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Have you ever prepared a speech until you knew it by heart and then found out that, when the moment arrives, the surprise and uniqueness of hic et nunc are inevitable? No matter how much you prepare a text, it will need improvisation to be used on a stage or in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This book is a study of the thematic, narrative, and musical structure of Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] edition of the Yuan zaju (variety play) Dou E yuan [Injustice to Dou E] originally composed by the highly regarded playwright Guan Hanqing (fl. 1260)....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-11-03
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Thema des Buches ist die Commedia dell’arte und ihre Bedeutung im 20. Jahrhundert. Veit Bessenbacher beschäftigt die Weitergabe von Harlekins Narrenpritsche an Zirkus und Slapstick-Comedy. Außerdem kommt die Wiederbelebung dieser italienischen Theaterform im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-11
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Inwiefern spielen inter- und transkulturelle Phänomene in Drama, Theater und Film eine Rolle und welche Funktionen nehmen sie dort ein? Diesen Fragen gehen die fachwissenschaftlichen und fachdidaktischen Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes nach. Das Buch gliedert sich in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-09
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The unrivalled partnership of Gerald and Isabel Partridge, both on and off the stage, had been a sensation and their early and tragic deaths set the seal on a legend which is still enshrined in their old home, Mistleden Ladies. Deep in the heart of the Kent countryside,...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2015-05-21
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Thema des Buches ist Kundry, die weibliche Hauptfigur in Richard Wagners Spätwerk Parsifal (1882) und eine singuläre Gestalt der Operngeschichte. Als Grenzgängerin und in sich Zerrissene findet sie – zwischen Schrei, Lachen und Verstummen – zu verstörend neuen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-09
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As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the fields of media and cultural studies. Using the exotic legacy of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-19
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In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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In Shakespeare's Comedies: All That Matters, Mike Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's comedies so enduring that they continue to be performed, watched and studied by millions of people every year. Professor Scott focuses in turn on The...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-08-29
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All That Matters
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The figure of the child has long been a mainstay of Italian cinema, conventionally interpreted as a witness of adult shortcomings, a vessel of innocence, hope and renewal, or an avatar of nostalgia for the (cinematic) past. New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-06
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The hazards and secrets of the book trade and writing for television and the theatre are revealed and co-mingle with the joys of travel, family and entertaining. The alarums and excursions of an arson attack and the efforts to ease the lot of fellow writers imprisoned...
Editeur :
Arcadia Books
Parution :
2014-05-14
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Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, including the early release of politically motivated...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-01
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Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present.Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-04
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This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation. In 2009,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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Suffering from «manopause» and «Low T», underemployed and unwilling to grow up, «the other guy» has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-09-01
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A celebration of Britain's favourite actress, Judi DenchThe very name Judi Dench encourages a warm and admiring response from the public and fellow actors alike. Her wide-ranging career includes numerous Shakespearean performances (most recently in ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-08-22
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Since the late 1990s, German cinema has gone through a period of astonishing productivity and success that has made it the focus of scholarly analysis once more. What can contemporary German cinema tell us about current German society and its problems? What are the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-03
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The first full biography of Britain's leading actress of her time.Whether it is her sunny temperament, her gift of laughter, her wide-ranging abilities, or all three, Judi Dench is without doubt a star. Shortlisted for a 1998 Oscar for her performance as Queen Victoria...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-05-23
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Die neueren Zeiten kennen den Chor kaum mehr als Bestandteil der Festkultur, deswegen ist seine Umsetzung im Theater ein großes Problem. Für Regisseure und Schauspieler wie auch für die Zuschauer war der Chor der fremdartigste Teil. Allerdings haben seit der deutschen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Die jüngst einsetzende wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk des Komponisten Wilfried Hiller, geboren 1941, wird hier dokumentiert mit dem Blick auf die Werke der späten Schaffensjahre:Die Analysen reichen vom biografisch-historischen Kontext des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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