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  1. Fatal Autonomy
    Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency
    Author: Jewett, William
    Published: [2019]; © 1997
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language... more

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    'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language and politics as it is depicted in Romantic drama.'-Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa BarbaraDescribing an enduring moral puzzle and explaining how it helped to shape a key moment in the history of poetic drama, Fatal Autonomy represents Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency. No moral calculus can ever fully determine the relation of events to an individual's actions and failures to act, William Jewett argues; that is why the stubborn belief in such a relationship gives rise to tragedy.Jewett maintains that tragic drama forces its readers and viewers to confront the ways in which the use of language grants agency. The Romantic poets saw a moral challenge in that confrontation and followed its generic implications toward a new kind of poetry. Fatal Autonomy thus looks to Romantic drama to explain how Romantic poetry came to hold a permanent grip on conceptions of moral life. Tracing the source of major strains in British Romanticism to a politically charged body of dramatic poems, Jewett focuses on two historical moments: 1794-97, which he describes as the political turning point in the careers of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and 1819-22, the years in which he believes Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron wrote their best poetry

     
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    Subjects: Performing Arts & Drama; DRAMA / General; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Autonomy (Psychology) in literature; English drama (Tragedy); English drama; Moral conditions in literature; Political plays, English; Romanticism; Self in literature; Verse drama, English; Englisch; Politisches Handeln; Drama
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  2. Zora Neale Hurston
    Collected Plays
    Contributor: Cole, Jean Lee (Publisher); Mitchell, Charles (Publisher)
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three... more

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    Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore. Even avid readers of Hurston’s prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime—and some to public acclaim—they have languished in obscurity for years. Even now, most critics and historians gloss over these texts, treating them as supplementary material for understanding her novels. Yet, Hurston’s dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction. Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the first time in this carefully edited and annotated volume. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a "real Negro theater" that embraces all the richness of black life

     
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    Contributor: Cole, Jean Lee (Publisher); Mitchell, Charles (Publisher)
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    Subjects: DRAMA / General; American drama
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  3. Celestina's Brood
    Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature
    Author: González Echevarría, Roberto
    Published: [1993]; © 1993
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book... more

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    Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book nonetheless echoes through contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature. This is the phenomenon that Celestina's Brood explores.Roberto González Echevarría, one of the most eminent and influential critics of Hispanic literature writing today, uses Rojas' text as his starting point to offer an exploration of modernity in the Hispanic literary tradition, and of the Baroque as an expression of the modern. His analysis of Celestina reveals the relentless probing of the limits of language and morality that mark the work as the beginning of literary modernity in Spanish, and the start of a tradition distinguished by a penchant for the excesses of the Baroque. González Echevarría pursues this tradition and its meaning through the works of major figures such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Nicolás Guillén, and Severo Sarduy, as well as through the works of lesser-known authors.By revealing continuities of the Baroque, Celestina's Brood cuts across conventional distinctions between Spanish and Latin American literary traditions to show their profound and previously unimagined affinity

     
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  4. The Pleasure of the Play
    Author: States, Bert O.
    Published: [2019]; © 1994
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    This witty, informed, and concise introduction to the principles of drama helps us to experience the pleasure of plays from Oedipus Rex to Endgame. Never losing sight of the interaction between play and spectator, Bert O. States provides a spirited... more

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    This witty, informed, and concise introduction to the principles of drama helps us to experience the pleasure of plays from Oedipus Rex to Endgame. Never losing sight of the interaction between play and spectator, Bert O. States provides a spirited view of works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Pinter, Brecht, Beckett, Stoppard, Churchill, and many others

     
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    Subjects: Performing Arts & Drama; DRAMA / General; Dramentheorie
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  5. MARINA CARR AND GREEK TRAGEDY
    feminist myths of monstrosity.
    Author: Paul, Salomé
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  ROUTLEDGE, [S.l.] ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy examines the feminist transposition of Greek tragedy in the theatre of the contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr. Through a comparison of the plays based on classical drama with their ancient models, it investigates... more

