Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese 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 Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre write by K. Wetmore. This book was released on 2008-04-14. Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with that in European Renaissance drama. Why are the two great plays of each tradition, plays regarded as defining their nations and eras, Kanadehon Chushingura and Hamlet, both revenge plays? What do the revenge dramas of Europe and Japan tell us about the periods that produced them and how have they been modernized to speak to contemporary audiences? By interrogating the manifestation of evil women, ghosts, satire, parody, and censorship, contributors such as Leonard Pronko, J. Thomas Rimer, Carol Sorgenfrei, Laurence Kominz explore these issues.
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional 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 Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre write by Samuel L. Leiter. This book was released on 2014-10-30. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre is the only dictionary that offers detailed comprehensive coverage of the most important terms, people, and plays in the four principal traditional Japanese theatrical forms—nō, kyōgen, bunraku, and kabuki—supplemented with individual historical essays on each form. This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each theatrical form in addition to: a chronology; introductory essay; appendixes; an extensive bibliography; over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important terms; brief biographies of the leading artists and writers; and plot summaries of significant plays. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Japanese theatre.
Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law
Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law - 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 Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law write by Derek Dunne. This book was released on 2016-04-12. Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.
Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33 - 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 Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33 write by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix. This book was released on 2014-12-15. Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theatre History Studies 2014, Volume 33, brings together an original collection of essays that explore a topic of growing interest--theatre and war.
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts - 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 Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts write by Ann C. Hall. This book was released on 2023-08-10. Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures. Arranged chronologically, this collection examines how ghosts represent political change in Athenian culture in three plays by Aeschylus; their function in traditional Japanese drama; the staging of the supernatural in the dramatic liturgy of the early Middle Ages; ghosts within the dramatic works of Middleton, George Peele, and Christopher Marlowe, and the technologies employed in the 18th and 19th centuries to represent the supernatural on stage. Coverage of the dramatic representation of ghosts in the 20th and 21st centuries includes studies of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Sarah Ruhl, Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, and the spectral imprint of Shakespeare's ghosts in the Irish drama of Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. The volume closes by examining three contemporary American indigenous plays by Anishinaabe author, Alanis King.
