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Theatre (12)

Tragedy and the Witness: Shakespeare and Beyond - cover image
  • Health
  • Philosophy
  • Theatre

Tragedy and the Witness: Shakespeare and Beyond

  • Fred Parker
As he dies, Hamlet pleads with Horatio to ‘report me aright … tell my story’. This book deals with the task of bearing witness to anguish, atrocity, and madness, as these are staged in the tragic theatre. Focusing on the relationship between the protagonist and the onlooker or witness, it explores how the tragic figure, often and understandably viewed as alien or culpable or profoundly strange, struggles to be understood. Centred on Shakespeare, its wide-ranging approach also introduces works by (among others) the Greeks, Racine, Ibsen, Pirandello, Kafka, Beckett, and Kane.
Active Speech: Critical Perspectives on Teresa Deevy - cover image
  • Education
  • Theatre

Active Speech: Critical Perspectives on Teresa Deevy

  • Úna Kealy
  • Kate McCarthy
'Active Speech' is a groundbreaking collection of scholarly essays and practitioner interviews focused on the work of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy. Acts of recovery in the 1980s and 1990s challenged Deevy’s exclusion from the literary canon, reclaiming her contributions as significant to Irish drama and theatre. The recent resurgence of scholarship and productions evidences that, as a deafened woman and Irish playwright, Deevy’s creative power continues to disrupt and tilt the canon of Irish drama, theatre, and performance.
Nouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité - cover image
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Theatre

Nouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité

  • Pauline Beaucé
  • Jeffrey M. Leichman
Les théâtres du passé : des théâtres virtuels ? C’est une des questions passionnantes explorée dans ce livre par des chercheurs et chercheuses en littérature, musicologie, histoire, études théâtrales, histoire de l’art, architecture et sciences du numérique. Ces Nouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité proposent de relever un défi épistémologique autour de la notion de virtuel pour la recherche en histoire du théâtre en engageant différents formats de réflexion : entretiens, articles multimédia, brèves de méthodologie, exposition virtuelle.
The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater - cover image
  • Asian Studies
  • Classics
  • Theatre

The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater

  • Roberto Morales-Harley
This volume presents a sophisticated and intricate examination of the parallels between Sanskrit and Greco-Roman literature. By means of a philological and literary analysis, Morales-Harley hypothesizes that Greco-Roman literature was known, understood, and recreated in India. Moreover, it is argued that the techniques for adapting epic into theater could have been Greco-Roman influences in India, and that some of the elements adapted within the literary motifs (specifically the motifs of the embassy, the ambush, and the ogre) could have been Greco-Roman borrowings by Sanskrit authors.
After the Miners’ Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain: Volume 1 - cover image
  • History
  • Politics and Sociology
  • Theatre

After the Miners’ Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain: Volume 1

  • Paul Farmer
  • Rebecca Hillman
  • Mark Kilburn
In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change.
Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring - cover image
  • Philosophy
  • Theatre

Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring

  • Brian Rappert
In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself.
Epidicus by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation - cover image
  • Classics
  • Classics: Latin Textbooks
  • Theatre

Epidicus by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation

  • Catherine Tracy
Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master’s illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master’s son, but a comedy of mistaken identities and competing interests ensues. Amid the mayhem, Epidicus aims to win his freedom whilst risking some of the grislier punishments the Romans inflicted on their unfortunate slaves.
Chronicles from Kashmir: An Annotated, Multimedia Script - cover image
  • Theatre

Chronicles from Kashmir: An Annotated, Multimedia Script

  • Nandita Dinesh
Chronicles from Kashmir explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemble Kashmir Theatre Akademi and Nandita Dinesh, the play uses a durational, promenade format to immerse its audience within a multitude of perspectives on life in Kashmir. From a wedding celebration that is interrupted by curfew, to schoolboys divided by policing strategies, and soldiers struggling with a toxic mixture of boredom and trauma, Chronicles from Kashmir uses performance, installation and collaborative creation to grapple with Kashmir’s conflicts through the lenses of outsiders, insiders, and everyone in between.
Theatre and War: Notes from the Field - cover image
  • Politics and Sociology
  • Theatre

Theatre and War: Notes from the Field

  • Nandita Dinesh
Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s "six honest serving-men" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important book weaves together Dinesh’s personal narrative with the public story of modern conflict, illustrating as it does, the importance of theatre as a force for ethical deliberation and social justice.
Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India - cover image
  • Asian Studies
  • Folklore and Ethnology
  • Music
  • Other languages
  • Theatre

Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India

  • Francesca Orsini
  • Katherine Butler Schofield
Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region.
The Theatre of Shelley - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: English and Irish Studies
  • Literature
  • Theatre

The Theatre of Shelley

  • Jacqueline Mulhallen
In the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance, Mulhallen provides a meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his ‘closet dramas’ as performable pieces of theatre. As well as discussing Shelley’s stagecraft and analysing performances of his plays from the 1800s to today, the book also offers a detailed account of the theatrical scene of Shelley’s time, including details of the productions Shelley himself saw. Mulhallen reveals Shelley as an extraordinarily talented playwright, whose fascination with contemporary theatrical theory and practice challenges the notion that he was a reluctant dramatist.
The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines - cover image
  • Archaeology and Religion
  • Literature
  • Literature: Comparative Literature
  • Theatre
  • Visual Arts
  • Women and Gender Studies

The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines

  • Kevin R. Brine
  • Elena Ciletti
  • Henrike Lähnemann
The Book of Judith has fascinated artists and authors for centuries, and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. This book is the first multidisciplinary collection to discuss representations of Judith through the centuries. Bringing together scholars from around the world, it transforms our understanding of Judith’s enduring story across a wide range of disciplines. The book includes sections on Judith in Christian, Jewish and secular textual traditions, and representations of Judith in art, music and theatre. It also includes new archival source studies, and translations of unpublished manuscripts and texts previously unavailable in English.