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    Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy examines the feminist transposition of Greek tragedy in the theatre of the contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr. Through a comparison of the plays based on classical drama with their ancient models, it investigates Carr's transformation not only of the narrative but also of the form of Greek tragedy. As a religious and political institution of the 5th-century Athenian democracy, tragedy endorsed the sexist oppression of women. Indeed, the construction of female characters in Greek tragedy was entirely disconnected from the experience of womanhood lived by real women in order to embody the patriarchal values of Athenian democracy. Whether praised for their passivity or demonized for showing unnatural agency and subjectivity, women in Greek tragedy were conceived to (re)assert the supremacy of men. Carr's theatre stands in stark opposition to such a purpose. Focusing on women's struggle to achieve agency and subjectivity in a male-dominated world, her plays show the diversity of experiencing womanhood and sexist oppression in the Republic of Ireland, and the Western societies more generally. Yet, Carr's enduring conversation with the classics in her theatre demonstrates the feminist willingness to alter the founding myths of Western civilisation to advocate for gender equality

     
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    Subjects: English drama (Tragedy); Greek drama (Tragedy); DRAMA / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
    Other subjects: Carr, Marina (1964-)
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  6. Fatal Autonomy
    Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency
    Author: Jewett, William
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language... more

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    'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language and politics as it is depicted in Romantic drama.'-Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa BarbaraDescribing an enduring moral puzzle and explaining how it helped to shape a key moment in the history of poetic drama, Fatal Autonomy represents Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency. No moral calculus can ever fully determine the relation of events to an individual's actions and failures to act, William Jewett argues; that is why the stubborn belief in such a relationship gives rise to tragedy.Jewett maintains that tragic drama forces its readers and viewers to confront the ways in which the use of language grants agency. The Romantic poets saw a moral challenge in that confrontation and followed its generic implications toward a new kind of poetry. Fatal Autonomy thus looks to Romantic drama to explain how Romantic poetry came to hold a permanent grip on conceptions of moral life. Tracing the source of major strains in British Romanticism to a politically charged body of dramatic poems, Jewett focuses on two historical moments: 1794-97, which he describes as the political turning point in the careers of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and 1819-22, the years in which he believes Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron wrote their best poetry Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One. Tragic Agents And The Origins Of Romanticism, 1794-1797 -- 1. The Sublime Machine Of History: The Fall Of Robespierre And Wat Tyler -- 2. The Claim Of Compulsion: The Borderers -- 3. Fancy And The Spell Of Enlightenment: Osorio -- Part Two. Shelley, Byron, And The Body Politic, 1819-1822 -- 4. Performing Skepticism: The Cenci -- 5. Fatal Autonomy: Marino Faliero -- 6. History's Lethean Song: Charles The First And The Triumph Of Life -- Index

     
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    Subjects: Verse drama, English; Romanticism; Political plays, English; Moral conditions in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Autonomy (Psychology) in literature; English drama (Tragedy); English drama; Self in literature; DRAMA / General
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  7. Zora Neale Hurston
    Collected Plays
    Contributor: Mitchell, Charles (HerausgeberIn); Cole, Jean Lee (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2008]
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston—A Theatrical Life -- A note on the text -- Meet The Mamma (1925) -- Color Struck (1926) -- Spears (1926) -- The First One (1927) -- Cold Keener (1930) -- De... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston—A Theatrical Life -- A note on the text -- Meet The Mamma (1925) -- Color Struck (1926) -- Spears (1926) -- The First One (1927) -- Cold Keener (1930) -- De Turkey and De Law (1930) -- The Sermon in The Valley (1931) -- Four Plays from Fast and Furious (1931) -- The Fiery Chariot (1932) -- Spunk (1935) -- Polk County (1944) -- Appendix: Programs from The Great Day, From Sun to Sun, and All de Live Long Day -- Explanatory Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Editors Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore. Even avid readers of Hurston’s prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime—and some to public acclaim—they have languished in obscurity for years. Even now, most critics and historians gloss over these texts, treating them as supplementary material for understanding her novels. Yet, Hurston’s dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction. Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the first time in this carefully edited and annotated volume. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a “real Negro theater” that embraces all the richness of black life

