Tag: Theater

Free Download Matthew Kendrick, "At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor"
English | 2015 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 1611478243, 161147826X | EPUB | 1,1 mb
At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor explores the economics of the theater by examining how drama seeks to make sense of changing conceptions of labor. With the growth of commerce and market relations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England came the corresponding degradation and exploitation of workers, many of whom made their frustrations known through petitions and pamphlets. Poverty affected all sectors of society in early modern England and many laborers, even London citizens from more prosperous trades, could expect to experience periods of impoverishment. This group of precarious laborers included actors and playwrights, many of whom had direct connections to London’s more established trades and occupations.

Free Download Decision Theater zur Förderung mathematischer Modellierungskompetenz:
Grundlagen, Einsatz und Anwendungsbeispiel
Deutsch | 2023 | ISBN: 3662670658 | 98 Seiten | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB

Free Download Mastering Theater Lighting
Published 12/2023
Created by Marc Schneider
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 35 Lectures ( 2h 19m ) | Size: 1 GB

Free Download Donnalee Dox, "The Idea of the Theater in Latin Christian Thought: Augustine to the Fourteenth Century"
English | 2004 | pages: 204 | ISBN: 0472114239 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
"Through well-informed and nuanced readings of key documents from the fourth through fourteenth centuries, this book challenges historians’ long-held beliefs about how concepts of Greco-Roman theater survived the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages, and contributed to the dramatic triumphs of the Renaissance. Dox’s work is a significant contribution to the history of ideas that will change forever the standard narrative of the birth and development of theatrical activity in medieval Europe."

Free Download Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Jan Lazardzig, "Collection – Laboratory – Theater: Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th Century"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 3110177366 | PDF | pages: 624 | 152.5 mb
This volume launches a new, eight-volume series entitled Theatrum Scientiarum on the history of science and the media which has arisen from the work of the Berlin special research project on "Performative Cultures" under the aegis of the Theatre Studies Department of the Free University. The volume examines the role of space in the constitution of knowledge in the early modern age. "Kunstkammern" (art and curiosities cabinets), laboratories and stages arose in the 17th century as instruments of research and representation. There is, however, still a lack of precise descriptions of the epistemic contribution made by material and immaterial space in the performance of knowledge. Therefore, the authors present a novel view of the conditions surrounding the creation of these spatial forms. Account is taken both of the institutional framework of these spaces and their placement within the history of ideas, the architectural models and the modular differentiations, and the scientific consequences of particular design decisions. Manifold paths are followed between the location of the observer in the representational space of science and the organization in time and space of sight, speech and action in the canon of European theatrical forms. Not only is an account given of the mutual architectural and intellectual influence of the spaces of knowledge and the performance spaces of art; they are also analyzed to ascertain what was possible in them and through them. This volume is the English translation of Kunstkammer, Laboratorium, Bühne (de Gruyter, Berlin, 2003).

Free Download Stephen Abbott, "The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics"
English | ISBN: 0691206082 | 2023 | 416 pages | PDF | 5 MB
How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage

Free Download The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott
English | July 11th, 2023 | ISBN: 0691206082 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 51.34 MB
How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage

Free Download Jacques Jouanna, "Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context"
English | ISBN: 0691172072 | 2018 | 896 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna’s magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles’ plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens’s greatest age, the fifth century.

Free Download The Theater of Electricity: Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century
English | 2023 | ISBN: 347605960X | 605 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 69 MB
Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants. A mysterious force, which was still traded as romantic life force by some and for others had already come to stand in for progress, entered performance venues. Engineering knowledge, control techniques and supply chains changed fundamentally how theater was made and thought of. The mechanical image machine from Renaissance and Baroque times was transformed into a thermodynamic engine. Modern theater turned out to be electrified theater. – Retracing what happened backstage before the Avantgarde took to the front stage, this book proposes to write the genealogy of theaters modernity as a cultural history of theater technology.

Free Download Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0520391500 | 480 Pages | EPUB (True) | 17 MB
Beyond the Movie Theater excavates the history of non-theatrical cinema before 1920, exploring where and how moving pictures of the 1910s were used in ways distinct from and often alternative to typical theatrical cinema. Unlike commercial cinema, non-theatrical cinema was multi-purpose in its uses and multi-sited in where it could be shown, targeted at particular audiences and, in some manner, sponsored. Relying on contemporary print sources and ephemera of the era to articulate how non-theatrical cinema was practiced and understood in the US during the 1910s, historian Gregory A. Waller charts a heterogeneous, fragmentary, and rich field that cannot be explained in terms of a master narrative concerning origin or institutionalization, progress or decline. Uncovering how and where films were put to use beyond the movie theater, this book complicates and expands our understanding of the history of American cinema, underscoring the myriad roles and everyday presence of moving pictures during the early twentieth century.