{"title":"Theater--Theory Text Performance","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"critical-theory-and-performance-book-janelle-g-reinelt-9780472064588","title":"Critical Theory and Performance","description":"\u003ci\u003eCritical Theory and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres--from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory's rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influential for more than a decade in providing fertile ground for academic investigations in the lively field of performance studies. This updated and expanded edition presents nineteen new essays by the field's leading scholars and practitioners as well as new critical introductions by editors Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach. Reflecting recent trends in performance studies, this revised edition now includes discussions of critical race theory, postcolonial studies, gender and sexualities, and mediatized cultures. The resulting volume is a unique and indispensable tool for critics, teachers, and students that paves the way for future scholarship. Janelle G. Reinelt is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick. Reinelt and Roach Joseph R. Roach is Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and English at Yale University.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49514418209041,"sku":"GOR003829692","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351797600529,"sku":"CIN0472064584G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472064584.jpg?v=1786111139"},{"product_id":"critical-theory-and-performance-book-janelle-g-reinelt-9780472068869","title":"Critical Theory and Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCritical Theory and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres—from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory’s rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influential for more than a decade in providing fertile ground for academic investigations in the lively field of performance studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis updated and expanded edition presents nineteen new essays by the field’s leading scholars and practitioners as well as new critical introductions by editors Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach. Reflecting recent trends in performance studies, this revised edition now includes discussions of critical race theory, postcolonial studies, gender and sexualities, and mediatized cultures. The resulting volume is a unique and indispensable tool for critics, teachers, and students that paves the way for future scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanelle G. Reinelt is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick. Reinelt and Roach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph R. Roach is Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and English at Yale University. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49788123676945,"sku":"CIN0472068865G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50645979988241,"sku":"GOR007653074","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472068865.jpg?v=1751261162"},{"product_id":"approaching-the-millennium-book-deborah-r-geis-9780472066230","title":"Approaching the Millennium","description":"\u003cp\u003eTony Kushner's complex and demanding play \u003ci\u003eAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes\u003c\/i\u003e has been the most talked about, analyzed, and celebrated play of the decade. The critic Harold Bloom has included Kushner's play in his \"Western canon\" alongside Shakespeare and the Bible, and drama scholar John M. Clum has termed it \"a turning point in the history of gay drama, the history of American drama, and of American literary culture.\" While we might be somewhat wary of the instant canonization that such critical assessments confer, clearly Kushner's play is an important work, honored by the Pulitzer Prize, thought worthy of recognition on \"purely aesthetic\" grounds at the same time that it has been embraced--and occasionally rejected--for its politics. \u003cbr\u003e Kushner's play explicitly positions itself in the current American conflict over identity politics, yet also situates that debate in a broader historical context: the American history of McCarthyism, of immigration and the \"melting pot,\" of westward expansion, and of racist exploitation. Furthermore, the play enters into the politically volatile struggles of the AIDS crisis, struggles themselves interconnected with the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and class. \u003cbr\u003e The original essays in \u003ci\u003eApproaching the Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e explore the complexities of the play and situate it in its particular, conflicted historical moment. The contributors help us understand and appreciate the play as a literary work, as theatrical text, as popular cultural phenomenon, and as political reflection and intervention. Specific topics include how the play thematizes gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity; the postmodern incarnation of the Brechtian epic; AIDS and the landscape of American politics. The range of different international productions of \u003ci\u003eAngels in America\u003c\/i\u003e provides a rich basis for discussion of its production history, including the linguistic and cultural shifts required in its \"translation\" from one stage to the next. \u003cbr\u003e The last section of \u003ci\u003eApproaching the Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e includes interviews with Tony Kushner and other key creators and players involved in the original productions of \u003ci\u003eAngels\u003c\/i\u003e. The interviews explore issues raised earlier in the volume and dialogues between the creative artists who have shaped the play and the critics and \"theatricians\" engaged in responding to it. \u003cbr\u003e Contributors to this volume are Arnold Aronson, Art Borreca, Gregory W. Bredbeck, Michael Cadden, Nicholas de Jongh, Allen J. Frantzen, Stanton B. Garner, Deborah R. Geis, Martin Harries, Steven F. Kruger, James Miller, Framji Minwalla, Donald Pease, Janelle Reinelt, David Román, David Savran, Ron Scapp, and Alisa Solomon. \u003cbr\u003e Deborah Geis is Associate Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York. Steven F. Kruger is Professor and Chair of the Department of English, Queens College, City University of New York. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49789911761169,"sku":"GOR001029018","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351912288529,"sku":"CIN0472066234G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52576052478225,"sku":"CIN0472066234A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472066234.jpg?v=1750697831"},{"product_id":"ionesco-s-imperatives-book-rosette-lamont-9780472103102","title":"Ionesco's Imperatives","description":"In this study, leading scholar Rosette C. Lamont traces Eugene ionesco's development as a writer and dramatist from his Surrealist beginnings through to his late \"dream plays.\" Her careful analysis of Ionesco's entire oeuvre shows how the archetypal and the historical are intermingled in a synthesis that marks lonesco as a major figure in post-World War Il, post-Holocaust literature.Lamont's rereading of lonesco's work reveals the dramatist as profoundly marked by the events occurring in Europe in his time and his personal experiences with war, occupation, and concentration camps. Despite his repeated statements that he was strictly apolitical, later in life lonesco himself admitted that being officially apolitical may well be the most political of attitudes.The author links the modern idea of totalitarianism with the playwright's critique of language, thereby placing her discussion of his work within the new theoretical approaches to language and power. In moving the analysis of his work beyond the category of absurdist theater, Lamont reveals how the power of his plays resides in his synthesis of the political, psychological, and metaphysical.