Author: Georges FeydeauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 142
Book Description
L'Hôtel du libre echange
Author: Georges FeydeauTheatre World 1991-1992
Author: John WillisPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557831439
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season
The Wager of Lucien Goldmann
Author: Mitchell CohenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821266
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. While many Parisian leftists staunchly upheld Marxism's "scientificity" in the 1950s and 1960s, Lucien Goldmann insisted that Marxism was by then in severe crisis and had to reinvent itself radically if it were to survive. He rejected the traditional Marxist view of the proletariat and contested the structuralist and antihumanist theorizing that infected French left-wing circles in the tumultuous 1960s. Highly regarded by thinkers as diverse as Jean Piaget and Alasdair MacIntyre, Goldmann is shown here as a socialist who, unlike many others of his time, refused to portray his aspirations for humanity’s future as an inexorable unfolding of history’s laws. He saw these aspirations instead as a wager akin to Pascal’s in the existence of God. “Risk,” Goldmann wrote in his classic study of Pascal and Racine, The Hidden God, “possibility of failure, hope of success, and the synthesis of the three in a faith which is a wager are the essential constituent elements of the human condition.” In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Cohen retrieves Goldmann’s achievement—his “genetic structuralist” method, his sociology of literature, his libertarian socialist politics. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Sketch
Author: The National Theatre Story
Author: Daniel RosenthalPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849439435
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1433
Book Description
Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs – and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre's 19th-century origins, through false dawns in the early 1900s, and on to its hard-fought inauguration in 1963. At the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier was for ten years the inspirational Director of the NT Company, before Peter Hall took over and, in 1976, led the move into the National's concrete home on the South Bank. Altogether, the NT has staged more than 800 productions, premiering some of the 20th and 21st centuries' most popular and controversial plays, including Amadeus, The Romans in Britain, Closer, The History Boys, War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors. Certain to be essential reading for theatre lovers and students, The National Theatre Story is packed with photographs and draws on Daniel Rosenthal's unprecedented access to the National Theatre's own archives, unpublished correspondence and more than 100 new interviews with directors, playwrights and actors, including Olivier's successors as Director (Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner), and other great figures from the last 50 years of British and American drama, among them Edward Albee, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, David Hare, Tony Kushner, Ian McKellen, Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith, Peter Shaffer, Stephen Sondheim and Tom Stoppard.
The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film
Author: Alan GoblePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110951940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
The Theatre
Author: Clement ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
Daniel Blum's Screen World 1967 (Screen World) (Hardcover)
Author: John WillisPublisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819603081
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The British Film Catalogue
Author: Denis GiffordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317837010
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 5657
Book Description
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy
Author: Eric WeitzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316154289
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and what does this mean for the way we enter the world of a comic text? Addressing these issues, and many more, this is a 'how to' guide to reading comedy from the pages of a dramatic text, with relevance to anything from novels and newspaper columns to billboards and emails. The book enables you to enhance your grasp of the comic through familiarity with characteristic structures and patterns, referring to comedy in literature, film and television throughout. Perfect for drama and literature students, this Introduction explores a genre which affects the everyday lives of us all, and will therefore also capture the interest of anyone who loves to laugh.