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This dissertation explores the staging of the invisible sciences in three plays by Elizabeth Inchbald: The Mogul Tale (1784), The Wise Man of the East (1799), and Animal Magnetism (1788). These plays incorporate the invisible sciences of flight, spiritualism, and mesmerism (resp…

In this dissertation I discuss the ways in which socially conscious playwrights in early-twentieth century Argentina used and adapted theatre genres to advance women's rights and project the feminist imagination. I also analyze how theatre critics and spectators reacted to these…

The Staging of Aeschylus' Persians, Seven Against Thebes and Suppliants is an attempt both to reconstruct the original staging for the earliest three complete Greek tragedies that have come down to us and to translate the form and content of the originals as accurately as the En…

This document will explore the current practice of the addition of staging in choral performance. In an effort to counteract the current trajectory of decreasing attendance figures for classical music performances, artistic directors and ensembles are seeking to redefine the con…

This dissertation is an ethnographic and socio-linguistic study of new Egyptian theatre, in which members of a generation coming of age in a time of post-socialist globalization stage questions of identity in alternative dramatic genres and performance spaces to those of progres…