Theatre as Sign System

Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415049320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
An invaluable handbook explaining the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. It also explains the meanings and methods of semiotics and addresses key texts from Sophocles to Caryl Churchill.

Theatre as Sign System

Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136112367
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and methods of semiotics, Theatre as Sign System addresses key drama texts and offers new and detailed information about the theories of performance.

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

Author: Keir Elam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134465122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Keir Elam showed how this new 'science' could provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance, one of our very richest and most complex forms of communication.

Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880

Author: Julie Stone Peters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199262168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.

Theatre Semiotics

Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description

Performing Texts

Author: Michael Issacharoff
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512802875
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Theatre Theory and Performance

Author: Siddhartha Biswas
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527502600
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Over the last few centuries, the world as we know it has seen remarkable change and the arts – including theatre – have faced new challenges. Theatre is now no longer a simple point of entertainment laced with instruction or dissent, but is perceived as a more collaborative idea that looks at ever-changing paradigms. All over the world, theatre now is a dynamic process that simultaneously retains tradition and delves into extreme experimentations. This book represents a starting point for a much-needed critical interrogation. It looks at the constant features of European theatre and brings in some Indian elements, positing both in their respective locations, as well as looking at the symbiosis that has been functioning for some time.

Time-sharing on Stage

Author: Sirkku Aaltonen
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853594694
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
This text compares theatre texts to apartments where tenants may make considerable changes. Translated texts should be seen in relation to the tenants, who respond to various codes in the surrounding societies in their effort to integrate the texts into a sociocultural discourse of their time.

Dramaturgy in American Theater

Author: Susan Jonas
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 622

Book Description
This comprehensive work is truly the first textbook in the field of dramaturgy. Most of the material-much of it by leaders in all areas of the theater-was commissioned for this collection, rather than being reprinted. Its currency and importance cannot be overestimated. A review of the history of dramaturgy as a profession, together with its European antecedents, gives students a sense of historical context. Selections from respected and recognized names in theater provoke student interest and communicate the benefits of those experts' experiences.

The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre

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.