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Theatre And Drama: The Art Of Paradox, Andrew Vorder Bruegge

Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Ph.D.

This is a textbook for THRT 210: Script Analysis at Winthrop University. The publisher has withdrawn the rights to reprint the text I have been using for several years That motivated me to create my own textbook. During 2014-15 I am working with a theatre major who took THRT 210 with me last year. She helped me with editing and writing of the content. I will use it with students in draft form the next time I teach the course and revise it and expand it until it is ready to offer to a publisher for national distribution.

Memory And Remembering: Sacred History And The York Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

'A Sort Of Buzzing' Queer Sound In David Malouf's Blood Relations, James Marland

James Grice Thomas Marland

No abstract provided.

The Cambridge Companion To African American Theatre, Harvey Young

Harvey Young

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Along the way, it chronicles the evolution of African American theatre and its engagement with the wider community, including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the 'New Negro' and 'Black Arts' movements. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights and actors whose efforts helped to fashion a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, and reveal the impact of African American theatre both within the United …

Reimaging A Raisin In The Sun: Four New Plays, Harvey Young

Harvey Young

n 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun energized the conversation about how Americans live together across lines of race and difference. In Reimagining “A Raisin in the Sun,” Rebecca Ann Rugg and Harvey Young bring together four contemporary plays—including 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Clybourne Park—that, in their engagement with Hansberry’s play, illuminate the tensions and anxieties that still surround neighborhood integration. Although the plays—Robert O’Hara’s Etiquette of Vigilance, Gloria Bond Clunie’s Living Green, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors, and Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park—are distinct from one another in terms of style and perspective on their predecessor, they commonly …

The Influence Of Lloyd Richards, Harvey Young

Harvey Young

No abstract provided.

Writing With Paint, Harvey Young

Harvey Young

No abstract provided.

“Estrategias Del Conocimiento Y La Red De Comunicación Desde La Misión De Moxos.”, Carlos-Urani Montiel

Carlos-Urani Montiel

El tema de este trabajo es la red de comunicación que operó entre las provincias europeas y americanas de la Compañía de Jesús hasta el momento de su expulsión. Una red de comunicación se describe por medio de los patrones de conexión que son creados por el flujo de mensajes entre sus usuarios a través del tiempo y del medio ambiente. Un mensaje es cualquier forma simbólica que pueda moverse de un punto a otro de la red, o que pueda ser interpretada, y así recreada, por sus miembros. Mi trabajo explora esta forma de comportamiento y de organización global …

Bullying In York’S Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Sheila White

Clifford Davidson

Lincoln's In Town (A Play), Robert Bray, Nancy Steele Brokaw

Robert Bray

The play was produced in Bloomington, Illinois, February 13-15, 2009, at the Bloomington Performing Arts Center as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.

The York Mysteries: Carnivalesque?, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

York Mysteries: Seeing And Listening, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Oskar Blumenthal And The Lessing Theater In Berlin, 1888-1904, William Grange

William Grange

OSKAR BLUMENTHAL (1852-1917) was Berlin’s most feared theatre critic in the early years of the new German Reich. He had the audacity of referring to Goethe as “an egghead” who had no understanding of what made plays effective for audiences, and in other critiques he ridiculed Kleist, Hebbel, and other “important” playwrights—prompting an adversary publicly to call him a “one-man lynch mob.” In the 1880s Blumenthal himself began writing plays, and he was so successful that many self-appointed cultural guardians accused him of damaging the German theatre beyond repair. His became the most frequently performed plays on any German stage …

Deliver Us From Evil: Essays On Symbolic Engagement In Early Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The focus of this book is on the reality of evil for medieval and Renaissance dramatists and their audiences. What propels the work beyond similar critiques is the author's insistence that evil is not an outmoded feature of past societies, but an active ingredient of contemporary life. Davidson fast forwards from distant times once described as "calamitous" to a century of far more violence and atrocity - our own twentieth and its overflow. While drawing on Kant to illuminate the kinds of evil portrayed in early drama through Marlowe and Shakespeare, Davidson refers to contemporary events that scream for an …

The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

History, Religion, And Violence: Cultural Contexts For Medieval And Renaissance Drama, Variorum Series, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Reprinted essays, except for “Marlowe, the Papacy, and Doctor Faustus.”

Rev. Of Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God: Social Relations And Symbolic Act In The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Gesture In Medieval Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Includes essay “Gesture in Medieval English Drama.”

The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Pamela King

Clifford Davidson

The Anxiety Of Power And Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Baptism, The Three Enemies, And T. S. Eliot, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.

Ersatz Comedy In The Third Reich, William Grange

William Grange

JOSEPH GOEBBELS and ALFRED ROSENBERG identified Jewish playwrights, especially those who wrote comedy, as “agents of the threatening anti-Western invasion. . . . With the help of nigger Americanism, Jews from the East brought hither by the Mongolian sources of Bolshevism” had polluted an ethnically pure German theatre. Goebbels attacked plays by Franz Arnold (1878-1960), Rudolf Bernauer (1880-1953) Julius Berstl (1893-1975) Bruno Frank (1887-1945), Carl Zuckmayer (1898-1977) and others of deploying “hyper-modern, bolshevistic, mollusk-like and neurasthenic aesthetics” on German audiences. Purging the German theatre of comic plays by Jews and other creators of “abusive and undesirable literature,” Goebbels, Rosenberg, and …

Some Observations On Violence In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Thomas Cranmer And The Vision Of Historical Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The Medieval Actor And The Antitheatrical Prejudice, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The Blondest Of The Blondes: National Socialist Paradigms For A New German Theatre, William Grange

William Grange

The National Socialists encountered little resistance in their campaign to demolish the German theatre and to reassemble it along revolutionary lines when they took over the reigns of political control in 1933. They had since 1925 promised to reform German cultural institutions upon assuming power, and high on their list of priorities was the wholesale extirpation of “bastardized mestizoism” in culture with the aid of a state bureaucracy. Their guide in that effort was a cultural theory resembling many other Nazi doctrines, because it was formulated to give the National Socialist German Workers' Party a patina of intellectual legitimacy. Adolf …

King Lear And The Crisis Of Belief, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rev. Of Peter Thomson, Shakespeare’S Professional Career, And Gamini Salgado, The Elizabethan Underworld, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Medieval Drama On The Continent Of Europe, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. of Comparative Drama, 27, No. 1 (Spring 1993)

Drama And The Classical Heritage: Comparative And Critical Essays, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe, Rand Johnson

Clifford Davidson

Articles reprinted from Comparative Drama.