Author: Johann Jacob EngelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action, Adapted to the English Drama. From a Work on the Same Subject by M. Engel ...
Author: Johann Jacob EngelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture Action
Author: Henry SiddonsPoetics and Politics
Author: Toni BernhartPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110603527
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within the disciplinary framework of comparative literature and the history of literature and concepts. Within this frame, aspects of major interest are the relationship between tradition and innovation, the status of genre, the proportion of autonomous and heteronomous creational dispositions within the artefacts or genres they belong to, as well as strategies of functionalization in the context of a given part of the cultural net. Contributions cover a broad range of topics, including poetics of Early Modern Drama; political, institutional and social practices; history of themes and motifs (Stoffgeschichte); history of genres/cross-fertilization between genres; textual traditions and distribution of texts; questions of originality and authorship; theories of circulation and net structures in Drama Studies.
Next Week--East Lynne
Author: Gilbert B. CrossPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838716465
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Examines plot, character, setting, and spectacle, viewing the plays in performance. Discusses the importance of costume, makeup, gesture, and audience participation, and relates the subject matter of the plays to contemporary society, especially as it reflected England's change from a semi-feudal to an increasingly democratic society. Illustrated.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
Author: Kerry PowellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795364
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
Shakespeare and Gesture in Practice
Author: Darren TunstallPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137606401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
When actors perform Shakespeare, what do they do with their bodies? How do they display to the spectator what is hidden in the imagination? This is a history of Shakespearean performance as seen through the actor's body. Tunstall draws upon social, cognitive and moral psychology to reveal how performers from Sarah Siddons to Ian McKellen have used the language of gesture to reflect the minds of their characters and shape the reactions of their audiences. This book is rich in examples, including detailed analysis of recent performances and interviews with key figures from the worlds of both acting and gesture studies. Truly interdisciplinary, this provocative and original contribution will appeal to anyone interested in Shakespeare, theatre history, psychology or body language.
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Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist
Author: Thomas C. CrochunisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134422490
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era. Contributors offer: *contextual material for those new to Baillie's work *examinations of the relationships between her plays and the philosophical and scientific writing of the era *discussion of Baillie's theatrical methods *extended interpretations of individual plays. Ending years of neglect of Baillie's crucial work, this volume is essential reading for those working on Romanticism, women's writing, or drama of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
Author: E. W. Stibbs