     
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    Subjects: American drama; DRAMA / General
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  8. Drama as Text and Performance
    Strindberg's and Bergman's Miss Julie
    Author: Törnqvist, Egil
    Published: 2012; ©2012
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    This book is a study of August Strindberg's famous drama Miss Julie, presented in both Swedish and English. Since it was first performed in 1888, Miss Julie has became one of the most successful plays written by Strindberg, widely considered one of... more

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    This book is a study of August Strindberg's famous drama Miss Julie, presented in both Swedish and English. Since it was first performed in 1888, Miss Julie has became one of the most successful plays written by Strindberg, widely considered one of the pioneers of modern drama. The book provides a penetrating analysis of the author's text, followed by a close investigation of Ingmar Bergman's much lauded 1985 production at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Drama as Text and Performance is intended as a paradigmatic illustration of similarities and differences between the two media-textand performance and their recipients, readers and spectators.

     
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  9. Reading Václav Havel
    Author: Danaher, David S
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres – poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and... more

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    As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres – poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and political speeches – he left behind a range of texts so diverse that scholars have had difficulty grappling with his oeuvre as a whole.In Reading Václav Havel, David S. Danaher approaches Havel’s remarkable body of work holistically, focusing on the language, images, and ideas which appear and reappear in the many genres in which Havel wrote. Carefully reading the original Czech texts alongside their English versions, he exposes what in Havel’s thought has been lost in translation. A passionate argument for Havel’s continuing relevance, Reading Václav Havel is the first book to capture the fundamental unity of his vast literary legacy

     
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    Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: Approaches to Reading Havel -- -- 1. The “restlessness of transcendence”: Havel’s Genres -- -- 2. Explaining and Understanding : The “Weirdness” of Havel’s Plays -- -- 3. Understanding East and West: The World in Existential Crisis -- -- 4. “Metaphysical reconstruction”: Translating Havel’s Keywords -- -- Conclusion: Havel’s Legacy as Appeal -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index
  10. Zora Neale Hurston
    Collected Plays
    Contributor: Cole, Jean Lee (Publisher); Mitchell, Charles (Publisher)
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three... more

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    Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore. Even avid readers of Hurston’s prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime—and some to public acclaim—they have languished in obscurity for years. Even now, most critics and historians gloss over these texts, treating them as supplementary material for understanding her novels. Yet, Hurston’s dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction. Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the first time in this carefully edited and annotated volume. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a "real Negro theater" that embraces all the richness of black life

     
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  11. Fatal Autonomy
    Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency
    Author: Jewett, William
    Published: [2019]; © 1997
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language... more

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    'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language and politics as it is depicted in Romantic drama.'-Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa BarbaraDescribing an enduring moral puzzle and explaining how it helped to shape a key moment in the history of poetic drama, Fatal Autonomy represents Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency. No moral calculus can ever fully determine the relation of events to an individual's actions and failures to act, William Jewett argues; that is why the stubborn belief in such a relationship gives rise to tragedy.Jewett maintains that tragic drama forces its readers and viewers to confront the ways in which the use of language grants agency. The Romantic poets saw a moral challenge in that confrontation and followed its generic implications toward a new kind of poetry. Fatal Autonomy thus looks to Romantic drama to explain how Romantic poetry came to hold a permanent grip on conceptions of moral life. Tracing the source of major strains in British Romanticism to a politically charged body of dramatic poems, Jewett focuses on two historical moments: 1794-97, which he describes as the political turning point in the careers of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and 1819-22, the years in which he believes Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron wrote their best poetry

