Rotterdam

2016-10-04 Drama

Author: Jon Brittain

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 1350018341

Category: Drama

Page: 128

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No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman. It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend reveals that he has always identified as a man and now wants to start living as one. Now Alice must face a question she never thought she'd ask . . . does this mean she's straight? A bittersweet comedy about gender, sexuality and being a long way from home. Rotterdam received its world premiere at Theatre503, London, in October 2015, before transferring to Trafalgar Studios, London, in May 2016.
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A History of Modern Drama, Volume II

2016-03-31 Literary Criticism

1960 - 2000

Author: David Krasner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 1118893271

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 608

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A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.
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Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater

2015-01-30 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author: W. B. Worthen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 0520286871

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 240

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The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit

2013-09-02 History

Author: Yuval Noah Harari

Publisher: DVA

ISBN: 364110498X

Category: History

Page: 528

View: 9235

Krone der Schöpfung? Vor 100 000 Jahren war der Homo sapiens noch ein unbedeutendes Tier, das unauffällig in einem abgelegenen Winkel des afrikanischen Kontinents lebte. Unsere Vorfahren teilten sich den Planeten mit mindestens fünf weiteren menschlichen Spezies, und die Rolle, die sie im Ökosystem spielten, war nicht größer als die von Gorillas, Libellen oder Quallen. Vor 70 000 Jahren dann vollzog sich ein mysteriöser und rascher Wandel mit dem Homo sapiens, und es war vor allem die Beschaffenheit seines Gehirns, die ihn zum Herren des Planeten und zum Schrecken des Ökosystems werden ließ. Bis heute hat sich diese Vorherrschaft stetig zugespitzt: Der Mensch hat die Fähigkeit zu schöpferischem und zu zerstörerischem Handeln wie kein anderes Lebewesen. Anschaulich, unterhaltsam und stellenweise hochkomisch zeichnet Yuval Harari die Geschichte des Menschen nach und zeigt alle großen, aber auch alle ambivalenten Momente unserer Menschwerdung.
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Eiland

2017-05-29 Fiction

Roman

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Piper ebooks

ISBN: 3492976581

Category: Fiction

Page: 352

View: 8130

Eines der Meisterwerke des berühmten europäischen Erzählers und Essayisten. 30Jahre nach seiner Albtraumvision »Schöne neue Welt« zählt »Eiland« ebenfalls zu den großen utopischen Romanen des 20.Jahrhunderts. Huxley entwirft darin eine Gemeinschaft, die die Prinzipien des Guten und der Freiheit konsequent anwendet.
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Amadeus

2006

Theaterstücke

Author: Peter Shaffer

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9783596173273

Category:

Page: 687

View: 9403

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Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990

1997 Drama

An International Bibliography

Author: Charles A. Carpenter

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

ISBN: N.A

Category: Drama

Page: 632

View: 8411

The successor to modern drama scholarship and criticism 1966-1980, the present volume is a classified, selective list of publications for the period 1981-1990, with many additions and corrections to the previous volume. It refines and supplements the series of annual bibliographies that Charles Carpenter compiled for the journal Modern Drama from 1982 to 1993. The work is designed both as a convenient checklist of significant scholarship on all aspects of world drama since Ibsen and as a bibliographical prTcis of the discipline as it has evolved since 1980. The great majority of its 25,200 entries concern literary currents in drama since the last third of the nineteenth century and the associated playwrights, although theatre history is also well represented. Because of the heightened interest in semiotic, anthropological, feminist, and other theoretical approaches to drama during the decade of the 1980s, the 'Contemporary Theory' section has been greatly expanded. The primary organization is geographic/linguistic; the main divisions are World Drama, then American, British and Irish, Canadian, Hispanic, French, Italian, Germanic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, African and West Indian, Australasian, and Asian drama. A name index is included. Although the bibliography is limited to material in Roman-alphabet languages, its scope, orientation, and format are designed to make the project internationally useful and intelligible.
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Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands

2007 Social Science

Essays in Honour of Alastair Duke

Author: Judith Pollmann,Andrew Paul Spicer

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9004155279

Category: Social Science

Page: 305

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This lively collection of essays examines the link between public opinion and the development of changing 'Netherlandish' identities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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News, Newspapers and Society in Early Modern Britain

2013-10-16 History

Author: Joad Raymond

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1134571992

Category: History

Page: 240

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Between 1600 and 1800 newspapers and periodicals moved to the centre of British culture and society. This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion.
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Modern Architecture in Theatre

2013-11-21 Performing Arts

The Experiments of Art et Action

Author: A. Read

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 1137368683

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 139

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If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, and how their designs for theater buildings show how the performance spaces interacted with actors and spectators according to their type.
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The Birth of Modern Europe

2010-12-07 Literary Collections

Culture and Economy, 1400-1800. Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries

Author: Laura Cruz,Joel Mokyr

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9004189343

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 259

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It seems undeniable that Jan de Vries has cast an indelible impression upon the field of early modern economic history. Utilizing the methods and concepts pioneered by de Vries, the contributors in this Festschrift display the depth and breadth of his influence, with applications ranging from trade to architecture, from the Netherlands to China, and from the 1400s to the present day.
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French Sacred Drama from Bèze to Corneille

1983-08-25 Literary Criticism

Dramatic Forms and Their Purposes in the Early Modern Theatre

Author: J. S. Street

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521245370

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 344

View: 6029

This 1983 book is a comprehensive study of the French sacred theatre at the crucial transition from medieval to modern conception of theatre.
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