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The orphan of zhao and other yuan plays
The zaju in this volume explore the consequences of loyalty and betrayal, ambition and enlightenment, and piety and drunkenness.
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The politics of gender in early american theater
This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors ...
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The quality of mercy
One of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on the world’s most revered playwright.
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The radical impulse
The period from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1950s in India saw the cultural expression of a wide range of political sentiments and positions around imperialism, fascism, nationalism, and social transformation. It was a period that covered a crucial transitional phase: from colonialism to a po...
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The struggle continues: robbie mccauley
A vital new collection of plays and essays by and about a groundbreaking avant-garde theatre artist.
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The viewpoints book
The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landa...
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Theatre and evolution from ibsen to beckett
Reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times
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Theatre in handwriting
Based on examples of the vast Hamburg Theatre-Library from the 1770s to 1820s, this study proposes a transdisciplinary approach towards handwritten artefacts in modern European theatre.
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Theatre in transformation
This collection brings together analyses of cultural policy in post-apartheid South Africa and actors of the performing arts discussing political theater and cultural activism. Case studies grant inside views of the State Theatre in Pretoria, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, and the Baxter The...
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Thinking through shakespeare
How Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions—about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong—explains his lasting power, popularity and relevanceIn the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular because he “is above all writers, at...
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When a gesture was expected
A boldly innovative study of nonverbal communication in the poetry and prose of Hellenic antiquityWhen a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in trag...
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When movies were theater
There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, rangi...
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»postheimat« – inquiries into migration, theatre, and networked solidarity
The PostHeimat network, a three-year-long experiment in networked solidarity between major public German theatres and migrant actors and directors, discusses in this book how to think about Heimat after migration. The contributions document the emergence, frictions, and difficulties in migrant th...
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