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Author |
: Chad Randl |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2023-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262047838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262047837 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Playing Place by : Chad Randl
An essay collection exploring the board game’s relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space. Board games harness the creation of entirely new worlds. From the medieval warlord to the modern urban planner, players are permitted to inhabit a staggering variety of roles and are prompted to incorporate preexisting notions of placemaking into their decisions. To what extent do board games represent the social context of their production? How might they reinforce or subvert normative ideas of community and fulfillment? In Playing Place, Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky have curated a collection of thirty-seven fascinating essays, supplemented by a rich trove of photo illustrations, that unpack these questions with breadth and care. Although board games are often recreational objects, their mythologies and infrastructure do not exist in a vacuum—rather, they echo and reproduce prevalent cultural landscapes. This thesis forms the throughline of pieces reflecting on subjects as diverse as the rigidly gendered fantasies of classic mass-market games; the imperial convictions embedded in games that position player-protagonists as conquerors establishing dominion over their “discoveries”; and even the uncanny prescience of games that have players responding to a global pandemic. Representing a thrilling convergence of historiography, architectural history, and media studies scholarship, Playing Place suggests not only that tabletop games should be taken seriously but also that the medium itself is uniquely capable of facilitating our critical consideration of structures that are often taken for granted.
Author |
: Maaike Lauwaert |
Publisher |
: Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789089640802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9089640800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Place of Play by : Maaike Lauwaert
A fascinating, eclectic analysis of the changing geographies of play in contemporary society.
Author |
: Michael Maltzan |
Publisher |
: Hatje Cantz |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3775728465 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783775728461 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis No More Play by : Michael Maltzan
In No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, American architect Michael Maltzan traces the transformations that have taken place in the city of Los Angeles from the early nineties to the current state of a modern metropolis and its relationship with its changing surroundings. In a series of conversations on real estate speculation and future urban development, issues such as identity, infrastructure, landscape, resources, site density, urban experience, political structure, commerce, and community are introduced to supplement traditional models of urban development. This is meant to facilitate defining how the "City of Angels" has to respond to turn of the tide in the identity of the metropolitan region, one that has recently become much more complex. Contributors to the volume are Iwan Baan, Catherine Opie, Sarah Whiting, Charles Waldheim, Matthew Coolidge, Geoff Manaugh, Mirko Zardini, Edward Soja, James Flanigan, Charles Jencks, and Qingyun Ma.
Author |
: John Pitcher |
Publisher |
: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 1999-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0838638058 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838638057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England by : John Pitcher
This volume, published annually, contains essays by critics and cultural historians, as well as reviews of the many books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realised in its drama.
Author |
: M. Jane Reaney |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 134 |
Release |
: 2019-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429749919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429749910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Place of Play in Education by : M. Jane Reaney
Originally published in 1927, this was a book written specially for teachers and parents, based upon the writer’s practical experience and research. It deals with the fundamental importance of play in the child’s development and as a basis for all education. A set of 74 games, arranged by Miss Amy Whateley, is appended, in four groups according to the four play periods of childhood. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.
Author |
: William Ingram |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801426715 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801426711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Business of Playing by : William Ingram
Lion stage in 1567. He covers in unprecedented detail the circumstances that led in 1576 to the construction of the first three London playhouses - the Theater, the Curtain, and the playhouse at Newington Butts in Surrey. Based on a wealth of primary research, The Business of Playing will be essential reading for theater historians and others interested in the literature and the social and cultural history of the English Renaissance.
Author |
: Philip Butterworth |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2022-07-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000610697 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000610691 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions by : Philip Butterworth
When we speak of theatre, we think we know what a stage direction is: we tend to think of it as an authorial requirement, devised to be complementary to the spoken text and directed at those who put on a play as to what, when, where, how or why a moment, action or its staging should be completed. This is the general understanding to condition a theatrical convention known as the 'stage direction'. As such, we recognise that the stage direction is directed towards actors, directors, designers, and any others who have a part to play in the practical realisation of the play. And perhaps we think that this has always been the case. However, the term 'stage direction' is not a medieval one, nor does an English medieval equivalent term exist to codify the functions contained in extraneous manuscript notes, requirements, directions or records. The medieval English stage direction does not generally function in this way: it mainly exists as an observed record of earlier performance. There are examples of other functions, but even they are not directed at players or those involved in creating performance. More than 2000 stage directions from 40 or so plays and cycles have been included in the catalogue of the volume, and over 400 of those have been selected for analysis throughout the work. The purpose of this research is to examine the theatrical functions of medieval English stage directions as records of earlier performance. Examples of such functions are largely taken from outdoor scriptural plays. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, medieval history and literature.
Author |
: William Shakespeare |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 596 |
Release |
: 1813 |
ISBN-10 |
: GENT:900000141026 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prolegomena &c by : William Shakespeare
Author |
: S. Keenan |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2002-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230597549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230597548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England by : S. Keenan
Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England is the first extended study of the touring practices and performances of Elizabethan and Jacobean travelling players. It opens with a general introduction to the lively, competitive world of professional touring theatre. Following chapters focus on playing practices and performances in the spaces used as temporary theatres by touring actors (such a town halls and country houses). The final chapter looks at the decline of this important theatrical tradition in the 1620s.
Author |
: Richard Beadle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2008-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139827928 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139827928 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by : Richard Beadle
The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.