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Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age: Fan Cultures and Remediation (Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture)
by Anna BlackwellThis book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media. By focusing upon a variety of ‘Shakespearean’ individuals, groups and communities and their ‘online’ presence, the book explores the role of popular internet culture in the ongoing adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays and his general cultural standing. The description of certain performers as ‘Shakespearean’ is a ubiquitous but often throwaway assessment. However, a study of ‘Shakespearean’ actors within a broader cultural context reveals much, not only about the mutable face of British culture (popular and ‘highbrow’) but also about national identity and commerce. These performers share an online space with the other major focus of the book: the fans and digital content creators whose engagement with the Shakespearean marks them out as more than just audiences and consumers; they become producers and critics. Ultimately, Digital Shakespeareans moves beyond the theatrical history focus of related works to consider the role of digital culture and technology in shaping Shakespeare’s contemporary adaptive legacy and the means by which we engage with it.
Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning (Early Modern Literature in History)
by Abigail ShinnThis book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history of the conversion narrative the book charts for the first time writers’ experimentation and engagement with rhetorical theory before the genre’s relative stabilization in the 1650s. A cross confessional study analyzing work by both Protestant and Catholic writers, this book explores conversion’s relationship with reading; the links between conversion, eloquence, translation and trope; the conflation of spiritual movement with literal travel; and the use of the body as a site for spiritual knowledge and proof.
Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher: "The History We Haven't Had" (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
by Anthony P. PenninoThis book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period – including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel – who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwin’s concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative: “the history we haven’t had”. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts.
Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher: "The History We Haven't Had" (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
by Anthony P. PenninoThis book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period – including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel – who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwin’s concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative: “the history we haven’t had”. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts.
The Use of Asian Theatre for Modern Western Theatre: The Displaced Mirror (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
by Min TianThis book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurélien Lugné-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Jacques Copeau, Charles Dullin, Antonin Artaud, V. E. Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein, and Bertolt Brecht. It investigates the theories and practices of these leading figures in their transnational and cross-cultural relationship with Asian theatrical traditions and their interpretations and appropriations of the Asian traditions in their reactional struggles against the dominance of commercialism and naturalism. From the historical and aesthetic perspectives of traditional Asian theatres, it approaches this intercultural phenomenon as a (Euro)centred process of displacement of the aesthetically and culturally differentiated Asian theatrical traditions and of their historical differences and identities. Looking into the displaced and distorted mirror of Asian theatre, the founding fathers of modern Western theatre saw, in their imagination of the 'ghostly' Other, nothing but a (self-)reflection or, more precisely, a (self-)projection and emplacement, of their competing ideas and theories preconceived for the construction, and the future development, of modern Western theatre.
Performing Citizenship: Bodies, Agencies, Limitations (Performance Philosophy)
by Sibylle Peters Paula Hildebrandt Kerstin Evert Mirjam Schaub Kathrin Wildner Gesa ZiemerThis open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investigates a different aspect of citizenship, such as identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities, bodies and materials, agencies and spaces, and limitations and interventions. It rewrites and rethinks the many-layered concept of citizenship by emphasising the performative tensions produced by various uses, occupations, interpretations and framings.
Christina Reid's Theatre of Memory and Identity: Within and Beyond the Troubles
by Rachel TracieThis book is a study of the plays, performances and writings of Christina Reid. It explores Reid’s work through her own words, both in interviews and writings; through theoretical engagements in other disciplines, such as psychology and geography; and through responses to her plays in production. It is a compilation of sorts, gathering together interviews, critical material, unpublished works and theatrical reviews to reflect the breadth and depth of Reid’s contribution to the theatrical culture of Northern Ireland, during the Troubles and beyond.
Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration
by Michael Pinchbeck Andrew WestersideThis book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned, either thematically, methodologically, or formally, with acts of commemoration and the commemorative. With notions of memorial, celebration, temporality and remembrance at its heart, and as a timely topic for debate, this book asks how theatre and performance intersects with commemorative acts or rituals in contemporary theatre and performance practice. It considers the (re)performance of history, commemoration as a form of, or performance of, ritual, performance as memorial, performance as eulogy and eulogy as performance. It asks where personal acts of remembrance merge with public or political acts of remembrance, where the boundary between the commemorative and the performative might lie, and how it might be blurred, broken or questioned. It explores how we might remake the past in the present, to consider not just how performance commemorates but how commemoration performs.
