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Eighteenth-Century Brechtians
Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole
Häftad, 2018
378 kr
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Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding’s forgery of an actor’s biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were early Brechtians. Reconstructions of lost episodes in theatre history include a recounting of …
Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 1
1900-1932
Inbunden, 2003
1022 kr
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This is the first volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson's well-reviewed four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence archives. It charts the period before 1932, when theatre was …
From Mimesis to Interculturalism
Readings of Theatrical Theory Before and After ‘Modernism'
Av Graham Ley
Inbunden, 1999
1141 kr
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From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek antiquity to the present day, asking the reader to …
Grand-Guignol
The French Theatre of Horror
Av Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson
Häftad, 2002
309 kr
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The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897 - 1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the 'Theatre of Horror' a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was employed to treat the numerous spectators who fainted each night. Indeed, the phrase 'grand …
Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 2
1933-1952
Inbunden, 2005
1022 kr
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This is the second volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson’s well-reviewed four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives in the British Library and the Royal Archives at …
John Mcgrath - Plays For England
Av John McGrath
Häftad, 2005
796 kr
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This is an edition of nine of McGrath's plays for the English 7:84 theatre company. It covers McGrath's work for the company spanning four decades, from the 1960s through to the 1990sThe book has a substantial contextualising introduction and commentary on the plays by Nadine Holdsworth, one of the …
Making Theatre in Northern Ireland
Through and Beyond the Troubles
Av Tom Maguire
Häftad, 2006
284 kr
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Making Theatre in Northern Ireland examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores in detail key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The works examined are used as exemplars of wider …
Freedom's Pioneer
John McGrath's Work in Theatre, Film and Television
Av David Bradby, Susanna Capon
Inbunden, 2005
1141 kr
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John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many University and Further Education departments and yet despite recognition of the central importance of McGrath's work, very little has been written about him. This is the first …
Freedom's Pioneer
John McGrath's Work in Theatre, Film and Television
Av David Bradby, Susanna Capon
Häftad, 2005
279 kr
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John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many University and Further Education departments and yet despite recognition of the central importance of McGrath's work, very little has been written about him. This is the first …
Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 3
The Fifties
Inbunden, 2011
1022 kr
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This is the third volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson’s comprehensive four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives in the British Library and the Royal Archives at …
Theatre Workshop
Av Robert Leach
Inbunden, 2006
1022 kr
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Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the …
Theatre Workshop
Av Robert Leach
Häftad, 2006
338 kr
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Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the …
In Comes I
Performance, Memory and Landscape
Av Mike Pearson
Inbunden, 2007
1851 kr
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In Comes I explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, and local and …
In Comes I
Performance, Memory and Landscape
Av Mike Pearson
Häftad, 2007
309 kr
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In Comes I explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, and local and …
London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror
Av Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson
Inbunden, 2007
1141 kr
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A companion to UEP’s Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). A genre that has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine” (Gothic Studies).London’s Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It …
London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror
Av Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson
Häftad, 2007
386 kr
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A companion to UEP’s Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). A genre that has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine” (Gothic Studies).London’s Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It …
Theatres of the Troubles
Theatre, Resistance and Liberation in Ireland
Inbunden, 2008
1022 kr
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The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain. Theatres of the Troubles explores the history of one …
Theatres of the Troubles
Theatre, Resistance and Liberation in Ireland
Häftad, 2008
284 kr
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The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain. Theatres of the Troubles explores the history of one …
British South Asian Theatres
A Documented History (with accompanying DVD)
Inbunden, 2012
1022 kr
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The book includes a complimentary DVD providing an album of rare and previously unpublished items from private collections: historical documents, programmes, designs, photographs, and clips from recordings of rehearsals and productions.British South Asian companies have formed one of the most …
British South Asian Theatres
A Documented History (with accompanying DVD)
Häftad, 2012
351 kr
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The book includes a complimentary DVD providing an album of rare and previously unpublished items from private collections: historical documents, programmes, designs, photographs, and clips from recordings of rehearsals and productions.British South Asian companies have formed one of the most …
Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre
Häftad, 2012
377 kr
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This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time.This title is complemented by British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History by the same …
Victory Over the Sun
The World's First Futurist Opera
Av Rosamund Bartlett, Sarah Dadswell
Inbunden, 2012
1263 kr
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The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, first staged in 1913 in St Petersburg, was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes designed by Kazimir Malevich. The iconic importance of Victory over the Sun …
Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 4
The Sixties
Inbunden, 2015
1022 kr
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Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize – 2016This is the final volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson’s definitive four-volume survey of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material, covering the period 1960-1968. This brings to …
Marking Time
Performance, Archaeology and the City
Av Mike Pearson
Inbunden, 2013
1022 kr
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Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city – Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local …
Marking Time
Performance, Archaeology and the City
Av Mike Pearson
Häftad, 2013
317 kr
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Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city – Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local …
Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs
Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context
Av Roger Clegg, Lucie Skeaping
Häftad, 2014
573 kr
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A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. With a cast of ageing cuckolds and young head-strong wives, knavish clowns, roaring soldiers and country bumpkins, jigs …
Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance
Collected Essays
Av Graham Ley
Inbunden, 2014
1022 kr
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This collection of published and unpublished essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current prohibiting conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’.The theatre is attractive for its history and also for its lively present. …
Forms of Conflict
Contemporary Wars on the British Stage
Av Sara Soncini
Inbunden, 2016
1117 kr
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Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the ‘new wars’ of the global era.It questions how dramatists …
Forms of Conflict
Contemporary Wars on the British Stage
Av Sara Soncini
Häftad, 2016
354 kr
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Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the ‘new wars’ of the global era.It questions how dramatists …
Performing Grand-Guignol
Playing the Theatre of Horror
Av Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson
Inbunden, 2016
1117 kr
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From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. The emphasis in the translation and …
