Theatre studies Books

Embark on an immersive exploration into the heart of the performing arts with "The Essence of Acting: Techniques, Triumphs, and Trials." This comprehensive tome delves deep into the multifaceted world of acting, offering readers an unparalleled journey...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Mediengeschichte, Note: 1,7, Freie Universität Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Thema dieser Arbeit soll das Verhältnis zwischen Literatur und Rundfunk sein. Dabei steht die Frage...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Mediengeschichte, Note: 1,7, Universität Bremen (Institut für historische Publizistik, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Kommunikationsgeschichte und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Theater der griechischen Antike, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Auf...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Theaterwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was die Performances von Markus Öhrn, Thomas Bo Nilsson & Julian Wolf Eicke...

This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe. The collection stretches from ancient Greece to...

This book does not downplay or sugar-coat the difficulties and obstacles that you as a budding actor will face - it actually highlights them because it is vital that you form a realistic picture of what you are up against. Knowing just what to expect...

The movie The Student and the Professor is about a professor, Johnny Time, who dated his girlfriend named Donna Forman for four years. He asked for her hand in marriage. She expected his proposal. However, four months before their wedding day, she gave...

Gabacho is the true tale of youthful angst, crime, misunderstandings, love, friendship and redemption.Over Christmas break of his senior year, a University of Utah theatre student disenchanted with his conservative Mormon upbringing, took off for...

In her version of Europe’s oldest dramatic poem, a requiem to a nation’s dead in a reckless, fruitless war, Kaite O’Reilly chooses the iambic drumbeat of English blank verse, and a long-lined lyricism that befits an epic lament. The...

In 411 BC, Greek playwright Aristophanes penned Lysistrata. The play tells the story of a group of courageous women who devise a unique strategy for dealing with their government's fiscal mismanagement and for ending the Peloponnesian War, which had been...

Set in Pittsburgh in May 1919, this vaudevillian farce is filled with idiosyncratic showbiz personalities from the golden age of stage shows. It takes place backstage at the Pitts Theatre (It ain't the Ritz. No, it's the Pitts). Rising stars and an...

The Wallet follows The Chase and is the second in a series of plays forming a trilogy. The Wallet continues the story of a volunteer, inner-city ministry the author directed while a ministry student. The author is robbed by a street gang but God spares...

Hollywood Remains to Be Seen is a fascinating, gossipy guide to the fourteen most significant Hollywood-era cemeteries and the final resting places of the movie stars who are buried in them. Arranged as an easy-to-follow tours of the properties, the...

2016 Reprint of 1940 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The author conceived this work as a treatise on the fundamental principle, theory and practice of picking pockets for Magicians and...

Can postmodern accounts of the gaze - deriving from the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Riviere - tell us anything about those structures of vision prior to, and repressed by, modernity? Shakespeare's Visual Regime examines the...

Shakespeare Among the Animals examines the role of animal-metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Working through texts such as Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream ,...

While analyzing Damon Runyon's high spirited work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture, and of the changing function of the media, Schwarz argues that in his columns and stories Runyon was an indispensable figure in creating our public images...

Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's...

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides,...

This title is a stageplay adaptation (Acting edition) from the novel of the same name. It is a fact that all 5 men lived in Vienna at the same time - There is no historical account of the time that factually clarifies that Hitler met Trotsky, or if...

Thinking Through the Arts draws together a number of different approaches to teaching young children that combine the experience of thinking with the act of expression through art. Developed as an inclusive, broad-ranging and user-friendly text, Thinking...

The Motional Improvisation of Al Wunder takes readers on a journey through the life history, creative genealogies and unique working processes of one of the master teachers of Euro-American postmodern movement-based improvisational performance who has,...

The book commences with the history of Indian, Egyptian, Arab, and flamenco dance then compares and contrasts the history of both classical ballet and flamenco.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Shakespeare the King James Version presents evidence for the proposition, first proposed by Malcolm X in his posthumously published autobiography, that the true author of the works of William Shakespeare was none other than King James VI & I.After a...

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers...

When a nation wants to reconnect with a sense of national identity, its cultural celebrations, including its theatre, are often tinged with nostalgia for a cultural high point in its history. Leaders often try to create a "neo-classical" cultural...

Inspired by a meeting with Tennessee Williams, American playwright William Inge found success early, winning a Pulitzer for drama and an Academy Award for best screenplay. His small-town upbringing profoundly influenced his writing, and one of his...

This is the biography of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the first star of the American stage. Cooper was the chief transitional figure between the British and American stage and contributed greatly to the development of American theatre. For the 30 years...

In the first century of the coveted Pulitzer Prizes, only 11 women have won the prize for drama: Zona Gale (1921), Susan Glaspell (1931), Zoe Akins (1935), Mary Coyle Chase (1945), Ketti Frings (1958), Beth Henley (1981), Marsha Norma (1983), Wendy...

Eugene O' Neill is one of America's most celebrated playwrights, but relatively few Americans know the name of the man who essentially gave O' Neill his first chance at greatness: George Cram "Jig" Cook, one of America's most colorful and original...

In the 1920s, the playwright Sidney Howard and his wife, actress Clare Eames, were at the heart of the movement to change the American theater from a commercial enterprise to one with art at its center. Sidney gained fame writing They Knew What They...