Performance Phenomenology: To The Thing Itself (Performance Philosophy)
by Stuart Grant Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie Matthew WagnerThis collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance. It brings together major scholars in the field, dealing with phenomenological approaches to dance, theatre, performance, embodiment, audience, and everyday performance of self. It argues that despite the wide variety of philosophical, ontological, epistemological, historical and methodological differences across the field of phenomenology, certain tendencies and impulses are required for an investigation to stand as truly phenomenological. These include: description of experience; a move towards fundamental conditions or underlying essences; and an examination of taken-for-granted presuppositions. The book is aimed at scholars and practitioners of performance looking to deepen their understanding of phenomenological concepts and methods, and philosophers concerned with issues of embodiment, performativity and enaction.
Marina Carr: Pastures of the Unknown
by Melissa SihraThis book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern Irish drama. The creative vision of Lady Augusta Gregory underpins the analysis of Carr’s dramatic vision throughout the volume in order to re-situate the woman artist as central to Irish theatre. For Carr, ‘writing is more about the things you cannot understand than the things you can’, and her evocation of ‘pastures of the unknown’ forms the thematic through-line of this work. Lady Gregory’s plays offer an intuitive lineage with Carr which can be identified in their use of language, myth, landscape, women, the transformative power of storytelling and infinite energies of nature and the Otherworld. This book reconnects the severed bridge between Carr and Gregory in order to acknowledge a foundational status for all women in Irish theatre.
Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969: A Revolution on Stage
by Mark BrownThis book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics. Combining detailed research and analysis with exclusive interviews with ten leading figures in modern Scottish drama, the book sets out the case for the last half-century as the strongest period in the history of the Scottish stage. Mark Brown traces the development of Scottish theatre’s Modernist revolution from the arrival of influential theatre director Giles Havergal at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow in 1969 through to the advent of the National Theatre of Scotland in 2006. Finally, the book contemplates the future of Scotland’s theatrical renaissance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary theatre and/or the modern history of live drama in Scotland.
Theatre in the Context of the Yugoslav Wars
by Jana Dolečki Senad Halilbašić Stefan HulfeldThis book assembles texts by renowned academics and theatre artists who were professionally active during the wars in former Yugoslavia. It examines examples of how various forms of theatre and performance reacted to the conflicts in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Kosovo while they were ongoing. It explores state-funded National Theatre activities between escapism and denial, the theatre aesthetics of protest and resistance, and symptomatic shifts and transformations in the production of theatre under wartime circumstances, both in theory and in practice. In addition, it looks beyond the period of conflict itself, examining the aftermath of war in contemporary theatre and performance, such as by considering Ivan Vidić’s war trauma plays, the art campaigns of the international feminist organization Women in Black, and Peter Handke’s play Voyage by Dugout. The introduction explores correlations between the contributions and initiates a reflection on the further development of the research field. Overall, the volume provides new perspectives and previously unpublished research in the fields of theory and historiography of theatre, as well as Southeast European Studies.
The Reasonable Audience: Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience
by Kirsty SedgmanAudiences are not what they used to be. Munching crisps or snapping selfies, chatting loudly or charging phones onstage – bad behaviour in theatre is apparently on the rise. And lately some spectators have begun to fight back…The Reasonable Audience explores the recent trend of ‘theatre etiquette’: an audience-led crusade to bring ‘manners and respect’ back to the auditorium. This comes at a time when, around the world, arts institutions are working to balance the traditional pleasures of receptive quietness with the need to foster more inclusive experiences. Through investigating the rhetorics of morality underpinning both sides of the argument, this book examines how models of 'good' and 'bad' spectatorship are constructed and legitimised. Is theatre etiquette actually snobbish? Are audiences really more selfish? Who gets to decide what counts as ‘reasonable’ within public space?Using theatre etiquette to explore wider issues of social participation, cultural exclusion, and the politics of identity, Kirsty Sedgman asks what it means to police the behaviour of others.
Media Archaeology and Intermedial Performance: Deep Time of the Theatre (Avant-Gardes in Performance)
by Nele WynantsThis book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality. As an age-old art form, theatre has always embraced ‘new’ media. To create theatrical effects and optical illusions, theatre makers were ready to integrate state-of-the-art technics and technologies, and by doing so they playfully explored and popularized scientific knowledge on mechanics, optics and sound for live audiences. This book highlights this obvious but often overlooked relation between media developments and the history of intermedial theater. By considering the interplay between present intermedial performances and their archaeological traces, the authors assembled here revisit old and often forgotten media approaches and theatre technologies. This archaeology is understood less as the discovery of a forgotten past than as the establishment of an active relationship between past and present. Rather than treating archaeological remains as representative tokens of a fragmented past that need to be preserved, the authors stress the return of the past in the present, but in a different, performative guise.
