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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Theatre historiography"”.
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Embodied Performance As Queer Theatre Historiography: Translation, Gender, Identity, and Temporalities in Mikhail Kuzmin's The Dangerous Precaution
<p>The “World of Art” and “The Tower,” two groups of symbolist artists in St. Petersburg at the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, are often noted for their contributions to queer art in poetry, literature, and the visual arts. However, the theatrical record has yet to acknowledge the significant …
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Performing modern Korea in the U.S.: Korean immigrants' theatrical activities in California and Hawai'i during the first half of the twentieth century
… modern Korea. This dissertation asserts that theatre was promoted as essential in the building of the modern nation, particularly when providing affective experiences with modernity by incorporating Western cultural elements. By focusing on experiments in theatre genres with which Korean …
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Before Crenshaw: a historiographical look at intersectional identity in three twentieth-century American plays by Eaton, Grimké, and Treadwell
… texts using Thomas Postlewait’s model of theatre historiography. These plays were authored by twentieth century female playwrights who had similar intersectional lives as the leads discussed. Yuki, from the 1901 novel turned 1903 Broadway play <em>A Japanese Nightingale</em>, was crafted …
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En-gendering theatre in Eritrea : the roles and representations of women in the performing arts
… thesis is a first attempt at writing a modern theatre historiography of Eritrea, with emphasis on the roles and representations of women. It covers a period of some fifty years, from the late 1930s to 1991, the year of the country's de facto independence. The study is divided into three major …
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Tensions between abstraction and replication in early-twentieth-century design : Norman Bel Geddes' designs for Broadway's The Miracle
… a major contribution to American scenographic historiography with this revised account of Norman Bel Geddes’ set for Max Reinhardt’s 1924 Broadway production of The Miracle, a design theatre scholars have consistently used not only to define Geddes’ aesthetic “versatility,” but also as a prime …
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A time to speak : an integrative performance historiography of Archibald Macleish's panic and the fall of the city
"A Time to Speak": an integrative performance historiography of Archibald MacLeish's Panic and The Fall of the City examines two neglected plays, Panic (1935) and The Fall of the City (1937), by the American poet-playwright Archibald McLeish (1892-1982). Best known in studies of verse drama for his …
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A time to speak : an integrative performance historiography of Archibald Macleish's panic and the fall of the city
"A Time to Speak": an integrative performance historiography of Archibald MacLeish's Panic and The Fall of the City examines two neglected plays, Panic (1935) and The Fall of the City (1937), by the American poet-playwright Archibald McLeish (1892-1982). Best known in studies of verse drama for his …
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Understanding the dragon's theatre : an Anglophone historiography of Vietnamese theatre.
Anglophone scholarship on Vietnamese theatre has a complex history; its authors range from British and American explorers to current day Asian theatre scholars. The evolution of English-language scholarship on Vietnamese theatre is directly tied to the historical events experienced by these …