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Author: Marvin Lachman Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786495340 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 265
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Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely unexplored. Covering productions from the 18th century to the 2013-2014 theatre season, this is the first history of crime plays according to subject matter. More than 20 categories are identified, including whodunits, comic mysteries, courtroom dramas, musicals, crook plays, social issues, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie. Nearly 900 plays are described, including the reactions of critics and audiences.
Author: Marvin Lachman Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786495340 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely unexplored. Covering productions from the 18th century to the 2013-2014 theatre season, this is the first history of crime plays according to subject matter. More than 20 categories are identified, including whodunits, comic mysteries, courtroom dramas, musicals, crook plays, social issues, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie. Nearly 900 plays are described, including the reactions of critics and audiences.
Author: Janet Clare Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107729564 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 320
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Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and competitive theatrical trade of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She demonstrates how Shakespeare worked with materials which had already entered the dramatic tradition, and how, in the spirit of Renaissance theory, he moulded and converted them to his own use. The book challenges the critical stance that views the Shakespeare canon as essentially self-contained, moves beyond the limitations of generic studies and argues for a more conjoined critical study of early modern plays. Each chapter focuses on specific plays and examines the networks of influence, exchange and competition which characterised stage traffic between playwrights, including Marlowe, Jonson and Fletcher. Overall, the book addresses multiple perspectives relating to authorship and text, performance and reception.
Author: Francesca Saggini Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317319508 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 263
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In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.
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A groundbreaking collection of original essays, Stages of Reality establishes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between stage and screen media. This comprehensive volume explores the significance of theatricality within critical discourse about cinema and television. Stages of Reality connects the theory and practice of cinematic theatricality through conceptual analyses and close readings of films including The Matrix and There Will be Blood. Contributors illuminate how this mode of address disrupts expectations surrounding cinematic form and content, evaluating strategies such as ostentatious performances, formal stagings, fragmentary montages, and methods of dialogue delivery and movement. Detailing connections between cinematic artifice and topics such as politics, gender, and genre, Stages of Reality allows readers to develop a clear sense of the multiple purposes and uses of theatricality in film.
Author: John W. Frick Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137566450 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 308
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No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.
Author: Amnon Kabatchnik Publisher: BearManor Media ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 635
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While many books have been published about courtroom fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage courtrooms has been largely ignored. This endeavor aims to fill the void. More than fifty plays are scrutinized and analyzed. The first stage trial on record appears in The Danaid Tetralogy (463 B.C.) by Aeschylus, in which 49 young women are accused of murdering their grooms, their cousins, on their wedding night to avoid incestuous marriage. In Aeschylus's The Oresteia (458 B.C.), the accused, Orestes, had slashed his mother's throat for killing her husband -- his father. The god Apollo serves as the defense attorney while the Furies, ancient Greek's divinities of retribution, perform as the prosecutors. In the Middle Ages, between 1450 and 1500, anonymous playwrights wrote trial dramas about Joseph and Mary, Pilate and Herod, and women accused of adultery. In the Elizabethan era, England's royal courts inflicted justice in the plays of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson. Spanish theater presented trial scenes in dramas by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Pedro Calderón. The French were not far behind with Le Cid (1637 by Pierre Corneille, The Litigants (1668) by Jean Racine, and Socrates (1760) by Voltaire. America joined the fray with plays by William Dunlap, Germany with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, England with Lord Byron, and Russia with Nikolai Gogol. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Europe was flooded with trial plays. Notable were Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse (Russia, 1900), Alexander Bisson's Madame X (France, 1908), and John Galsworthy's Justice (England, 1910). The strand continued with playwrights of the main stream penning dramas populated with judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, witnesses, and the accused, often charged with murder in the first degree. Veteran mystery writers Gaston Leroux, Edgar Wallace, and Agatha Christie mixed their ink with blood when concocting courtroom melodramas. Some creatures of the night, supernatural (Dracula, the Werewolf) and real-life (Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper), found themselves entangled with the law. The best-known musicals that incorporated trial scenes include Can Can (1953), Chicago (1975), Sweeney Todd (1979), Les Miserables (1985), and Ragtime (1997). The entries are presented chronologically. Each includes a plot synopsis, production data, opinions by critics and scholars, as well as biographical sketches of playwrights and key actors-directors. Volume 1 of 2. Amnon Kabatchnik, now retired, was a professor of theater at SUNY Binghamton, Stanford University, Ohio State University, Florida State University, and Elmira College. He directed numerous dramas, comedies, thrillers, and musicals in New York and across the United States. He is the author of Sherlock Holmes on the Stage as well as the seven-volume series Blood on the Stage.
Author: Robert Gordon Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190909757 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 1001
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The stage musical constitutes a major industry not only in the US and the UK, but in many regions of the world. Over the last four decades many countries have developed their own musical theatre industries, not only by importing hit shows from Broadway and London but also by establishing or reviving local traditions of musical theatre. In response to the rapid growth of musical theatre as a global phenomenon, The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical presents new scholarly approaches to issues arising from these new international markets. The volume examines the stage musical from theoretical and empirical perspectives including concepts of globalization and consumer culture, performance and musicological analysis, historical and cultural studies, media studies, notions of interculturalism and hybridity, gender studies, and international politics. The thirty-three essays investigate major aspects of the global musical, such as the dominance of Western colonialism in its early production and dissemination, racism and sexism--both in representation and in the industry itself--as well as current conflicts between global and local interests in postmodern cultures. Featuring contributors from seventeen countries, the essays offer informed insider perspectives that reflect the diversity of the subject and offer in-depth examinations of specific cultural and economic systems. Together, they conduct penetrating comparative analysis of musical theatre in different contexts as well as a survey of the transcultural spread of musicals.
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