Emma Smith,ed.

Women on the Early Modern Stage: A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton

Methuen Drama, 2014. Softcover. As New. 9781408182314 Clean bright and unmarked, looks to be unread. This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) with a new introduction by leading scholar Emma Smith. A Woman Killed with Kindness is a domestic tragedy of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, and strips bare two women's lives in one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. The Tamer Tamed is a free-wheeling and witty comedy in which the place and status of women, and the nature of marriage, are subjected to sustained attention, demonstrating one way in which early modern writers were able to challenge and invert social convention, and to at least imagine alternative modes of behaviour. The Duchess of Malfi is a classic revenge tragedy and masterpiece of the Jacobean bizarre, featuring a severed hand, a wolf-man, and a poisoned Bible. The Witch of Edmonton is a domestic tragedy in which Elizabeth Sawyer sells her soul to the Devil to revenge her neighbours. These four early modern plays plays upset old certainties about gender ideology: less 'chaste, silent and obedient' and more diverse, eloquent, and complex. 584 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; ISBN/EAN: 9781408182314. Inventory No: dscf11239.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Theatre & Plays; Women on the Early Modern Stage A Woman Killed with Kindness The Tamer Tamed The Duchess of Malfi The Witch of Edmonton Emma Smithed

Laurence Kominz

The Stars Who Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves and Legacy

Kodansha International Ltd, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9784770018687 Clean unmarked pages, top corner snipped from half-title page, slight wear to jacket edges. Kabuki is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost theatrical arts. Its enduring popularity is the legacy of pioneering actors who forged new styles and passed them on to later generations. The Stars Who Created Kabuki focuses on the lives and careers of the three most prominent of these formative figures.Ichikawa Danjuro (1660-1704) established the style called aragoto, or Wild acting , used to portray samurai and violent gods. Sakata Tojuro (1647-1709) was the great master of wagoto, or gentle acting , the style of the romantic heroes, while Yoshizawa Ayame (1673-1729) perfected the highly refined art of the onnagata: male actors specializing in women's roles. Laurence Kominz is not only an authority in the field but a compelling storyteller. In addition to the original masters, he also profiles a few of the great contemporary actors, including Bando Tamasaburo, interviewing them in depth on their thoughts about the impact of the first stars on today's kabuki stage. The Stars Who Created Kabuki illuminates the flamboyant lives and tumultuous times of three great early actors -- a riveting introduction to the vibrant world of kabuki theater. Illustrated. 300 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; ISBN/EAN: 9784770018687. Inventory No: dscf11544.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Theatre & Plays; The Stars Who Created Kabuki Their Lives Loves and Legacy Laurence Kominz

John Lahr

Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals SIGNED

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781408868638 Signed by Author. SIGNED to the title page by the author. Internally clean and bright, very slight creasing to jacket. Lahr's profiles are the nearest we get to modern theatre history. What Lahr has is the key to the dressing room door (Spectator) 592 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9781408868638. Inventory No: dscf10717.

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Fredric Wilson

The Theatrical World of Angus McBean: Photographs from the Harvard University Theatre Collection

David R. Godine, Publisher, 2009. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781567923605 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; clean bright jacket. A well-kept copy. The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theater. His work includes most of the memorable productions of the Old Vic Company and of what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company; opera productions at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; ballet and operetta at Sadler's Wells; and West End productions of plays and musicals both old and new -- hundreds of productions in all. In 1969, McBean approached Harvard University to initiate the sale of his collection, and in the following year his archive of glass plate negatives, index prints, and programs, together with the copyrights, became a part of the Harvard Theatre Collection, where it remains the most often-requested collection of visual material. The photographs in this book, selected and captioned by the archive's curator, Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, have been carefully reproduced from the original negatives. 192 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; ISBN/EAN: 9781567923605. Inventory No: dscf11835.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Theatre & Plays; The Theatrical World of Angus McBean Photographs from the Harvard University Theatre Collection Fredric Wilson