The Devil`s Disciple - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
... to write melodramas in which historical figures entered the fictitious plots. In this play, the character of General Burgoyne is an opinionated and sharp-witted Revolutionary War general. Shaw describes him as “a man of fashion, gallant enough to have made a distinguished marriage by an elopement, w ...
... to write melodramas in which historical figures entered the fictitious plots. In this play, the character of General Burgoyne is an opinionated and sharp-witted Revolutionary War general. Shaw describes him as “a man of fashion, gallant enough to have made a distinguished marriage by an elopement, w ...
Commedia Dell`Arte Influences on Shakespearean Plays: The
... conceived and named, their relations to one another determined, and the situations clearly outlined, all beforehand. The actors had the opportunity to heighten, vary, and embellish their parts as their genius might suggest (153). Shakespearean plays are similar to commedia dell’arte in that the plot ...
... conceived and named, their relations to one another determined, and the situations clearly outlined, all beforehand. The actors had the opportunity to heighten, vary, and embellish their parts as their genius might suggest (153). Shakespearean plays are similar to commedia dell’arte in that the plot ...
Intoxicating Rhythms: Or, Shakespeare, Literary Drama
... much the use of writing in Western dramatic performance sustains their variable consubstantiality, and however much Shakespeare’s plays were affected by the playwright’s business—acting and writing for, and investing in, the most influential theater company of the era. Indeed, the “return of the aut ...
... much the use of writing in Western dramatic performance sustains their variable consubstantiality, and however much Shakespeare’s plays were affected by the playwright’s business—acting and writing for, and investing in, the most influential theater company of the era. Indeed, the “return of the aut ...
SHAKESPEARE AND MODERN VERSIONS OF HIS PLAYS
... Shakespeare arise, puts me in close proximity to the American poet and playwright Amiri Baraka. In the meditation on the nature of art in his essay "Hunting Is Not Those Heads on the Wall" Baraka writes: Thought is more important than art. Without thought, art could certainly not exist. Art is one o ...
... Shakespeare arise, puts me in close proximity to the American poet and playwright Amiri Baraka. In the meditation on the nature of art in his essay "Hunting Is Not Those Heads on the Wall" Baraka writes: Thought is more important than art. Without thought, art could certainly not exist. Art is one o ...
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
... editor of the volume, Frye himself did the main editorial work, modifying the transcripts to make them more suitable for reading but retaining the tone and manner of the classroom. The book is, therefore, an important mirror of one aspect of a major critic’s activity, a snapshot taken as Frye’s care ...
... editor of the volume, Frye himself did the main editorial work, modifying the transcripts to make them more suitable for reading but retaining the tone and manner of the classroom. The book is, therefore, an important mirror of one aspect of a major critic’s activity, a snapshot taken as Frye’s care ...
Chapter one
... ago, tragedy has never faded out. It is true that there were periods when other forms of entertainment or other types of drama eclipsed tragedy, but it has never failed to maintain the interest of both dramatists and philosophers. It is noteworthy that tragedy has often been written in verse; the us ...
... ago, tragedy has never faded out. It is true that there were periods when other forms of entertainment or other types of drama eclipsed tragedy, but it has never failed to maintain the interest of both dramatists and philosophers. It is noteworthy that tragedy has often been written in verse; the us ...
the Twelfth Night Study Guide
... pleasure and his penance, till our very pastime, tir’d out of breath, prompt us to have mercy on him” (3.4.135–39). “Knavery,” “sport,” “pleasure,” and “pastime” fall far short of torture. The second part of the “torture” scene, according to Kemper, recalls act 1, scene 5, where, after an exchange w ...
... pleasure and his penance, till our very pastime, tir’d out of breath, prompt us to have mercy on him” (3.4.135–39). “Knavery,” “sport,” “pleasure,” and “pastime” fall far short of torture. The second part of the “torture” scene, according to Kemper, recalls act 1, scene 5, where, after an exchange w ...
Shakespeare and War: a reflection on instances of dramatic
... ranks of itinerant vagabonds, which led eventually to the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601. Poverty at this period was worse than at any time since the 1340s and social differentiation was greater than it had ever been before. Very speedily the rich were getting richer and the poor were getti ...
... ranks of itinerant vagabonds, which led eventually to the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601. Poverty at this period was worse than at any time since the 1340s and social differentiation was greater than it had ever been before. Very speedily the rich were getting richer and the poor were getti ...
Shakespeare on the Stage
... Garrick offers a splendid example; Hamlet was one of his most famous roles, and one of his most avid fans was a young German traveller and scientist, Georg Lichtenberg, who wrote detailed reports of the great actor’s performance. His description of Hamlet’s encounter with his father’s ghost captures ...
