Download or read book Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts written by Ann C. Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures. Arranged chronologically, this collection examines how ghosts represent political change in Athenian culture in three plays by Aeschylus; their function in traditional Japanese drama; the staging of the supernatural in the dramatic liturgy of the early Middle Ages; ghosts within the dramatic works of Middleton, George Peele, and Christopher Marlowe, and the technologies employed in the 18th and 19th centuries to represent the supernatural on stage. Coverage of the dramatic representation of ghosts in the 20th and 21st centuries includes studies of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Sarah Ruhl, Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, and the spectral imprint of Shakespeare's ghosts in the Irish drama of Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. The volume closes by examining three contemporary American indigenous plays by Anishinaabe author, Alanis King.
Download or read book Theatre and Ghosts written by M. Luckhurst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer.
Download or read book Ghosts written by Alice Rayner and published by . This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making spirits visible has been a part of the theatrical experience since at least the sixteenth century. Instead of illusions, however, ghostly doubles in theatre are materially real and pervasive. In Ghosts, Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, she begins by describing time as it is employed by theatre with multiple aspects of presence, duration, and passage. Suggesting that objects connect past to present through the sense of touch, she explores how props are suspended backstage between motion and meaning. Her final chapters consider the curtain as theatre’s means for attempting to divide real and imaginary worlds. If ghosts hover where secrets—secrets of the past, secrets from oneself, secrets of life and death—are kept, then, according to Rayner, “theatre is where ghosts best make their appearances and let communities and individuals know that we live amid secrets hiding in plain sight.” Alice Rayner is associate professor of drama at Stanford University and author of, most recently, To Act, To Do, To Perform: Drama and the Phenomenology of Action.
Download or read book The English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare written by Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ghost as Produced in the Spectre Drama Popularly Illustrating the Marvellous Optical Illusions Obtained by the Apparatus Called the Dircksian Phantasmagoria Being a Full Account of Its History Construction and Various Adaptations written by Henry Dircks and published by London : E. & F. N. Spon. This book was released on 1863 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghosts written by Alice Rayner and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, Rayner describes time as it is employed by theatre with multiple facets of presence, duration, and passage.
Download or read book Apparitions Or The Mystery of Ghosts Hobgoblins and Haunted Houses Developed written by Joseph Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghosts written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts from the past around her, Oswald discovers that there is more to his mystery illness than he first thought. Only by uncovering the truth can they both be set free...
Download or read book Essays on the Drama written by Sir Theodore Martin and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Apparitions or the mystery of Ghosts Hobgoblins and Haunted Houses developed Being a collection of entertaining stories founded on fact etc written by Joseph TAYLOR (of Newington Butts.) and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Springer Ghost Book written by Paul Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In story form, a collection of ghost tales describing the apparitions and spirits which haunt the famous springer opera house, a 134 year-old working theatre in deep south Columbus, Georgia, written by the theatre's long-time director, Paul Pierce."
Download or read book Apparitions written by Joseph Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holy Ghosts written by Romulus Linney and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Seeking to retrieve his runaway wife (and the possessions she has taken with her), Coleman Shedman arrives at the rural meeting house of a southern pentecostal sect with a lawyer in tow. But his wife, Nancy, is unwilling to forsake the l
Download or read book The Ancient Classical Drama written by Richard Green Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Ghost Stories written by Emma May Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
