Publication date: 1999
Review Records of early English drama / University of Toronto Press:The Records of Early English Drama (REED) series establishes the context of early English drama by examining the historical manuscripts that provide evidence of drama, communal entertainment, secular music and ceremony from the Middle Ages to 1642, when the Puritans closed the public theatres of London. This volume combines the records of the counties of Dorset and Cornwall, both located in the southwest of England. Dorset/Cornwall provides a comprehensive collection of the records of public performance-music, song, dance, theatre, folk ritual, and civic customs-in those counties up to 1642. Drawing on a wide range of extant documents from private account diaries to Star Chamber cases, the volume situates performance activity within the complex economic and political forces shaping the social history of early modern England. Organizing the records by specific locations, this volume completes the REED survey of entertainment in the southwest of England. The records, in Middle and Early Modern English, Latin, and Cornish are presented with a substantial introduction for each county that includes a historical essay, as well as descriptions of the documents, a select bibliography, translations, extensive notes, and other editorial apparatus designed to make the historical records accessible to all readers.
Publication date: 1958
Review Kabuki: Japanese drama / Foreign Affairs Association of Japan:
Creator: David Davis
Publication date: 1997-07
Dewey code: 371.399
Price: $14.95
Review Interactive Research in Drama in Education / Trentham Books:
Publication date: 1992-08-26
Dewey code: 792.0938
List Price: $240.00
Price: $215.43
Review Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity / Yale University Press:
Creator: Gerald Gillespie
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 809.29145
List Price: $270.00
Price: $192.68
Review Romantic Drama (A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, Vol 9) / John Benjamins Pub Co:
Publication date: 1993-06
Dewey code: 791.43024092
List Price: $32.50
Price: $245.95
Review Willis O'Brien: Special Effects Genius / McFarland & Company:Provides a synopsis, film reviews and full credits for Willis O'Brien's movies.
Creator: D. F. McKenzie
Publication date: 2002-12-16
Dewey code: 002.0941
List Price: $205.00
Price: $192.25
Review The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 4 / Cambridge University Press:This volume focuses on the time between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557 and the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695. Thirty-eight chapters reveal how printed texts interacted with oral and manuscript cultures during a period of religious divisions and civil war. They examine literary works and the developing mass market in almanacs, chapbooks and news. The business of print and the relationship of London to the provinces and the Continent is also explained.
Publication date: 1982-02
List Price: $105.00
Price: $189.37
Review Melodrama Theatres of the French Boulevard/With Slides (Theatre in Focus) / Chadwyck-Healey:
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 792.09438
List Price: $139.95
Price: $193.00
Review A Concise History of Polish Theater from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Cen Turies (Studies in Theatre Arts, V. 21) / Edwin Mellen Press:This study narrates a millennium long record of Polish theatre, focusing on the theatrical annals of cities, productions and their styles, major theatre artists - actors, directors and designers - acting and directorial instruction, theatre buildings and stage design, and the changing audiences.
Authors
- T.B.L. Webster
- A.D. Trendall
Review Illustrations of Greek Drama / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-07-12
Dewey code: 820
List Price: $190.00
Price: $186.00
Review Elizabethan Popular Theatre Plays in Performance (Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare) / Routledge:Describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas: The Spanish Tragedy, Mucedorus, Edward II, Doctor Faustus and Titus Andronicus, as well as providing a comprehensive history of a variety of contemporary playhouse stages, performances, and players.
Publication date: 1977-01
Price: $259.17
Review Cock-Fighting and Game Fowl: From the Note-Books of Herbert Atkinson of Ewelme; Together With, the Life and Letters of John Harris, the Cornish Coc / Spur Publishers:
Edition: [1. ed.]
Publication date: 1972
Review El teatro en Mexico en la epoca de Santa Anna (Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas. Estudios y fuentes del arte en Mexico) / Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico:
Authors
- Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
Publication date: 1969
Review The dramatic festivals of Athens, / Clarendon Press:This reissue with a new supplement is fully expanded and brought up-to-date. It discusses the organization of the dramatic festivals, describes the acting style, actors, costumes, dancing, music, and audiences' tastes and behavior, and provides a full presentation of the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence on which any discussion of the dramatic festivals is based, such as the difficulties of interpretation.
