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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Historical drama"”.
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Beyond totalitarian nostalgia: a critical urban reception study of historical drama on contemporary Chinese television
From the mid-1990s a wave of dramatic serials featuring the legendary figures of China’s bygone dynasties has emerged in dramatic programming on Chinese primetime television. The commercialization of mass media and the rise of media consumerism in China since the early 1990s have fostered the …
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Tennyson's Historical Dramas
… fame as a lyric poet, that he began to publish dramas. In the Memoir by his son1 is found the statement that he wrote dramas as a boy of fourteen. Considerable Interest in things dramatic may be seen in a number of his poems. He enjoyed searching into causes and effects of historical and social …
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Consummatum est: The end of the word in Geoffrey Hill's poetry
… use of archival material. It steps beyond the ‘historical drama’ of language depicted in Matthew Sperling’s Visionary Philology (2014) and Alex Pestell’s Geoffrey Hill: The Drama of Reason (2016) and asserts that the drama in Hill’s poetry, seeking to transcend history, is constantly related to …
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Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaient
… that he had originally envisioned this work as a historical drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several versions and fragments of the play—from the manuscript to its last authorial instantiation in OEuvres Complètes in 1976—in order to shed light on the …
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Performing the national past: history on stage in imperial Russia
… closely examines 18th- and 19th-century Russian historical dramas set in the Time of Troubles, which was the era of dynastic crisis and the first civil war in Russian history during 1598-1613. The project demonstrates that this subgenre was essential for the development of modern theatre in …
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Towards the haptic encounter: investigating and theorising a strategy for writing a web-series screenplay, prioritising the sensory
… of writing a web series specifically for the historical genre. This research intends to re-frame and reposition characters and stories overlooked by dominant storytelling viewpoints. It considers how the haptic encounter in developing the web series screenplays may offer a more intimate …
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The Paris Commune on the stage: Vallès, Grieg, Brecht, Adamov, a comparative study about the representation of historical reality in modern theatre
… present study is a comparative analysis of four dramas, all dealing with the same topic, namely the historical events known as the Paris Commune of 1871. Two of the plays were written in French, one in German and one in Norwegian. The first, Jules Vallès’ <em>La Commune de Paris</em>, is dated …
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
… proved to be a major feature in modern British drama, where in a short period of time, the theatre has witnessed a host of iconoclastic dramatists, where demythologization has been widespread and fierce and where the icons of the present and the past have been subjected to a wholesale …