Download or read book Grand Guignol written by Richard J. Hand and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the theatre closed its doors 40 years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book considers the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts, and is the first attempt at a major evaluation of the genre as performance.
Download or read book GRAND GUIGNOL THE FRENCH THEATRE OF HORROR INTERLOAN 325083 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grand Guignol written by Mel Gordon and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1997-08-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theatre of the Grand Guignol, which began in turn-of-the-century Paris, celebrated horror and fear. Innocent victims, mangled beauty, insanity, mutilation, depravity and guilt were its primary themes. This text examines its history, themes and methods and summarizes its plots.
Download or read book London s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror written by Richard J. Hand and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to UEP's Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). London's Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It was a high-profile venture that enjoyed popular success as much as critical controversy.
Download or read book Performing Grand Guignol written by Prof. Richard J. Hand and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. The emphasis in the translation and adaptation of these plays is once again to foreground the performability of the scripts within a modern context – making Performing Grand-Guignol an ideal acting guide. Hand and Wilson have acquired extremely rare acting copies of plays which have never been published and scripts that were published in the early years of the twentieth century but have not been published since – even in French. Includes plays written by, or adapted from, such notable writers as Octave Mirbeau, Gaston Leroux and St John Ervine as well as examples by Grand-Guignol stalwarts René Berton and André de Lorde. Also included is the 1920s London translation of Blind Man’s Buff written by Charles Hellem and Pol d’Estoc and banned by the Lord Chamberlain. A brief history of the Parisian theatre is also included, for the benefit of readers who have not read the previous books.
Download or read book Tales of the Grand Guignol written by Maurice Level and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collection of fiction, and one novel, by Maurice Level, an acknowledged master of horror fiction.
Download or read book At the Telephone written by Andre de Lorde and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play by the maestro of Paris' bloody "Grand Guignol" theater of the early 20th century, AT THE TELEPHONE (1924) is a play about a man that leaves his wife, young son, and servants for a business trip, and the horror that ensues afterward. Gripping and macabre like all the Grand Guignol! Cover image found at Pixabay. No attribution is required.
Download or read book Theatre of Fear and Horror Expanded Edition written by Mel Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expanded edition of classic outre book, The Grand Guignol, first published in 1988 and now long out of print. Theater of Fear and Horror includes an illustrated introduction to the theatre of Paris and abroad, a breakdown of its stage tricks, a summary of 100 plots, extensive photo documentation, scripts and more. This revised edition also includes additional graphic and textual material including a colour insert of Grand Guignol posters; the 1938 autobiographical account of Maxa, the company's leading female performer and more.
Download or read book Grand Guignolesque written by Prof. Richard J. Hand and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the infamous Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris closed its doors in 1962, the particular form of horror theatre it spawned lives on and has, moreover, witnessed something of a resurgence over the past twenty years. During its heyday it inspired many imitators, though none quite as successful as the Montmartre-based original. In more recent times, new Grand-Guignol companies the world over have emerged to reimagine the form for a new generation of audiences. This book, the fourth volume in University of Exeter Press’s series on the Grand-Guignol by Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson, examines the ongoing influence and legacy of the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol through an appraisal of its contemporary imitators and modern reincarnations. As with the previous volumes, Grand-Guignolesque consists of a lengthy critical introduction followed by a series of previously unpublished scripts, each with its own contextualizing preface. The effect thereof is to map the evolution of horror theatre over the past 120 years, asking where the influence of the Grand-Guignol is most visible today, and what might account for its recent resurgence. This book will be of interest not only to the drama student, theatre historian and scholar of popular theatre, but also to the theatre practitioner, theatregoer and horror fan.
Download or read book At the Telephone written by André de Lorde and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play by the French maestro of Paris' bloody "Grand Guignol" theater of the early Twentieth Century. Century, At the Telephone (1924) is a thriller about a man who leaves his wife, servants, and son for a business trip, and the horror that ensues afterward. Gripping, bloody, and macabre, like all the Grand Guignol! Cover image found at Pixabay. No attribution is required. Published by Zem Books. Online Store: www.lulu.com/spotlight/zem66.
Download or read book Five Grand Guignol Plays etc written by Eliot Crawshay WILLIAMS and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