     
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    Subjects: Performing Arts & Drama; DRAMA / General; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Autonomy (Psychology) in literature; English drama (Tragedy); English drama; Moral conditions in literature; Political plays, English; Romanticism; Self in literature; Verse drama, English; Englisch; Politisches Handeln; Drama
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  12. The Pleasure of the Play
    Author: States, Bert O.
    Published: [2019]; © 1994
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    This witty, informed, and concise introduction to the principles of drama helps us to experience the pleasure of plays from Oedipus Rex to Endgame. Never losing sight of the interaction between play and spectator, Bert O. States provides a spirited... more

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    This witty, informed, and concise introduction to the principles of drama helps us to experience the pleasure of plays from Oedipus Rex to Endgame. Never losing sight of the interaction between play and spectator, Bert O. States provides a spirited view of works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Pinter, Brecht, Beckett, Stoppard, Churchill, and many others

     
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  13. The peach blossom fan
    Author: Kong, Shangren
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  New York Review Books, New York

    "Written in 1699 and based on the recollections of survivors, The Peach Blossom Fan is a grand historical play about the last days of the Ming dynasty as it fell to the invading Manchus. With compelling vividness, K'ung re-creates confrontations... more

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    "Written in 1699 and based on the recollections of survivors, The Peach Blossom Fan is a grand historical play about the last days of the Ming dynasty as it fell to the invading Manchus. With compelling vividness, K'ung re-creates confrontations between loyalists and those who sell out to the newest master; nostalgic scenes of dalliance in riverside pavilions; desperate stands on battlements; and rituals of commemoration for the lost empire. Here are gallant generals and sycophantic ministers, court musicians and singing girls, and the love of a talented scholar and a beautiful courtesan. Immensely popular in its own time, The Peach Blossom Fan continues to be performed and has been adapted into films, operas, and modern theater pieces. This lively translation has been out of print for almost four decades"...

     
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    ISBN: 9781590178768
    Series: NYRB Classics
    Subjects: DRAMA / Asian; DRAMA / General; DRAMA / Asian; DRAMA / General; Übersetzung; Englisch
    Other subjects: Kong, Shangren (1648-1718): Taohuashan
    Scope: xxxi, 312 pages, illustrations, 21 cm
  14. Celestina's Brood
    Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature
    Author: González Echevarría, Roberto
    Published: [1993]; © 1993
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book... more

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    Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book nonetheless echoes through contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature. This is the phenomenon that Celestina's Brood explores.Roberto González Echevarría, one of the most eminent and influential critics of Hispanic literature writing today, uses Rojas' text as his starting point to offer an exploration of modernity in the Hispanic literary tradition, and of the Baroque as an expression of the modern. His analysis of Celestina reveals the relentless probing of the limits of language and morality that mark the work as the beginning of literary modernity in Spanish, and the start of a tradition distinguished by a penchant for the excesses of the Baroque. González Echevarría pursues this tradition and its meaning through the works of major figures such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Nicolás Guillén, and Severo Sarduy, as well as through the works of lesser-known authors.By revealing continuities of the Baroque, Celestina's Brood cuts across conventional distinctions between Spanish and Latin American literary traditions to show their profound and previously unimagined affinity

     
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  15. Fetch Clay, make man
    a play
    Author: Power, Will
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Overlook Duckworth, New York ; London

    "Set on the eve of the Cassius Clay...Sonny Liston rematch and based on the friendship between the actor Stepin Fetchit and Clay...soon to become Muhammad Ali...Fetch Clay, Make Man explores how each handled a life in the public eye as black men in... more

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    "Set on the eve of the Cassius Clay...Sonny Liston rematch and based on the friendship between the actor Stepin Fetchit and Clay...soon to become Muhammad Ali...Fetch Clay, Make Man explores how each handled a life in the public eye as black men in their respective eras...Hollywood in the 20s, where a black actor's career depended on playing caricatures, and the mid-60s, after the assassination of Malcolm X. With "incisive characterizations, crackling dialogue and generous doses of dark humor" (Hollywood Reporter), Fetch Clay, Make Man audaciously recreates this improbably friendship and, through the relationship, digs to the heart of race relations during the highly charged days of 1960s America"...

