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Das Erbe Sades in der Comédie humaine
by Irene WiegandDie Bedeutung des Marquis de Sade für die Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts ist nicht zu unterschätzen, wenn der »unmoralische« Autor als Quelle auch oft verschwiegen wurde. Er hat die pessimistische Weltsicht der Spätaufklärung prägnanter zugespitzt als jeder andere Philosoph seiner Zeit. Die Überzeugung, daß tugendhaftes Verhalten zum Scheitern verurteilt ist und der Stärkere siegt, sowie der Zweifel an der Existenz eines guten Gottes, der ausgleichende Gerechtigkeit übt, prägen auch die rund 90 Romane und Erzählungen umfassende "Comédie humaine" Balzacs, die in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts entstand. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Romankorpus unter diesem Gesichtspunkt und stellt dar, wie Balzac versucht, dem von der Spätaufklärung geerbten Pessimismus nicht nur auf struktureller Ebene, sondern auch durch verschiedenste religiöse und ersatzreligiöse Konzepte zu begegnen. Durch diese Ansammlung inkompatibler religiöser Modelle weist die Comédie humaine indes gerade auf ihre weltanschauliche Misere hin, und die angestrebte Rückkehr zur Eindeutigkeit demonstriert auf paradoxe Weise die Modernität des Werks.
Das Maß und die Nützlichkeit: Zum Verhältnis von Theater und Erziehung im 18. Jahrhundert (Theater #124)
by Alexander WeinstockDer Pädagogisierung des Theaters im Rahmen der aufklärerischen Theaterreform korrespondiert eine Theatralisierung der Pädagogik im Philanthropismus. Ausgehend von dieser Beobachtung zeigt Alexander Weinstock auf, wie die Theaterreform als ein Ausdifferenzierungsprozess verläuft, der alle beteiligten Akteur_innen zu Erziehungsinstanzen macht, die nicht nur mit dem Theater erziehen, sondern immer auch selbst von ihm erzogen werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann wiederum erstmals ersichtlich gemacht werden, wie tief greifend das reformierte Theater die sich professionalisierende und institutionalisierende Pädagogik im 18. Jahrhundert prägt - in ihrer Theoriebildung, Praxis und Methodik, deren Präsentation und Diskussion.
Das Theater der Elektrizität: Technologie und Spektakel im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert (Szene & Horizont. Theaterwissenschaftliche Studien #6)
by Ulf OttoDas Theater der Moderne gründet sich auf ästhetische Energien. Seit den 1880er Jahren aber sind es elektrische Energien, aus fossilen Brennstoffen in Kraftwerken erzeugt, die im Theater zu zirkulieren beginnen. Installiert wird eine mysteriöse Entität, die noch als Lebenskraft gehandelt wird und schon für Fortschritt durch Technik steht. Mit der Elektrifizierung des Theaters wird Elektroindustrie respektabel und Bühnenkunst modernistisch. Entsorgt werden die Kulissen, die im Scheinwerferlicht nur noch verstaubt erscheinen, und aus der Bildermaschine wird Raumkunst. Doch wichtiger sind die institutionellen Transformationen, die sich in bislang unbeachteten Koalitionen, Kontinuitäten und Konkurrenzen von technischen und ästhetischen Dingen abspielen. Ingenieurswissen, Kontrolltechniken und Versorgungssysteme ändern, wie Theater und Gesellschaft verschaltet sind. Der Interaktionsraum (zwischen-)menschlicher Leiblichkeit des 20. Jahrhunderts entpuppt sich als eine technische Konstellation.
Das Theater der Maler: Studien zur Theatermoderne anhand dramatischer Werke von Kokoschka, Kandinsky, Barlach, Beckmann, Schwitters und Schlemmer. M&P Schriftenreihe
by Thomas Schober
Das Theater des Anderen: Theorie und Mediengeschichte einer existenziellen Gestalt von 1800 bis heute (Theater #57)
by Andreas EnglhartDie Hölle, das sind die Anderen. Aber nicht nur: Der Andere ist Basis des Dialogs und Konflikts, der Bilder, Imaginationen und Geschichte(n). Er fundiert das Theatrale und Dramatische ebenso wie traditionelle oder avantgardistische Mediendramaturgien. Von der Spätaufklärung bis heute verfolgt Andreas Englhart die Entwicklung des Anderen, ihre Gestaltungen von Kant bis Kotzebue, von Goethe bis zu Darwin, von Schiller bis zur (Neo-)Avantgarde, von Nestroy über Brecht bis zum postdramatischen Theater. Sie grundieren das gegenwärtig weite dramaturgische Feld zwischen Jelinek und Stone, Parizek und Rau, Ostermeier und Stemann - eine postironische Ästhetik zwischen Drama und Performance, zwischen Konflikt- und Überschreitungsdramaturgie.