Reading Breath in Literature (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
by Arthur Rose Stefanie Heine Naya Tsentourou Corinne Saunders Peter GarrattThis open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American Poetics and the Postcolonial Novel, this book offers the first transhistorical study of breath in literature. At the same time, it shows how the study of breath in literature can contribute to recent developments in the Medical Humanities.
Kleist-Jahrbuch 2005
by Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft und des Kleist-MuseumsKleist-Forschung 2004. Abhandlungen zu Kleists Werken und Rezensionen zu den wichtigsten Publikationen geben einen detaillierten Überblick über den Stand der Wissesnchaft.
Kleist-Jahrbuch 2006
by Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft und des Kleist-MuseumsZur aktuellen Kleist-Forschung. Wichtige Abhandlungen und Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen zu Kleists Leben, Werk und Wirkung geben einen Überblick über die jüngsten Ergebnisse. Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert zudem die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2005.
Kleist-Jahrbuch 2007
by Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft und des Kleist-MuseumsZur aktuellen Kleist-Forschung. Die Dokumentation der Tagung "Kleist Choreographien 2006" und Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen zu Kleists Leben, Werk und Wirkung geben einen Überblick über die jüngsten Ergebnisse. Mit einer Rede von Daniel Kehlmann, Kleist-Preisträger 2006.
Kleist-Jahrbuch 2008/09
by Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft und des Kleist-MuseumsDas Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2007 und 2008 u. a. mit den Reden der Preisträger Wilhelm Genazino (2007) bzw. Max Goldt (2008). Es beinhaltet die Beiträge der internationalen Tagung Kleists Affekte 2008 in Berlin sowie Abhandlungen zu Kleists Werken und Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen zu Kleist.
Handbuch Drama: Theorie, Analyse, Geschichte
Das Genre des Dramas in der Gesamtschau. Das Handbuch präsentiert die zentralen Formen und Konzeptionen des Dramas und liefert einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der literatur- und theaterwissenschaftlichen Forschung aus komparatistischer Perspektive. Wichtige Begriffe der Dramentheorie werden ebenso erläutert wie die wesentlichen Modelle der Dramenanalyse. Indem es auch die Einflüsse auf das Theater untersucht, trägt das Werk der Sonderstellung Rechnung, die das Drama innerhalb der klassischen Gattungstheorie einnimmt.
Hamlet-Handbuch: Stoffe, Aneignungen, Deutungen
Moderne mythische Gestalt und Kernbestand des kulturellen Kanons. Kaum eine Figur beherrscht so sehr die westliche Vorstellung vom Theater wie Shakespeares Hamlet. Das Handbuch beschäftigt sich mit dem Hamlet-Stoff und seiner Deutung und vermittelt Hintergrundwissen zum Shakespeareschen Drama. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der vielgestaltigen Rezeptionsgeschichte. Sowohl die Bühnengeschichte als auch die Aneignungen der Figur in Kunst, Literatur, Musik, Film und Populärkultur werden ausführlich beleuchtet. Mit vielen Beispielen, teilweise in englischer Sprache.
Kleist-Jahrbuch 2010
by Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft und des Kleist-MuseumsDas Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2009 u. a. mit der Rede des Preisträgers Arnold Stadler. Es beinhaltet Beiträge zur Rezeptions- und Forschungsgeschichte sowie Abhandlungen zu Kleists Werken und Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen zu Kleist.
Kleist-Jahrbuch 2011
by Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft und des Kleist-MuseumsDas Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Gründung der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft im Jahr 1960, die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2010, die internationale Tagung Kleist/Politik 2010 in Berlin sowie die Eröffnung der Ausstellung Kleist: Krise und Experiment . Beiträge und Abhandlungen zu Kleists Werken und Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen zu Kleist beschließen den Band.
Kleist-Jahrbuch 2012
by Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft und des Kleist-MuseumsZur jüngsten Kleist-Forschung: Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2011, u. a. mit der Rede der Preisträgerin Sibylle Lewitscharoff. Es beinhaltet die Beiträge der Tagungen "Adel und Autorschaft", "Ökonomie des Opfers" und "Vertrauen im Werk Heinrich von Kleists und in der Literatur um 1800". Abhandlungen zum Werk und Rezensionen zu wissenschaftlichen Neuerscheinungen beschließen den Band.
Kleist-Jahrbuch 2013
by Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft und des Kleist-MuseumsZur jüngsten Kleist-Forschung: Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2012, unter anderem mit der Rede des Preisträgers Navid Kermani. Es beinhaltet die Beiträge der Tagungen "Kleists Briefe" und des Nachwuchskolloquiums Natur im Werk Heinrich von Kleists . Abhandlungen zum Werk und Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen beschließen den Band.