The Rise And Fall Of The Well Made Play

Author : John Russell Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317917219
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play (Routledge Revivals) written by John Russell Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the ‘well-made play’ in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far, in allowing it to be devalued, we have lost sight of certain important elements of the theatre. The focus of the book is largely on the development of British theatre and those who have been instrumental to it. This is an indispensable introduction for any student with an interest in the history and development of the British theatre.

Author : John Russell Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415727853
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play written by John Russell Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the 'well-made play' in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far, in allowing it to be devalued, we have lost sight of certain important elements of the theatre. The focus of the book is largely on the development of British theatre and those who have been instrumental to it. This is an indispensable introduction for any student with an interest in the history and development of the British theatre.

Author : Francesca Coppa
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815336273
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joe Orton written by Francesca Coppa and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.

Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190679727
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Queer Modernism written by Penny Farfan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on some of the best-known and most visible stage plays and dance performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Penny Farfan's interdisciplinary study demonstrates that queer performance was integral to and productive of modernism, that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities, and that it anticipated, and was in a sense foundational to, the insights of contemporary queer modernist studies. Chapters on works from Vaslav Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun to Noël Coward's Private Lives highlight manifestations of and suggest ways of reading queer modernist performance. Together, these case studies clarify aspects of both the queer and the modernist, and how their co-productive intersection was articulated in and through performance on the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century stage. Performing Queer Modernism thus contributes to an expanded understanding of modernism across a range of performance genres, the central role of performance within modernism more generally, and the integral relation between performance history and the history of sexuality. It also contributes to the ongoing transformation of the field of modernist studies, in which drama and performance remain under-represented, and to revisionist historiographies that approach modernist performance through feminist and queer critical perspectives and interdisciplinary frameworks and that consider how formally innovative as well as more conventional works collectively engaged with modernity, at once reflecting and contributing to historical change in the domains of gender and sexuality.

Author : Kenneth Pickering
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137329114
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalism in Theatre written by Kenneth Pickering and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible survey of the development of naturalism and its effects on modern-day theatre. Taking into account the philosophical, scientific and aesthetic ideas that constituted the movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book examines why naturalism is still a dominant mode of performance in theatre.

Author : Zoe Svendsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135033247X
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Dramaturgy written by Zoe Svendsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a dramaturg? What is dramaturgy? What are the political implications for the way that plays produce meaning in performance? Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the theatrical process, but it is still a new term for many theatre-goers. Theatre & Dramaturgy offers a working definition of what dramaturgy means, and asks how understanding theatre from the perspective of dramaturgy can help us understand the world around us. This concise study examines how western histories and practices of theatre have functioned to achieve their effects, through understanding dramaturgy as the arrangement or structure of the work in time and space – both at the fictional level and in relation to performance. Exploring the relationship between plays and their meaning in production, this guide focuses on how understanding dramaturgy is critical to understanding how plays achieve their effects.

Author : John Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 134923379X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stage Right written by John Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage Right is a refreshingly abrasive account of the state of British theatre since 1979, offering an account of the development of a new mainstream formed in conscious opposition to the work of the politically committed dramatists of the 70s and an analysis of the plays of the most successful playwrights of the new mainstream: Nichols, Gray, Frayn, Bennett, Ayckbourn and Stoppard.

Author : Sander M. Goldberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400857961
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Terence written by Sander M. Goldberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of seeing Terence primarily as an adapter of Greek New Comedy, Sander Goldberg treats him as an innovative dramatist writing for a specifically Roman audience. His book will interest not only students of classical literature but also those concerned with wider problems of critical theory and the comic tradition. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Kenneth Pickering
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137109653
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Drama and Performance written by Kenneth Pickering and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable companion which enables the reader to acquire and understand a vocabulary for discussion and critical thinking on all aspects of the subject. The clear explanations of the concepts support students in their practical and theoretical explorations of the subjects and offer insights for research and reflective writing.

Author : Laurie Lanzen Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism written by Laurie Lanzen Harris and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.