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The Routledge Pantomime Reader
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Author : Jennifer Schacker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-30
The Routledge Pantomime Reader written by Jennifer Schacker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with Drama categories.
The Routledge Pantomime Reader is the first anthology to document this entertainment genre—one of the most distinctive and ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Britain. Across ten different shows, readers witness pantomime’s development from a highly improvisational venue for clowning, dance, and musical parody to a complex amalgamation of physical and topical comedy, stage wizardry, scenic spectacle, satire, and magical mayhem. Combining well-known tales such as "Cinderella", "Aladdin", and "Jack and the Beanstalk" with the lesser-known plotlines of "Peter Wilkins" and "The Prince of Happy Land", the book demonstrates not only how popular narratives were adapted to the current moment, but also how this blend of high and low entertainment addressed a whole range of social and cultural anxieties. Along with carefully annotated scripts, readers will find detailed introductions to all of the collected pantomimes and supplementary materials such as reviews, reminiscences, and a host of visual materials that bring these neglected entertainments to life. The plays collected here provide a remarkable perspective on the history of sexuality, class, and race during a period of vast imperial expansion and important social upheaval in Britain itself—essential reading for students and scholars of theatre history and popular performance.
Strolling Players Of Empire
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Author : Kathleen Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12
Strolling Players Of Empire written by Kathleen Wilson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12 with History categories.
Explores the politics of theatrical and social performance in the establishment of eighteenth-century British imperial rule.
The Routledge Companion To English Folk Performance
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Author : Peter Harrop
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-12
The Routledge Companion To English Folk Performance written by Peter Harrop and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with Performing Arts categories.
This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance – custom and tradition – in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.
Specters Of The Marvelous
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Author : Kimberly J. Lau
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2024-12-10
Specters Of The Marvelous written by Kimberly J. Lau and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Here, Lau provides a new framework for understanding European fairy tales in the milieux in which they were created, bringing distant and ethereal worlds back to earth.
Fairy Tale Revivals In The Long Nineteenth Century
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Author : Abigail Heiniger
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-12
Fairy Tale Revivals In The Long Nineteenth Century written by Abigail Heiniger and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White, with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair, are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales, so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt, Jessie Fauset, Julia Kavanaugh, George Edwards, some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs, and the earliest work of Sinèad de Valera, as well as fin-de-siècle illustrators such as Harry Clarke, and collected oral tales.
Movie Acting The Film Reader
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Author : Pamela Robertson Wojcik
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Movie Acting The Film Reader written by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Combining classic and recent essays and examining key issues such Movie Acting, the Film Reader explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting.
The Lost Princess
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Author : Anne E. Duggan
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2023-09-12
The Lost Princess written by Anne E. Duggan and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Once upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script. People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often drew inspiration—notably Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. In these portrayals, the princess is a passive, compliant figure. By contrast, The Lost Princess shows that classic fairy tales such as “Cinderella,” “Rapunzel,” and “Beauty and the Beast” have a much richer, more complex history than Disney’s saccharine depictions. Anne E. Duggan recovers the voices of women writers such as Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier, and Charlotte-Rose de La Force, who penned popular tales about ogre-killing, pregnant, cross-dressing, dynamic heroines who saved the day. This new history will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about the lost, plucky heroines of historic fairy tales.
The Visual Life Of Romantic Theater 1780 1830
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Author : Diane Piccitto
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2023-05-24
The Visual Life Of Romantic Theater 1780 1830 written by Diane Piccitto and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the stage
Routledge S Every Boy S Annual
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language : en
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Routledge S Every Boy S Annual written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Pantomime
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Author : Karl Toepfer
language : en
Publisher: Vosuri Media
Release Date : 2019-08-19
Pantomime written by Karl Toepfer and has been published by Vosuri Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-19 with Performing Arts categories.
This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.