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Untimely deaths in Renaissance drama : biography, history, catastrophe
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ISBN: 9781487518028 9781487503482 9781487518035 1487518021 148751803X 1487503482 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press

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"In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologers, and philosophers. In the welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in their frequently conflicting variety. To explore this field of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Death in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically-minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of lives and deaths, this book draws on the wider context of the period's culture of history writing."--

Great directors at work
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ISBN: 128235535X 9786612355356 0520908570 9780520908574 9781282355354 6612355352 0520046013 9780520046016 0520061748 9780520061743 Year: 1986 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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The subject of this book is theatre directing in four internationally famous instances. The four directors-Konstantin Stanislavsky, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and Peter Brook-all were monarchs of the profession in their time. Without their work, theatre in the twentieth century-so often called ";the century of the director"; -would have a radically different shape and meaning. The four men are also among the dozen or so modern directors whose theatrical achievements have become culture phenomena. In histories, theories, hagiographies, and polemics, these directors are conferred classic stature, as are the four plays on which they worked. Chekhov's The Seagull, Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, and Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire have long been recognized, in the theatre and in the study, as masterpieces. They are anthologized, "ed, taught, parodied, read, and produced constantly and globally. The culturally conservative might question the presence of MaratiSade in such august company, but Peter Weiss's play stands every chance of figuring in Western repertories, classroom study, and theatrical histories until well into the twenty-first century. In their quite different ways, these are all classics of that Western drama which is part of our immediate heritage.

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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts. --- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. --- Brook, Peter. --- Chaika. --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. --- Kazan, Elia. --- Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder. --- Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 1863-1938. --- Streetcar named Desire. --- Theater - Production and direction. --- Theater -- Production and direction. --- Theatrical producers and directors - Biography. --- Theatrical producers and directors -- Biography. --- Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats. --- Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982. --- Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. --- Stanislavsky, Konstantin, --- Brecht, Bertolt, --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Williams, Tennessee, --- Weiss, Peter, --- Previn, André, --- Чехов, Антон Павлович, --- ברוק, פיטר --- Kazanjoglou, Elias --- كازان، اليا --- Brecht, Berthold Friedrich --- Brecht, Bertolt. --- Brecht, Bertholt --- Brecht, Bert --- Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich --- Станиславский, Константин, --- Alekseev, Konstantin Sergeevich, --- Alekseyev, Konstantin Sergeyevich, --- Aleksi︠e︡ev, Konstantin Sergi︠e︡evich, --- Alexeiev, Constantin Sergeievich, --- Alexeyev, Konstantin Sergeyevich, --- Sitanni, --- Sitannisilafusiji, --- Stānīslāfskī, Kūnstāntīn, --- Stanislavski, Constantin, --- Stanislavski, K. S., --- Stanislavskiĭ, K. S. --- Stanislavskiĭ, Konstantin Sergeevich, --- Stanislavskij, K. S., --- Stanislavskij, Konstantin, --- Stan̦islavskis, K. S., --- Stanislavsky, --- Stanislavsky, Constantin, --- Stanislawski, --- Stanislawski, K. S., --- Stanislawskij, Konstantin Sergejewitsch, --- Sŭtʻanisŭllabŭsŭkʻi, --- Sutanisurafusukii, Konsutanchin Serugeievitchi, --- Алексеев, Константин Сергеевич, --- Алексѣев, Константин Сергѣевич, --- Станиславский, К. С. --- סטניסלבסקי, ק. ס., --- Knowledge --- Performing arts. --- 20th century. --- anton chekhov. --- auteur. --- bertolt brecht. --- cinema history. --- cinema studies. --- contemporary film. --- contemporary theatre. --- culture. --- directing plays. --- directing. --- director. --- drama. --- elia kazan. --- famous directors. --- film history. --- film making. --- filmmaking. --- history of cinema. --- history of film. --- history of theatre. --- konstantin stanislavsky. --- modern film. --- modern plays. --- modern theatre. --- mother courage. --- peter brook. --- plays. --- playwright. --- stage director. --- stage productions. --- stage. --- streetcar named desire. --- theatre directing. --- theatre. --- theatrical.

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