The Frightful Stage

Author : Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458990
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frightful Stage written by Robert Justin Goldstein and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class’s time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of nineteenth-century political theater censorship at a time, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the European population was becoming increasingly politically active.

Author : Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845454593
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frightful Stage written by Robert Justin Goldstein and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class's time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of nineteenth-century political theater censorship at a time, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the European population was becoming increasingly politically active.

Author : Robert B. Marchesani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317788818
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frightful Stages written by Robert B. Marchesani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face stage fright and self-doubt with new courage! The experience of awe has rarely been considered by psychologists, but this extraordinary book makes up for that neglect. Frightful Stages explores all the shades of that strange emotion from reverence to terror. At its heart, awe is the condition of human suffering in situations that require you to act in all the senses of that deceptively simple word, whether on stage or off, whether in the presence of many or alone. Frightful Stages provides a multifaceted view of the semiotics of awe. It deals with its manifestations in film, on stage, in poetry, in ordinary lives as well as in the more extraordinary ones, including Bessie Smith, Carl Van Vechten, Barbra Streisand, Federico Fellini, Thomas Merton, and John Ashbery. This unprecedented book delineates the experience of awe in moments of stage fright, performance anxiety, and everyday interpersonal relations. Frightful Stages takes place on and off stage, before the curtain and behind, in the audience and on the screen. It explores the mysterious experience of awe in a multitude of contexts, including: Thomas Merton's psychoanalytic showdown with Gregory Zilboorg the chronic tensions between Apollonian reason and Dionysian instinct in myth, psychoanalysis, creation, and performance the ill-fated encounter between the greatest of all blues singers and a brilliant, self-loathing literary critic the moment of awe in experiential psychotherapy as seen by both the analyst and client the differences and similarities between stage fright and social phobia the intricate interrelationships between pernicious envy, emotional awkwardness, and fear a personal diary chronicling one man's crisis of panic, anguish, and self-doubt the complexities of feeling, offering, and accepting reverence in the psychotherapeutic relationship Frightful Stages gives clinicians and lay readers a variety of approaches from the analytic to the unanalytic, from the psychodynamic to the humanistic. It will appeal to a diverse audience, including therapists, clients, social theorists, cultural anthropologists, performers, and writers. Additionally, this book is intended to help artists deal with creative blocks, therapists cope with their own terrors, and all helping professionals understand bizarre phenomena.

Author : Christopher Crosbie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474440282
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage written by Christopher Crosbie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discovers within early modern revenge tragedy the surprising shaping presence of a wide array of classical philosophies not commonly affiliated with the genre.

Author : Erin Duncan-O'Neill
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526168405
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art against censorship written by Erin Duncan-O'Neill and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honoré Daumier (1808–79), who was imprisoned early on for a politically offensive cartoon, painted scenes from seventeenth-century theatre and literature at moments of stifling censorship later in his career. He continued to find form for dangerous political dissent in the face of intense and shifting censorship laws by drawing on La Fontaine, Molière, and Cervantes, masters of dissimulation and critique in a newly glorified literary past. This book reveals new connections between legal repression and subversive fine-arts practice, showing the force of Daumier’s role in the broader stories of image-text relationships and political expression.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476675554
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horror on the Stage written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are numerous publications about the horror genre in film and television, but none that provide information about horror on a legitimate stage until now. This book highlights the most terrifying moments in theater history, from classical plays like Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Euripides' Medea to the violence of the Grand Guignol company productions in 18th-century France, and present-day productions like Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd, Stephen King's Carrie and dark 21st-century plays by Clive Barker and Conor McPherson. The book compiles the history and behind-the-scenes tales surrounding stage productions about monsters, hauntings and horrors both historical and imagined. Included are the nightmarish adaptations of popular writings from Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, as well as plays starring popular characters like Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Woman in Black. More than 500 plays are documented, accompanied by dozens of photographs. Entries include plot synopses, existing production data, and evaluations by critics and scholars.

Author : Edmund Charles Wendt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Asiatic cholera written by Edmund Charles Wendt and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Charles Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Asiatic Cholera written by John Charles Peters and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Senhouse Kirkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kirkes' Handbook of Physiology written by William Senhouse Kirkes and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: