The Pleasure Of The Play
DOWNLOAD
Download The Pleasure Of The Play PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Pleasure Of The Play book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Pleasure Of The Play
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bert O. States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Pleasure Of The Play written by Bert O. States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Performing Arts categories.
This witty, informed, and concise introduction to the principles of drama helps us to experience the pleasure of plays from Oedipus Rex to Endgame. Never losing sight of the interaction between play and spectator, Bert O. States provides a spirited view of works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Pinter, Brecht, Beckett, Stoppard, Churchill, and many others.
The Pleasure Of The Play
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bert O. States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Pleasure Of The Play written by Bert O. States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This witty, informed, and concise introduction to the principles of drama helps us to experience the pleasure of plays from Oedipus Rex to Endgame. Never losing sight of the interaction between play and spectator, Bert O. States provides a spirited view of works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Pinter, Brecht, Beckett, Stoppard, Churchill, and many others.
Play Anything
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ian Bogost
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Play Anything written by Ian Bogost and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Science categories.
How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.
Theatre As Voyeurism
DOWNLOAD
Author : G. Rodosthenous
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-16
Theatre As Voyeurism written by G. Rodosthenous and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-16 with Performing Arts categories.
Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre. This intriguing group of essays focuses on artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Ann Liv Young, Olivier Dubois and Punchdrunk.
The Pleasure Of A Play Acted
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Pleasure Of A Play Acted written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Five Plays For Pleasure
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jacobus Albertus Schoeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Five Plays For Pleasure written by Jacobus Albertus Schoeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with English drama categories.
The Pleasure Prescription
DOWNLOAD
Author : Paul Pearsall
language : en
Publisher: Hunter House
Release Date : 1996
The Pleasure Prescription written by Paul Pearsall and has been published by Hunter House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Medical categories.
Argues that the lack of joy in one's daily life is a more serious problem than stress, and suggests five steps for attaining a better and more rewarding balance in our lives.
Theatre Body And Pleasure
DOWNLOAD
Author : Simon Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Theatre Body And Pleasure written by Simon Shepherd and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Breaking new ground in the study of performance theory, this maverick and powerful project from renowned Renaissance scholar and queer theorist Simon Shepherd presents a unique take on theory and the physical reality of theatre. Examining a range of material, Theatre, Body, Pleasure addresses a significant gap in the literary and drama studies arenas and explores the interplay of bodily value, the art of bodies and the physical responses to that art. It explains first how the body makes meaning and carries value. Then it describes the relationships between time and space and body. The book’s features include: * large historical range, from medieval to postmodern * case studies offering close readings of written texts * examples of how to ‘read for the body’, exploring written text as a ‘discipline’ of the body * breadth of cultural reference, from stage plays through to dance culture * a range of theoretical approaches, including dance analysis and phenomenology Writing in accessible prose, Shepherd introduces new ways of analyzing dramatic text and has produced a book which is part theatre history, part dramatic criticism and part theatrical tour de force. Students of drama, theatre and performance studies and cultural studies will find this an absolute must read.
A Critique Of The Pleasure Principle A Play Written And Directed By Fiona Lawton
DOWNLOAD
Author : Fiona Lawton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
A Critique Of The Pleasure Principle A Play Written And Directed By Fiona Lawton written by Fiona Lawton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure
DOWNLOAD
Author : A. D. Nuttall
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-03-29
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure written by A. D. Nuttall and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A. D. Nuttall's wide-ranging, lively and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question. The 'classical' answer to the question is rooted in Aristotle and rests on the unreality of the tragic presentation: no one really dies; we are free to enjoy watching potentially horrible events controlled and disposed in majestic sequence by art. In the nineteenth century, Nietzsche dared to suggest that Greek tragedy is involved with darkness and unreason and Freud asserted that we are all, at the unconscious level, quite wicked enough to rejoice in death. But the problem persists: how can the conscious mind assent to such enjoyment? Strenuous bodily exercise is pleasurable. Could we, when we respond to a tragedy, be exercising our emotions, preparing for real grief and fear? King Lear actually destroys an expected majestic sequence. Might the pleasure of tragedy have more to do with possible truth than with 'splendid evasion'?