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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"dramatic criticism"”.
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Beyond Playthings: Materiality and Embodiment on the Modern Stage
… contingency of bodied subjects. Drawing on dramatic criticism, performance histories, archival sources, and critical theories of materiality, the thesis presents in-depth case studies focussed on three influential dramatists: Samuel Beckett, David Storey, and Adrienne Kennedy. United by …
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Staging Intervention: Native Women, Decolonization, and the American Theatre
… national identity in American drama, mainstream dramatic criticism in America continues to read the representation of American Indians in American theatre as either ""sympathetic"" or villainous and to assign measures of value to these polarized definitions, reifying a popularly believed good …
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A quantitative analysis of theater criticism in four American newspapers.
… to determine whether the amount of theater criticism has changed as the newspaper industry has declined. Instead of an across-the-board change over time, however, the trends were observed to vary by newspaper, while the overall quantity of theater criticism in the observed newspapers has …
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The unities of time and place in sixteenth-century theater and criticism
… and place and their metamorphosis in theater and criticism over the course of the sixteenth century in Italy, Spain, France, and England—the only countries during that period to develop a viable tradition of vernacular drama comparable to that of the Greeks and Romans. The paper as a whole, then, …
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
Tony Kushner's two-part play Angels in America uses stereotypical depictions of gay men to deconstruct traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the …