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Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama Hedwig Fraunhofer 9781474467445
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.92Arguing that existing modernization theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies nature and culture, mind and... -
Strategic Games on Stage: Medea Meets Hamlet Manfred J. Holler 9783031829444
Booksplease Price: £111.03This book illustrates how strategic thinking and game theory can be applied to study and enjoy theater plays. By offering various case studies on plays such as Antigone, Medea, Hamlet, Schiller's... -
Inversion of Revolutionary Ideals: A Study of the Tragic Essence of Georg Buechner's Dantons Tod, Ernst Toller's Masse Mensch, and Bertolt Brecht's Die Massnahme by Huimin Chen 9780820437187
RRP: £33.50Booksplease Price: £30.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820437187Author Huimin ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 113Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher... -
Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama by Hedwig Fraunhofer
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474467438Author Hedwig FraunhoferFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Brecht Collected Plays: 4: Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron? by Bertolt Brecht 9780413704702
Booksplease Price: £25.62Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and... -
The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West Chunjie Zhang 9781531510367
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used... -
The Actor Training Reader MARK EVANS (Coventry University, UK) 9780415824026
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The Actor Training Reader is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of acting, offering access to a wide range of key texts that identify, explore, illuminate and interrogate the... -
The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West Chunjie Zhang 9781531510350
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used... -
Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism Esther Leslie 9780745315683
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30Esther Leslie's path-breaking study of Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book presently available in English on Benjamin, in seeking to make a case for a more politicised reading of Benjamin's... -
The Novel and Class Consciousness from Mann to Brecht: Value and Form in German Literature, 1900–1934 Dr Josh Todarello 9781640142350
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37Describes the relationship between economic and novelistic form within the period 1900-1934 by way of major novels by Kafka, Thomas Mann, Brecht, B. Traven, OEdoen von Horvath, and Vicki Baum. One... -
Walter Benjamin: Or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism by Terry Eagleton 9781844673506
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.07From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.A classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theoristAbout the AuthorTerry Eagleton... -
Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away... -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 44 by Markus Wessendorf 9780985195670
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24Annual volume, this time featuring special sections on Brecht's dramatic fragments and on comedy in post-Brechtian theater, along with a variety of other contributions. Published for the... -
Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies by Mark Pizzato 9781440844355
Booksplease Price: £76.11A new take on our bio-cultural evolution explores how the "inner theatre" of the brain and its "animal-human stages" are reflected in and shaped by the mirror of cinema.Vampire, werewolf, and... -
Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht: A New Intellectual History, 1900-1950 Katherine Hollander 9781350433588
Booksplease Price: £85.95An illuminating history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht which produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature, and theory while in exile from Nazi Germany... -
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century by Lara Stevens 9781137538871
Booksplease Price: £90.56Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the 'War on Terror', this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in... -
Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship by Ann W. Astell 9780268032609
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, they tell her story as a way of commenting on their own... -
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder by Paul Dobryden 9780810144972
Booksplease Price: £107.47This study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad... -
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder by Paul Dobryden 9780810144965
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32This study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad... -
Staging the End of the World: Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis by Brian Kulick
Booksplease Price: £24.88This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes,... -
Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City by G. Ronald Murphy 9781469656748
Booksplease Price: £23.50This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely... -
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal 9780745339306
Booksplease Price: £85.65Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical... -
Acting Realism: Theory and Practice from Garrick to Meisner and Beyond Stephen Bayly 9781350320222
Booksplease Price: £76.11If you are struggling to decipher your Boal from your Brecht, your Meisner from your Marowitz, or your Adler from your Artaud, this is the book for you.Who are the great teachers and theorists of... -
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield 9780226482514
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £18.05In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues... -
Brecht at the Opera by Joy H. Calico 9780520254824
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £56.44"Brecht at the Opera" looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to... -
Brecht at the Opera by Joy H. Calico 9780520314269
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £32.05From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings.Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent... -
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield 9780226482507
Booksplease Price: £26.98Since the early days of photography, critics have told us that photos of political violence - of torture, mutilation, and death - are exploitative, deceitful, even pornographic. To look at these... -
Coriolanus Robert Ormsby 9780719078675
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play. It makes available for the first time sustained discussions of major productions... -
1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast by Arthur Haberman 9781771123617
Booksplease Price: £23.65The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style ""low, dishonest."" That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity... -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 39 - The Creative Spectator by Theodore F. Rippey
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24Bertolt Brecht continues to be regarded as one of the twentieth century's most controversial and influential writers. His life and work raise important questions about the nature and function of... -
Macbeth in Modern European Culture Juan F. Cerdá 9781350427518
Booksplease Price: £80.73This book explores the crucial role Shakespeare's play has performed in European culture in the long 20th century. The story of regicide, ambition, civil war and tyranny has resonated across a... -
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.99Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the... -
Acting Realism: Theory and Practice from Garrick to Meisner and Beyond Stephen Bayly 9781350320215
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.53If you are struggling to decipher your Boal from your Brecht, your Meisner from your Marowitz, or your Adler from your Artaud, this is the book for you.Who are the great teachers and theorists of... -
Chinese Adaptations of Brecht: Appropriation and Intertextuality by Wei Zhang 9783030377779
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £65.96This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the... -
A Beginner's Guide to Acting Methods: Understanding Practitioners and Their Legacies Kimberly Shire 9781350434158
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.24Wanting to understand the workings and methods of your favourite theatre practitioner? Look no further. This accessible guide summarizes the methods of 20 practitioners by collecting the most... -
Chinese Adaptations of Brecht: Appropriation and Intertextuality by Wei Zhang 9783030377809
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £65.96This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the... -
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.88Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical... -
A Beginner’s Guide to Acting Methods: Understanding Practitioners and their Legacies Kimberly Shire 9781350434165
Booksplease Price: £66.27Wanting to understand the workings and methods of your favourite theatre practitioner? Look no further. This accessible guide summarizes the methods of 20 practitioners by collecting the most... -
Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Anglo-American Approaches to Political Theatre by Stefania Taviano 9780367887889
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This is the first extended treatment of the English translations, stagings, and reception of the political plays of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Focusing on the United Kingdom and the United States,... -
Marxist Literary Criticism Today Barbara Foley 9780745338835
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.79*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019* *Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019* Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to...