Studies in Theatre History and Culture – serie
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22 produkter
Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
Häftad, 2014
359 kr
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Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre - accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller - than they …
Performing Whitely in the Postcolony
Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life
Av Megan Lewis
Häftad, 2016
492 kr
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What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question—crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century—Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa’s Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around, and out …
Staging Postcommunism
Alternative Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe after 1989
Av Vessela S. Warner, Diana Manole
Häftad, 2020
1065 kr
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Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, 'alternative theatre' found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this …
Song Is You
Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance
Häftad, 2020
492 kr
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Musicals, it is often said, burst into song and dance when mere words can no longer convey the emotion. This book argues that musicals burst into song and dance when one body can no longer convey the emotion. Rogers shows how the musical's episodes of burlesque and minstrelsy model the kinds of …
Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles
Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles traces the theatrical repertoire of a small group of white Anglo-American actresses as they reshaped the meanings of girlhood in Britain, North America, and the British West Indies during the first half of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the possibilities …
Cracking Up
Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States
Häftad, 2021
306 kr
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Cracking Up archives and analyzes Black feminist stand-up comedy in the United States over the past sixty years. Looking closely at the work of Jackie 'Moms' Mabley, Mo'Nique, Wanda Sykes, Sasheer Zamata, Sam Jay, Phoebe Robinson, Jessica Williams, Amanda Seales, and Michelle Buteau, this book …
Feminist Rehearsals
Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico
Häftad, 2023
844 kr
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As feminism gained prominence in twentieth-century popular culture, dramatic conventions progressed accordingly, offering larger and more diverse roles for women characters. Feminist Rehearsals documents the early stages of feminist theatre in Argentina and Mexico, revealing how various aspects of …
Vows, Veils, and Masks
The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Av Beth Wynstra
Häftad, 2023
822 kr
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Vows, Veils, and Masks offers a bold and timely approach to the plays of Eugene O’Neill with its attention to the engagements, weddings, and marriages so crucial to the tragic action in O’Neill’s works. Specifically, the book examines the culturally sanctioned traditions and gender roles that …
Beyond Ridiculous
Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York
Häftad, 2023
325 kr
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Beyond Ridiculous tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. Within a year, they went from performing Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at the Limbo Lounge, a raffish club in the East Village, to …
Polish Theatre Revisited
Theatre Fans in the Nineteenth Century
Av Agata Luksza
Häftad, 2024
888 kr
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Polish Theatre Revisited explores nineteenth-century Polish theatre through the lens of theatre audiences. Agata Łuksza places special emphasis on the most engaged spectators, known as “theatremaniacs”—from what they wore, to what they bought, to what they ate. Her source material is elusive …
Theatre is More Beautiful Than War
German Stage Directing in the Late Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2009
693 kr
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In almost every area of production, German theater of the past forty years has achieved a level of distinction unique in the international community. This flourishing theatrical culture has encouraged a large number of outstanding actors, directors, and designers as well as video and film artists. …
From Androboros to the First Amendment
The Writing of America's First Play
Häftad, 2015
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The story of America’s earliest extant play begins with a petty crime—a crime that would have passed largely unnoticed had it not been for one fact: it prompted a beleaguered royal governor of one of Britain’s colonies to lash out at his enemies by writing a biting satire. Androboros, A Bographical …
Sex for Sale
Six Progressive-Era Brothel Dramas
Häftad, 2015
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In early twentieth-century U.S. culture, sex sold. While known mainly for its social reforms, the Progressive Era was also obsessed with prostitution, sexuality, and the staging of women’s changing roles in the modern era. By the 1910s, plays about prostitution (or “brothel dramas”) had inundated …
Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance
Av Robert Henke
Häftad, 2015
492 kr
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Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue,Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes atransnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudesand charitable practices regarding the poor than …
Traveler, There Is No Road
Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas
Häftad, 2017
580 kr
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Traveler, There Is No Road offers a compelling and complex vision of the decolonial imagination in the United States from 1931 to 1943 and beyond. By examining the ways in which the war of interpretation that accompanied the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) circulated through Spanish- and …
London in a Box
Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America
Av Odai Johnson
Häftad, 2017
580 kr
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If one went looking for the tipping point in the run-up to the American Revolution, it would not be the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor, or the blockade of Boston by British warships, or even the gathering of the first Continental Congress; rather, it was the Congress’s decision in late …
America in the Round
Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage
Häftad, 2019
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More than a chronicle, America in the Round is a critical history that reveals how far Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage could go with its budget and racially liberal politics, and how Arena both disputed and duplicated systems of power. With an innovative “in the round” approach, the narrative …
Rehearsing Revolutions
The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century
Av Mary McAvoy
Häftad, 2019
800 kr
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Between the world wars, several labor colleges sprouted up across the U.S. These schools, funded by unions, sought to provide members with adult education while also indoctrinating them into the cause. As Mary McAvoy reveals, a big part of that learning experience centered on the schools' drama …
Performing the Progressive Era
Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage
Av Max Shulman, J. Chris Westgate
Häftad, 2019
800 kr
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The American Progressive Era, which spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s, is generally regarded as a dynamic period of political reform and social activism. In Performing the Progressive Era, editors Max Shulman and Chris Westgate bring together top scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century …
Women Adapting
Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen
Av Bethany Wood
Häftad, 2019
800 kr
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When most of us hear the title Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, we think of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell's iconic film performance. Few, however, are aware that the movie was based on Anita Loos's 1925 comic novel by the same name. What does it mean, Women Adapting asks, to translate a Jazz Age …
American Pipe Dream
Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890-1940
Av Max Shulman
Häftad, 2022
624 kr
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The American Pipe Dream examines the many iterations of addiction as it was performed over the first half of the twentieth century, working from a massive archive of previously ignored material. Because the stage-addict became the primary way the U.S. public learned about addiction and drug use, …
Rowdy Carousals
The Bowery Boy on Stage, 1848-1913
Häftad, 2024
756 kr
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Rowdy Carousals makes important interventions in nineteenth-century theatre history with regard to the Bowery Boy, a raucous, white, urban character most famously exemplified by Mose from A Glance at New York in 1848. Theatrical representations of the Bowery Boy emphasized the privileges of …
