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In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien regime more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959685050Author Paul D PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Integratio PressPublisher Integratio PressWeight(grams) 113g

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...

Staging France between the World Wars aims to establish the nature and significance of the modernist transformation of French theater between the World Wars, and to elucidate the relationship between aesthetics and the cultural, economic, and political...

Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Questions dealt within this study include - How do you balance old world heritage with new...

Much Ado, written by award-winning journalist Michael Lenehan, gives readers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the lauded American Players Theatre's 2014 production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Wall Street Journal drama critic...

The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of drama...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439261309Author Michael R HurwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 268g

First published in 1988 and now available in a photo-reprint paperback edition, this book provides an important perspective on the theatre, culture, and politics of Japan in the 1960s. It contains translations of five plays representative of the period,...

The German-language theater is one of the most vibrant and generously endowed of any in the world. It boasts long and honored traditions that include world-renowned plays, playwrights, actors, directors, and designers, and several German theater artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361903Author Peter HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Theatre Communications GroupPublisher Theatre Communications GroupWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770910737Author Roberta BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Playwrights Canada PressPublisher Playwrights Canada PressWeight(grams) 737g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781304854216Author Ralph MacPhail, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 354g

Not every presidential visit to the theater is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, but American presidents attended the theater long before and long after that ill-fated night. As a young man in 1751, George Washington saw his first play, The...

An examination of O'Neill's multiple roles as a writer for many audiences, this study describes his working conditions and the multiple audiences of the plays, before examining various formal aspects of the plays. It ends with an examination of the plays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497982581Author John NorthbrookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 286g

Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed investigates a performance strategy which aims to develop possible alternatives to oppressive forces in individual s lives. Eminent contributors offer diverse perspectives on the theories and practices within Theatre of...

Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical writing, this book offers a practical, theoretical,...

Since the Enlightenment, French theatre has occupied a prominent place within French thought, society and culture, but as a subject of study it has remained a purview of theatre historians, literary scholars and aestheticians. They focus on the emergence...

In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and high culture, many of the most commercially and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781344956864Author John GenestFormat HardbackPage Count 670Imprint Arkose PressPublisher Arkose PressWeight(grams) 156g

The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"" or Sam Shephard's ""True West"" are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics involved in the characters. This...

2004 writeup: This is an anthology of the best papers presented at the 28th Comparative Drama Conference at the Ohio State University April 29-May 1, 2004. This international three-day event had 59 sessions and 200 program participants who presented and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540210036Author Doug TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627877381Author Thomas P CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498031387Author Sheldon CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 435g

Ancient Athens was unique in its politics, extraordinary in its religion and fanatic about its poetry. Yet the creativity of the society peaked in a time of prolonged, avoidable and catastrophic war; the brilliance of Greek tragedy blazed while the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953035479Author Susan IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commercial, institutional and public spectacle that intersect with scenic stages of the national...

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. From analyses of performances and...

This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'.Book InformationISBN...

Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of...

In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal...

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner...

With chapters on The Sound of Music, Milk and Honey, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Rothschilds, Rags, Ragtime and The Producers, this book examines both direct and indirect references to, or resonances of, the Holocaust, tracing changing American...

Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of American, and specifically Jacksonian, themes made him popular in New York's Bowery Theatre. His rivalry with the English tragedian William Charles Macready led to...

In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgences of a celebrity-driven culture, how can modern audiences understand and interpret classic works of drama?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498098670Author Burns MantleFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 649g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498092005Author DoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 621g