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49802144547089,"sku":"CIN0472103105VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50353886658833,"sku":"CIN0472103105G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472103105.jpg?v=1786615770"},{"product_id":"taking-it-to-the-streets-book-harry-justin-elam-9780472087686","title":"Taking It to the Streets","description":"The performances of Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater, and Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones's) Black Revolutionary Theater (BRT) during the 1960s and 1970s, offer preeminent examples of social protest theater during a momentous and tumultuous historical juncture. The performances of these groups linked the political, the cultural, and the spiritual, while agitating against the dominant power structure and for the transformation of social and theatrical practices in the U.S. Founded during the Delano Grape Pickers' Strike and Black Power rebellions of the mid-1960s, both El Teatro and the BRT professed cultural pride and group unity as critical corollaries to self-determination and revolutionary social action. Taking It to the Streets compares the performance methodologies, theories, and practices of the two groups, highlighting their cross-cultural commonalties, and providing insights into the complex genre of social protest performance and its interchange with its audience. It examines the ways in which ritual can be seen to operate within the productions of El Teatro and the BRT, uniting audience and performers in subversive, celebratory protest by transforming spectators into active participants within the theater walls --and into revolutionary activists outside. During this critical historical period, these performances not only encouraged community empowerment, but they inculcated a spirit of collective faith and revolutionary optimism. Elam's critical reexamination and recontextualization of the ideologies and practices of El Teatro and the BRT aid in our understanding of contemporary manipulations of identity politics, as well as current strategies for racial representation and cultural resistance. \"A major contribution to our understanding of how social protest came to be so strong and how Black and Chicano theatre contributed to the synergy of those times.\" --Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Davis Harry J. Elam, Jr., is Associate Professor of Drama and Director of the Committee on Black Performing Arts, Stanford University.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49804636553489,"sku":"CIN0472087681G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472087681.jpg?v=1786091521"},{"product_id":"performing-drama-dramatizing-performance-book-michael-vanden-heuvel-9780472102402","title":"Performing Drama\/Dramatizing Performance","description":"Examines how the intertwining paths of avant-garde theater and mainstream drama work to produce provocative new forms","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49850082459921,"sku":"GOR012698013","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50116181295377,"sku":"CIN0472102400G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472102400.jpg?v=1786111946"},{"product_id":"painted-word-book-lois-oppenheim-9780472111176","title":"The Painted Word","description":"Examines Samuel Beckett's relationship with the visual arts, in an effort to shed new light on the author's work and on his thinking on aesthetics. Lois Oppenheim argues that Beckett was a profoundly visual artist whose work reflects a preoccupation with the visual as a paradigm of creativity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49926546653457,"sku":"CIN0472111175G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472111175.jpg?v=1786111437"},{"product_id":"scenes-from-bourgeois-life-book-nicholas-ridout-9780472039203","title":"Scenes from Bourgeois Life","description":"Proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. This study of history, class, and spectatorship offers proof of 'why theatre matters', and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352489726225,"sku":"CIN0472039202VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51311787737361,"sku":"NGR9780472039203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472039202.jpg?v=1750845900"},{"product_id":"acting-as-reading-book-david-cole-9780472103027","title":"Acting as Reading","description":"Provocative account of acting as a physicalization of the act of reading","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51325927850257,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325931061521,"sku":"CIN0472103024G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472103024.jpg?v=1751293163"},{"product_id":"agitated-states-book-anthony-james-kubiak-9780472068111","title":"Agitated States","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the earliest Puritan displays of piety and rectitude to the present-day epidemic of staged school massacres, the history of America has been characterized by a dual impulse: to cast public event and character as high drama, and to dismiss theater and theatricalization as un-American, even evil. This book rethinks American history as theater, and theater as the ethos and substance of American life, ironically repudiated at every turn by the culture it produces.\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with the writings of John Winthrop and others, through the Federalist and \"romantic\" stages of American cultural life, and into the modern and contemporary periods, Anthony Kubiak finds an America not usually discovered by traditional or materialist approaches to history. He deploys the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, the cultural theory of SlavojZizek, and the performance theory of Herbert Blau in an unparalleled reappraisal of dominant American identity, culture, and history.\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Kubiak is Associate Professor of English, University of South Florida. He is also author of \u003ci\u003eStages of Terror: Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as Theatre History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53725581541649,"sku":"CIN0472068113VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780472068111.jpg?v=1786111945"},{"product_id":"beckett-canon-book-ruby-cohn-9780472031313","title":"A Beckett Canon","description":"\u003cp\u003eSamuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. \u003ci\u003eA Beckett Canon\u003c\/i\u003e by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on Beckett's work in its original language.\u003cbr\u003eBeginning in 1929 with Beckett's earliest work, the book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews, and criticism. Cohn grapples with the difficulties in Beckett's work, including the opaque erudition of the early English verse and fiction, and the searching depths and syntactical ellipsis of the late works.\u003cbr\u003eSpecialist and nonspecialist readers will find \u003ci\u003eA Beckett Canon\u003c\/i\u003e valuable for its remarkable inclusiveness. Cohn has examined the holdings of all of the major Beckett depositories, and is thus able to highlight neglected manuscripts and correct occasional errors in their listings. Intended as a resource to accompany the reading of Beckett's writing--in English or French, published or unpublished, in part or as a whole--the book offers context, information, and interpretation of the work of one of the last century's most important writers.\u003cbr\u003eRuby Cohn is Professor Emerita of Comparative Drama, University of California, Davis. She is author or editor of many books, including \u003ci\u003eAnglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama; Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama; From \u003c\/i\u003eDesire \u003ci\u003eto \u003c\/i\u003eGodot\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Just Play: Beckett's Theater.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54554698383633,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54554698481937,"sku":"GOR009079300","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/theater-theory-text-performance-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}