Tag: Dramatic

Free Download The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09GW91SN8 | 2021 | 11 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 339 MB
Author: Edward Shawcross
Narrator: Gustavo Rex

Free Download The Dramatic Rise and Fall of the Portuguese Empire: The History and Legacy of Portugal’s Mercantile Empire across the World (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868739149 | 2023 | 4 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson
Trade was able to increase in Europe around the world due to more effective ships being introduced, and some of the improvements that were made to the ships were first introduced by the Chinese. The introduction of multiple mast ships and the sternpost rudders allowed the ships to travel quicker and be more maneuverable. By the start of the 15th century, ships were now much larger and able to support long distance travel with a minimum number of crew aboard. With that, the Portuguese started exploring the west coast of Africa and the Atlantic under orders from Prince Henry the Navigator. At this point, Europeans had not yet been capable of navigating completely around Africa since the ships being built were not yet fully capable of being able to sail very far from the coast and navigation in open waters was difficult, but the Portuguese continued pushing down the western African coast looking for ways to bypass the Ottomans and Muslims of Africa who had been making overland trade routes difficult.

Free Download Dogfight: True Stories of Dramatic Air Actions
by Alfred Price
English | 2016 | ASIN: B01MQK5FA7 | 360 Pages | ePUB | 2.2 MB

Free Download The Art of Dramatic Writing By Lajos Egri
2007 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 1434495434 | EPUB | 1 MB
The Art of Dramatic Writing is a concise guide to all forms of creative writing, from premise to characters to Description.

Free Download Into the Silk: The Dramatic True Stories of Airmen Who Baled Out – and Lived (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW9JF94 | 2023 | 8 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 261 MB
Author: Ian Mackersey
Narrator: Jay Aaseng
From World War Two to the Jet Age, Ian Mackersey charts the thrilling and personal accounts of airmen who have jumped from their planes and survived. Since the test pilot Harold Harris became the first man to save his life with a parachute in 1922 there have been over 120,000 air force pilots and crew who owe their lives to their parachutes. Into the Silk is full of astounding tales of people who against the odds bailed out of their planes and were therefore able to enter the annals of the Caterpillar Club, a society open only to men and women who survive aviation disaster with the aid of a parachute.

Free Download Schwanecke, "A Narratology of Drama: Dramatic Storytelling in Theory, History, and Culture from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First C"
English | ISBN: 3110721376 | 2022 | 425 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 10 MB
This volume argues against Gérard Genette’s theory that there is an "insurmountable opposition" between drama and narrative and shows that the two forms of storytelling have been productively intertwined throughout literary history. Building on the idea that plays often incorporate elements from other genres, especially narrative ones, the present study theorises drama as a fundamentally narrative genre. Guided by the question of how drama tells stories, the first part of the study delineates the general characteristics of dramatic narration and zooms in on the use of narrative forms in drama. The second part proposes a history of dramatic storytelling from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century that transcends conventional genre boundaries. Close readings of exemplary British plays provide an overview of the dominant narrative modes in each period and point to their impact in the broader cultural and historical context of the plays. Finally, the volume argues that throughout history, highly narrative plays have had a performative power that reached well beyond the stage: dramatic storytelling not only reflects socio-political realities, but also largely shapes them.

Free Download Portia M. York, "The Influence of Dramatic Arts on Literacies for Black Girls in Middle School "
English | ISBN: 1666907596 | 2022 | 132 pages | PDF | 3 MB
For urban middle school Black girls to fit in educational settings and society they must be seen and understood in their unique ways. They must be able to utilize certain literacies that assist with navigating what they say and how they speak, their confidence, expressions, and identities, as Black girls in these settings. In The Influence of Dramatic Arts on Literacies for Black Girls in Middle School, York demonstrates the impact that practicing drama strategies has on foundational, digital, and identity literacies for middle school Black girls. Personal stories of Black girls are shared on how drama strategies help them navigate discrimination, racist and misogynistic slurs, and even support their self confidence and public speaking. The basis of these stories are told through a Black feminist thought lens, which York uses to take readers through surprising drama strategies that Black girls adopt to help them become resilient and confident while embracing themselves fully. Readers will see the benefits of Black girls practicing drama in a safe space guided by a drama teacher that is a Black women who chooses culturally relevant pedagogy for her students.

Free Download Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory : The Last Act (Theo-Drama, #5) By Hans Urs von Balthasar
1998 | 529 Pages | ISBN: 0898706890 | EPUB | 1 MB
Hans Urs von Balthasar This is the final volume of this series on "theological dramatic theory" by the great 20th century theologian Balthasar. This series is the second part of Balthasar’s trilogy on the good, the beautiful and the true which is his major work. The first series in the trilogy is The Glory of the Lord, and following this Theo-Drama series will be Theo-Logic. In this series "the good" has been the focus. Balthasar maintains that it is in the theater that man attempts a kind of transcendence to observe and to judge his own truth about himself. He sees the phenomenon of theater as a source of fruitfulness for theological reflection on the cosmic drama that involves earth and heaven. This fifth volume is trinitarian, focusing on the mystery of God. He draws heavily on Scripture and many passages from the works of the mystic Adrienne von Spyer. Some of the topics covered include "A Christian Eschotology", "The World is from the Trinity", "Earth moves Heavenward", "The Final Act: A Trinitarian Drama."

Free Download The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England By M. Bradford Bedingfield
2002 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0851158730 | PDF | 12 MB
This volume presents an examination of the liturgical rituals of the high festivals from Christmas to Ascension in late Anglo-Saxon England, particularly in the secular church. It expands the current knowledge of liturgical practice in a period where there is little direct evidence, using vernacular homilies and sermons – important but neglected sources of information – to explore the extent to which monastic practices were extended to the secular church.The performative nature of litury and its spiritual, emotional and educative value receive particular attention; the author argues that preachers were often unconsciously influenced by the liturgical experience of an episode rather than by the biblical narrative which they were ostensibly retelling. M. BRADFORD BEDINGFIELD gained his D.Phil. at Oxford University.

Free Download The Ethos of Drama: Rhetorical Theory and Dramatic Worth By Robert L. King
2010 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0813217415 | PDF | 2 MB
For the first time in the history of drama criticism, this book uses traditional rhetorical theory to evaluate moral values in plays from Shakespeare’s time to the present. In an accessible style free of jargon, Robert King first reviews other theories and critiques of drama to show that they ignore or minimize the argument from moral worth (ethos), the rhetorical proof that earns a speaker or work its credibility. As the literary genre most dependent on an audience for its full realization, drama in performance, he argues, offers rich opportunities for rhetorical criticism while those plays of social or political relevance virtually demand an ethically grounded approach. Proceeding from this premise, this innovative book insists on the continuing relevance of traditional rhetoric as crucial to an appreciation of aesthetic strategy and moral worth in plays from the Early Modern to contemporary periods. Ethos is applied as a standard for discovering a play’s worth in its control of syntax, diction, and stylistic devices; likewise it is used to judge character and persuasive argument. Among the artists discussed: Shakespeare, Chekhov, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, John Dryden, Thomas Otway, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, and Bernard Shaw. Commenting in general on plays he has seen in performance, King applies ethical theory to the values of various dramatic techniques like costume, staging, action, and role playing. As an ultimate test of the theory, his concluding chapters study plays that respond to questions of overriding moral concern: the Holocaust, apartheid, and nuclear weaponry. This title offers a groundbreaking approach to drama criticism.