... Garrick offers a splendid example; Hamlet was one of his most famous roles, and one of his most avid fans was a young German traveller and scientist, Georg Lichtenberg, who wrote detailed reports of the great actor’s performance. His description of Hamlet’s encounter with his father’s ghost captures ...
knowledge - University of Warwick
... How does Shakespeare stage poetry – that is, where does poetry as poetry ‘perform’ in the plays? How does theatre poetry work? What is the relationship between the ‘I’ of the sonnets and the voice of the speaker? How does a language of poetry feature poetically/imagistically in theatre speech? 7. Ma ...
... How does Shakespeare stage poetry – that is, where does poetry as poetry ‘perform’ in the plays? How does theatre poetry work? What is the relationship between the ‘I’ of the sonnets and the voice of the speaker? How does a language of poetry feature poetically/imagistically in theatre speech? 7. Ma ...
Page 1 Page 2 THE CAESAR KIDAAV 一The Earliest Japanese
... because I feared that it would be beyond the ability of an actor who' was not a Danshu8 to speak the lines to their full theatrical effect. Mr. Miki was kind enough to praise me in his review, saying that it was to my credit that the play was saved from distortion of the general import of the origin ...
... because I feared that it would be beyond the ability of an actor who' was not a Danshu8 to speak the lines to their full theatrical effect. Mr. Miki was kind enough to praise me in his review, saying that it was to my credit that the play was saved from distortion of the general import of the origin ...
Table of Contents
... Deleuze and Guattari as well, does not trace given representations or offer solutions. Instead, it ...
... Deleuze and Guattari as well, does not trace given representations or offer solutions. Instead, it ...
Small Town Montréal: Critical Preconceptions and
... striking similarity of the interpretations of Orgill and Carne to that suggested by Tremblay, though, and their marked difference in emphasis (on identity and performance, ...
... striking similarity of the interpretations of Orgill and Carne to that suggested by Tremblay, though, and their marked difference in emphasis (on identity and performance, ...
Stage Metaphors in Verdi`s Otello - Digital Library of the Faculty of
... the Czech productions emphasize Verdi’s warm and respectful relationship with Shakespeare’s work.5 Verdi also considered, but never realised, operatic adaptations of two other plays by William Shakespeare – Hamlet, and King Lear. Verdi even made a draft based on King Lear (Re Lear) but finally aband ...
... the Czech productions emphasize Verdi’s warm and respectful relationship with Shakespeare’s work.5 Verdi also considered, but never realised, operatic adaptations of two other plays by William Shakespeare – Hamlet, and King Lear. Verdi even made a draft based on King Lear (Re Lear) but finally aband ...
Six Characters in Search of an Author is now recognised as a clas
... ‘a nobler type’ of spider, snail or mollusc who cling, not to their webs or shells, but to their ideals, occupations, habits and feelings: protection mechanisms against an overwhelming sense of futility. Without these ‘you are as a traveller with no home, a bird without a nest’. ‘I write, and study, ...
... ‘a nobler type’ of spider, snail or mollusc who cling, not to their webs or shells, but to their ideals, occupations, habits and feelings: protection mechanisms against an overwhelming sense of futility. Without these ‘you are as a traveller with no home, a bird without a nest’. ‘I write, and study, ...
Alan Ayckbourn Plays: Bedroom Farce
... communication, male vanity. Where a lesser dramatist might set up these themes and then find an action that illustrated them, Ayckbourn sets up a brilliantly comic device, lets his imagination take over and allows the ideas to spring out of exact observation of human behavior. He reminds us all the ...
... communication, male vanity. Where a lesser dramatist might set up these themes and then find an action that illustrated them, Ayckbourn sets up a brilliantly comic device, lets his imagination take over and allows the ideas to spring out of exact observation of human behavior. He reminds us all the ...
American New Play Development in the Twenty
... a real possibility that we’re drowning in it [funding]” (56). The crux of the problem can be ...
... a real possibility that we’re drowning in it [funding]” (56). The crux of the problem can be ...
Peacock, D
... looked back in anger at what he considered to be his country's spiritual decline. In the years that followed, many British dramatists were also to reveal an acute consciousness of history, particularly of English history, and were repeatedly to exhibit an almost reflexive tendency to evoke the past ...
... looked back in anger at what he considered to be his country's spiritual decline. In the years that followed, many British dramatists were also to reveal an acute consciousness of history, particularly of English history, and were repeatedly to exhibit an almost reflexive tendency to evoke the past ...
Friedrich Kuhlau`s Operas and Theatre Music and their
... mm'ed to Copenhagen in 1814) he had to eke out his regulanvage 01'300 Rigsdaler by composing a flood ol' easy-to-plav, diverting music for flute and piano, the fashionable instruments of the time - a source of income that even stopped in the periods when, as aresult of his paid appointment, he had t ...
... mm'ed to Copenhagen in 1814) he had to eke out his regulanvage 01'300 Rigsdaler by composing a flood ol' easy-to-plav, diverting music for flute and piano, the fashionable instruments of the time - a source of income that even stopped in the periods when, as aresult of his paid appointment, he had t ...
