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Playtexts
Author | : Warren F. Motte |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106011476220 |
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"A series of wonderfully apt, economical, and witty readings of texts ranging from Breton's Nadja to writing of the 1980s. . . . Sparklingly interesting analytic and interpretive criticism."-Ross Chambers, author of Room for Maneuver. "Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play calls new worlds into being."-Nietzsche. Parents and politicians have always taken play seriously. Its formative powers, its focus, its energy, and its ability to signify other things have drawn the attention of writers from Plato and Schiller to Wittgenstein, Nabokov, and Eco. The ease with which an election becomes perceived as a race, a political crisis as a football game, or an argument as a tennis match readily proves how much play means to contemporary life. Just how play confers meaning, however, is best revealed in literature, where meaning is perpetually at stake. "At stake" itself, the risk of a gamble, is only one intersection between play and life. Playtexts reveals numerous junctures where literary playfulness-seemingly so diverting and irrelevant-instead opens the most profound questions about creativity, community, value, and belief. How do authors play with their words and readers? Can literature proceed at all unless a reader is willing and able to play? No moralizing monologue, Playtexts is all for exuberance and creative surge: Breton's construction of an antinovel, Gombrowicz's struggle with adult formalities, Nabokov's swats at the humorless, Sarrazin's seductive notes, Eco's recasting of spy and detective fiction, Reyes's carnal metaphorics. Warren Motte is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Colorado. He is the author of Questioning Edmond Jbes(Nebraska 1990) and of articles in Romanic Review, French Forum, French Review, Romance Notes, and Romance Quarterly.
Richard II Playtexts Promptbooks and History
Author | : Margarida Gandara Rauen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059173006268317 |
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From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage
Author | : Leslie Thomson |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781000615654 |
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This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of the plays as evidence – and demonstrates the significance of the implications of that new information. This book is also an assessment of the competing narratives about the processes involved in early modern performance: about the status of manuscript playbooks, about the parts that players memorized, about the functions of the bookkeeper, about casting, about prompting, and about rehearsal practices. Leslie Thomson investigates the bases for the interdependent beliefs that an early modern player relied only on his part to prepare for a performance, that rehearsal was minimal, and that a bookkeeper compensated for these circumstances by prompting any player who was "out of his part." By focusing on often ignored (or downplayed) requirements and challenges of early modern play texts, Thomson provides evidence for answers that will foster a more nuanced and thorough understanding of original performance practices. That will, in turn, influence how we read, study, and edit the plays. This exploration will be of great interest to theatre and performance researchers, graduate students, teachers of early modern drama at the undergraduate and graduate levels, performers, directors, editors.
Mort Playtext
Author | : Stephen Briggs,Terry Pratchett |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781446497852 |
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Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. But when Mort is left in charge for an evening, he allows his heart to rule his head and soon the whole of causality and the future of the Discworld itself, are at risk. Along the way, Mort encounters not only Death's adopted daughter, Ysabell - who has been 16 for 35 years - and his mysterious manservant Albert - whose cooking can harden an artery at ten paces - but also an incompetent wizard with a talking doorknocker and a beautiful, but rather bad-tempered and dead, princess. He also, of course, meets Death. On Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Death really is a 7 foot skeleton in a black hooded robe and wielding a scythe. He is also fond of cats, enjoys a good curry, and rides around the skies on a magnificent white horse called Binky.
Men At Arms Playtext
Author | : Stephen Briggs,Terry Pratchett |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781446497876 |
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Scarcely a year on from the events of Guards! Guards!, the Ankh-Morpork City Night Watch find their services are once more needed to tackle a threat to their city. A threat at least as deadly as a 60-foot dragon, but mechanical and heartless to boot. It kills without compunction. It is the first gun on the Discworld. The original Watch - Captain Vimes, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Carrot and Corporal Nobbs - are joined by some new recruits, selected to reflect the city's ethnic make-up - Lance-Constable Cuddy (a dwarf), Detritus (a troll) and Angua (a w..., well, best to find out for yourself).
Wyrd Sisters Playtext
Author | : Stephen Briggs,Terry Pratchett |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781446497869 |
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Terry Pratchett takes Shakespeare's Macbeth and then turns it up 'till the knob comes off. It's all there - a wicked duke and duchess, the ghost of the murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players, a land in peril. And who stands between the Kingdom and destruction? Three witches. Granny Weatherwax (intolerant, self-opinionated, powerful), Nanny Ogg (down-to-earth, vulgar) and Magrat Garlick (naïve, fond of occult jewellery and bunnies). Stephen Briggs has been involved in amateur dramatics for over 25 years and he assures us that the play can be staged without needing the budget of Industrial Light and Magic. Not only that, but the cast should still be able to be in the pub by 10 o'clock! Oh, and a world of advice omitted from the play text: LEARN THE WORDS Havelock, Lord Vetinari
Colorblind Shakespeare
Author | : Ayanna Thompson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006-09-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135867041 |
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The systematic practice of non-traditional or "colorblind" casting began with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1950s. Although colorblind casting has been practiced for half a century now, it still inspires vehement controversy and debate. This collection of fourteen original essays explores both the production history of colorblind casting in cultural terms and the theoretical implications of this practice for reading Shakespeare in a contemporary context.
Drama and Theatre Studies
Author | : Sally Mackey,Simon Cooper |
Publsiher | : Nelson Thornes |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0748751688 |
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Revised and expanded edition for use with all Drama and Theatre Studies A & AS specifications.