Download or read book Fuente Ovejuna Lost in a Mirror written by Lope De Vega and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole. Both plays are highly charged emotional works, full of Lope de Vega’s vitality. This adaptation of Fuente Ovejuna was performed in Declan Donnellan’s directorial debut at the Royal National Theatre.
Download or read book Fuente Ovejuna Lost in a Mirror It Serves Them Right written by Lope De Vega and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuenteovejuna: The play is based upon a historical incident that took place in the village of Fuenteovejuna in Castile, in 1476. While under the command of the Order of Calatrava, a commander, Fernán Gómez de Guzmán, mistreated the villagers, who banded together and killed him. When a magistrate sent by King Ferdinand II of Aragon arrived at the village to investigate, the villagers, even under the pain of torture, responded only by saying "Fuenteovejuna did it."
Download or read book Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre written by K. Wetmore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with that in European Renaissance drama. Why are the two great plays of each tradition, plays regarded as defining their nations and eras, Kanadehon Chushingura and Hamlet, both revenge plays? What do the revenge dramas of Europe and Japan tell us about the periods that produced them and how have they been modernized to speak to contemporary audiences? By interrogating the manifestation of evil women, ghosts, satire, parody, and censorship, contributors such as Leonard Pronko, J. Thomas Rimer, Carol Sorgenfrei, Laurence Kominz explore these issues.
Download or read book A Companion to Golden Age Theatre written by Jonathan Thacker and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as dealing with the lives and major works of the most significant playwrights of the period, this text focuses on other aspects of the growth and maturing of Golden Age theatre, reflecting the interests and priorities of modern scholarship.
Download or read book The Comedia in English written by Susan Paun De García and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The bringing of Spanish seventeenth-century verse plays to the contemporary English-speaking stage involves a number of fundamental questions. Are verse translations preferable to prose, and if so, what kind of verse? To what degree should translations aim to be 'faithful'? Which kinds of plays 'work', and which do not? Which values and customs of the past present no difficulties for contemporary audiences, and which need to be decoded in performance?Which kinds of staging are suitable, and which are not? To what degree, if any, should one aim for 'authenticity' in staging? In this volume, a group of translators, directors, and scholars explores these and related questions."--Jacket
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Plays written by Michael Patterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast; there is also a summary of the play's plot, and a brief commentary. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. The perfect guide for students and scholars of drama and literature, theatre professionals, and directors looking for plays for performance.
Download or read book Studying Plays written by Mick Wallis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, the book explores the essential elements of play texts, from character, dialogue and plot to theatrical space. With more in depth guidance on how to study plays in and as performance, both live and in recordings available online, the 4th edition of Studying Plays now includes: · new examples throughout the book drawn from a range of 21st-century plays by established and emergent writers for diverse theatres and companies · new explorations of how plays structure and engage audience response · a complete new section on the analysis of theatre of witness and testimony; monodrama; and postdramatic texts.
Download or read book Remaking the Comedia written by Harley Erdman and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Golden Age theatre experts examine the ways that comedias have been adapted and reinvented, offering a broad performance history of the genre for scholars and practicioners alike. This volume brings together twenty-six essays from the world's leading scholars and practitioners of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Examining the startlingly wide variety of ways that Spanish comedias have been adapted, re-envisioned, and reinvented, the book makes the case that adaptation is a crucial lens for understanding the performance history of the genre. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the early stage history of the comedia through numerous modern and contemporary case studies, as well as the transformation of the comedia into other dramatic genres, such as films, musicals, puppetry, and opera. The essays themselves are brief and accessible to non-specialists. This book will appeal not only to Golden Age scholars and students but also to theater practitioners, as well as to anyone interested in the theory and practice of adaptation. Harley Erdman is Professor of Theaterat the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Susan Paun de García is Professor of Spanish at Denison University. Contributors: Sergio Adillo Rufo, Karen Berman, Robert E. Bayliss, Laurence Boswell, Bruce R.Burningham, Amaya Curieses Irarte, Rick Davis, Harley Erdman, Susan L. Fischer, Charles Victor Ganelin, Francisco García Vicente, Alejandro González Puche, Valerie Hegstrom, Kathleen Jeffs, David Johnston, Gina Kaufmann, Catherine Larson, Donald R. Larson, Barbara Mujica, Susan Paun de García, Felipe B. Pedraza Jiménez, Veronika Ryjik, Jonathan Thacker, Laura L. Vidler, Duncan Wheeler, Amy Williamsen, Jason Yancey
Download or read book The Best Plays of 1989 1990 written by Otis L. Guernsey and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains abridged editions of ten plays
Download or read book Looking at the Comedia in the Year of the Quincentennial written by Barbara Louise Mujica and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, drawn from a symposium held at the University of Texas, El Paso, in March, 1992, brings together scholars from all over North America, as well as other parts of the world, to study diverse aspects of the comedia from an intellectual, academic perspective. Seven different aspects of the comedia are examined in detail: Spain and the New World; Staging the Comedia: Then and Now; Feminist and Gender Studies; Critical Approaches: From Philosophy to Psychology; Themes, Myths and Archetypes; The Comedia in History; The Text; and Authenticating and Editing. The variety and depth of these attests to the dynamic state of comedia studies at the end of the twentieth century, and shows that Golden Age theatre still delights us aesthetically and stimulates us intellectually. Contributors: Thomas Benedetti, Thomas E. Case, Viviana Diaz Balsera, Maria E. Moux, R. Shannon, Margaret R. Hicks, Barbara Simerka, Dawn L. Smith, Brenda Krebs, Anita K. Stoll, Sara A. Taddeo, Sharon D. Voros, Robert Hershberger, Ted E. McVay, Jr., Barbara Mujica, Matthew D. Stroud, Isaac Benabu, Shelly Chitwood, F. William Forbes, Jesus Garcia-Varela, L. Carl Johnson, Gordon Summer, Santiago Garcia-Castanon, Jose Luis Suarez Garcia, Jame W. Albrecht, and Sandra L. Nielsen. Co-published with the Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium.
Download or read book Theatre Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nana Germinal written by Olwen Wymark and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Comediantes written by Comediantes and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Playwright as Rebel written by Nicholas Dromgoole and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Playwright as Rebel, Nicholas Dromgoole's essays in theatre history not only examine particular plays at key moments in drama history, but in setting them in their cultural and historical context, attempt to answer these wider questions. Theatre is seen as playing a key part in disseminating ideas, attitudes and assumptions at crucial moments of social and ideological change. As a result we approach his chosen plays and playwrights with an enhanced understanding of what they were setting out to achieve."--Book jacket.
Download or read book International Dictionary of Theatre Playwrights written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Chicago : St. James Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of playwrights which contains 485 entries, each of which includes biographical information on the playwright, complete lists of published works (with dates of performance) and a bibliography of critical studies on the playwright.
Download or read book Man Beast And Virtue written by Luigi Pirandello and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1989-10-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Days of Don Juan written by Tirso de Molina and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps better known as 'The Trickster of Seville', this is the first great treatment of the Juan Tenorio legend. The depravity of Don Juan reaches new depths with each seduction he plans, until he receives his just reward in the horrigying final scenes.
