[PDF] The Actors Freedom Toward A Theory Of Drama eBook

Author : Meredith Anne Skura
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226761800

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For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England. Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance.

Author : Martin Buzacott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136120688

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In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare. Because actors are absent from the site of Shakespearean meaning, he argues, the illusion of their centrality is sustained only by a rhetoric of heroism, violence and imperialism.

Author : Joseph R. Roach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472082445

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Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage

Author : Michael Goldman
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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The author draws on maenadism, shamanism, pagan and Christian religious traditions plus psychology and psychiatry to demonstrate how much more acting means than mere imitation.

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1996-08-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0817308377

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This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.

Author : Steven Archer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780939693610

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Theatre: Its Art and Craft is intended for use in theatre appreciation and introduction to theatre courses. This new edition features updated statistics and references that keep the text current. The first chapter of the text introduces readers to the broad issues of artistic practice, while the second chapter inspects the specific area of live theatre. The remainder of chapters examine in detail the various functionaries of the theatre (audience, critics, playwrights, directors, actors, designers, historians, and dramaturgs). As in previous volumes, readers are encouraged to examine the complex interaction of all theatrical elements. Just as in music some instruments supply the basic structure and some embellish that structure, so in the theatre the elements of script, directing, acting, and design interact in shifting configurations to offer a new work of art at every performance. Examining these relationships will enrich the theatrical experience. A Collegiate Press book

Author : Jeffrey M. Leichman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611487250

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Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a new understanding of the relationship between performance and self. Innovative interpretations of La Chaussée, Rousseau, Diderot, Rétif, Beaumarchais, and others demonstrate how the figure of the actor threatened ancien régime moral hierarchies by decoupling affect from emotion. As acting came to be understood as an embodied practice of individual freedom, attempts to alternately perfect and repress it proliferated. Across religious diatribes and sentimental comedies, technical manuals and epistolary novels, Leichman traces the development of early modern acting theories that define the aesthetics, philosophy, and politics of the performed subject. Acting Up weaves together cultural studies, literary analysis, theater history, and performance studies to establish acting as a key conceptual model for the subject, for the Enlightenment, and for our own time.

Author : Michael Goldman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1400854806

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This intensely personal book develops a new approach to the study of action in drama. Michael Goldman eloquently applies a method based on a crucial fact: our experience of a play in the theater is almost exclusively our experience of acting. Originally published in 1985. 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.

Author : William Robert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226816907

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"In Unbridled, scholar of religion William Robert uses Peter Shaffer's enigmatic 1973 play Equus, about a boy passionately devoted to horses, to think about and teach religion. For Robert, a play like Equus tangles together text, performance, practice, embodiment, and reception. Studying a play involves us in playing different roles, as ourselves and others, and those roles, as well as the imaginative work they require, are critical to the study of religion. By approaching Equus with the reader, Robert transforms standard approaches to the study of religion, engaging with key themes including ritual, sacrifice, worship, power, desire, violence, and sexuality, as well as major thinkers such as Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, and contemporary theorists such as J. Z. Smith and Judith Butler. As Robert shows, the way themes and theories play out in Equus challenges us to imagine the study of religion anew through open questioning, contrasting perspectives, and alternative modes of interpretation and appreciation"--