     
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    Subjects: DRAMA / General / bisacsh; African American men; DRAMA / General
    Other subjects: Ali, Muhammad (1942-2016); Fetchit, Stepin
    Scope: 109 Seiten, Illustration, 21 cm
  16. Ponteach, or, The savages of America
    a tragedy
    Author: Rogers, Robert
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.]

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    ISBN: 1442660325; 9781442660328
    Subjects: FICTION / General; DRAMA / General; Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
    Other subjects: Rogers, Robert (1731-1795)
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    Introduction: Staging Savagery and Fictionalizing Colonialism in Robert Rogers' Ponteach: A Tragedy -- Ponteach: or the Savages of America -- A Tragedy -- Appendix A: Excerpts from Robert Rogers' A Concise Account of North America -- Appendix B: Excerpts from The Journal of Pontiac's Conspiracy -- Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews of the Work of Robert Rogers -- Appendix D: Contemporary Reports on the Life of Robert Rogers
  17. Pirandello's theatre of living masks
    new translations of six major plays
    Author: Pirandello, Luigi
    Published: c2011 (2012)
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.]

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    ISBN: 1442690313; 9781442690318
    Series: Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library series
    Subjects: FICTION / General; DRAMA / General
    Other subjects: Pirandello, Luigi / 1867-1936; Pirandello, Luigi / 1867-1936; Pirandello, Luigi (1867-1936)
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    "Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello is known worldwide for his innovative, complex plays. In Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks, Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani offer the first new edition in nearly sixty years of six of his major works - Liola, It Is So If You Think So, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Each in His Own Way, and The Mountain Giants

    Mariani and Mariani's translations of these texts are both vibrant and faithful to the originals, using contemporary expressions and unambiguous language to facilitate readability and comprehension. This edition also offers a critical introduction to each play's most significant characters and structures, highlighting themes and poetics as they correspond to Pirandello's entire body of work. Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks will appeal to those already familiar with his plays and those looking to discover one of the twentieth century's great dramatists."--Pub. desc

    Liolà -- Right you are, if you think you are -- Six characters in search of an author -- Henry IV -- Each in his own way -- The mountain giants
  18. Irony and the modern theatre
    Author: Storm, William
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9781107007925
    RVK Categories: EC 3935 ; EC 7506
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Cambridge studies in modern theatre
    Subjects: Psychologie; Irony in literature; Drama; Drama; DRAMA / General; Drama; Ironie
    Scope: X, 256 S.
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    "Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre"-- Provided by publisher. -- "Irony, in its contrariness, has gained a reputation for indeterminacy, for being all but ungraspable except perhaps in the most traditional contexts of wittiness, paradox, the assumption of an opposite, or a perspective of stylish but world-weary commentary. Irony in the more complicated view can now be confounding, a perspective that has become more pervasive, or at least more presumed, in connection with postmodernist or deconstructive assumptions regarding the disassociative properties of language in particular. Irony does, in fact, imply opposition, a consistent if at times hidden presence of the alternate view; and when such alternation is reiterated or compounded, the contrary properties of the trope become correspondingly more manifest, leading potentially to progressive negation or even self-cancellatio

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  19. Nine Irish Plays for Voices
    Author: Grennan, Eamon
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    A vibrant collection of short plays bringing Irish history and culture alive through an extraordinary collage of documents, songs, poems, and textsIn Nine Irish Plays for Voices award-winning poet Eamon Grennan delves deep into key Irish... more

