This anthology acts as an introduction to theatre; it includes a selection of classic and contemporary plays. It provides comprehensive coverage of world theatre, American theatre, modern European theatre and classical Japanese theatre. It situates plays within their geographical, cultural and historical context helping introductory students make ...
Continuing the innovation of the widely adopted first edition, the new edition excels in comprehensive coverage of world theatre from the Greeks to the present, adding as well a new unit on classical Japanese theatre and additional plays from medieval England, Jacobean theatre, the Golden Age Spanish theatre, and plays from the eighteenth and ...
This textbook provides one of the strongest combinations of "traditional" plays and current plays. With important secondary readings in the book and some of the best introductory essays about the theater and culture of the various periods of any book in the field; it is unrivalled in its combination of historical and critical material.
"A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance" provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. Essays by major scholars, teachers, and professional theatre makers consider the many sites at which Shakespearean drama is performed: in print, in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on ...
How do our ideas about Shakespeare inform our understanding of the limits of performance? This stimulating book asks how both text and performance are construed as vessels of authority. The author finds that our understanding of Shakespearean performance retains a surprising sense of the possibility of being 'faithful' to Shakespearean texts, and ...
Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance asks a central theoretical question in the study of drama: what is the relationship between the dramatic text and the meanings of performance? Developing the notion of 'performativity' explored by J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, and others, Worthen argues that the text cannot govern the force of its ...
It is crucial that pharmacists understand the language of health care professionals and, in turn, can convey the information in an understandable fashion to patients. "Procter & Gamble Pharmacist's Handbook, Second Edition" facilitates this communication. Now, all in one place, you can have medical terms, abbreviations, and patient counseling ...
What does it matter what we read? The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing, where the bookish qualities of dramatic literature, qualities emphasised by the dominion of print culture, have always seemed antagonistic to plays' other life on the stage. In Print and the Poetics of Modern ...
This edition covers world theatre from the Greeks to the present, adding as well a new unit on classical Japanese theatre and additional plays from medieval England, Jacobean theatre, the Golden Age Spanish theatre, and plays from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of ...
Follow the course of the battle to protect American consumers from unsafe and ineffective nonprescription pharmaceutical products! A History of Nonprescription Product Regulation explores the regulation of nonprescription products in the United States via an examination of the circumstances surrounding the passage of various laws. It untangles ...
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the historic Millis Commission, this book serves not only as a reprint of the Commission's report "Pharmacists for the Future" but also as a roadmap of the evolution of pharmacy, both from a professional and an educational standpoint. This book describes the educational environment in which the Commmission ...
The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles". Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W.B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish ...
It wasn't only combat that killed during the Civil War!Among white Federalist troops alone, there were 1,213,685 cases of malaria, 139,638 cases of typhoid fever, 67,762 cases of measles, 61,202 cases of pneumonia, 73,382 cases of syphilis, and 109,202 cases of gonorrhea between May 1, 1861 and June 30, 1866. (Statistics for Negro troops covered ...
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