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Space in Performance: Making Meaning in the Theatre

Space in Performance: Making Meaning in the Theatre more books like this

by Gay McAuley

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How real and imagined theatrical spaces and the relationships between them evoke meaning

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Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception

Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception more books like this

by Susan Bennett

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Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Susan Bennett advances a theory that brings spectators to the foreground, emphasizing their creative involvement and ...

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Drama Stage and Audience

Drama Stage and Audience more books like this

by John L Styan

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This book shows how a play 'works' in the theatre: how it generates life, meaning and excitement on the stage for the audience. It is self evident that a play must communicate or it is not a play at all. Professor Styan argues that, while communication in drama begins with the script, the value or power of a play must be tested upon an audience. ...

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Reading the Material Theatre

Reading the Material Theatre more books like this

by Richard Knowles, Tracy C Davis (Editor)

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Reading the Material Theatre develops and demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis that takes into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception. Beginning with semiotic and cultural materialist theory, Knowles quickly moves into detailed politicized analysis of the ways in which specific aspects of theatrical ...

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The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England: A Collaborative Debate

The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England: A Collaborative Debate more books like this

by Anthony B Dawson, Paul Yachnin

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How was the experience of watching a play influenced by practices beyond the walls of the playhouse, and what were the broader social and historical implications of the culture of playgoing? The book sets out to answer such questions. Interested first in what happened within the playhouse itself, the authors focus on the person of the actor, on ...

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Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama

Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama more books like this

by Jeremy Lopez

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This book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses ...

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Stop the Show!: A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater

Stop the Show!: A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater more books like this

by Brad Schreiber

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"Stop the Show!" is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. It is the publishing equivalent of TV bloopers for the legitimate stage.

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Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event

Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event more books like this

by John Russell Brown

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In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says. By considering the entire theatrical experience and not only what happens on stage, Brown takes his readers back to the major texts with a fuller ...

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Rehearsing the audience : ways to develop student perceptions of theatre more books like this

by Ken Davis

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Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience

Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience more books like this

by Timothy J Moore

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The Roman playwright Plautus (ca 200BCE) allowed his actors to acknowledge freely, the illusion in which they were taking part, to elicit laughter through humorous asides and monologues, and simultaneously to flatter and tease the spectators. Moore shows that Plautus employed these dramatic devices not only to entertain his audience but also to ...

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New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience and Asia

New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience and Asia more books like this

by John Russell Brown, Russ Brown John

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New Sites for Shakespeare argues that an audience's understanding of Shakespeare is limited by the kinds of theatre it has seen. On repeated visits to Asia John Russell Brown sought out forms of performances which were new to him, and found that he gained a fresh and exciting view of the theatre for which Shakespeare wrote. New Sites for ...

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Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse more books like this

by Grace Ioppolo

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This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences. Grace Ioppolo argues that the path of the ...

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Stage Directions Guide to Getting and Keeping Your Audience more books like this

by Stephen Peithman (Editor), Neil Offen (Editor)

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In the late 1990s theatre competes with many other forms of entertainment for people's leisure time. So how does theatre attract and maintain the audience it needs? This book explains to the reader the many ways of doing this. It provides information on advertising to motivate ticket buyers, creating attention-grabbing mailouts, using newsletters, ...

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Shakespeare, Theory and Performance more books like this

by James C Bulman

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Shakespeare, Theory and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of essays which brings a full range of contemporary critical perspectives to bear upon the practical questions of performing Shakespeare. The volume offers a fascinating overview of the productive interplay between cultural materialism, theatre semiotics, feminism, deconstruction, ...

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The Feminist Spectator as Critic more books like this

by Jill Dolan, Oscar Gross Brockett (Editor)

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Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance

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Ibsen's Drama: Author to Audience more books like this

by Einar Haugen

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"Ibsen's Drama "was first published in 1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "A dramatist for all seasons" Einar Haugen calls Henrik Ibsen in this series of lectures given in honor of the ...

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The Audience and the Playwright: How to Get the Most Out of Live Theatre more books like this

by Mayo Simon

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Have you ever noticed how clever you feel in the theatre? You get the joke when no one on the stage is laughing. You see the threat that no one on the stage seems to notice. You weep when leading characters do not shed a tear. Sometimes you feel an almost God-like understanding of people and events. Who put you in this privileged position? The ...

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Romantic Drama: Acting and Reacting more books like this

by Frederick Burwick

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Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the new audiences. This book examines manifestations of change in acting, stage ...

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How to Enjoy Shakespeare more books like this

by Robert Thomas Fallon

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Fallon explores Shakespeare in five sections dealing with language, theme, staging, character, and plot, each abundantly illustrated with episodes and quotations from the plays. He writes in easily accessible prose in a book designed to make modern readers and audiences feel comfortable with the Bard. Fallon knows his Shakespeare to the letter. ...

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The French Actress and Her English Audience more books like this

by John Stokes

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For centuries English and French theatrical traditions have had an uneasy relationship with one another: mutual admiration, mutual envy, mutual distrust. Just as the fascination of difference lies in the potential for sameness, so these opposed traditions have observed each other at close quarters and invited each other back home. In an unusually ...

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Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience more books like this

by Dorothy Chansky

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When movies replaced theatre as popular entertainment in the 1910s, the world of live drama was wideopen for reform. American advocates and practitioners founded theatres in a spirit of anticommercialism, seeking to develop an American audience for serious theatre, mounting plays in what would today be called "alternative spaces," and uniting for ...

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Shakespeare's audience more books like this

by Alfred Harbage

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The Drama's Patrons: A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience more books like this

by Leo Hughes

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The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society more books like this

by Judith Lynne Hanna

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Architecture, Actor and Audience more books like this

by Iain Mackintosh, Ian Mackintosh

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Until recently the contribution of architecture to the theatrical experience was seldom analyzed. The evolution of theatre design, or the use of the dramatic space tended to be the sole concern of architects or directors. Seldom did critics or practitioners stop to consider the "metaphysical functionalism" of theatre design: its ability to ...

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