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Author |
: Benjamin Bennett |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801443091 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801443091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis All Theater is Revolutionary Theater by : Benjamin Bennett
All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater is the first book to consider why, in the Western tradition (and only in the Western tradition), theatrical drama is regarded as its own literary or poetic type, when the criteria needed to differentiate drama from other forms of writing do not resemble the criteria by which types of prose or verse are ordinarily distinguished. Through close readings of such playwrights as Beckett, Brecht, Büchner, Eliot, Shaw, Wedekind, and Robert Wilson, Benjamin Bennett looks at the relationship between literature and drama, identifying typical problems in the development of dramatic literature and exploring how the uncomfortable association with theatrical performance affects the operation of drama in literary history.Bennett's historical investigations into theoretical works ranging from Aristotle to Artaud, Brecht, and Diderot suggest that the attempt to include drama in the system of Western literature causes certain specific incongruities that, in his view, have the salutary effect of preserving the otherwise endangered possibility of a truly liberal, progressive, or revolutionary literature.
Author |
: Joseph Wesley Zeigler |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452911427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452911428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regional Theatre by : Joseph Wesley Zeigler
Author |
: Benjamin Bennett |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2018-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501720994 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501720996 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater by : Benjamin Bennett
All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater is the first book to consider why, in the Western tradition (and only in the Western tradition), theatrical drama is regarded as its own literary or poetic type, when the criteria needed to differentiate drama from other forms of writing do not resemble the criteria by which types of prose or verse are ordinarily distinguished. Through close readings of such playwrights as Beckett, Brecht, Büchner, Eliot, Shaw, Wedekind, and Robert Wilson, Benjamin Bennett looks at the relationship between literature and drama, identifying typical problems in the development of dramatic literature and exploring how the uncomfortable association with theatrical performance affects the operation of drama in literary history.Bennett's historical investigations into theoretical works ranging from Aristotle to Artaud, Brecht, and Diderot suggest that the attempt to include drama in the system of Western literature causes certain specific incongruities that, in his view, have the salutary effect of preserving the otherwise endangered possibility of a truly liberal, progressive, or revolutionary literature.
Author |
: Lynn Mally |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801437695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801437694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolutionary Acts by : Lynn Mally
During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts, Lynn Mally reconstructs the history of the amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height of the Stalinist purges. Her book illustrates in fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power. Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture. Mally's analysis of amateur theater as a space where performers, their audiences, and the political authorities came into contact enables her to explore whether this culture emerged spontaneously "from below" or was imposed by the revolutionary elite. She shows that by the late 1920s, Soviet leaders had come to distrust the initiatives of the lower classes, and the amateur theaters fell increasingly under the guidance of artistic professionals. Within a few years, state agencies intervened to homogenize repertoire and performance style, and with the institutionalization of Socialist Realist principles, only those works in a unified Soviet canon were presented.
Author |
: Odai Johnson |
Publisher |
: University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2017-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609384944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609384946 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis London in a Box by : Odai Johnson
2017 Theatre Library Association Freedley Award Finalist In this remarkable feat of historical research, Odai Johnson pieces together the surviving fragments of the story of the first professional theatre troupe based in the British North American colonies. In doing so, he tells the story of how colonial elites came to decide they would no longer style themselves British gentlemen, but instead American citizens. London in a Box chronicles the enterprise of David Douglass, founder and manager of the American Theatre, from the 1750s to the climactic 1770s. How he built this network of patrons and theatres and how it all went up in flames as the revolution began is the subject of this witty history. A treat for anyone interested in the world of the American Revolution and an important study for historians of the period.
Author |
: Utpal Datta |
Publisher |
: Seagull Books Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8170463408 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788170463405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Towards a Revolutionary Theatre by : Utpal Datta
Politics in Indian theatre.
Author |
: Susan Maslan |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2005-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801881250 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801881251 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolutionary Acts by : Susan Maslan
Publisher Description
Author |
: Tom Behan |
Publisher |
: Pluto Press |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745313574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745313573 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dario Fo by : Tom Behan
The first political biography of Europe's leading radical playwright and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Author |
: Robert Sanford Brustein |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0871400456 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780871400451 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolution as Theatre by : Robert Sanford Brustein
Using his extraordinary grasp of the theatre, Robert Brustein, Dean of the Yale Drama School and prize-winning critic, examines campus turmoil, radicalism versus liberalism, the fate of the free university, and the new revolutionary life style. Brustein sees American society as profoundly decadent, and those radicals from whom creative and rational alternatives should come as being increasingly dominated by sentimentality and false emotionalism. His observations are often controversial, always timely and interesting.
Author |
: A. McGrath |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2012-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137035486 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113703548X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dance Theatre in Ireland by : A. McGrath
Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to Celtic-Tiger-era works of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCéim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.