Book Description
The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.
Author : I. Eynat-Confino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230616968
The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.
Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474295819
Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre offers an illuminating appraisal of the objectives of utopianism as manifested in drama through the ages, and carefully ascertains the added value that live performance brings to the persuasion of utopian thought. Siân Adiseshiah scrutinises the distinctive intervention of utopian drama through its examination alongside the utopian prose tradition – in this way, the book establishes new ways of approaching utopian aesthetics and new ways of interpreting utopian drama. This book provides fresh understandings of the generic features of utopian plays, identifies the gains of establishing a new genre, and ascertains ways in which this genre functions as political theatre. Referring to over 40 plays, of which 18 are examined in detail, Utopian Drama traces the emergence of the utopian play in the Western tradition from ancient Greek Comedy to experimental contemporary work. Works discussed in detail include plays by Aristophanes, Margaret Cavendish, George Bernard Shaw, Howard Brenton, Claire MacDonald, Cesi Davidson, and Mojisola Adebayo. As well as offering extended attention to the work of these playwrights, the book reflects on the development of utopian drama through history, notes the persistent features, tropes, and conventions of utopian plays, and considers the implications of their registration for both theatre studies and utopian studies.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
Page : 1418 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Popular culture
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Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher :
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Author : Patrick D. Murphy
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 1992-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
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This book explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. Wide-ranging in time and space, the 14 essays assess 20th century dramatic works from the United States, Ireland, England, Western Europe, and the Caribbean.
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher :
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings
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Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 1879
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