Publication date: 1971
Review A Film Course Manual / McCutchan Pub. Corp:
Publication date: 1987-01-30
Dewey code: 832.912
Price: $64.95
Review Bertolt Brecht: Chaos, according to Plan (Directors in Perspective) / Cambridge University Press:This is the first full-length study in any language of Bertolt Brecht's day-to-day work as a theatre director. Professor Fuegi has researched his subject extensively over many years, and this book is the result of interviews with Brecht's closest associates (including Helene Weigel, Angelika Hurwicz, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Hans Bunge), inspection of the unpublished typescripts recording several years of Brecht rehearsals at the Berlin Ensemble, and consultation of archival materials in Moscow, Berlin and Harvard University. Although Brecht is acknowledged worldwide as having changed our whole conception of playwriting, acting and directing, virtually nothing has been previously published which tells how he worked and reacted with actors, and how his productions were actually put together in rehearsal. John Fuegi now tells the story, evoking the excitement and controversy which surrounded Brecht's work on the stage. He examines the way Brecht applied his manic but brilliant character, in both personal and professional life (though these cannot easily be separated), in order to create the tension and confusion, contradiction and chaos, from which his best productions emerged. He shows how the plays must be seen in the light of their evolution on the stage through innumerable arduous rehearsals, themselves conditioned by the intense magnetism, spontaneity and unpredictability of Brecht's personality. Most importantly, the book charts the evolution of Brecht's own dramatic theory from his early rejection of Stanislavskian realism and his demands for emotional coolness from the spectator to his later acceptance of the power of theatre to involve, even to move, the audience. The book goes behind the scenes to look at the playwright's negotiation of contracts for his productions, commercial agreements which were often highly beneficial to himself but markedly less so to his collaborators such as Kurt Weill, Ruth Berlau and Elisabeth Hauptmann, and it talks frankly of Brecht's use of the 'casting couch', bestowing and withholding favours with the same volatility that characterized his remarkable love-life. The story is accompanied by illustrations, many of which have not been published before. It provides a much-needed antidote to some of the more sterile accounts of Brechtian theory, concentrating very much on the 'practice' but remaining at the same time vividly aware of the social and political context in which and about which Brecht was writing. [+]The book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre and of dramatic and comparative literature, and it is presented in a lively style that should also appeal to the general reader.
Publication date: 1978
Review Virgins, vamps, and flappers: The American silent movie heroine (Monographs in women's studies) / Eden Press Women's Publications:
Publication date: 1974-09
Dewey code: 791.430973
Price: $23.95
Review Broadway and Hollywood: A History of Economic Interaction (Dissertations on Fiml Series : Volume 3) / Ayer Co Pub:
Publication date: 1996
Review The Irish Filmography / Red Mountain Media:
Edition: 2 Sub
Publication date: 1997-03-25
List Price: $280.00
Price: $239.13
Review Theater Technology: Second Edition / Yale University Press:In this classic reference work on theater structure and engineering, one of the world`s most eminent technical designers presents ideas and inspiration for all aspects of theater construction and operation. George C. Izenour`s incomparable book ties detailed information on architecture, lighting, acoustical structures, electro-mechanical-hydraulic systems, and stage controls to the rich history of technological development in American and European theaters.
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Records of early English drama, Kabuki: Japanese drama, Interactive Research in Drama in Education, Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity, Romantic Drama (A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, Vol 9), Willis O'Brien: Special Effects Genius, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 4, Melodrama Theatres of the French Boulevard/With Slides (Theatre in Focus), A Concise History of Polish Theater from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Cen Turies (Studies in Theatre Arts, V. 21), Illustrations of Greek Drama, Elizabethan Popular Theatre Plays in Performance (Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare), Cock-Fighting and Game Fowl: From the Note-Books of Herbert Atkinson of Ewelme; Together With, the Life and Letters of John Harris, the Cornish Coc, El teatro en Mexico en la epoca de Santa Anna (Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas. Estudios y fuentes del arte en Mexico), The dramatic festivals of Athens,, A Film Course Manual, Bertolt Brecht: Chaos, according to Plan (Directors in Perspective), Virgins, vamps, and flappers: The American silent movie heroine (Monographs in women's studies), Broadway and Hollywood: A History of Economic Interaction (Dissertations on Fiml Series : Volume 3), The Irish Filmography, Theater Technology: Second EditionTop headlines: Volkswagen Baja Race: Paris to Ensenada: Volkswagen and its Touareg 2 head to Mexico for the Baja 500. ›07:00 16 Oct, Tue Money 911: Your recession, credit woes: Should the recession affect your money management? Is it a good idea to take money out of a 401K to pay off your mortgage? 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