Book Description
A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192854421
A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199574197
An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.
Author : Ananda Lal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
This Encyclopedic Volume Is The First Of Its Kind In Any Language Covering All Of Indian Theatre. Lavishly Illustrated, With Some Rare Photographs From Archival Collections.
Author : Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN :
Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition includes the new shows that have opened on Broadway since the original publication. Also included are over a hundred musicals that were turn-of-the-century, cheap-priced touring shows which never played Broadway, but were the training ground for many theatre greats.
Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0191648612
From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this Very Short Introduction Marvin Carlson takes us through Ancient Greece and Rome, to Medieval Japan and Europe, to America and beyond, and looks at how the various forms of theatre have been interpreted and enjoyed. Exploring the role that theatre artists play — from the actor and director to the designer and puppet-master, as well as the audience — this is an engaging exploration of what theatre has meant, and still means, to people of all ages at all times. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199697861
An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts, theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women in an 'all-male' world.
Author : Nadine George-Graves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190273275
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and off stage. Contemporary stage performances have sparked global interest in new experiments between dance and theater, and this volume situates this interest in its historical context by extensively investigating other such moments: from pagan mimes of late antiquity to early modern archives to Bolshevik Russia to post-Sandinista Nicaragua to Chinese opera on the international stage, to contemporary flash mobs and television dance contests. Ideologically, the essays investigate critical race theory, affect theory, cognitive science, historiography, dance dramaturgy, spatiality, gender, somatics, ritual, and biopolitics among other modes of inquiry. In terms of aesthetics, they examine many genres such as musical theater, contemporary dance, improvisation, experimental theater, television, African total theater, modern dance, new Indian dance theater aesthetics, philanthroproductions, Butoh, carnival, equestrian performance, tanztheater, Korean Talchum, Nazi Movement Choirs, Lindy Hop, Bomba, Caroline Masques, political demonstrations, and Hip Hop. The volume includes innovative essays from both young and seasoned scholars and scholar/practitioners who are working at the cutting edges of their fields. The handbook brings together essays that offer new insight into well-studied areas, challenge current knowledge, attend to neglected practices or moments in time, and that identify emergent themes. The overall result is a better understanding of the roles of dance and theater in the performative production of meaning.
Author : Julie Stone Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199262168
This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 9780198601746
Author : Anthony Geraghty
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN : 9780300195040
A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building's construction, this meticulously researched book takes a fresh look at the historical influences that shaped the Sheldonian's development, including the Restoration of the English monarchy and the university's commitment to episcopal religion. The book explains just how novel Wren's design was in its day, in part because the academic theater was a building type without precedent in England, and in part because the Sheldonian's classical style stood apart in its university context. The author also points to a shift in the guiding motivation behind the architecture at Oxford: from a tradition that largely perpetuated medieval forms to one that conceived classical architecture in relation to late Renaissance learning. Newly commissioned photographs showcase the theater's recently restored interior. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art