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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"theater history"”.
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A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America
<p>Gathering together episodes from American theater history, my dissertation focuses on the destabilizing identities and paradoxical resolutions of so-called "Indian" and slavery plays to address nineteenth-century melodrama's fundamental engagement with race. Melodrama is a spectacular form that …
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Jouko Turkan Teatterikorkeakoulun kauden yhteiskunnallinen kontekstuaalisuus vuosina 1982 - 1985
… thesis is the social contextuality of Finnish theater director, Jouko Turkka's (b. 1942) educational tenure in the Theater Academy of Finland 1982 1985. Jouko Turkka announced in the opening speech of his rectorship in 1982 that Finnish society had undergone a social shift into a new cultural …
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
This study analyzes history writing ranging from the chronicle history of Edward Hall and Polydore Vergil, the political histories of Thomas More and Francis Bacon, and the Protestant martyrology of John Foxe, to the canonical Shakespearean works and lesser-known dramas that comprised the history …
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Reproducing Women: Female Bodily Narratives and English Patriarchies, 1600--1660
"Chapters 4 and 5 broaden the socio-political ramifications of women's words and bodies by demonstrating how female bodily narratives are required to establish paternity and legitimacy, and thus help shape patriarchal authority at multiple social levels. In chapter 4, I study representations of …
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The Sublime Actor and the Poetics of Emotions: Agency, Affect, and the Theatrical Sublime
This dissertation traces the history of the theatrical sublime from classical, neoclassical, and British eighteenth-century texts and performances to identify the emergence of the sublime actor, a figure who demonstrates a crucial tension in affect theory and in understanding the individual …
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Corpses revealed: The staging of the theatrical corpse in early modern drama
<p>My dissertation examines the theatrical depiction of corpses as both stage-objects for theoretical speculation and as performance phenomena of the early modern English stage. Investigating popular drama on the London stage from 1587 -- 1683, I demonstrate that the performance of the dead body by …
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The Occult tradition in English Renaissance drama
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The Purchase of the Past: The Elizabethan Past and the uses of History in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… the Past: The Elizabethan past and the uses of history in eighteenth-century Britain” examines the place of the late sixteenth-century Elizabethan and Shakespearean pasts in eighteenth-century popular culture and politics. Through an analysis of five moments, three times at which Elizabeth and …
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Signaling Through the Flames: Theatre Fires and Disaster Sociology
… destructive and deadly fires in American theatre history: Richmond, Virginia in 1811, Brooklyn, New York in 1876, and Chicago, Illinois in 1903. Through the use of the theories of disaster sociology, “Signaling Through the Flames” positions disaster as an inherently theatrical process of …
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Finding the Voice of Lady MacBeth ---- Voice and text work for the contemporary actor through the rehearsal and performance of Macbeth (from Shakespeare).
A journey of contemporary Shakespeare explored from the timeless play of MacBeth, as an actor finds the voice of Lady MacBeth, through the text work, rehearsals, research and guidance of director James Slowiak.
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The Power of Space: The Acropolis, the Theatre of Dionysos, and Tragedy in the 5th Century BCE
This dissertation explores the effects of the shared space of the Theatre of Dionysos and the Acropolis during tragic performances in Athens during the 5th century BCE. The theatre's location on the south slope of the Acropolis allowed the Acropolis' depiction of Athenian power, I argue, to speak …
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Exploring ‘Zelmaneship’: Developing Queer Inwardness from Sidney to Stage
Zelmane the Amazon, a central character in Philip Sidney’s epic romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590), has often been studied for her transgressive gender and sexuality. Zelmane’s first words in the New Arcadia direct readers to look within, “Transform’d in show, but more transform’d in …
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Representing Childhood: The Social, Historical, and Theatrical Significance of the Child on Stage
… of the blank page that is central to each of history, childhood, and representation, I frame the represented child as the “playscript” of Western society.
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Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space
My dissertation examines how early modern metatheater enabled the Renaissance stage and its original audience to develop a complex and symbiotic relationship. Metatheater--by which I mean a particular mode of theatre, in which actors, playwrights, dramatic characters and/or (in particular) …
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Reading the Old Left in the Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and Beyond: in Joan Littlewood’s engagements with the 1960s
Based on archival research, recent Joan Littlewood centenary events and contemporary scholarship on the Theatre Workshop of Joan Littlewood and Ewan MacColl, this dissertation proposes to take sides with the radical class politics of the Old Left, or Communism, to read the legacy of …
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The performance-within, creative authenticity, and practical knowledge: linking theatre, film, and philosophy in the work of Ingmar Bergman
… this approach, a different and more intricate history for each film becomes available: a history of personnel, of practices, of aesthetics, and of ideas. Without the device of the performance-within, Bergman and many other filmmakers would have lost the expressive range and narrative diversity …
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