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Hardcover. An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as 'chanson,' 'phantasime,' or 'quaestor,' many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. This title aims to untie those tongues and help those who speak Shakespeare's language with ease. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: ANC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226491158
- ISBN
- 9780226491158
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.85€ 78.49
€ 94.85
€ 78.49
Paperback. In the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums - many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. This work prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; HBTB; MBPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226709642
- ISBN
- 9780226709642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. In this journey into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, the text explores the physical aspects of human speech (ears, lungs, tongue) and the surrounding environment (buildings, landscape, climate), as well as social and political structures. Num Pages: 392 pages, 32 halftones, 2 tables, 25 musical notations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226763774
- ISBN
- 9780226763774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.06
€ 47.99
€ 37.06
Hardback. This study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial strategies for "self-fashioning" and the playwrights' intellectual, social, and institutional contexts, using research in original sources and analysis of the contentious historiography and competing analytic contructs in cultural theory and criticism. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 387
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231124607
- ISBN
- 9780231124607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.63€ 61.86
€ 80.63
€ 61.86
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 576 pages, 27 black-and-white photos. BIC Classification: AN; AP; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 924. Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935. Series: Film and Culture Series. 576 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AN; AP; BGF. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 40. Weight: 924.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231159043
- ISBN
- 9780231159043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.08€ 83.28
€ 109.08
€ 83.28
Hardback. Focusing on institutional history, this book explores the Pekin Theater's philosophy of hiring only African American staff, its embrace of multi-racial upper class audiences, and its ready assumption of roles as diverse as community center, social club, and fundraising instrument. Series: New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 black and white photographs, 15 musical examples, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AN; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038365
- ISBN
- 9780252038365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222053
- ISBN
- 9780253222053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Paperback. Examines how theatre - which expressed a political dynamic both in the Renaissance and the twentieth century - lays open the impulses that instigated modernity and, ultimately, unparalleled levels of violence and destruction. This book traces the emergence of an unrestrained pursuit of power and the utopian desire for perfection. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: AN; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022952
- ISBN
- 9780268022952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. A classic guide to dramatic writing now revised and expanded for a new generation of playwrights and screenwriters Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: AN; CBV; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300107241
- ISBN
- 9780300107241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.64
€ 30.99
€ 22.64
Hardback. During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, 'whore', celebrity, muse, and creative agent. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 85 b&w illustrations and 50 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135442
- ISBN
- 9780300135442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 42.00
€ 53.36
€ 42.00
Hardback. A lavishly illustrated celebration of the fifty-year history of the most influential theatrical organization in America, the O'Neill Theater Center Num Pages: 320 pages, 250 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; 3JJ; 3JM; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 225 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300195576
- ISBN
- 9780300195576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.03
€ 63.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: ANC; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520071940
- ISBN
- 9780520071940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.19
€ 38.99
€ 28.19
Hardback. What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? This title explores this question. Num Pages: 312 pages, 68 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251861
- ISBN
- 9780520251861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.86€ 64.67
€ 83.86
€ 64.67
Paperback. An account of the cultural history of English drama, it shows how the character of a given theatrical 'age' contains contradictions and is uneven in development. It offers chapters on Medieval Theatre, Renaissance Drama, Restoration Comedy, Melodrama, and Naturalism. It concludes with accounts of post-War British Theatre and the State. Num Pages: 424 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631199380
- ISBN
- 9780631199380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Paperback. Offers a history of Japanese theatre. From ancient folk and ritual performances to modern dance theatre, this book provides summaries about each major theatrical form, situating the genre in its particular social, political, and cultural contexts and integrating a vast array of detail on such topics as staging, costuming, and more. Num Pages: 432 pages, 32 pages of b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691043333
- ISBN
- 9780691043333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.06€ 46.46
€ 59.06
€ 46.46
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; AN; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564. Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. 280 pages, 42 halftones. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; AN; HBJD; HBLH. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight: 564.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801445606
- ISBN
- 9780801445606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.30
€ 92.30
Paperback. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society. Editor(s): Lewis, Robert M. Num Pages: 400 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887482
- ISBN
- 9780801887482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.86
€ 46.99
€ 38.86
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734141
- ISBN
- 9780804734141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.35
€ 91.35
Hardback. This book investigates the discursive practices of philosophy and theater/performance on the basis of actual encounters between representatives of these two fields. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763493
- ISBN
- 9780804763493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.34
€ 138.34
Paperback. This book investigates the discursive practices of philosophy and theater/performance on the basis of actual encounters between representatives of these two fields. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763509
- ISBN
- 9780804763509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; AN; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240245
- ISBN
- 9780812240245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.26
€ 76.26
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814724620
- ISBN
- 9780814724620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.70
€ 33.99
€ 30.70
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814725450
- ISBN
- 9780814725450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.31
€ 29.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816638130
- ISBN
- 9780816638130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29