Download or read book The Birth of the Modern Theatre written by Richard Roy Dunham and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birth of Modern Theatre written by Norman S. Poser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scene—a time when the theatre took on many of the features of our modern stage. A natural and psychologically based acting style replaced the declamatory style of an earlier age. The theatres were mainly supported by paying audiences, no longer by royal or noble patrons. The press determined the success or failure of a play or a performance. Actors were no longer shunned by polite society, some becoming celebrities in the modern sense. The dominant figure for thirty years was David Garrick, actor, theatre manager and playwright, who, off the stage, charmed London with his energy, playfulness, and social graces. No less important in defining eighteenth-century theatre were its audiences, who considered themselves full-scale participants in theatrical performances; if they did not care for a play, an actor, or ticket prices, they would loudly make their wishes known, sometimes starting a riot. This book recounts the lives—and occasionally the scandals—of the actors and theatre managers and weaves them into the larger story of the theatre in this exuberant age, setting the London stage and its leading personalities against the background of the important social, cultural, and economic changes that shaped eighteenth-century Britain. The Birth of Modern Theatre brings all of this together to describe a moment in history that sowed the seeds of today’s stage.
Download or read book Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism written by Toril Moi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a fuddy-duddy old realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to modern theater. In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism , Toril Moi makes a powerful case not just for Ibsen's modernity, but for his modernism. Situating Ibsen in his cultural context, she shows how unexpected his rise to world fame was, and the extent of his influence on writers such Shaw, Wilde, and Joyce who were seeking to escape the shackles of Victorianism. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism also rewrites nineteenth-century literary history; positioning Ibsen between visual art and philosophy, the book offers a critique of traditional theories of the opposition between realism and modernism. Modernism, Moi argues, arose from the ruins of idealism, the dominant aesthetic paradigm of the nineteenth century. She also shows why Ibsen still matters to us today, by focusing on two major themes-his explorations of women, men, and marriage and his clear-eyed chronicling of the tension between skepticism and the everyday. This radical new account places Ibsen in his rightful place alongside Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Manet as a founder of European modernism.
Download or read book Theatre of the Book 1480 1880 written by Julie Stone Peters and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Download or read book A History of Japanese Theatre written by Jonah Salz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo storytelling, vanguard butoh dance and media experimentation. The first part addresses traditional genres, their historical trajectories and performance conventions. Part II covers the spectrum of new genres since Meiji (1868–), and Parts III to VI provide discussions of playwriting, architecture, Shakespeare, and interculturalism, situating Japanese elements within their global theatrical context. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and prints, this history features interviews with key modern directors, an overview of historical scholarship in English and Japanese, and a timeline. A further reading list covers a range of multimedia resources to encourage further explorations.
Download or read book The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy written by David Kornhaber and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche's love affair with the theater was among the most profound and prolonged intellectual engagements of his life, but his transformational role in the history of the modern stage has yet to be explored. In this pathbreaking account, David Kornhaber vividly shows how Nietzsche reimagined the theatrical event as a site of philosophical invention that is at once ancestor, antagonist, and handmaiden to the discipline of philosophy itself. August Strindberg, George Bernard Shaw, and Eugene O'Neill— seminal figures in the modern drama's evolution and avowed Nietzscheans all—came away from their encounters with Nietzsche's writings with an impassioned belief in the philosophical potential of the live theatrical event, coupled with a reestimation of the dramatist's power to shape that event in collaboration with the actor. In these playwrights' reactions to and adaptations of Nietzsche's radical rethinking of the stage lay the beginnings of a new direction in modern theater and dramatic literature.
Download or read book The Nervous Stage written by Matthew Wilson Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system.
Download or read book David Garrick and the Birth of Modern Theatre written by Jean Benedetti and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Actor, director, impresario, author, David Garrick (1717-1779) is the most legendary man of the theatre of modern times. He reformed English theatre practice, established a 'natural' style of acting, and made the profession socially acceptable. As his great friend Dr. Johnson remarked, no actor before Garrick had made so much money nor achieved such an eminent position in society. Not for nothing is the most exclusive club in London named after him: Garrick was the first international 'megastar'." "Garrick's circle of friends was enormous and covered the social spectrum, from lawyers and wine merchants to the most famous men of letters and statesmen of his time: Pope, Boswell, Edmund Burke, Lord Burlington, Lord Chesterfield, the Prime Minister Pitt the Elder, the Lord Chancellor: the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Spencer. In France he counted Diderot, d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and the philosophes among his acquaintance. Though never honoured, he was at the very centre of his world." "Drawing on the large amount of source material available - from the accounts of Johnson's friendship with Garrick by James Boswell, through descriptions of his acting by English, French and German critics, to his own diaries and letters - Jean Benedetti has written a lively and fascinating account of Garrick's style and reforms, clearly establishing his pivotal role in the development of acting and directing."--Book Jacket.
