[PDF] Theatre And The Macabre eBook

Author : Meredith Conti
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1786838478

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The ‘macabre’, as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre – and more broadly, performance – for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments, macabre theatre invites artists and audiences to trace the stranger, darker contours of human existence. In this volume, numerous scholars explore the morbid and gruesome onstage, from freak shows to the French Grand Guignol; from Hell Houses to German Trauerspiel; from immersive theatre to dark tourism, stopping along the way to look at phantoms, severed heads, dark rides, haunted mothers and haunting children, dances of death and dismembered bodies. From Japan to Australia to England to the United States, the global macabre is framed and juxtaposed to understand how the theatre brings us face to face with the deathly and the horrific.

Author : Larry Stephen Clifton
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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The greatest portrayer of blue-fire deviltry, Edward Fitzball was a melodramatist on the nineteenth-century British stage. His Theatre of the Macabre was very much a forebearer of the sensationalized media of today. This book discusses Fitzball's life, and his dramatic oeuvre.

Author : Kealan Patrick Burke
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN :

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A hooded figure wanders a lonesome road waiting for a special someone ... A criminal returns home to face old memories and new nightmares ... A man awakes to find himself living in a mirror image of reality ... and diners at a restaurant find themselves confronted with a terrifying revelation about who and what they are ... These are the nineteen nightmarish tales that await you in the THEATER MACABRE ...

Author : Roy C. Booth
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780979967368

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Welcome to the Theatre!Got your popcorn and soft drink? Good! Have you turned your cell phones off? Splendid!Pay no attention to the orderlies strapping you in. It¿s more for our pleasure than your safety. What you are about to experience will make you squeal, cringe, and by the end, laugh maniacally!Roy C. Booth, the internationally award-winning playwright who brought us Brian Keene¿s Terminal: The Play, offers this trilogy of one-acts plays to chill your bones, kicked off by a brilliant introduction from Dr. David Beard.In ¿Death Under the Gaslights,¿ follow three robbers into a house filled with terror. Learn a valuable lesson in ¿Smoking Will Kill You.¿ And in ¿He Who Gets Laughed At Last,¿ see what happens when some people just can¿t take a joke.Before the lights dim, we want to thank you for coming. The price was your sanity, but the screams are free.Cover art by Mark McLaughlin

Author : Larry Stephen Clifton
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879726096

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A study of Edward Fitzball, a melodramatic dramatist of 19th- century England, whose primary themes of horror, crime, and madness, reflected the insecurities of the time and foreshadowed the sensationalist media of ours. His life, the contemporary society and theater, and his dramatic principles and influences, are all considered. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Mel Gordon
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1627310436

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"Bloodcurdling shrieks, fiendish schemes, deeds of darkness, mayhem and mutilation—we all have a rough idea of what Grand Guignol stands for. But until now it has been hard to find out much more about it than that. According to the American theater historian Mel Gordon, no major history of the theater so much as mentions it, although it is a form of entertainment that held its own on the Paris stage for more than half a century. But Mr. Gordon has made a thorough job of filling the gap."—John Gross, The New York Times Here is the expanded edition of classic outré book, The Grand Guignol, first published in 1988 and now long out of print. Like the original anthology, it includes an illustrated introduction to the theater of Paris and abroad, a breakdown of its stage tricks, a summary of one hundred plots, extensive photo documentation, André de Lord's essay, "Fear in Literature," and two originally produced Grand Guignol scripts. The expanded edition also contains additional graphic and textual material including a color insert of Grand Guignol posters; the 1938 autobiographical account of Maxa, the company's leading female performer entitled "I Am the Maddest Woman in the World"; and the controversial playscript Orgy in the Lighthouse.

Author : Rasmus Vangshardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501517007

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Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre’s historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the Spanish Golden Age in particular. The author presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633–36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos: an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual. By discussing historiographical theories of early modern Europe, especially those of Hans Blumenberg and Bruno Latour, and through conversations with Shakespearean drama and Spanish Golden Age classics, Vangshardt also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and challenges theories of a European-wide early modern sense of crisis.

Author : Prof. Richard J. Hand
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1905816367

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A companion to UEP’s Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). A genre that has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine” (Gothic Studies). London’s Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It was a high-profile venture that enjoyed popular success as much as critical controversy. On its side were some of the finest actors on the English stage, in the shape of Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, and a team of extremely able writers, including Noël Coward. London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror considers the importance and influence of the English Grand Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts. It also presents a selection of ten remakarble English-language Grand Guignol plays, some of which were banned by the Lord Chamberlain, the censor of the day, and have never been published or publicly performed. Among the plays in the book is a previously unpublished work by Noël Coward, The Better Half, first performed at the Little Theatre in 1922. The reviewer in the journal Gothic Studies wrote, of the authors’ previous book: “having recently taught a module on Grand Guignol with third year drama students, it is also worth noting that this book captured their imaginations in a way that few other set texts seem to manage.”