Illusion and the Drama
Author | : Frederick Burwick |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271041609 |
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Author | : Frederick Burwick |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271041609 |
Author | : Frederick Burwick |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271042966 |
Author | : Pierre Corneille |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1994-10-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1559366974 |
“The most lavish and picturesque special effects are what come out of the mouths of the people onstage…Mr. Kushner makes words sing, swoon and somersault as no other living American playwright does.” –Ben Brantley, New York Times “Rapture comes naturally to playwright Tony Kushner, and in The Illusion, he plants a big swoony kiss on the lips of the theater.” –Nelson Pressley, Washington Post “[The Illusion] certainly has the stamp of Kushner’s delight in language. This is a modern interpretation, filled with energy, colour and humour.” –Telegraph (UK) “Fantastical tribute to the magic of theater…You may resist its charms at first, but soon enough you soften and, intoxicated by Kushner's language and swayed by the music of his ideas, you submit to The Illusion's ravishments.” –TimeOut New York Tony Kushner’s adaptation of The Illusion triumphs as a thoroughly modern rendering of Pierre Corneille’s neoclassical French comedy while featuring the exquisite wordplay, beguiling comedy and fierce intelligence found in all of Kushner’s work. An enchanting argument for the power of theatrical imagination over reality, The Illusion weaves obsession and caprice, romance and murder, fact and fiction, into an enticing exploration of the greatest illusion of all—love.
Author | : Anthony S. Abbott |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2003-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0817312021 |
The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.
Author | : Stephen Orgel |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520025059 |
Presents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and looking at masques and the role of king in the Renaissance court.
Author | : Pierre Corneille |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fathers and sons |
ISBN | : 9780822225034 |
THE STORY: THE THEATRE OF ILLUSION is a tale of magic, love, revenge, mistaken identity, and mistaken perspective. Described by the author as a comedy, a caprice and an extravagance, it is widely considered to be Pierre Corneille's masterpiece.
Author | : William Gillette |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Acting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : D. Kelly |
Publisher | : Dee Kelly |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684183804 |
Three life-altering months … That’s how long it’s been since Amelia Greyson joined the Just an Illusion Tour with Bastards and Dangerous. She’s made new friends, embraced her past, and even found love. Back on the road … Following a tragic situation, Amelia is determined to hit the road, put her life in order, and finish the book she was hired to write. Mel’s not the only one affected by what happened; the men of BAD are all trying to move forward, not wanting the past to ruin the remainder of their farewell tour. Brother vs Brother … Tensions are high on the Weston brothers’ bus. As each brother settles into their role in Amelia’s life, secrets threaten to rip their relationship to shreds. Can Noah and Sawyer find a way to save the brotherly bond they share? Or will the woman of their dreams end up tearing them apart for good? The B Side is the second book in The Illusion Series
Author | : Lynda A. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Werner Wolf |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9401209243 |
Readers who appear to be lost in a storyworld, members of theatre or cinema audiences who are moved to tears while watching a performance, beholders of paintings who are absorbed by the representations in front of them, players of computer games entranced by the fictional worlds in which they interactively participate – all of these mental states of imaginative immersion are variants of ‘aesthetic illusion’, as long as the recipients, although thus immersed, are still residually aware that they are experiencing not real life but life-like representations created by artefacts. Aesthetic illusion is one of the most forceful effects of reception processes in representational media and thus constitutes a powerful allurement to expose ourselves, again and again to, e.g., printed stories, pictures and films, be they factual or fictional. In contrast to traditional discussions of this phenomenon, which tend to focus on one medium or genre from one discipline only, the present volume explores aesthetic illusion, as well as its reverse side, the breaking of illusion, from a highly innovative multidisciplinary and transmedial perspective. The essays assembled stem from disciplines that range from literary theory to art history and include contributions on drama, lyric poetry, the visual arts, photography, architecture, instrumental music and computer games, as well as reflections on the cognitive foundations of aesthetic illusion from an evolutionary perspective. The contributions to individual media and aspects of aesthetic illusion are prefaced by a detailed theoretical introduction. Owing to its transmedial and multidisciplinary scope, the volume will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: cultural history at large, intermediality and media studies, as well as, more particularly, literary studies, music, film, and art history.