Download or read book A Century of Players Performers and Pageants written by Curtis C. Roseman and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history tells the story of the many sporting, entertainment, and community events held at Wharton Field House and the adjacent Browning Field in Moline, Illinois. Since 1928, Wharton has hosted big name entertainers, pageants of all descriptions, high school, college, and professional basketball, and countless other events. Beginning in 1912 Browning has hosted high school and professional football and baseball, along with other events. The book includes 460 images, mostly historical photographs that depict the rich history of these venues.
Download or read book Pageant written by Joan FitzPatrick Dean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form. By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely appropriating elements of history plays, patriotic celebrations, opera, and film, pageants create spectacles of sensory overload. Impressive recent scholarship recognizes pageants as public history, but this is the first authoritative account of the origins, characteristics, and techniques of pageants as a theatrical idiom. Performed in sporting arenas, the open air, or purpose-built theatres, these paratheatrical events express identity through what Erika Fischer-Lichte calls “the re-theatricalization of theatre.” Pageants are intimately connected with power-they either assert and celebrate it or seek and demand it. Medieval religious pageants were so popular and powerful that they were suppressed and extinguished. The vogue for pageantry that swept through the English-speaking world in the decade before WWI was closely tied to the expansion of the franchise. Many early twentieth century pageants celebrated localities; others subversively advocated for women's suffrage. First performed in 1909, Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women depicted historical personages from the near and distant past as well as allegorical figures such as Justice and Prejudice. Today, the Olympic Games mandate an opening ceremony that “details the country's history, culture, and overall importance for the global community.” London delivered just such a pageant in 2012. This book features a wide-ranging introduction that maps the cultural evolution of this enduring theatrical form and covers popular and readily accessible pageants from medieval England, the early twentieth century, and our own day.
Download or read book Sacred Players written by Heather Hill-Vásquez and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a unique historical perspective to the study of medieval English drama, Heather Hill-Vásquez in Sacred Players argues that different treatments of audience and performance in the early drama indicate that the performance life of the drama may have continued well beyond its traditional placement in medieval history and into the Reformation and Renaissance eras.
Download or read book A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Making of Theatre History written by Paul Kuritz and published by PAUL KURITZ. This book was released on 1988 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drama in English From the Middle Ages to the Early Twentieth Century written by Christopher J. Wheatley and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 3. Drama of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century -- John Dryden, All for Love -- William Wycherley, The Plain Dealer -- George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem -- George Lillo, The London Merchant -- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera -- Part 4. Drama of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Dion Boucicault, The Shaughraun -- John Synge, The Playboy of the Western World -- Bernard Shaw, St. Joan
Download or read book Dramatic Bibliography written by and published by 清华大学出版社有限公司. This book was released on 1933 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Twentieth Century American Drama written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture
Download or read book Warlords Artists and Commoners written by George Elison and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Professional Theatre 1530 1660 written by Glynne Wickham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the professional English theatre from 1530 to 1660. The documents collected here, many published for the first time, chronicle the exciting and flourishing world of the theatre through the reigns of Henry VIII to Charles I. These exciting primary sources offer first-hand accounts, including the daily life and work of the actor, and the most complete coverage yet of all the playhouses, both public and private, including the Rose, the Globe, Red Lion and the Swan. The volume documents the various theatre companies of children, costumes and stage property matters, audience reception and behaviour, and ecclesiastical and governmental legislation. A full linking narrative and extensive bibliography detailing the location of the primary sources, provide an important reference work and valuable research tool.
Download or read book German written by Joseph Rosenberg and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with dialogues, grammar and idiom studies, and practical exercises, this is probably the most delightful, useful, and comprehensive elementary book available for learning spoken and written German. 330 illustrations.
Download or read book The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe written by Amanda L. Capern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.
Download or read book The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers written by A. Shay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining performers from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern Islamic Middle East, including India and Pakistan, Shay explores the careers, artistic performances, and legacies of these individuals who were forced to produce entertainment and art for, and have sex with, any and all patrons.
