Theories Of The Theatre

Author : Marvin A. Carlson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801481543
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of the Theatre written by Marvin A. Carlson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.

Author : Marvin A. Carlson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726889
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of the Theatre written by Marvin A. Carlson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.

Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of the Theatre written by Marvin Carlson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glenn A. Odom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131758628X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Theories of Theatre written by Glenn A. Odom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre. Identifying major debates in theatrical theory from around the world, combining discussions of the key theoretical questions facing theatre studies with extended excerpts from primary materials, specific primary materials, case studies and coverage of Southern Africa, the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East, Oceania, Latin America, East Asia, and India. The volume is divided into three sections: Theoretical questions, which applies cross-cultural perspectives to key issues from aesthetics to postcolonialism, interculturalism, and globalization. Cultural and literary theory, which is organised by region, presenting a range of theatrical theories in their historical and cultural context. Practical exercises, which provides a brief series of suggestions for physical exploration of these theoretical concepts. World Theories of Theatre presents fresh, vital ways of thinking about the theatre, highlighting the extraordinary diversity of approaches available to scholars and students of theatre studies. This volume includes theoretical excerpts from: Zeami Motokiyo Bharata Muni Wole Soyinka Femi Osofisan Uptal Dutt Saadallah Wannous Enrique Buenaventura Derek Walcott Werewere Liking Maryrose Casey Augusto Boal Tadashi Suzuki Jiao Juyin Oriza Hirata Gao Xingjian Roma Potiki Poile Sengupta

Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832795
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of the Modern Stage written by Eric Bentley and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing.

Author : Louise Burleigh Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Community Theatre in Theory and Practice written by Louise Burleigh Powell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Soyica Diggs Colbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474246338
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies written by Soyica Diggs Colbert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material evidence and the truth? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds to these questions by examining how theatre participates in and informs theories of the body in performance, race, queer, disability, trans, gender, and new media studies. Throughout the 20th century, theories of the body have shifted from understanding the body as irrefutable material evidence of race, sex, and gender, to a social construction constituted in language. In the same period, theatre has struggled with representing ideas through live bodies while calling into question assumptions about the body. This volume demonstrates how theatre contributes to understanding the historical, contemporary and burgeoning theories of the body. It explores how theories of the body inform debates about labor conditions and spatial configurations. Theatre allows performers to shift an audience's understandings of the shape of the bodies on stage, possibly producing a reflexive dynamic for consideration of bodies offstage as well. In addition, casting choices in the theatre, most recently and popularly in Hamilton, question how certain bodies are “cast” in social, historical, and philosophical roles. Through an analysis of contemporary case studies, including The Balcony, Angels in America, and Father Comes Home from the Wars, this volume examines how the theatre theorizes bodies. Online resources are also available to accompany this book.

Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Theories of the Drama written by Barrett Harper Clark and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clayton Meeker Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book The Theory of the Theatre written by Clayton Meeker Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eli Rozik
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294265
Total Pages : 385 pages
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Download or read book The Roots of Theatre written by Eli Rozik and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of the origins of theatre is one of the most controversial in theatre studies, with a long history of heated discussions and strongly held positions. In The Roots of Theatre, Eli Rozik enters the debate in a feisty way, offering not just another challenge to those who place theatre’s origins in ritual and religion but also an alternative theory of roots based on the cultural and psychological conditions that made the advent of theatre possible. Rozik grounds his study in a comprehensive review and criticism of each of the leading historical and anthropological theories. He believes that the quest for origins is essentially misleading because it does not provide any significant insight for our understanding of theatre. Instead, he argues that theatre, like music or dance, is a sui generis kind of human creativity—a form of thinking and communication whose roots lie in the spontaneous image-making faculty of the human psyche. Rozik’s broad approach to research lies within the boundaries of structuralism and semiotics, but he also utilizes additional disciplines such as psychoanalysis, neurology, sociology, play and game theory, science of religion, mythology, poetics, philosophy of language, and linguistics. In seeking the roots of theatre, what he ultimately defines is something substantial about the nature of creative thought—a rudimentary system of imagistic thinking and communication that lies in the set of biological, primitive, and infantile phenomena such as daydreaming, imaginative play, children’s drawing, imitation, mockery (caricature, parody), storytelling, and mythmaking.