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Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre
The research project “Performing Interspaces: Social Fluidities in Contemporary Theatre”, whose primary output is this monograph, began as an imperative to account for spaces that are awkward, evade attention, or, when they receive it, rarely do so because they produce feelings of desirability, warmth, or contentment. These spaces are sometimes fixed and others mobile, but always,…
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- 9783031548925
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- XIV, 304
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European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire: Personal Experiences, Transna…
This open access volume explores the crucial yet insufficiently addressed phenomenon of European theatre migration in the long nineteenth century. It argues that theatre migration went far beyond the popular phenomenon of touring, significantly shaping the historical discourse on theatre and mobility. The hidden and multifaceted histories of European theatre migration that this book seeks to ex…
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- 9783031698361
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The Exhibitor as Producer = Stage Prologues in American Movie Theatres, 1917-…
This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would come to define prologues? How widespread did they become not only in metropolitan …
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- 9783031717819
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- XVII, 199 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Aussprachenormen für das Sprechen und Singen auf der Bühne im 19. Jahrhundert
Ulrich Thilo Hoffmann hat Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik in Halle/S. studiert. In den Kunst- und Forschungsprojekten Wagner-Lesarten und The Wagner Cycles berät er Künstler während der Probenprozesse zur Gesangsaussprache in den Werken Richard Wagners. Bis 2023 war er an der Entwicklung der Deutschen Aussprachedatenbank der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg beteiligt. Als freibe…
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- 978-3-7329-8902-7
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- 262
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- Schriften zur Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik
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Performing Citizenship
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investi…
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- 978-3-319-97502-3
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- Performance Philosophy
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- XII, 318
Cultural Convergence : The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objecti…
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- 978-3-030-57564-9
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Stage women, 1900–50: Female theatre workers and professional practice
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…
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- 9781526147271
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- 328
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- 792.01 GAL s
A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
This introduces and abridges the syntactical features of the original language of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Scholars have made significant progress in recent decades in understanding Biblical Hebrew syntax. Yet intermediate readers seldom have access to this progress due to the technical jargon and sometimes-obscure locations of the scholarly publications. This Guide is an intermediate…
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- 9780511610899
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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) Goeth…
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- 9781783742639
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Resetting the Stage Public Theatre Between the Market and Democracy
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption—as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it has never been more important for public theatre to demonstrate its continued merit. In Resetting the Stage…
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- 9781783200481
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