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Bücher der Reihe Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

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  • - Alternative Spiritual Performance from 1875 to the Present
    von Edmund B. Lingan
    80,00 €

    This book explores the religious foundations, political and social significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the leaders of the Occult Revival. Lingan shows how theatre contributed to the fragmentation of Western religious culture and how contemporary theatre plays a part in the development of alternative, occult religions.

  • von Stefano Boselli
    117,00 €

  • - The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
    von Heather Davis-Fisch
    50,00 €

    In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss.

  • - Performing in Vrindavan
    von D. Mason
    51,00 €

    Theatre and Religion on Krishna s Stage examines the history and form of India's ras lila folk theatre, and discusses how this theatre functions as a mechanism of worship and spirituality among Krishna devotees in India.

  • - Women on the Kabuki Stage
    von Loren Edelson
    50,00 €

    Danjuro ' s Girls is a fascinating history of Japan's female kabuki troupes, offering a penetrating investigation into three generations of kabuki actresses associated with the renowned Ichikawa Danjuro acting dynasty.

  • - Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture
    von P. Reed
    50,00 - 51,00 €

    Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.

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    116,00 €

    This book examines the relationship between wartime conflict and theatre practices.

  • - The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry
     
    52,00 €

    Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.

  • - From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
     
    97,00 €

    Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

  • - Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
    von Nelson Pressley
    108,00 €

    Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.

  • - The Cleveland Play House and Its Search for a Home
    von Jeffrey Ullom
    52,00 €

    The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.

  • - Heredity, Eugenics, and Early Twentieth-Century American Drama
    von Tamsen Wolff
    50,00 - 51,00 €

    Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama from the 1890s to 1930.

  • - Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era
    von Helen Krich Chinoy
    51,00 - 52,00 €

    The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.

  • - Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced
    von Min Tian
    50,00 €

    The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.

  • von Valleri J. Hohman
    50,00 €

    Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century.

  • - Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
    von Marla Carlson
    50,00 €

    This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

  • - Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow
    von Barry B. Witham
    50,00 €

    Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's idealistic and determined pursuit of 'truth and beauty.'

  • - Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916
    von J. Chris Westgate
    50,98 €

    Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

  • - The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828-1865
    von Karl M. Kippola
    50,00 €

    Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.

  • - Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster
    von Irene Eynat-Confino
    50,00 €

    The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.

  • - Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts
    von Richard Wattenberg
    50,00 €

    Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.

  • - Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian
    von Rick DesRochers
    64,00 €

    By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, DesRochers examines the relation between comedic vaudeville acts and progressive reformers as they fought over the new definition of "Americanness."

  • - Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project
    von Elizabeth A. Osborne
    50,00 €

    The Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal plan to fund theatre and other live artistic performances during the Great Depression, had the primary goal of employing out-of-work artists, writers, and directors, with the secondary aim of entertaining poor families and creating relevant art.

  • - Problems of Performance in German and French Enlightenment Theater
    von Pascale LaFountain
    126,00 €

    This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophical, legal, and medical discourses, it tracks the relocation of error from the moral to the physical realm, a movement that begins with Lessing and continues through the turn of the nineteenth century.Featuring detailed analyses of Lessing's Miß Sara Sampson, Diderot's Le Fils naturel, Schiller's Die Räuber, and Kleist's Die Familie Schroffenstein alongside rich close readings of diverse primary sources, ranging from previously untranslated acting treatises by Sainte-Albine and Engel to texts from the German Archiv des Criminalrechts, this study introduces the reader to new Enlightenment sources and compellingly concludes that ultimately it is no longer evil, but rather bodily irregularities and mistakes in reading the body that become the driving principle of Enlightenment drama.

  • - From the Old World to the New
    von Robert Hornback
    98,00 €

    This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.

  • - The Displaced Mirror
    von Min Tian
    89,00 €

    This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurelien Lugne-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W.

  • - "The History We Haven't Had"
    von Anthony P. Pennino
    88,00 €

    This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.

  • - From the Old World to the New
    von Robert Hornback
    98,00 €

    This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.

  • - Problems of Performance in German and French Enlightenment Theater
    von Pascale LaFountain
    127,00 €

    This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period¿s changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophical, legal, and medical discourses, it tracks the relocation of error from the moral to the physical realm, a movement that begins with Lessing and continues through the turn of the nineteenth century.Featuring detailed analyses of Lessing¿s Miß Sara Sampson, Diderot¿s Le Fils naturel, Schiller¿s Die Räuber, and Kleist¿s Die Familie Schroffenstein alongside rich close readings of diverse primary sources, ranging from previously untranslated acting treatises by Sainte-Albine and Engel to texts from the German Archiv des Criminalrechts, this study introduces the reader to new Enlightenment sources and compellingly concludes that ultimately it is no longer evil, but rather bodily irregularities and mistakes in reading the body that become the driving principle of Enlightenment drama.

  • - Active Citizens
    von Jessica Wardhaugh
    84,00 - 118,00 €

    This book is the first study of popular theatre in France from left to right, exploring how theatre shapes political acts, ideals, and communities in the modern world.

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