Irony and the Modern Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irony and the Modern Theatre write by William Storm. This book was released on 2011-05-05. Irony and the Modern Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.
Tragic Play
Tragic Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tragic Play write by Christoph Menke. This book was released on 2009. Tragic Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously performative. Through close readings of plays by William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Müller, and Botho Strauss, Menke shows how tragedy re-emerges in modernity as "tragedy of play." In Hamlet, Endgame, Philoktet, and Ithaka, Menke integrates philosophical theory with critical readings to investigate shifting terms of judgment, curse, reversal, misfortune, and violence.
The Ground on which I Stand
The Ground on which I Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ground on which I Stand write by August Wilson. This book was released on 2001. The Ground on which I Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Early Modern Theatricality
Early Modern Theatricality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Modern Theatricality write by Henry S. Turner. This book was released on 2013-12. Early Modern Theatricality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Early Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism, combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama.
The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare
The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare write by Steven Mullaney. This book was released on 2015-07-13. The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity. Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformation of faith. As Steven Mullaney shows in The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare, Elizabethan popular drama played a significant role in confronting the uncertainties and unresolved traumas of Elizabethan Protestant England. Shakespeare and his contemporaries—audiences as well as playwrights—reshaped popular drama into a new form of embodied social, critical, and affective thought. Examining a variety of works, from revenge plays to Shakespeare’s first history tetralogy and beyond, Mullaney explores how post-Reformation drama not only exposed these faultlines of society on stage but also provoked playgoers in the audience to acknowledge their shared differences. He demonstrates that our most lasting works of culture remain powerful largely because of their deep roots in the emotional landscape of their times.
