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Author: Michael D. Bristol
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317748301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in the work of Victor Turner; and on the history of social life and material culture as practiced by the Annales school. This valuable work is an important contribution to literary criticism, theatre studies and social history and has particular importance for scholars interested in the dramatic literature of Elizabethan England.

Author: Kathleen Louise Williams
Publisher:
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Category : Carnival
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042005655
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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From the Fool to the Wildman, from the irate Reformer to the festive Masqueraders, this collection of articles offers a variety of topics, approaches, and agendas in the study of early modern European theatre. With samplings from Scandinavia, Germany, England, France, the Iberian peninsula, and even the New World, this collection also spans time, from the late fifteenth century to the present. In the process, Carnival and the carnivalesque are examined from archival, Bakhtinian, cultural, and even political points of view. The articles in this collection reveal the variety and inherent vitality of scholarship in early modern theatre. The thirteen essays have been selected from presentations made at the Eighth Triennial Congress of the Société Internationale pour l'Etude du Théâtre Médiéval held in Toronto (1995), under the auspices of the Records of Early English Drama project and Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004647198
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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From the Fool to the Wildman, from the irate Reformer to the festive Masqueraders, this collection of articles offers a variety of topics, approaches, and agendas in the study of early modern European theatre. With samplings from Scandinavia, Germany, England, France, the Iberian peninsula, and even the New World, this collection also spans time, from the late fifteenth century to the present. In the process, Carnival and the carnivalesque are examined from archival, Bakhtinian, cultural, and even political points of view. The articles in this collection reveal the variety and inherent vitality of scholarship in early modern theatre. The thirteen essays have been selected from presentations made at the Eighth Triennial Congress of the Société Internationale pour l'Etude du Théâtre Médiéval held in Toronto (1995), under the auspices of the Records of Early English Drama project and Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

Author: Yasmin Joseph
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786827824
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2020 “What people you know can party through all of the earth's elements?” Carnival is here. The streets of Notting Hill are alive with history and amongst the pulsating soca, dazzling colour, and endless sequins and feathers, Jade and Nadine are fighting for space in a world they thought was theirs. A timely reflection on the Black British experience and sexual politics of Carnival, J'Ouvert is a piercing, hilarious and fearless story of two best friends, battling to preserve tradition in a society where women's bodies are frequently under threat.

Author: Louise F. Hipwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781109876185
Category : Carnival
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Carnival in eighteenth-century Europe finds its most fertile ground in the city of Venice, renowned city of diversion where theatre, masquerades and exuberant spectacles of every manner abound overwhelming all aspects of city life. Considering the impact of carnival and its festivities on the everyday life of La Serenissima, it becomes difficult to examine the works of Carlo Goldoni---eighteenth-century Italy's famed playwright and librettist---without pondering the role that carnival folklore and the carnival act played in the realization of his art. In his comedies the import of carnival is thematic in nature and it is emblematic of the author's social criticism. Carnival is presented as essentially ambivalent: on one end of the spectrum it is freedom from the constraints of daily life, a moment for the fulfillment of desires that is fully embraced by the characters, whilst on the other it is a negative force that is reprehended as the instigator of an irrational behaviour antithetical to the author's ideal of bourgeois common sense and moderation. Within the plays the elements of carnival literature and folklore are patently visible, from the process of dissimulation and masking to the overindulgence in food and mocking morbin; all functioning as constituent parts of the colourful and dynamic landscape of Eighteenth century Venice that the author strives to faithfully capture. In the works for music and most particularly in a series of comic opera librettos from 1750 carnival takes on even greater significance, becoming the vehicle of expression through which the author conveys his social themes. The coffee houses, the calli and all the typical locales set for the encounters of Goldoni's characters, are transformed into the topsy turvy reverse worlds of carnival literature. The author's excursion into the fantastic explores the subversive effects of the carnival of the insane, the utopian world of plenty, the travels to exotic lands and places of alternate reality. He combines the typical topoi of carnival folklore with his own moral ideals and this carnivalization of the goldonian universe allows for an innovative and more penetrating analysis of contemporary Venetian society.

Author: Catriona Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521108997
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Petrushka, the Russian equivalent of Punch and Judy, was one of the most popular spectacles at fairgrounds and in city courtyards for over a century. Catriona Kelly's study, the first to appear in English, traces the history of Petrushka, illustrating how it reflected the tensions of Russian urban life both before and after the Revolution. Written from a standpoint informed by literary theory, her book at the same time breaks open the categories traditionally applied, both in the Soviet Union and in the West, to the study of Russian literature and popular culture. Contemporary interpretations of Petrushka on the street, high-cultural appropriations of it for a bourgeois and intellectual readership (notably the famous ballet by Benois and Stravinsky), and adaptations made for agit-prop purposes are all analysed. Based on a wide range of unusual materials, this lively and very readable account will appeal not only to literary specialists, but also to those interested in cultural politics, folklore, women's studies and popular theatre.

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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Colin Chambers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134216890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners. Colin Chambers examines early forms of blackface and other representations in the sixteenth century, through to the emergence of black and Asian actors, companies, and theatre groups in their own right. Thorough analysis uncovers how they led to a flourishing of black and Asian voices in theatre at the turn of the twenty-first century. Figures and companies studied include: Ira Aldridge Henry Francis Downing Paul Robeson Errol John Mustapha Matura Dark and Light Theatre The Keskidee Centre Indian Art and Dramatic Society Temba Edric and Pearl Connor Tara Arts Yvonne Brewster Tamasha Talawa. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an enlightening and immensely readable resource and represents a major new study of theatre history and British history as a whole. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author: Herman Wouk
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504096592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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The basis for the Herman Wouk–Jimmy Buffett musical: A middle-aged New Yorker buys a Caribbean hotel and learns that paradise has its drawbacks in this novel that “moves as fast as a Marx Brothers movie” (The New York Times Book Review). Broadway press agent Norman Paperman is pushing fifty with one heart attack already under his belt. So he decides to chuck the stressful Manhattan life and bring his wife and teenage daughter to a lush green island. With the help of a wheeler-dealer friend, he winds up buying a small hotel. How hard could running one be? Pretty hard, actually, when you throw in an earthquake, plumbing problems, rampaging ants, and a few more unexpected developments at the Gull Reef Club. Before long, Norman’s spirit is as drained as his bank account, his marriage is on the brink, and he’s desperately searching for a way out of this beautiful nightmare . . . Don’t Stop the Carnival is a clever comic departure for the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as Marjorie Morningstar, The Winds of War, and The Caine Mutiny—and eventually served as the basis for the celebrated Jimmy Buffett album and stage musical. “Funny [and] continuously entertaining. . . . Norman Paperman, although hardly an admirable person, is exceedingly human and entirely believable. One cringes with sympathy for him.” —The New York Times “His sandy beaches are alive with stinging sand flies . . . farce laced with tears.” —Time