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...Laura Kolb [email protected] The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata . By Pamela Allen Brown . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . viii + 295 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 This superb...

...Emmett L. Avery Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THE DRAMATISTS IN THE THEATRICAL ADVERTISEMENTS, 1700-1709 By EMMETTL. AVERY Toward the end of the seventeenth century, the managers of the London theat.ers began inserting...

.... LAWRENCEPOSTON University of Illinois at Chicago Masks of the Prophet: The Theatrical World of Karl Kraus. By KARIGRIMSTAD. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1982. xxii + 297 pp. $35.00. Erich Heller, one of our most distinguished and judicious critics, pro- nounced...

...John G. Demaray Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 LOVE’S EPIC REVEL IN PARADISE LOST A THEATRICAL VISION OF MARRIAGE By JOHN G. DEMARAY When evening comes to the Paradisial Garden, and Adam and Eve...

... ceremonies. The omission of Racine’s tragic corpus is a gaping hole in Louis Marin’s discussion of the seventeenth-century theory of representation. Marin sees a perfect correlation between Pierre Corneille’s theater and the theatricality of power, conceived of as a force constructed through a dialectic...

... developments have come to the fore. It also claims that reimagining theater as a form of performance pedagogy is an important step for scholars in the field to take. Ultimately, this essay reveals not merely that Mexican politics are theatrical, or that the theater has served the Mexican state...

... of the poet mandated by the classical era's perfection of the specifically theatrical mode of representation, Corneille's identification with his tragic divas constitutes genius as the radical other of the classical cultural order that the canonical “grand Corneille” is wrongly taken to personify. In addition...

.... Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and Herbert Blau's most Shakespearean essay, “The Makeup of Memory in the Winter of Our Discontent” from The Eye of Prey , elucidate the form and function of surrogation by their reliance on doubles. A venerable tactic of dramatists and producers throughout theatrical history...

...Daniel H. Foster This essay focuses on how aural and visual media intersected with class when, in 1843, blackface performers began to call themselves minstrels. Not merely a rebaptism, this new name marked a rebirth. Whereas blackface was originally a working-class theatrical experience passed...

... events. Similarly, Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte famously uses literary and theatrical tropes to explain the same events as Flaubert as they unfolded. Both Flaubert and Marx show us that literary form (irony, farce, attention to linguistic repetition) participates in the politicization...

.... This effect, “theatrical postmemory,” minimizes the distance between past and present, Cuba and Catalonia, memory and history. The article focuses on Aymar’s transformation of two symbols of Spanish (post)imperial nostalgia, the indiano home and the Catalan habanera , a popular musical genre. La indiana...

... that by injecting elements of a religious practice—confession—into the comic formula, L’île des esclaves and L’île de la raison reveal the Catholic ritual of truth telling as theatricalized and theorize the theater as a medium ideal for the transmission of a secularized morality capable of renewing the polis...

...-response theory. The essays are grouped into those concerned with the created theatrical object offered to an audience, those attempting a semiotic study of the space in which a performance occurs, and those concerned with the semiotics of theater reception. The result of this strategy...

... salutary outcomes of the field’s twenty-first-century transformations is a questioning of the basic premises on which European, British, and American artists and thinkers first defined modernism. In Baroque Modernity Joseph Cermatori trains an acute critical eye on modernism’s theatrical inheritance...

... include an opening theoretical statement-“Content and Meaning in the Drama”- explaining the critical assumptions that have guided Hume’s work, an essay on satire in The Beggar’s Opera, and an examination of the London theatrical world from the 1728 premiere of Gay’s masterpiece to the Licensing...

... drama can profitably be discussed. 1 Though textual analysis of individual plays remains a necessary tool of the critic, it should henceforth be impossible to forget that these plays, written for performance, possess a theatrical and dramatic dimension that must condition our reading...

... to appreciate Aristophanes’ essential truthfulness and universality, the theatrical values of the Old Comedy, and the import of his satire, he made an important aesthetic discovery : the supreme value of the Aristophanic creation as comedy ; and his essay, “Vom kthetischen Werthe der griechischen Kodie...

... much of what early modern performance was made of. While we have nothing like the archive possessed by scholars of more recent theatrical traditions, we don’t exactly have nothing, either. Theater historians have uncovered a wealth of demographic information about early modern audiences, including...

...Joseph Wittreich Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 1 JOHN G. DEMARAY. Milton's Theatrical Epic: The Invention and Desigti of “Paradise Lost.” Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1980. xx + 161 pp. 16 pls. $16.50. “A LITTLE ONWARD...

... and folded it into “the prospective frame of theatrical meaning” (29). As Preedy’s attention to playhouse structure indicates, Aerial Environments is primarily a work of theatrical-historical phenomenology in which she explores the potential effects of various stage moments in the context of what we...