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The Facts on File Companion to American Drama
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama

Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.

The Existential Actor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Existential Actor

This is a book for the thinking actor, and the finest actors I've known are just that. The best actors bring it all together body, heart, spirit, and mind. This book is for the actor who thinks about craft and influence, who thinks about the relationship of performance to living, who thinks about doing and what that doing means. Acting is a metaphor and it's a mirror, and, so, a theory of acting, if true, shows us to ourselves. Jeff Zinn knows this. He knows it as an actor, director, teacher, and thinker. His theory of everything is simple and revelatory. (from the foreword by Todd London)

The Theatre of Robert Wilson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

The Theatre of Robert Wilson

The first comprehensive study of the leading American avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson.

Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Taking as its point of departure the complex question about whether Surrealist theatre exists, this book re-examines the much misunderstood artistic medium of theatre within Surrealism, especially when compared to poetry and painting. This study reconsiders Surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics-a poetics of play and games-an ideal approach to the Surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the 'playful' and the 'serious.' Vassiliki Rapti's aims are threefold: first, to demystify André Breton's controversial attitude toward theatre; second, to do justice to Surrealist theatre, by highlighting the unique character that derives from its inherent element of pla...

NASA Tech Briefs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 670

NASA Tech Briefs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Remixing the Civil War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Remixing the Civil War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-10
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

In his book The Legacy of the Civil War, Robert Penn Warren remarked that "the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history." This volume reconsiders whether, fifty years later, Warren's influential claim still holds true. Essays from scholars in art, literature, and history examine how the Civil War is represented and interpreted in contemporary culture. They look at the works of more than thirty artists and writers as well as multiple political movements to reveal the many and provocative ways in which Americans engage the Civil War today, including chapters on the importance of Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, controversies over...

Gale Researcher Guide for: Paula Vogel and Tony Kushner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 12

Gale Researcher Guide for: Paula Vogel and Tony Kushner

Gale Researcher Guide for: Paula Vogel and Tony Kushner is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Galdos and the Art of the European Novel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Galdos and the Art of the European Novel

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical study of Galdos in English, Stephen Gilman relates the writer and his work to the nineteenth century novel as a genre and traces his artistic growth during a twenty-year period, from his initial historical fable, La Fontana de Oro, to his masterpiece, Fortunata y Jacinta. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

André Antoine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

André Antoine

This book investigates Antoine's exploration of the possibilities and limitations of stage realism, his concept of a workshop theatre for new writing and acting, his experiments and achievements in the mise en scene at the Théâtre Libre and Théâtre Antoine, in the classics at the Odéon and in the early silent film.

Teaching Comedy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Teaching Comedy

From Shakespeare to The Simpsons, comedy has long provided both entertainment and social commentary. It may critique cultural values, undermine authority, satirize sacred beliefs, and make room for the marginalized to approach the center. Comedy can be challenging to teach, but in the classroom it can help students connect with one another, develop critical thinking skills, and engage with important issues. The essays in this volume address a rich variety of texts spanning film, television, stand-up, cartoons, and memes as well as conventional literary works from different places and times. Contributors offer theoretical foundations and practical methods for a broad range of courses, includi...