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    A vibrant collection of short plays bringing Irish history and culture alive through an extraordinary collage of documents, songs, poems, and textsIn Nine Irish Plays for Voices award-winning poet Eamon Grennan delves deep into key Irish subjects-big, small, literary, historical, political, biographical-and illuminates them for today's audiences and readers. These short plays draw from original material centering on important moments in Irish history and the formation of the Irish Republic, such as the Great Famine and the Easter Rising; the lives of Irish literary figures like Yeats, Joyce, and Lady Gregory; and the crucial and life-changing condition of emigration. The rhythmic, musical, and vivid language of Grennan's plays incorporates traditional song lyrics, lines of Irish poetry, and letters and speeches of the time. The result is a dramatic collage that tells a story through the voices of characters contemporary to the period of the play's subject. By presenting subjects through the dramatic rendering of the human voice, the plays facilitate a close, intimate relationship between players and the audience, creating an incredibly powerful connection to the past. Historical moments and literary figures that might seem remote to the present-day reader or audience become immediate and emotionally compelling. One of the plays, Ferry, is drawn entirely from the author's imagination. It puts unnamed characters who come from the world of twentieth century Ireland on a boat to the underworld with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. On their journey the five strangers, played by two voices, tell stories about their lives, raising the question of how language both captures and transforms lived experience. Addressing the Great Famine, Hunger uses documentary evidence to give audiences a dramatic feel for what has been a silent and traumatic element in Irish history. NORAMOLLYANNALIVIALUCIA: The Muse and Mr. Joyce is a one-woman piece that depicts James Joyce's wife as an older woman sharing her memories and snippets from the works of her husband. Also included in this rich volume is the author's adaptation of Synge's Aran Islands, as well as Emigration Road, History! Reading the Easter Rising, The Muse and Mr. Yeats, The Loves of Lady Gregory, and Peig: An Ordinary Life

     
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  20. Missing
    Author: Kani, John
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Cover; Half-title; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; Missing: John Kani's Meditation; Foreword; Missing; Act I; Act II Scene 1; Act II Scene 2. Missing is the story of Robert Khalipa, an ANC cadre living in exile, who is very senior in the organisation... more

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    Cover; Half-title; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; Missing: John Kani's Meditation; Foreword; Missing; Act I; Act II Scene 1; Act II Scene 2. Missing is the story of Robert Khalipa, an ANC cadre living in exile, who is very senior in the organisation but is left out of the negotiations and almost forgotten in Sweden. Robert has a wealthy Swedish wife, Anna, and they have a daughter who is a practising doctor in a hospital in Stockholm. There is also Robert{u2019}s protégé Peter Tshabalala, junior in the organisation, yet he gets the call to return to South African to join the democratic government. What follows is a story of conspiracies, lies, back stabbing and disappointments. Robert and his family are faced with the challenges of a South Africa that has changed radically from the one he remembers from more than thirty years ago. The government, in his opinion, does not seem to uphold the principles enshrined in the Freedom Charter. There is also conflict within his own family. Robert wants to stay in South Africa, while his wife and daughter want to go back to Sweden. Their love is tested to breaking point and difficult decisions have to be made by every individual. As with Kani{u2019}s very successful and often-performed previous play, Nothing but the Truth, the ambiguities of freedom and of personal commitment are explored in this play

     
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    Subjects: Post-apartheid era; Post-apartheid era; DRAMA / General; DRAMA ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama
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  21. Heiner Muller's The Hamletmachine
    Author: Barnett, David
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Routledge,, Abingdon, Oxon

    1. Surveying the scenes -- 2. A history of western civilization in ten pages -- 3. Open sesame? -- 4. Staging The Hamletmachine. more

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    1. Surveying the scenes -- 2. A history of western civilization in ten pages -- 3. Open sesame? -- 4. Staging The Hamletmachine.

     
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    Series: Fourth Wall
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    Subjects: Muller, Heiner ; 1929-1995 ; Hamletmaschine; DRAMA ; Continental European ; bisacsh; DRAMA / General ; bisacsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama ; bisacsh; DRAMA ; Continental European; DRAMA / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
    Other subjects: Müller, Heiner (1929-1995): Hamletmaschine
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  22. La haine
    dir Mathieu Kassovitz
    Author: Harrington, Karine
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Hodder Education, London, [England]

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    Series: Modern Languages Study Guides
    Subjects: Riots; Riots; DRAMA / General; POETRY / Continental European; Drama
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  23. Bafana republic and other satires
    a collection of monologues and revues
    Author: Van Graan, Mike
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Wits University Press, Johannesburg

