The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance
Author | : Dennis Kennedy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Performing arts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dennis Kennedy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Performing arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dennis Kennedy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1559 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Performing arts |
ISBN | : 9780198601746 |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance provides comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information about the performing arts internationally, through history, and in the present. The 4,300 entries, totalling well over a million words, are complemented by more than 100 illustrations. Coverage ranges from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments around the globe, including non-Western styles. Dance, opera, performance art, radio,film, and television are covered at length. The Encyclopedia also embraces para-theatrical, non-dramatic, and popular performance, including ritual, carnivals, parades, the circus, and public executions. Biographical entries cover the lives and work of major figures: actors, playwrights, directors,designers, and critics. Innovative entries on cities and regions place performance in its local social and political context. Thematic contents, timeline, a general bibliography, and an index of dramatic works help make the text accessible. This is an unparalleled resource for a wide range of readers interested in the performing arts, from academic specialists and students to theatre practitioners, critics, journalists, and general readers interested in the theatre.
Author | : Dennis Kennedy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Performing arts |
ISBN | : |
Publisher's description: The Oxford Encyclopedia of theatre and performance is an unparalleled resource, providing comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. Written in accessible language, it will appeal broadly to readers interested in theatre and performance, from occasional playgoers to newspaper critics, students, and scholars.
Author | : Dennis Kennedy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Performing arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dennis Kennedy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Performing arts |
ISBN | : |
This Oxford Companion is based on the celebrated Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, and covers styles and movements, organizations, regions and traditions; it has a particularly strong focus on biographies of actors, playwrights, directors, and designers. New entries cover the people and companies who have come into prominence since the publication of the Encyclopedia
Author | : Dennis Kennedy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2010-08-26 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0199574197 |
An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.
Author | : Michael Patterson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780198604174 |
Essential information, including details of title, author, genre, and setting on the one thousand best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theater are provided in this helpful reference guide to the world of drama.
Author | : Michael Patterson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 2015-01-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0192518496 |
The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast; there is also a summary of the play's plot, and a brief commentary. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. The perfect guide for students and scholars of drama and literature, theatre professionals, and directors looking for plays for performance.
Author | : Michael Patterson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198604181 |
Anyone with an academic, professional, amateur, or recreational interest in the theatre is likely to want to look up details of particular plays sometimes - perhaps to check on the author, or on when they were first performed, or perhaps to see how many characters they have, and whether or not they would be suitable for their theatre company or drama group to perform. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the 1000 best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of title, author, date of composition, date of first performance, genre, setting, and the composition of the cast, and more. A synopsis of the plot and a brief commentary, perhaps on the context of the play, or the reasons for its enduring popularity, follow. Around 80 of the most significant plays - from The Oresteia to Waiting for Godot - are dealt with in more detail. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. An index of characters enables the reader to locate favourite characters, and trace the trajectory of major historical and legendary characters - such as Iphigenia - through world drama, including in plays that do not have entries in the Dictionary. An index of playwrights, with dates, allows the reader to find all the plays included by a particular author.
Author | : Joan Shelley Rubin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1551 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199764352 |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History brings together in one two-volume set the record of the nation's values, aspirations, anxieties, and beliefs as expressed in both everyday life and formal bodies of thought. Over the past twenty years, the field of cultural history has moved to the center of American historical studies, and has come to encompass the experiences of ordinary citizens in such arenas as reading and religious practice as well as the accomplishments of prominent artists and writers. Some of the most imaginative scholarship in recent years has emerged from this burgeoning field. The scope of the volume reflects that development: the encyclopedia incorporates popular entertainment ranging from minstrel shows to video games, middlebrow ventures like Chautauqua lectures and book clubs, and preoccupations such as "Perfectionism" and "Wellness" that have shaped Americans' behavior at various points in their past and that continue to influence attitudes in the present. The volumes also make available recent scholarly insights into the writings of political scientists, philosophers, feminist theorists, social reformers, and other thinkers whose works have furnished the underpinnings of Americans' civic activities and personal concerns. Anyone wishing to understand the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of the United States from the early days of settlement to the twenty-first century will find the encyclopedia invaluable.