The Revolution In German Theatre 1900 1933 Routledge Revivals

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317217934
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. A thorough analysis of Piscator’s Hoppla, Such is Life! And Brecht’s Man show the similarities and differences in political theatre. In addition, elements of stage-craft are examined — illustrated with tabulated information, an extensive chronology, and photographs and designs of productions.

Author : Michael Patterson
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Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317217926
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. A thorough analysis of Piscator’s Hoppla, Such is Life! And Brecht’s Man show the similarities and differences in political theatre. In addition, elements of stage-craft are examined — illustrated with tabulated information, an extensive chronology, and photographs and designs of productions.

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138639645
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The First German Theatre (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Theatre Rules for the Mannheim National Theatre (1780) -- Appendix 2 Instructions regarding committee meetings (1782) -- Chronology 1767-1837 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources of illustrations -- Index

Author : Susan Manning
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816638024
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Ecstasy and the Demon written by Susan Manning and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wigman, Germany’s premier dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the performer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Widely hailed as an innovator of dance modernism, she never acknowledged her complex relationship with National Socialism. In Ecstasy and the Demon, Susan Manning advances a sociological explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, bringing dance scholarship into conversation with intellectual trends across the humanities. The introduction to this second edition brings Manning’s groundbreaking work to bear on dance studies today and reconsiders Wigman’s career from the perspective of queer theory and globalization, further illuminating the interplay of dance and politics in the twentieth century. Susan Manning is professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University.

Author : Michael A. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521629799
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor written by Michael A. Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this 1997 book situates Barrymore's distinctive contribution in light of past and ensuing tradition.

Author : Lee Ash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113475406X
Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book Gerontology and Geriatrics Collections written by Lee Ash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential resource for any library where research on aging is conducted--a guide to important and unique holdings in the field.

Author : Raphael Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315445948
Total Pages : 303 pages
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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985) written by Raphael Samuel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist — perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment — and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The progress of the Workers’ Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and German development alongside which the parallel movements in the United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical controversies which accompanied them.

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Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book New German Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Leiter
Publisher : Praeger
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Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book From Stanislavsky to Barrault written by Samuel Leiter and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-04-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The careers, directing accomplishments, ideas, and techniques of six distinguished directors of the European stage--each considered a master of the art--are surveyed in depth by author Samuel L. Leiter in this groundbreaking study. Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Max Reinhardt, Jacques Copeau, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean-Louis Barrault, representative of the broad spectrum of directorial art as it has developed in this century, are examined in six exhaustively detailed, yet compact chapters. In Leiter's informative introduction, salient aspects of the director's art exemplified by these innovators are identified and examined: choice of repertory from the intellectually provocative to the escapist; stylistic attitudes toward production from Stanislavsky's spiritual naturalism to Meyerhold's biomechanics and constructivism; rehearsal methods from the dictatorial to the openly collaborative; and a continuing fascination with the shape and function of the performance space. Many of the directors emerge as multifaceted hommes de theatre--writing, directing, acting, designing sets and lighting, and producing. The theoretical writings of the majority of these great directors have become the foundation for Western theatre thought in our time. Each chapter contains capsule descriptions of the landmark productions of the individual director and the volume concludes with a section of brief chronologies for each person and a select bibliography. A single director is the subject of each of the six chapters, which are organized into numerous subsections that discuss the individual's career, his overarching conceptions of theatre art and directing, and finally his actual working methods. Almost every chapter has information on a director's repertory, major productions, theoretical concerns, techniques of working with actors, playwrights, designers, and composers, casting methods, production preparations, and rehearsal processes. Taken as a whole, these chapters reveal the wide divergence of directorial styles and techniques and the multiplicity of approaches open to exponents of the art. The separate chronologies and select bibliography are especially helpful. Students of stage directing and their teachers, active professionals in the field, and literate general readers who seek a broader understanding of twentieth century theatre and stage direction will find this a handy and invaluable resources. This work could be profitably used as a text or supplementary reading for classes in stage directing and is a companion to Leiter's From Belasco to Brook: Representative Directors of the English-Speaking Stage (Greenwood Press, 1991).