culture.
The late Dwight Conquergood's research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised.
America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s.
In 1710, England's first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance.
Sound Knowledge: The Universal Guide to Audio provides readers with in-depth understanding of all aspects of sound creation and control, from fundamental studio principles to advanced acoustic techniques.
In 1710, England's first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance.
The late Dwight Conquergood's research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised.
Die Beitrage dieses Sammelbandes widmen sich dem Zusammenspiel unterschiedlichster Stimmen in Literatur und Film aus Lateinamerika, Lusoafrika und Portugal sowie deren intermedialen, intertextuellen und transkulturellen Verflechtungen.
This book analyses poetry and prose written by combatant and non-combatant Irish writers during the First World War, focusing on key works influenced by Irish, English and European literary traditions.
Structure en six chapitres, cet ouvrage adopte une demarche pluridisciplinaire mobilisant l'histoire litteraire, la sociocritique, l'approche thematique et l'hermeneutique.
This volume begins with the assumption that "e;Hindu"e; should not be conflated with "e;Indian"e; (as in the case of Orientalist criticism of Indian theatre) and that modern Indian theatre need not have its starting point in classical Sanskrit drama (as many Indologists would assert).
Starting out from the author's extensive practice as a dramaturg and educator, this book identifies and elucidates the varied selection of dramaturgical tools that have been used in the experimental practices of contemporary dance, theater, and performance in Europe since the early 2000s.
IT IS CLEAR THAT, IF THE PLAY IS TO LIVE, it must live largely off the dialogue, and that the dialogue has to be based on psychological tensions which are recognisable as part of our modern life.
With over twenty different casts, multiple spin-off series, and five international locations, The Real Housewives franchise is a television phenomenon.
Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare's representation of that body as possessing epistemological faculties.
Multiple productions and the international successes of plays like The Weir have led to Conor McPherson being regarded by many as one of the finest writers of his generation.
