Double Shakespeares : Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary Performance 9781611478440, 9781611478433

Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Performance 041550788X, 9780415507882

Embodied Acting is an essential, pragmatic intervention in the study of how recent discoveries within cognitive science

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Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance 9780857450371

Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner’s thought to c

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Contemporary french theatre and performance 9781349368501, 1349368504

Contemporary French Theatre and Performance is an original and timely collection of essays that explores, for the first

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Rhythm in Acting and Performance: Embodied Approaches and Understandings 9781472589859, 9781472589866, 9781472589842, 9781472589880

Rhythm is often referred to as one of the key elements of performance and acting, being of central importance to both pe

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Women and Indian Shakespeares 9781350234321, 9781350234352, 9781350234345

Women and Indian Shakespeares explores the multiple ways in which women, and those identifying as women, are, and have b

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Fictional Shakespeares and Portraits of Genius 9781641892452

This study is the first to investigate how cultural interpretations of "genius" influence, and are reflected i

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Future Theatre Research: Origin, Medium, Performance-Text, Reception and Acting [1 ed.] 9781782842859, 9781845197742

Eli Rozik explores the principles that generated the theatre medium, and its possible roots in the preverbal imagistic m

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The Double Games of Participation: Pay, Performance and Culture [Reprint 2017 ed.] 9783110851182, 9783110129724

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Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of contemporary performance 9781526129925

Theatre and performance studies; trauma studies; cultural studies; sociology and social anthropology; philosophy; classi

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Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China 9780824861360

Acting the Right Part is a cultural history of huaju (modern Chinese drama) from 1966 to 1996. Xiaomei Chen situates her

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