David Belasco: Naturalism in the American Theatre (PDF)
by Lise-Lone MarkerA pioneer of stage naturalism, David Belasco has come to be universally recognized as one of the first important directors in the history of the American stage. Lise-Lone Marker's book is a full-length stylistic analysis and re-evaluation of his scenic art.Based on a rich body of primary sources, among which are Belasco's promptbooks and papers, the book synthesizes the aims, methods, and techniques inherent in the naturalistic production style that Belasco developed during the six decades of his career. The elements of that style—the magic reality of his stage settings, his innovations in plastic lighting, his directorial method—are also seen in the context of theatrical developments elsewhere.On the basis of this synthesis. Professor Marker reconstructs and analyzes four of Belasco's most important productions, each representative of a distinct phase of his directorial art. Her explorations uncover much new information about Belasco and the American theatre around the turn of the century.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
David Copperfield (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
by Charles Dickens Giles HavergalThe treacherous Uriah Heep, the jovial nurse Peggotty, the adorably dim-witted Dora, the improvident Mr Micawber and the egotistic and charming Steerforth come to life in this new adaptation of Dickens’ classic. From seaside Yarmouth to London and beyond, as plots and counterplots effortlessly interweave into one intricate, grand design, David Copperfield captures the brightness, magic and terror of the world as seen through the eyes of a child: his bafflement turning to self-awareness and his young heart growing ever more disciplined and true.
David Cregan: Three Plays (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
by David CreganIncludes the plays Whispers Along the Patio, Nice Dorothy, The Last Thrash In Whispers Along the Patio retired Matthew is happy eating his breakfast on his patio in the morning sunlight. However, constant interruptions from his do-gooding niece, June, force him to seek sanctuary in Kew Gardens. There he meets young businessman Tony and Tania, a beautiful but bewildering visitor from south-east Europe. Two paintings and a bizarre set of events bring five very different and lonely people together to dine by candlelight. But will the pursuit of private passions cause chaos among this disparate company? In Nice Dorothy matters are complicated when a 40 year old spinster and a young man of 25 fall in love across a crowded room. The Last Thrash is set in a prep school upset by the discovery of a pupil smoking cannabis just as a minor royal is about to attend the school. It is a comic critique of the propagation of the class system within private education.
David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer: Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott (The Manchester Spenser)
by Anne Lake PrescottFor nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott’s immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.
David Greig’s Holed Theatre: Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator
by Verónica RodríguezWith a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig’s work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator. It makes the argument that Greig’s theatre works by undoing, cracking, or breaking apart myriad elements to reveal the holed, porous nature of all things. Starting with a discussion of Greig’s engagement with shamanism and arguing for holed theatre as a response to globalization, for Greig’s works’ politics of aesthethics, and for the holed spectator as part of an affective ecology of transfers, this book discusses some of Greig’s most representative political theatre from Europe (1994) to The Events (2013), concluding with an exploration of Greig’s theatre’s world-forming quality.
David Hare: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists)
by Hersh ZeifmanLearning that David Hare has written sixteen stage plays, eight collaborations, and eleven screenplays for film and television, one might be surprised by the fact that this leading English artist is not yet fifty years old. He was only twenty-two when his first play was performed by the Portable Theatre, and he was a major voice on the British stage before he was thirty. The present volume is the first major collection of essays devoted to Hare, and its editor, Hersh Zeifman, who is a professor at York University, Toronto, is well-qualified to assemble and supervise such a significant undertaking. As co-editor of the prestigious journal, Modern Drama, he has been exposed to all the major authors and topics of modem theatre and is ideally positioned to discern Hare's pivotal role on the contemporary stage.
David Hare: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists #Vol. 18)
by Hersh ZeifmanLearning that David Hare has written sixteen stage plays, eight collaborations, and eleven screenplays for film and television, one might be surprised by the fact that this leading English artist is not yet fifty years old. He was only twenty-two when his first play was performed by the Portable Theatre, and he was a major voice on the British stage before he was thirty. The present volume is the first major collection of essays devoted to Hare, and its editor, Hersh Zeifman, who is a professor at York University, Toronto, is well-qualified to assemble and supervise such a significant undertaking. As co-editor of the prestigious journal, Modern Drama, he has been exposed to all the major authors and topics of modem theatre and is ideally positioned to discern Hare's pivotal role on the contemporary stage.
David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty
by David HareThis first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday).The volume also includes the plays Slag, Teeth 'n' Smiles, Knuckle and Licking Hitler, and is introduced by the author.
David Hare Plays 2: Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon; The Bay at Nice; The Secret Rapture
by David HareThis second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his remarkable 1975 play which focused on the Chinese Revolution with Brechtian subtlety, his screenplay for Saigon: Year of the Cat, The Secret Rapture, his biting portrait of a family in crisis, and the plays A Map of the World and The Bay at Nice. The collection is introduced by the author.
