Tag: Drama

Free Download The Drama Free Workbook: Practical Exercises for Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YG3ZKC | 2024 | 2 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Nedra Glover Tawwab
Narrator: Nedra Glover Tawwab

Free Download by Paul Hammond, "Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire "
English | ISBN: 9004467017 | 2021 | 388 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The book discusses plays from classical Greece to neo-classical France.

Free Download Alexandra Hardwick, "Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama "
English | ISBN: 0198887221 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB | 616 KB
Despite the crucial roles they often play, no study yet compares the off-stage assemblies, armies, and populations found in surviving Athenian dramatic works. Covering fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy, Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how off-stage groups influence and respond to events on stage, and how characters interact with these groups. Drama exploits these groups’ off-stage nature by depicting them through different characters’ viewpoints: characters often struggle to define, predict, or control off-stage groups, which obscures and challenges the audience’s ability to interpret them. The interaction between multivalent and sometimes contradictory narratives of off-stage groups demands a new interpretive framework. Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama provides this framework, offering new readings of several prominent comedies and tragedies. However, the importance of this framework extends beyond drama. The first chapter surveys depictions of group decision-making in fifth-century prose, in order to demonstrate how Athenian drama responds to prose depictions of group psychology. Athenian drama engages with the early ideas of group psychology circulating in fifth- and early fourth-century Athens; it creates fictive worlds where stereotypical depictions of collective emotion can be probed, explored and taken to their logical extremes. Studying off-stage groups therefore allows us to rethink our understanding of narrative, politics, and social psychology in drama, and the ways in which these fields intersect.

Free Download Aslı Tekinay, "A Holistic Perspective on Harold Pinter’s Drama"
English | ISBN: 1527551628 | 2023 | 139 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book provides a holistic approach to Harold Pinter’s plays, from his first play, The Room (1957), to his last play, Celebration (1999). The book is divided into three chapters, organized thematically. The first chapter discusses the early plays―the so-called comedies of menace―concerning the central tropes of secluded settings, intrusion from the outside, and disintegration of the self. The next chapter analyzes Pinter’s memory plays, concentrating on how characters shelter themselves from intrusions through silences and lies. The third chapter examines power games and abuse of power in political plays. The book contributes to the field of Pinter studies by pursuing the thematic, linguistic, and formal elements integral to his aesthetic productions, and delineates the properties that serve as constants in Pinter’s dramatic oeuvre, thus justifying the term Pinteresque: pauses and silences, subtext, anxiety, violence, menace, vulnerability, victimization, intrusion, and power games. The discussions highlight the presence of a solid foundation for his drama―such as his conviction that the past is in the present―and connect all the plays to one another.

Free Download A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama By Alison Findlay
1999 | 214 Pages | ISBN: 0631205098 | PDF | 48 MB
We know that women made up a significant part of Renaissance theater audiences but how might they have read the plays presented there?’Feminism’s impulse is often, not surprisingly, co make a celebratoryidentification with a rush of women onto the historical stage,’ writes DeniseRiley. L like other feminist critics working on the Renaissance, I am awareof the dangers of eliminating cultural differences between women of thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries and ourselves, yet the desire to uncovera ‘rush of women onto the historical stage’ is still a pressing one. Thehistories we write of the Renaissance shape the way we think now, what ispossible, what is important co know, and how knowledge about the past isconstructed. In the case of English Renaissance drama, though, identificationwith char ‘rush of women’ onto the commercial stage is nor possible. Inprofessional theater companies the actors were all male, nor by law but bya custom which was peculiar co the British Isles.2 Playwrights for thesecompanies were also male: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Marlowe,Webster, Ford, to name the most famous. Women dramatizes and performersdid find ocher arenas in which to stage themselves; some eveninherited shares in commercial theaters. 3 Nevertheless, the names ofprofessional companies like the Admiral’s Men or the lord Chamberlain’sMen indicate all too clearly that drama was written and presented by men,or by boys in the case of the children’s companies.

Free Download Television Drama in Contemporary China: Political, Social and Cultural Phenomena By Shenshen Cai
2016 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 1138645788 | PDF | 2 MB
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream ideology, and they also offer a rich area of research by providing insight into the changing Chinese political, social and cultural context.This book examines a group of recently released TV drama serials in China which focus upon, and to various degrees represent, topical political, social and cultural phenomena. Some of the selected TV serials reflect the present ideological proclivities of the Chinese government, whilst others mirror social and cultural occurrences or provide coded and thought-provoking messages on China’s socio-economic and political reality. Through in-depth textual analysis of the Descriptions, scenes and characters of these selected TV serials, the book provides timely interpretations of contemporary Chinese society, its political inclinations, social fashions and cultural tendencies. The book also demonstrates how popular media narratives of TV drama serials engage with sensitive civic issues and cultural phenomena of modern-day China, which in turn encourages a broader social imagination and potential for change.Advancing our understanding of contemporary China, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Chinese culture, society and politics, as well as those with research interests in television studies more generally.

Free Download Stephen Mansfield, "Killing Jesus: The Hidden Drama Behind the World’s Most Famous Execution"
English | 2013 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1617951870, 1617952338 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
TORTURE – INFANTICIDE – BRUTALITY – MURDER

Free Download Patrick J. Ebewo, "Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance"
English | ISBN: 1443898694 | 2017 | 267 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In spite of the rich repertoire of artistic traditions in Southern Africa, particularly in the areas of drama, theatre and performance, there seems to be a lack of a corresponding robust academic engagement with these subjects. While it can be said that some of the racial groups in the region have received substantial attention in terms of scholarly discussions of their drama and theatre performances, the same cannot be said of the black African racial group. As such, this collection of thirteen chapters represents a compendium of critical and intellectual discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered in the book include, amongst others, ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, textual analyses, and the funeral rites (viewed as performance) of the South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela. The discussions are rooted mainly using African paradigms that are relevant to the context of African cultural production. The contributions here add to the aggregate knowledge economy of Southern Africa, promote research and publication, and provide reading materials for university students specialising in the performing arts. As such, the book will appeal to academics, theatre scholars, cultural workers and arts administrators, arts practitioners and entrepreneurs, the tourism industry, arts educators, and development communication experts.

Free Download Pragmatic Approaches to Drama: Studies in Communication on the Ancient Stage
by Gunther Martin, Federica Iurescia
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9004440194 | 512 Pages | True PDF | 3.38 MB

Free Download Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer, Aleks Sierz, "The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights (Guides to Contemporary Drama)"
English | 2011 | pages: 546 | ISBN: 1408122782 | EPUB | 2,3 mb
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama.