Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The future of ritual	Richard Schechner	Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritua…	OL11522217W
Popular theatres?	Popular Theatre Conference (1994 Liverpool John Moores University)	293 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm	OL11646767W
Theatre and sexuality	Jill Dolan	"This book explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatres creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of reading …	OL15587063W
National performance	Erin Hurley	In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How i…	OL15978953W
Staging the people	Elizabeth A. Osborne	"The Federal Theatre Project stands alone as the only national theatre in the history of the United States. This study re-imagines this vital moment in American history, considering the Federal Theat…	OL16011238W
Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist provocation	Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel	Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation is a compelling study that explores how Bernard Shaw's presence in Irish radical debate manifested itself not only through his direct contribution…	OL16011521W
Between fame and shame	Hanne M. de Bruin,Heidrun Brückner,Heike Moser	Twelve essays dealing with the role of women in various Indian performance traditions and in different social contexts. The volume's contributions are intended to convey a better understanding of the…	OL16703783W
Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian visual culture	Anselm Heinrich,Jeffrey Richards,Katherine Newey	"This book brings together original research in theatre and the visual arts, around the common object of a revaluation of the intersections of the theatre and visual culture. Contributors are drawn f…	OL18589676W
Raṅgamañca kā janatantra	Hr̥shīkeśa Sulabha	On the portrayal of democratic values in theater in India; chiefly covers the period 20th century.	OL18663402W
„…die beste Sensation ist das Ewige…“	Michael Matzigkeit	Gustav Landauer, den homme de lettre und revolutionären Geist in seiner Ganzheit verstehen zu wollen, scheint fast aussichtslos. Wer sich dennoch der Herausforderung stellt, stößt auf einen Kosmos vo…	OL19396536W
Stigmas of the Tamil stage	Susan Seizer	This is a feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in t…	OL20545766W
Theatre and Social Media	Patrick Lonergan	x, 94 pages ; 18 cm	OL20834929W
Der Beistrich, oder, Katharina Botticelli in Gelsenkirchen-Bulmke	Jürgen Lodemann	Die Realität und ihre geschönte Reproduktion auseinander zu halten fällt der Friseuse Kathrin Lehmann überaus schwer, und daran nicht unschuldig ist der junge Professor, den sie im Salon Silvia zwisc…	OL2264735W
Du théâtre à la liberté	Marie-Laurence Netter	Le théâtre du XVIIIe siècle, derrière des apparences légères, se révèle très contestataire. Au nom de la liberté individuelle et de l'égale dignité de chacun, il dénonce sans relâche le pouvoir arbit…	OL23231794W
Introduction to theatre	Elizabeth Bojsza	v, 144 pages : 28 cm	OL24875670W
The politics of performance	Baz Kershaw	The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It propos…	OL4116544W
Fangs Of Malice	Matthew H. Wikander	"The idea that actors are hypocrites and fakes and therefore dangerous to society was widespread in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Fangs of Malice examines the equation between the vice of…	OL4273015W
Couture Culture	Nancy J. Troy	"In Couture Culture, Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early twentieth century. Focusing on a leader of the French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a…	OL4472733W
Theatre and the world	Rustom Bharucha	In this passionate and uncompromising work, Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a `Third World' perspective. Arguing that Indian theatre has been appropria…	OL545520W
Community Theatre	Eugen van Erven	Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citi…	OL8094698W