    Bafana Republic and Other Satires is a selection of monologues from six one-person satirical revues by leading South African playwright Mike van Graan. Focusing with piercing humour on various issues facing democratic South Africa, the monologues can... more

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    Bafana Republic and Other Satires is a selection of monologues from six one-person satirical revues by leading South African playwright Mike van Graan. Focusing with piercing humour on various issues facing democratic South Africa, the monologues can be used for exam purposes, as acting exercises for drama students, or as performance pieces Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Outline of sketch characters, themes, background and context -- Glossary of terms and translations -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Play 1: Bafana Republic (2007) -- Sketch 1: Interview with the CEO of the South African Football Association -- Sketch 2: Chardonnay -- Sketch 3: PAHAD representative -- Sketch 4: Bhamjee -- Sketch 5: Kabouter Basson -- Sketch 6: Bafana Idols -- Play 2: Bafana Republic: Extra Time (2008) -- Sketch 1: World Cup ambassador, Hayi Buti -- Sketch 2: Reality show medley Sketch 1: Time travel -- Sketch 2: Fly SAA -- Sketch 3: Fallism -- Sketch 4: And the Oscar goes to . . . -- Sketch 5: Born free -- Sketch 6: Weekend special -- Sketch 7: I am an African -- Sketch 8: Estate agent 2 -- Sketch 9: So-calleds -- Sketch 10: Blame apartheid -- Sketch 11: The Met -- Sketch 12: Julius -- Sketch 13: Rainbow song -- Play 5: State Fracture (2017) -- Sketch 1: Saxonwold shebeen -- Sketch 2: Trumple-Thin-Skin -- Sketch 3: Chicken shite -- Sketch 4: Hello, looters -- Sketch 5: Blacks Adopted by Whites Anonymous -- Sketch 6: Pastor Hlaudi, the miracle worker Sketch 7: ABBA medley -- Sketch 8: Some black lives matter -- Sketch 9: Stand-up on privilege -- Sketch 10: The Helen Zille School of Good Colonialism -- Sketch 11: Social cohesion -- Sketch 12: Social media rollercoaster -- Sketch 13: The patriot -- Sketch 14: No Zuma, no cry -- Play 6: Land Acts (2018) -- Sketch 1: Derya Hanekom -- Sketch 2: Give me a sign, Julius -- Sketch 3: Middle finger for the natives -- Sketch 4: MacDonald's farm -- Sketch 5: A promise fulfilled -- Sketch 6: Car guard -- Sketch 7: Australian refuge -- Sketch 8: A dog's life -- Sketch 9: What a wonderful world Sketch 3: American and Frenchie on safari -- Sketch 4: AA on-screen fillers -- Sketch 5: A man's game -- Sketch 6: ABC take-out -- Sketch 7: Security chief -- Sketch 8: Bafana election fever -- Sketch 9: Vuvuzela salesman -- Sketch 10: Whinge -- Sketch 11: Stand-up comic -- Play 3: Bafana Republic: Penalty Shootout (2009) -- Sketch 1: Toilet cleaner -- Sketch 2: Estate agent 1 -- Sketch 3: False prophet -- Sketch 4: Madonna of Africa -- Sketch 5: Disabled -- Sketch 6: Jimmy Blond -- Sketch 7: School for African dictators -- Sketch 8: Dog shrink -- Play 4: Pay Back the Curry (2016) Sketch 10: Shakespeare in love -- Sketch 11: Ode to WaNkandla -- Sketch 12: Football match -- Sketch 13: Imagine -- Back cover

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1776145879; 9781776145874
    Subjects: South African drama (English); Satire, South African (English); DRAMA / General
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  24. Performing nerves
    four plays, four essays, on hysteria
    Author: Furse, Anna
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

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  25. Contemporary European playwrights
    Contributor: Delgado, María M. (HerausgeberIn); Lease, Bryce (HerausgeberIn); Rebellato, Dan (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, Oxon

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