Download or read book History of the Modern Theatre written by Pat M. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age written by Robert Henke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity. Emerging in the context of new capitalistic modes of production, the birth of the nation state and the rise of absolute monarchies, theatre also proved a highly mobile medium across geolinguistic boundaries. This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1400 to 1650, and examines the socioeconomically heterodox nature of theatre and performance during this period. Highly illustrated with 48 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Download or read book The Nervous Stage written by Matthew Wilson Smith and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19th-century investigations into the nervous system produced discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond the scientific community. Scientists began to conceive of the subject not principally as soul, mind, or even brain, but instead as a complex of organically interacting mechanisms, many of them operating more or less autonomously and unconsciously. Meanwhile, theatrical works of the time by Shelley, Wagner, Dickens, Buchner, Zola, and Strindberg, sought to play directly on the nerves of the spectators, comprising a coherent genre Matthew Wilson Smith has dubbed the 'theatres of sensation.' 'The Nervous Stage' examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system, arguing that to a degree, modern theatre emerged out of the interaction between these two apparently disparate fields.
Download or read book Behind the Curtain written by Lionel Mazet and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the curtain: everything you need to know about the essence of theatre Are you passionate about theatre, but feel you don't know enough about it yet? Let me introduce you to the book that will change the way you look at this age-old art form: Behind the Curtain: All About the Essence of Theatre. This unique book takes you behind the scenes of the theatre and reveals all the secrets of this fascinating world. Are you ready to plunge deep into the history of the theatre and discover all its aspects? 1. Introduction What is theatre? Why is it so important to our society? Right from the introduction, this book answers all these questions and plunges you into the incredible diversity of the theatre. 2. The origins of theatre Did you know that theatre has its roots in primitive societies and religious rituals? By tracing the history of the theatre from its beginnings, this book will take you on a journey through time and help you understand how it evolved to become what it is today. 3. Ancient theatre Greek and Roman theatre laid the foundations for modern theatre. The tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and the comedies of Aristophanes and Plautus are masterpieces that have stood the test of time. Discover the major authors, the places and the specific features of ancient theatre that have inspired generations of artists. 4. Medieval and Renaissance theatre The Middle Ages and the Renaissance saw theatre evolve and diversify, with both religious and secular influences. Explore mysteries, miracles, farces, soties and the influence of humanism, as well as Shakespeare's masterpieces and the Italian Commedia dell'arte. 5. Classical theatre Classical theatre has produced timeless masterpieces by Corneille, Molière and Racine. Immerse yourself in the rules of classical theatre, the tragedies and comedies that have marked the history of dramatic art. 6. Theatre in the 18th and 19th centuries Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Voltaire, Hugo, Dumas... The theatre of the 18th and 19th centuries was rich in talent and innovation. Discover bourgeois drama, comedy of manners, melodrama, vaudeville and the birth of realist and naturalist theatre. 7. Modern theatre (20th century) The twentieth century saw the birth of theatre of the absurd, theatre of commitment, theatre of the intimate and many other forms. Learn more about major authors such as Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Brecht, Sartre and Weiss, and the stage and theatrical innovations that revolutionised modern theatre. 8. Contemporary theatre Postmodern, immersive and interactive theatre is shaping our times. Immerse yourself in current trends and new forms of theatre that are constantly redefining the boundaries of the dramatic arts. 9. The technical and aesthetic aspects of theatre There's more to theatre than texts and actors. Discover the technical and aesthetic aspects that help create the magic of theatre: directing, acting, set design, lighting, music, and much more. 10. Theatre in the world and society Chinese, Japanese, Indian, African, Latin American theatre... Theatre is a universal art form that reflects the cultural diversity of our world. Explore different theatrical traditions and learn how theatre can be an instrument of power, propaganda, education and personal transformation. In short, this book is THE must-have for every theatre lover. Don't miss this chance to discover the secrets and riches of this age-old art. Click on the "Buy" button now to enrich your understanding and love of theatre!
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Download or read book Theatre and Knowledge written by David Kornhaber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Plato onwards, philosophers the world over have pondered the fraught relationship between the illusory practices of the stage and the rational pursuit of knowledge. In this engaging and accessible volume, David Kornhaber sheds new light on this ancient quarrel. Drawing on a global array of theatrical traditions and spanning millennia-from the Sanskrit dramas of classical India to Shakespeare and Greek tragedy, from the Noh drama of Japan to West End comedies and avant-grade performances.Theatre & Knowledge vividly demonstrates how questions of knowledge have long animated the theatre and continue to motivate some of its most innovative practices. As much as philosophy itself, the theatre has always been instrumental in probing the boundaries of what we can possibly know. Concise yet thought-provoking, this is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Theatre and Philosophy.
Download or read book Commedia dell Arte in Context written by Christopher B. Balme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has taken place, generated mainly by a number of distinguished Italian scholars. Their work, in which they have radically separated out the myth from the history of the phenomenon remains, however, largely untranslated into English (or any other language). The present volume gathers together these Italian and English-speaking scholars to synthesize for the first time this research for both specialist and non-specialist readers. The book is structured around key topics that span both the early modern period and the twentieth-century reinvention of the commedia dell'arte.
Download or read book Ubu Roi written by Alfred Jarry and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Af indholdet: 204 tegninger af Franciszka Themerson
Download or read book Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre written by Julia A. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
