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Voulant donner à voir, sur la scène, "cette vie mystérieuse, joyeuse et superbement aboutie que l'on appelle la Mort", Edward Gordon Craig propose en 1907 de remplacer le comédien de chair et de sang par son double artificiel, la Surmarionnette. Près de soixante-dix ans plus tard, le mannequin en compagnie duquel Tadeusz Kantor fait entrer l'acteur vivant sur la scène vient nous rappeler que le théâtre prend sa source dans les territoires de la mort. Nombreux sont, aujourd'hui, les artistes qui se ressaisissent de ce double héritage, repoussant les limites du théâtre d'acteurs et du théâtre de marionnettes pour explorer les relations entre corps biologique et corps artificiel, représentation de la mort et représentation du vivant. Ce volume rassemble les actes d'un colloque international organisé par l'Institut International de la Marionnette du 15 au 17 mars 2012, et qui a réuni des spécialistes, des universitaires et des artistes venus du monde entier. A travers la diversité des créateurs évoqués (d'Oskar Schlemmer à Gisèle Vienne, de Maurice Maeterlinck à Bérangère Vantusso, de Romeo Castellucci à Kris Verdonck, de Virgilio Sieni à David Girondin-Moab ou Oriza Hirata), la fascination pour un théâtre d'effigies, où les signes de la vie et de la mort se redistribuent, est ainsi examinée dans ses développements les plus récents, d'un point de vue esthétique, poétique, philosophique ou anthropologique.

Kantor, Tadeusz --- Craig, Edward G. --- Puppets --- Marionnettes --- Puppet theater - History

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As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of the theatre community. She has also played a major role in informing Canadians about the "dark side" of their history and current events. This collection, comprised entirely of new and original assessments of her work and contribution to theatre, is both timely and long overdue. Includes a new play titled "Sharon's Tongue" by the Playing with Pollock CollectiveWith contributions by:Kathy K. Y. ChungDonna CoatesCarmen DerksenSherrill GraceMartin MorrowJeton NezirajWes PearceTanya SchaapShelley ScottJerry WassermanJason WeinsCynthia Zimmerman.

Pollock, Sharon --- Criticism and interpretation. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.

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‘Terence Rattigan was among the most successful British playwrights of the modern era – a master of comedy as well as tragedy. He is so incredibly good it should come as no surprise that a significant revival has been underway for some time. In fact, Rattigan has been slowly achieving a permanent place of esteem in the essential repertoire of twentieth century dramatists. And that place will be bolstered by this brilliant comprehensive study of the playwright’s art by John A. Bertolini. His book is a pleasure to read: elegantly written, persistently intelligent, and lucid, and it does exactly what it promises: makes a case for Rattigan.’ - Jay Parini, D.E.Axinn Professor of English, Middlebury College, USA This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan’s dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement. By discussing every play in chronological order, the book also articulates the trajectory of Rattigan’s darkening vision of the human potential for happiness from his earlier comedies through his final plays in which death appears as a longed for peace. New here is the exploration through close analysis of Rattigan’s style of writing dialogue and speeches, and how that style expresses Rattigan’s sense of life. Likewise, the book newly examines how Rattigan draws on sources in Greek and Roman history, literature, and myth, as well as how he invites comparison with the work of other playwrights, especially Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare. It will appeal broadly to college and university students studying dramatic literature, but also and especially to actors and directors, and the play-going, play-reading public.

Culture --- Ethnology --- Theater --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Theatre History. --- British Culture. --- Study and teaching. --- Europe. --- History. --- Rattigan, Terence. --- Cultural studies --- Theater-History. --- Ethnology-Europe. --- Theater—History. --- Ethnology—Europe.

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The theo-political idea of covenant—a sacred binding agreement—formalizes relationships and inaugurates politics in the Hebrew Bible, and it was the most significant revolutionary idea to come out of the Protestant Reformation. Central to sixteenth-century theology, covenant became the cornerstone of the seventeenth-century English Commonweath, evidenced by Parliament’s passage of the Protestation Oath in 1641 which was the “first national covenant against popery and arbitrary government,” followed by the Solemn League and Covenant in 1643. Although there are plenty of books on Shakespeare and religion and Shakespeare and the Bible, no recent critics have recognized how Shakespeare’s plays popularized and spread the covenant idea, making it available for the modern project. By seeding the plays with allusions to biblical covenant stories, Shakespeare not only lends ethical weight to secular lives but develops covenant as the core idea in a civil religion or a founding myth of the early-modern political community, writ small (family and friendship) and large (business and state). Playhouse relationships, especially those between actors and audiences, were also understood through the covenant model, which lent ethical shading to the convention of direct address. Revealing covenant as the biblical beating heart of Shakespeare’s drama, this book helps to explain how the plays provide a smooth transition into secular society based on the idea of social contract. .

Shakespeare, William, --- Šekspir, Vil'jam --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bible --- In literature. --- Literature, Modern. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. --- Theater-History. --- Shakespeare. --- Theatre History. --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Theater—History.