Filter by
Animal Acts: Performing Species Today
We all have an animal story—the pet we loved, the wild animal that captured our childhood imagination, the deer the neighbor hit while driving. While scientific breakthroughs in animal cognition, the effects of global climate change and dwindling animal habitats, and the exploding interdisciplinary field of animal studies have complicated things, such stories remain a part of how we tell the …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472901104
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 ANI a
Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacl
Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle moves across the landscape of European performance in late 20th and early 21st centuries, recounting performance in circulation across national borders and across the itinerant bodies of spectators who travel to meet performances that travel. Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle suggests spectating is a practice — an act of interpretation engaged in …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780615858968
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 SKA i
Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space
Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space explores how street theatre transforms industrial space into postindustrial space. Deindustrializing communities have increasingly turned to cultural projects to commemorate industrial heritage while simultaneously generating surplus value and jobs in a changing economy. Through analysis of French street theatre companies working out of …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526147288
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 CAL s
Stage women, 1900–50
Stage women, 1900–50 explores the many ways in which women conceptualised, constructed and participated in networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950. A timely volume full of original research, the book explores women’s complex negotiations of their agency over both their labour and public representation, and their use of personal and p…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526147271
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 GAL s
Wallenstein
By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller’s collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe.…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783742653
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 SCH w
Don Carlos Infante of Spain
Schiller’s Don Carlos, written ten years before his great Wallenstein trilogy, testifies to the young playwright’s growing power. First performed in 1787, it stands at the culmination of Schiller’s formative development as a dramatist and is the first play written in his characteristic iambic pentameter. Don Carlos plunges the audience into the dangerous political and personal struggles t…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783744480
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 SCH d
Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism
In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures such as minstrelsy and operetta a strain of high camp—a mode of engagement that relishes both the…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780822369356
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 780 KNA m
The Barter Theater Story: Love Made Visible
Published in 1982, The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible tells the colorful history of a remarkable American cultural institution. Opened by Robert Porterfield, a native Virginian, in 1933, the Barter Theatre offered the people of Abingdon, Virginia, and the surrounding area entertainment and a much-needed escape from their Depression-era working lives. It became the State Theatre of Virg…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781469638157
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 DAW b
Performing Hysteria: Images and Imaginations of Hysteria
Cross-disciplinary analysis of contemporary images and representations of hysteria We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender liberation, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and climate change, to name only a few. Against…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789461663139
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 PER p
Mozart'S 'La Clemenza Di Tito': a Reappraisal
"In the two centuries since Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito was first performed, and the almost three centuries since Metastasio created the libretto, many rumours, myths and prejudiced opinions have gathered around the work, creating a narrative that Mozart, Mazzolà and their contemporaries would scarcely recognise. The essays in this book contribute ideas, facts and images that will draw the …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789176350553
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 MOZ m
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography