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Contemporary British theatre: breaking new ground

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Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre to redefine what the dramatic stands for toda…

The Routledge companion to dramaturgy

fromRoutledge Companions

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Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of ""play making."" Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous ad…

The Routledge companion to dramaturgy

fromRoutledge Companions

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"Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous adv…

Reviewing Shakespeare: journalism and performance from the eighteenth ce…

by Prescott, Paul

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Paul Prescott presents an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespeare over four centuries.

Reaching Athens: community, democracy and other mythologies in ada…

by Laera, Margherita

fromNew comparative criticism

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Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international festivals in the twenty-first century? Taking as its starting point the concepts of myth developed by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes and the notion of …

Strindberg's The ghost sonata: from text to performance

by Törnqvist, Egil

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"In this monograph of the play as text and as performance, Egil Tornqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations." "In two fr…

Bennewitz, Goethe, Faust: German and intercultural stagings

by John, David Gethin

fromGerman and European studies

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"Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. …

The practical Shakespeare: the plays in practice and on the page

by Butler, Colin

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A comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's plays in clear prose, The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page illuminates for a general audience how and why the plays work so well. Noting in detail the practical and physical limitations the Bard faced as he w…

The practical Shakespeare: the plays in practice and on the page

by Butler, Colin

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A comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's plays in clear prose, The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page illuminates for a general audience how and why the plays work so well. Noting in detail the practical and physical limitations the Bard faced as he w…