Tag: Theatrical

Curtains of Light: Theatrical Space in Film By George Toles
2021 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1438484216 | PDF | 2 MB
Provides a new way of thinking about film’s relation to theatre.

Staging Favorites: Theatrical Representations of Political Favoritism in the Early Modern Courts of Spain, France, and England by Francisco Gómez Martos
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367538415, 0367538431 | 120 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Staging Favorites explores theatrical representations of royal favorites in Spanish, French, and English dramatic production during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900-1925
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367470853 | 180 Pages | PDF (True) | 10.4 MB
The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900-1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early twentieth-century English theatre in a strikingly new light. It fluently describes an intensity of innovation and experiment that together made the Edwardian theatre rather more radical, and rather more queer, than we’ve ever thought.

Christopher B. Balme, "The Theatrical Public Sphere"
English | ISBN: 1316638871 | 2017 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre’s role in this crucial political and social function. He traces its origins and argues that the theatrical public sphere invariably focuses attention on theatre as an institution between the shifting borders of the private and public, reasoned debate and agonistic intervention. Chapters explore this concept in a variety of contexts, including the debates that led to the closure of British theatres in 1642, theatre’s use of media, controversies surrounding race, religion and blasphemy, and theatre’s place in a new age of globalised aesthetics. Balme concludes by addressing the relationship of theatre today with the public sphere and whether theatre’s transformation into an art form has made it increasingly irrelevant for contemporary society.