David Hare Plays 3: Skylight; Amy’s View; The Judas Kiss; My Zinc Bed
by David HareThis is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.
David Ireland Plays 1: Half a Glass of Water; The End of Hope; Ulster American; Cyprus Avenue; Sadie (Contemporary Dramatists)
by David Ireland'Playwright David Ireland challenges people to draw lines between what they find funny and what they find outrageous' (Sydney Morning Herald) This first collection of plays by David Ireland brings together three of his most successful hits that have enjoyed numerous productions around the world alongside two previously unpublished plays: Half a Glass of Water: 'The dialogue is brutal and tender, horrific and humorous ... this is a tough, challenging work, undercut by Ireland's trademark black humour, which asks questions of what a successful post-conflict society looks like.' (Independent) The End of Hope: 'A freewheeling, majestically entertaining, all-too-brief hour that touches on everything from religion and identity to body dysmorphia' (Times)Cyprus Avenue: 'The most shocking play on the London stage ... a blackly comic examination of sectarian hatred – and a subversive drama that has never been more relevant' (Guardian) Ulster American: 'What a brave, savage writer David Ireland is! There are moments in this play that are so shockingly provocative, so laugh-out-loud funny while simultaneously curl-into-a-ball-and cringe-worrying that I found my mouth was actually open. He can't go there, I thought. And then he did.' (WhatsOnStage) Sadie: 'A fascinating account of one woman, her troubles and the Troubles.' (Irish News)David Ireland was Playwright-in-Residence at the Lyric Theatre Belfast 2011-12. He won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2016. He won the James Tait Black Prize Award for Cyprus Avenue.
David Ireland Plays 1: Half a Glass of Water; The End of Hope; Ulster American; Cyprus Avenue; Sadie (Contemporary Dramatists)
by David Ireland'Playwright David Ireland challenges people to draw lines between what they find funny and what they find outrageous' (Sydney Morning Herald) This first collection of plays by David Ireland brings together three of his most successful hits that have enjoyed numerous productions around the world alongside two previously unpublished plays: Half a Glass of Water: 'The dialogue is brutal and tender, horrific and humorous ... this is a tough, challenging work, undercut by Ireland's trademark black humour, which asks questions of what a successful post-conflict society looks like.' (Independent) The End of Hope: 'A freewheeling, majestically entertaining, all-too-brief hour that touches on everything from religion and identity to body dysmorphia' (Times)Cyprus Avenue: 'The most shocking play on the London stage ... a blackly comic examination of sectarian hatred – and a subversive drama that has never been more relevant' (Guardian) Ulster American: 'What a brave, savage writer David Ireland is! There are moments in this play that are so shockingly provocative, so laugh-out-loud funny while simultaneously curl-into-a-ball-and cringe-worrying that I found my mouth was actually open. He can't go there, I thought. And then he did.' (WhatsOnStage) Sadie: 'A fascinating account of one woman, her troubles and the Troubles.' (Irish News)David Ireland was Playwright-in-Residence at the Lyric Theatre Belfast 2011-12. He won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2016. He won the James Tait Black Prize Award for Cyprus Avenue.
David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre
by I. NadelThis comprehensive biography uses extensive theater and film archives to reveal Mamet's ideas on writing, acting, and directing, covering his beginnings in Chicago, his relationship to Judaism and reputation for machismo, as well as discussions of and excerpts from early plays and stories that have never before been referenced in print.
David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Modern Dramatists Research and Production Sourcebooks)
by Janice A. Sauer David K. SauerThe most complete record of a contemporary American dramatist available, David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook is the result of ten years' research by a widely published drama and theatre scholar and a university bibliographic specialist. Presenting a complete overview of all reviews and scholarshp on Mamet, the authors challenge assumptions about the playwright, such as the charge that he is an antifeminist writer. This comprehensive sourcebook is an essential purchase for Mamet scholars and students of American drama alike.David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook reflects the revolution underway in the study of drama, in which not only previous scholarship but performance reviews are a necessary part of research. It gives a complete listing and overview of over 250 scholarly articles and chapters of books on Mamet's plays. It also presents the complete production history of each play, including review excerpts. The authors have produced an invaluable guide to research into this key contemporary dramatist.
David Mamet and Male Friendship: Buddy Plays and Buddy Films
by Arthur HolmbergUsing insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the history of sexuality, Holmberg explores the ambiguity that drives male bonding. Personal interviews with Mamet and with the actors who have interpreted his major roles shed light on how and why men bond with each other and complement close analysis of Mamet's texts.
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance (Studies In Modern Drama Ser. #Vol. 8)
by Leslie KaneFirst published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance
by Leslie KaneFirst published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.