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Simon Fronwieser and his hangman father-in-law investigate the murder of the actor due to play Christ in a Passion Play, who was found nailed to the set s cross.
Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : HarperVia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328662088
Simon Fronwieser and his hangman father-in-law investigate the murder of the actor due to play Christ in a Passion Play, who was found nailed to the set s cross.
Author : Mischa Twitchin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137478721
This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?
Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 054774501X
Hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is being practiced in the small town of Schongau in 1659 after a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder.
Author : John Jay Chapman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734029988
Reproduction of the original: The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold - a Play for a Greek Theatre by John Jay Chapman
Author : William Shakespeare
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 1919
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[V.23] The second part of Henry the Fourth. 1940.--[v.24-25] The sonnets. 1924.--[v.26] Troilus and Cressida. 1953.--[v.27] The life and death of King Richard the Second. 1955.
Author : Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature
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Author : S. P. Cerasano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134711875
Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: * this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot * specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics * a preface and introduction explaining this selection and contexts of the materials * a bibliography of secondary sources Playwrights covered include Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.
Author : A. F. Garvie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1474233368
The emphasis throughout this book, ideal for sixth form and early university students, is on Sophocles' tragic thinking, on the concept of the 'Sophoclean hero', and on the dramatic structure of the plays. The seven extant plays, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus are assessed and a brief concluding chapter draws together what has been said in the seven studies. This second edition has been revised fully, with an updated further reading list and more detailed information on the chorus and staging of the plays. The aim of the book is to help readers to understand why Sophocles is still worth reading, or going to see in the theatre, in the 21st century, and to show how far Sophoclean scholarship has moved in recent decades from the once prevalent view that he was a pious religious conformist who had nothing very profound or original to say, but who said it very beautifully. The volume is a companion to The Plays of Euripides (by James Morwood) and The Plays of Aeschylus (by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury. A further essential guide to the themes and context of ancient Greek tragedy may be found in Laura Swift's new introductory volume, Greek Tragedy.
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1903
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Author : August Strindberg
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1912
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