[PDF] Dismemberment In Drama Dismemberment Of Drama eBook

Author : Lance Norman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1527565653

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Dismemberment in Drama / Dismemberment of Drama is an essay collection which considers the dramatic possibility contained in the images and narratives of dismemberment frequently recurring on the western stage. The Classical Tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, the Romanticism of Kleist, the surrealism of Artaud, and the contemporary drama of Suzan-Lori Parks and Marina Carr are just some of the fractured and fragmented bodies analyzed in this collection. Both individually and in concert the contributors ask what a dismembered body means. Such an inquiry allows them to confront dismemberment as a theoretical category which understands such twentieth-century innovations as the Theatre of Cruelty, the Epic Theatre, the Open Theater, and documentary theatre as part of a long dramatic tradition. Dismemberment in drama examines the tenuous bond between representation and the object being represented by highlighting the dismemberment of drama as a form that occurs during drama’s repeated theorizations of its own enactment. There is a conflict between disintegration and unity inherent in mimesis, theatrical phenomenology, and performance.

Author : Margaret E. Owens
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874138887

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"This study has essentially two focuses, two stories to tell. One story traces the secularization, theatricalization, and uncanny returns of suppressed religious culture in early modern drama. The other story concerns the tendency of the theater to expose contingencies and gaps in politico-judicial practices of spectacular violence." "The investigation covers a broad range of plays dating from the fifteenth century to the closing of the theatres in 1642; however, three chapters are devoted to extensive analysis of single plays: R.B.'s Apius and Virginia, Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI, and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus."--Jacket.

Author : Frederika Elizabeth Bain
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1501513230

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The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from the castration anxieties of Turk plays to the elite practices of distributive burial. This study argues that representations and instances of bodily fragmentation illustrated and performed acts of exclusion and inclusion, detaching not only limbs from bodies but individuals from identity groups. Within this context it examines questions of legitimate and illegitimate violence, showing that such distinctions largely rested upon particular acts’ assumed symbolic meanings. Specific chapters address ways dismemberments manifested gender, human versus animal nature, religious and ethnic identity, and social rank. The book concludes by examining the afterlives of body parts, including relics and specimens exhibited for entertainment and education, contextualized by discussion of the resurrection body and its promise of bodily reintegration. Grounded in dramatic works, the study also incorporates a variety of genres from midwifery manuals to broadside ballads.

Author : Margare T. E. Owens
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781611492644

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This study considers a broad range of plays dating from the fifteenth century to the closing of the theaters in 1642; however, seperate chapters are devoted to extensive analysis ofApius and Virginia,2 Henry VI, andDoctor Faustus.

Author : Letizia Fusini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004423389

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In Dionysus on the Other Shore, Letizia Fusini re-examines Gao Xingjian’s post-1987 theatre as a form of tragedy.

Author : Eric Dodson-Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9004401288

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Eric Dodson-Robinson’s Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film challenges critical readings that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance: a complex agent who strives for excess, not equivalence.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134474288

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In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre through analysis of performances as diverse as: Max Reinhardt's new people's theatre the mass spectacles of post-revolutionary Russia American Zionist pageants the Olympic Games. In offering both a performative and a semiotic analysis of such performances, Fischer-Lichte expertly demonstrates how theatre and ritual are fused in order to tackle the problem of community-building in societies characterised by loss of solidarity and disintegration, and exposes the provocative connection between the utopian visions of community they suggest, and the notion of sacrifice. This innovative study of twentieth-century performative culture boldly examines the complexities of political theatre, propaganda and manipulation of the masses, and offers a revolutionary approach to the study of theatre and performance history.

Author : L. Starks-Estes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137349921

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Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.

Author : Matthew Leigh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 311067629X

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The fathers of modern freemasonry sought a classical pedigree for their rituals and forms of association. This volume offers the first academic study of how freemasons writing in the first half of the 18th century deployed their knowledge of antiquity to bolster this claim and how the creative literature of the period reflected their ideas. The scholarly investigation of freemasonry is a relatively new phenomenon. The writings of active freemasons tend either to generate new masonic myths or to focus on the minutiae of insignia, rank, and ritual. Only in the last 50 years have non-masons given serious thought to freemasonry as a social practice and to its place within the intellectual and political life of Enlightenment Europe and beyond. Study of masonic elements in literary texts lags much further behind. This volume offers the first English translations of three mid-18th century comedies on female curiosity about this exclusively male order and shows how they reflect contemporary attempts to forge a link with ancient mystery cult. The theatrical aspect of masonic ritual and the ancient mysteries is examined in depth. This volume opens up important new ground in classical reception and 18th century theatre history.