Yuri Dimitrin LIBRETTO
... about writing an opera (or a related genre – a Singspiel, an operetta, a musical). Most of the time, alas, such attempts are in vain (very few possess the synthetic gift of a Wagner or a Boito). Then the inevitable occurs: the composer must seek and find a co-author in the ranks of a rare and unique ...
... about writing an opera (or a related genre – a Singspiel, an operetta, a musical). Most of the time, alas, such attempts are in vain (very few possess the synthetic gift of a Wagner or a Boito). Then the inevitable occurs: the composer must seek and find a co-author in the ranks of a rare and unique ...
pdf doc - The Open University
... radical changes, so that writers and composers could concentrate on the artistic implementation. The perceptible popularity of the subject between the sixteenth and nineteenth century that can be seen from the sheer number of adaptations and productions, clearly led to an unspoken competition that f ...
... radical changes, so that writers and composers could concentrate on the artistic implementation. The perceptible popularity of the subject between the sixteenth and nineteenth century that can be seen from the sheer number of adaptations and productions, clearly led to an unspoken competition that f ...
`Between Then and Now`: The Changing Pattern of Modern Oriya
... phase of Oriya drama. Translating the Bengali dramas into Oriya, theatre moved away and ‘becomes a significant projection of a regional cultural identity.’ While early 19th and 20th century had witnessed a number of Bengali plays, Orissa experienced its own first Oriya drama only in 1880. It is a m ...
... phase of Oriya drama. Translating the Bengali dramas into Oriya, theatre moved away and ‘becomes a significant projection of a regional cultural identity.’ While early 19th and 20th century had witnessed a number of Bengali plays, Orissa experienced its own first Oriya drama only in 1880. It is a m ...
The Western States Theatre Review, Volume 18
... major theater companies in Mexico from 1923 through 1943. During these two decades, Ocampo played a vital role in the Mexican theater and continued her participation in political organizations. Ocampo’s advocacy for women’s rights was an important personal choice that influenced her writing for the ...
... major theater companies in Mexico from 1923 through 1943. During these two decades, Ocampo played a vital role in the Mexican theater and continued her participation in political organizations. Ocampo’s advocacy for women’s rights was an important personal choice that influenced her writing for the ...
Awake and Sing! - Olney Theatre Center
... or read it and used many of the things they learned from Awake and Sing! in their own plays. Comparing the characters, you could almost say that Glass Menagerie is Williams’ version of Awake and Sing!. It has the same kind of central character trying to decide what to do with his life, it has the sa ...
... or read it and used many of the things they learned from Awake and Sing! in their own plays. Comparing the characters, you could almost say that Glass Menagerie is Williams’ version of Awake and Sing!. It has the same kind of central character trying to decide what to do with his life, it has the sa ...
Some Remarks on the Eden Serpent in Spanish Golden Age Plays[1
... usual iconographic representation of the Eden temptation featured an ordinary serpent twined about the fatal tree of knowledge, with Adam on one side and Eve on the other», 1971: 303 and 321. The twelfth-century church of Notre-Dame-de-Luzenac, near Saint-Girons in Ariège, bears a capital with a car ...
... usual iconographic representation of the Eden temptation featured an ordinary serpent twined about the fatal tree of knowledge, with Adam on one side and Eve on the other», 1971: 303 and 321. The twelfth-century church of Notre-Dame-de-Luzenac, near Saint-Girons in Ariège, bears a capital with a car ...
Augustan drama
Augustan drama can refer to the dramas of Ancient Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus, but it most commonly refers to the plays of Great Britain in the early 18th century, a subset of 18th-century Augustan literature. King George I referred to himself as ""Augustus,"" and the poets of the era took this reference as apropos, as the literature of Rome during Augustus moved from historical and didactic poetry to the poetry of highly finished and sophisticated epics and satire.In poetry, the early 18th century was an age of satire and public verse, and in prose, it was an age of the developing novel. In drama, by contrast, it was an age in transition between the highly witty and sexually playful Restoration comedy, the pathetic she-tragedy of the turn of the 18th century, and any later plots of middle-class anxiety. The Augustan stage retreated from the Restoration's focus on cuckoldry, marriage for fortune, and a life of leisure. Instead, Augustan drama reflected questions the mercantile class had about itself and what it meant to be gentry: what it meant to be a good merchant, how to achieve wealth with morality, and the proper role of those who serve.Augustan drama has a reputation as an era of decline. One reason for this is that there were few dominant figures of the Augustan stage. Instead of a single genius, a number of playwrights worked steadily to find subject matter that would appeal to a new audience. In addition to this, playhouses began to dispense with playwrights altogether or to hire playwrights to match assigned subjects, and this made the producer the master of the script. When the public did tire of anonymously authored, low-content plays and a new generation of wits made the stage political and aggressive again, the Whig ministry stepped in and began official censorship that put an end to daring and innovative content. This conspired with the public's taste for special effects to reduce theatrical output and promote the novel.