Download or read book Theater and Film written by Robert Knopf and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other’s development.Robert Knopf here assembles essays from performers, directors, writers, and critics that illuminate this ongoing inquiry. The book is divided into five parts—historical influence, comparisons and contrasts, writing, directing, and acting—with interludes by major artists whose work and words have shaped the development of theater and film. A comprehensive bibliography and filmography support further work in this area.The book contains contributions from Susan Sontag, Stanley Kauffmann, Sarah Bey-Cheng, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Julia Taymor, Judi Dench, Sam Waterston, Orson Welles, Antonin Artaud, and Milos Forman, among others.

Download or read book Performance Anthology written by Carl E. Loeffler and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 1989 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance art is a major contemporary art form and California is recognized internationally as a pivotal area for innovative performance art activity. This updated edition of Performance Anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of California performance art from 1970 through 1989. The anthology provides a chronicle of the literature of artists' publications, art journals, major books, and catalogues; introductions and original essays by artists and leading historians and critics of performance art in California; and photographs illustrating major works by California artists. Through the documentation of the literature, a framework is established of the artists, events, organizations and spaces that have been instrumental in launching and sustaining the performance art scene in California.

Download or read book Theatre Arts Anthology A Record and a Prophecy Selected Articles from Theatre Arts 1916 1948 written by P.P. - New York. - Theatre Arts Monthly and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Norton Anthology of Drama Antiquity through the eighteenth century written by J. Ellen Gainor and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most comprehensive collection of its kind, The Norton Anthology of Drama, Volume Two, offers thirty-five major plays - including three twentieth-century plays not available in any other drama anthology - the most carefully prepared introductions, annotations, and play texts, and a distinctive and convenient format." --Book Jacket.

Download or read book Theatre in Theory 1900 2000 written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre in Theory is the most complete anthology documenting 20th-century dramatic and performance theory to date, offering a rich variety of perspectives from the century’s most prominent playwrights, directors, scholars, and philosophers. Includes major theoretical and critical manifestos, hypotheses, and theories from the field Wide-ranging and broadly constructed, this text has both interdisciplinary and global appeal Includes a thematic index, section introductions, and supporting commentary Helps students, teachers, and practitioners to think critically about the nature of theatre

Download or read book Theater of the Avant Garde 1890 1950 written by Robert Knopf and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism. Each play is accompanied by a bio-critical introduction by the editor, and a critical essay, frequently written by the playwright, which elaborates on the play’s dramatic and aesthetic concerns. A new introduction by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten contextualizes the plays in light of recent critical developments in avant-garde studies. By examining the groundbreaking theatrical experiments of Jarry, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Artaud, and others, the book foregrounds the avant-garde’s enduring influence on the development of modern theater.

Download or read book Theatre Arts Anthology written by Rosamond Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World written by Chinua Thelwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World presents a radical re-examination of the ways in which demographic shifts will impact theater and performance culture in the twenty-first century. Editor Chinua Thelwell brings together the revealing insights of artists, scholars, and organizers to produce a unique intersectional conversation about the transformative potential of theater. Opening with a case study of the New WORLD Theater and moving on to a fascinating range of essays, the book looks at five main themes: Changing demographics Future aesthetics Making institutional space Critical multiculturalism Polyculturalism

Download or read book Anthology of Living Theater written by Edwin Wilson and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2001 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of plays includes introductory sections which acquaint readers with the process of reading a playscript. There are also notes which provide background on both the play and playwright.

Download or read book Theatre Arts Anthology written by Rosamond Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plays for the Theatre written by Oscar Gross Brockett and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLAYS FOR THEATRE continues its rich tradition of providing engaging plays for the contemporary stage. The plays provide historical and contemporary drama. PLAYS FOR THEATRE is a great companion to THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE, EIGHTH EDITION, which places selections from plays within historical and cultural context, providing a richer and more rewarding exploration of the people and ideas that have shaped today's theatre.

Download or read book Renaissance Drama written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RENAISSANCE DRAMA Experience the best and most noteworthy works of Renaissance drama This Third Edition of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments is the latest installment of a groundbreaking collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covering not only the popular drama of the period, Renaissance Drama includes masques, Lord Mayor shows, royal performances, and the popular mystery plays of the time. The selections fairly represent the variety and quality of Renaissance drama and they include works of scholarly and literary interest. Each work included in this edition comes with an insightful and illuminating introduction that places the piece in its historical and cultural context, with accompanying text explaining the significance of each piece and the ways in which it interacts with other works. New to this edition are: The famous entertainment for Elizabeth at Kenilworth George Peele’s remarkably inventive The Old Wives’ Tale The oft-forgotten history of Thomas of Woodstock, predecessor to Shakespeare’s Richard II John Lyly’s Gallathea, a work which explores gender and love, written for the Children’s Company at Saint Paul’s Ben Johnson’s Volpone and the controversial Epicoene Perfect for scholars, teachers, and readers of the English Renaissance, Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with even a passing interest in the drama of its time.

Download or read book Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World written by Chinua Thelwell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World presents a radical re-examination of the ways in which demographic shifts will impact theater and performance culture in the twenty-first century. Editor Chinua Thelwell brings together the revealing insights of artists, scholars, and organizers to produce a unique intersectional conversation about the transformative potential of theater. Opening with a case study of the New WORLD Theater and moving on to a fascinating range of essays, the book looks at five main themes: Changing demographics Future aesthetics Making institutional space Critical multiculturalism Polyculturalism

Download or read book A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater written by Barbara Louise Mujica and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age contains the full text of 15 plays; an introduction to each play with information about the author, the work, performance issues and current criticism; and glossaries with definitions of difficult words and concepts.

Download or read book Theatre Through the Ages written by James Winter and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grove New American Theater written by Michael Feingold and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent seasons, theater has witnessed one of the fiercest examination yet of its art, as playwrights and performance artists continue to re-form image and language. In this collection, editor Michael Feingold has gathered the works of six contemporary and frequently controversial authors, all of whom have won acclaim for their originality and accomplishment.

Download or read book The Routledge Drama Anthology written by Maggie Barbara Gale and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre. Each of the book's parts comprises full reproductions of the plays that defined the period and key critical writings that inform and contextualise their reading.