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M Esslin
[Paperback 1987]
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Esslin shows how Samuel Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter and others have confronted a world in which there is no communication, where man - cut off from his traditional religious and metaphysical roots - flounders about in a purposeless void, shorn of all certainties. Esslin shows how Samuel Beckett, Ionesco, Genet,... more
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Peter Brook
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First published in 1968, "The Empty Space" is a timeless analysis of theatre, from perhaps the most influential director of the twentieth century. In "The Empty Space," groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he... more
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Frank Kermode
[Paperback 2011]
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Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of Elizabeth's great reign. Here, the circumstances of each play's composition are acutely described, and set within a masterful portrait of Shakespeare's England - its early capitalism, its court, its bursting population, and its epidemics, as well... more
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Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates
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Brimming with information on the design of effective performance spaces, this solid resource offers a wealth of ideas to inspire professional and student architects, designers, teachers, and performing arts producers. Full colour details of the wide range of designs for film theatre music opera and dance venues. Also contains essays... more
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Maggie B Gale ,
Viv Gardner
[Paperback 2009]
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This groundbreaking book shows how female performers have used autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves, the "face and the mask." It looks at how actors, managers, writers and live artists have done this on the page and on the... more
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Carl Lavery
[Hardcover 2010]
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This book is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's innovative approach departs significantly from existing scholarship on Genet. Where scholars have tended to bracket Genet as either an absurdist, ritualistic... more
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Philip Freund
[Hardcover 2003]
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The first volume in the Stage by Stage series, covering the classical theater of Greece and Rome.Philip Freund has spent more than 30 years writing a monumental history of the theater. The Stage by Stage series is a chronicle of world theater, from primitive rites and enactments of myths to... more
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Thomas A King
[Paperback 2004]
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Taking on nothing less than the formation of modern genders and sexualities, Thomas A. King develops a history of the political and performative struggles that produced both normative and queer masculinities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The result is a major contribution to gender studies, gay studies, and theater... more
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Felicia Hardison Londre ,
Margot Berthold ,
Felicia Hardison Londr
[Paperback 1999]
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Felicia Londre explores the world of theater as diverse as the Entertainments of the Stuart court and Arthur Miller directing Chinese actors at the Beijing People's Art Theater in "Death of a Salesman." Londre examines: Restoration comedies; the Comedie Francais; Italian "opera seria"; plays of the "Surm und Grand" movement;... more
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Armond Fields
[Paperback 2004]
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Maude Adams (18721953) was a beloved and talented American Broadway actress who greatly influenced succeeding acting methods and production techniques. She first appeared on stage as an infant in her actress mothers arms, and then moved to a succession of childrens parts. Her New York debut came in 1888, supported... more
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Stephen J Bottoms
[Paperback 2006]
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Andrew Gurr
[Hardcover 2004]
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The first complete history of the theatre company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all of his plays. Created in 1594, the theater company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all his plays became the King's Men in 1603 and ran for forty-eight years up to closure in... more
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Peter Thomson
[Paperback 1985]
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Concentrating on performance, Thomson reviews the commercial and artistic priorities of Shakespeare and the brilliant and hardheaded group of actors who formed his company during the heyday of the Globe Playhouse, from 1599 to 1608. Concentrating on performance, Thomson reviews the commercial and artistic priorities of Shakespeare and the brilliant... more
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David Booth ,
Kathleen Gallagher ,
Maja Ardal
[Paperback 2003]
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Canada boasts a remarkable number of talented theatre artists, scholars, and educators. How Theatre Educates brings together essays and other contributions from members of these diverse communities to advocate for a broader and more inclusive understanding of theatre as an educative force. Organized to reflect the variety of contexts in... more
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John Willis ,
Ben Hodges ,
Tom Lynch
[Paperback 2004]
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Highlights of this new Theatre World, now in its 57th year, include The Producers with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Gary Sinise, Judgment at Nuremberg with Maximillian Schell, Design for Living with Alan Cumming, 42nd Street, A Class Act and Lily Tomlin's The... more
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Jerrold E Hogle
[Hardcover 2002]
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This comprehensive analytical study of the "Phantom of the Opera" proposes answers to the question, 0;why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?1; by revealing the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each of its major adaptations. Using extensive historical... more
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Michael A Morrison ,
Don B Wilmeth
[Paperback 1999]
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Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this 1997 book situates Barrymore's distinctive contribution in light of past and ensuing tradition.... more
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J L Styan ,
John L Styan ,
Styan John L
[Paperback 1996]
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The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance tells the story of the drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. With a wide sweep of coverage, John Styan analyses the key features of staging, including early street theatre and public... more
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Glynne Wickham
[Paperback 1994, 2nd Edition]
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In this masterly survey, Glynne Wickham outlines the development of drama throughout the world over the last 3,000 years, from its origins in primitive dance rituals to the 1990s--an ideal introduction to the subject for all lovers of the theatre.... more
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Kathryn Hansen
[1993]
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Nautanki theatre in North India continues to feed a sense of collective identity. Yet Nautanki's role as a vital medium of com-munication has not been fully analysed till now. The author seeks to fill this gap and weaves her discussion into a well-defined historical fabric, drawing on both documents and... more
