Staging Faith

Author : Victor I. Scherb
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638781
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Faith written by Victor I. Scherb and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illustrating this thesis through an examination of the plays themselves, Staging Faith explores how different modes of production resulted in different types of dramatic organization, different relationships between the audience and the dramatic action, and how dramatists exploited the symbolic and affective potential of different types of settings, props, and dramatic actions. The simple place-and-scaffold play accommodated an oppositional structure, one that could be embodied spatially in the arrangement of the scaffolds and further articulated in processional action. The symbolic images in these dramas often have a strongly devotional character and attempt to unite the play's audience around a central devotional object or scene."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Craig R. Prentiss
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814707955
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Faith written by Craig R. Prentiss and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - "Lively descriptions... compelling analysis... and careful attention to historical contexts." - Judith Weisenfeld, author of Hollywood Be Thy Name "Methodically and brilliantly probes the nuances... One of the most brilliant and engaging studies on African American theater." - David Krasner, author of A Beautiful Pageant

Author : Craig R. Prentiss
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814708080
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Faith written by Craig R. Prentiss and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urban‑industrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of black playwrights reflected cultural tensions, often rooted in class, that revealed competing conceptions of religion's role in the formation of racial identity. Black playwrights pointed in quite different ways toward approaches to church, scripture, belief, and ritual that they deemed beneficial to the advancement of the race. Their plays were important not only in mirroring theological reflection of the time, but in helping to shape African American thought about religion in black communities. The religious themes of these plays were in effect arguments about the place of religion in African American lives. In Staging Faith, Craig R. Prentiss illuminates the creative strategies playwrights used to grapple with religion. With a lively and engaging style, the volume brings long forgotten plays to life as it chronicles the cultural and religious fissures that marked early twentieth century African American society. Craig R. Prentiss is Professor of Religious Studies at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the editor of Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction (New York University Press, 2003).

Author : Katherine Steele Brokaw
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706462
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Harmony written by Katherine Steele Brokaw and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Staging Harmony, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across England's long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more moderate positions. It did so by reproducing the complex personal attachments, nostalgic overtones, and bodily effects that allow performed music to evoke the feeling, if not always the reality, of social harmony. Brokaw demonstrates how theatrical music from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries contributed to contemporary discourses on the power and morality of music and its proper role in religious life, shaping the changes made to church music as well as people’s reception of those changes. In representing social, affective, and religious life in all its intricacy, and in unifying auditors in shared acoustic experiences, staged musical moments suggested the value of complexity, resolution, and compromise rather than oversimplified, absolutist binaries worth killing or dying for.The theater represented the music of the church’s present and past. By bringing medieval and early Tudor drama into conversation with Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Brokaw uncovers connections and continuities across diverse dramatic forms and demonstrates the staying power of musical performance traditions. In analyzing musical practices and discourses, theological debates, devotional practices, and early staging conditions, Brokaw offers new readings of well-known plays (Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale) as well as Tudor dramas by playwrights including John Bale, Nicholas Udall, and William Wager.

Author : Rebecca A. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging the Old Faith written by Rebecca A. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book length study to examine Caroline theater as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged. Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria’s ground-breaking performances, which showcased to an elite audience her role as defender of English Catholics, against an exploration of how this community responded to such a startling vision, in particular through the politically charged texts of James Shirley and William Davenant. This engagement on the stage with the anxieties and hopes of the English Catholic community (properly contextualized within the wider and increasingly fragmented religious landscape in the years leading to civil war) opens up Caroline commercial theater as a site which energetically discussed the explosive religio-political topics of the cultural moment.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.6W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stage Representation of Shakespeare's Plays written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Meredith
Publisher : Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Staging of Religious Drama in Europe in the Later Middle Ages written by Peter Meredith and published by Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University. This book was released on 1983 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martha Smathers Candler Cheney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama in Religious Service written by Martha Smathers Candler Cheney and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aaron Hamburger
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812973208
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith for Beginners written by Aaron Hamburger and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed short-story writer has created a miraculous first novel about an American family on the verge of a breakdown–and an epiphany. In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife from Michigan, has brought her ailing husband and rebellious college-age son, Jeremy, to Jerusalem. She hopes the journey will inspire Jeremy to reconnect with his faith and find meaning in his life . . . or at least get rid of his nose ring. It’s not that Helen is concerned about Jeremy’s sexual orientation (after all, her other son is gay as well). It’s merely the matter of the overdose (“Just like Liza!” Jeremy had told her), the green hair, and what looks like a safety pin stuck through his face. After therapy, unconditional love, and tough love . . . why not try Israel? Yet in seductive and dangerous surroundings, with the rumbling of violence and change in the air, in a part of the world where “there are no modern times,” mother and son become new, old, and surprising versions of themselves. Funny, erotic, searingly insightful, and profoundly moving, Faith for Beginners is a stunning debut novel from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

Author : Dunbar H. Ogden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church written by Dunbar H. Ogden and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original rubrics from some 1,200 manuscripts, this book demonstrates performance of the liturgical drama from the tenth through the sixteenth centuries. It lays out the staging space and traces the movements of the performers on architectural ground plans. The rubrics reveal a wealth of information about the creating of character through ecclesastical vestments and other costumes. It also includes a surprising range of directives for voice, gesture, and dumb show. The book provides a major theatrical source book for students and scholars in the field of drama.