The Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre

The Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre PDF Author: Jonathan Law
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN: 9780141020020
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 668

Book Description
The Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre provides a comprehensive and illuminating guide to the world of the theatre in over 5,000 thoroughly researches and clearly written articles. Together with its easy-to-use format and accessible style, the breadth of coverage in this dictionary makes it an invaluable reference guide for all students and lovers of drama.

International Dictionary of Theatre: Actors, directors, and designers

International Dictionary of Theatre: Actors, directors, and designers PDF Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 856

Book Description
This volume includes actors, directors and designers and contains 300 entries, each of which includes biographical information on the individual, a complete list of roles and/or theatre productions, and a bibliography critical books and articles about the entrant.

The New Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre

The New Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre PDF Author: Market House Books Ltd
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 676

Book Description
Contains over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the theater, covering actors, playwrights, directors, and other significant people; theatrical styles and genres; technical terms and jargon; major plays; and famous buildings and companies.

The Oxford Dictionary of Plays

The Oxford Dictionary of Plays PDF Author: Michael Patterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192518496
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 884

Book Description
The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast; there is also a summary of the play's plot, and a brief commentary. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. The perfect guide for students and scholars of drama and literature, theatre professionals, and directors looking for plays for performance.

Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond

Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond PDF Author: Vassiliki Rapti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317103092
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Taking as its point of departure the complex question about whether Surrealist theatre exists, this book re-examines the much misunderstood artistic medium of theatre within Surrealism, especially when compared to poetry and painting. This study reconsiders Surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics-a poetics of play and games-an ideal approach to the Surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the 'playful' and the 'serious.' Vassiliki Rapti's aims are threefold: first, to demystify André Breton's controversial attitude toward theatre; second, to do justice to Surrealist theatre, by highlighting the unique character that derives from its inherent element of play; and finally, to trace the impact of Surrealist theatre in areas far beyond its generally acknowledged influence on the Theatre of the Absurd-an impact being felt even on the contemporary world stage. Beginning with the Surrealists' 'one-into-another' game and its illustration of Breton's ludic dramatic theory, Rapti then examines the traces of this kind of game in the works of a wide variety of Surrealist and Post-Surrealist playwrights and stage directors, from several different countries, and from the 1920s to the present: Roger Vitrac, Antonin Artaud, Günter Berghaus, Nanos Valaoritis, Robert Wilson, and Megan Terry.

The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre

The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre PDF Author: Khaled Besbes
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581129556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
Semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research and Beckett s theatre is one which engages a large spectrum of subjects and concerns that touch upon multiple aspects of human experience. The Beckettian dramatic text, as shall be demonstrated in this book, is a fertile ground for a semiotic investigation that is orchestrated by the profound insights of C. S. Peirce. As it applies semiotics to Beckett s theatre, this book seeks to preserve, communicate and throw into relief those universal values in the playwright s works which remain unchallenged despite every change and every revolution in human societies. What this book will hopefully contribute to the general canon of theatrical studies is its study of the Beckettian dramatic text not as a model of the absurd tradition, but rather as a cultural product whose writer's thinking can scarcely be dissociated from the cultural environment within which it took shape, and whose deciphering requires the use of cultural codes and sub-codes which will undergo detailed examination in the course of analysis, a study that we may so generically call a cultural semiotic study of Beckett.

Leo 'Rumpole' McKern

Leo 'Rumpole' McKern PDF Author: George Whaley
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 1921410892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
This long-awaited biography tells the story of a working-class Sydney boy who left Australian shores in the 1940s and went on to an extraordinary and renowned acting career. In England he become a major Shakespearean actor and made many films. Yet it was the gravelly-voiced, potato-faced Horace Rumpole in the long-running series Rumpole of the Bailey that made him a household name in Britain and Australia.
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