The book includes discussions of sodomitical closet dramas from the decades surrounding the English Glorious Revolution of 1688; the performances of 'Tribades and Amazons', public women of the French Revolution; the 'homophilic elitism' in ...

Author: Alan Sikes

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 3030231186

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 251

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In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history. The book includes discussions of sodomitical closet dramas from the decades surrounding the English Glorious Revolution of 1688; the performances of 'Tribades and Amazons', public women of the French Revolution; the 'homophilic elitism' in the early plays of Brecht and Hasenclever from the years just before and after the German Revolution that marked the founding of the short-lived Weimar Republic; and the utopian conception of a Soviet 'New Woman' set to take the stage after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Throughout, Sikes invokes the differences between past and present politicized performances in order to cast our own political imaginings into sharper and more critical relief.

... Theatre, 198, 199 Scottish Referendum (1997), 226 Scottish Society of Playwrights, 216 Scottish Theatre Archive, ... 39 first Folio and gender, 175 Shakespearean productions, 28 and class conflict, 139–41 control of actors in, ...

Author: Jane Milling

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521651325

Category: Drama

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unsurprisingly also evident in theatrical anecdotes published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... a large-scale, text-based digital archive of theatrical anecdotes about Restoration and eighteenth-century performers.

Author: Heather Ladd

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 9781644532621

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 175

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The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and applications beyond the expected comic punch. Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond. The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizing the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first century celebrity culture.

When discussing the impetus behind setting up the National Theatre's Black Plays Archive, Kwame Kwei-Armah, ... Stephen Lacey draws a connection between the critique of class in Kitchen-Sink-Drama and male sexual insecurity.

Author: Mary Brewer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781137506290

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 252

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This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars explore how these dramatists have created an enduring, transformative and diverse cultural presence.

JH 3190, National Theatre Archive. Herron, K. (1988), 'Telling Stores With Light', ... Hill, J. (1986), Sex, Class and Realism: British Cinema, 1956–63, London: British Film Institute. Hill, J. (2011), Ken Loach: The Politics of Film ...

Author: Sarah Street

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781911239598

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 400

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The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of its adoption in British Film and considers its lasting significance as one of the most important technical innovations in film history. Through original archival research and interviews with key figures within the industry, the authors examine the role of Eastmancolor in relation to key areas of British cinema since the 1950s; including its economic and structural histories, different studio and industrial strategies, and the wider aesthetic changes that took place with the mass adoption of colour. Their analysis of British cinema through the lens of colour produces new interpretations of key British film genres including social realism, historical and costume drama, science fiction, horror, crime, documentary and even sex films. They explore how colour communicated meaning in films ranging from the Carry On series to Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) to A Passage to India (1984), and from Goldfinger (1964) to 1984 (1984), and in the work of key directors and cinematographers of both popular and art cinema including Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Ridley Scott, Peter Greenaway and Chris Menges.

For further information see the National Theatre Black Plays Archive website: blackplaysarchive.org.uk. ... this is achieved in relation to, or in spite of, differences in ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality is also of interest.

Author: Michael Pearce

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317422174

Category:

Page: 228

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Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters combine historical documentation and discussion with close analysis to provide an in-depth, absorbing account of post-war black British drama situated within global and transnational circuits. A significant contribution to black British and black diaspora theatre studies, Black British Drama is a must-read for scholars and students in this evolving field.

Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832–1898. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Lhamon, W. T. Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Author: Lori Merish

Publisher: Duke University Press

ISBN: 9780822373315

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 328

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In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor periodicals—Merish recovers working-class women's vital presence as writers and readers in the antebellum era. Her reading of texts by a diverse collection of factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes boldly challenges the purportedly masculine character of class dissent during this era. Whether addressing portrayals of white New England "factory girls," fictional accounts of African American domestic workers, or the first-person narratives of Mexican women working in the missions of Mexican California, Merish unsettles the traditional association of whiteness with the working class to document forms of cross-racial class identification and solidarity. In so doing, she restores the tradition of working women's class protest and dissent, shows how race and gender are central to class identity, and traces the ways working women understood themselves and were understood as workers and class subjects.

Howard , Jean E. “ Crossdressing , the Theatre , and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England . ... Sex and Class in Twelfth Night ” University of Toronto Quarterly 76.2 ( 2007 ) : 679-713 . Park , Samuel .

Author: Regina Buccola

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

ISBN: 9781501756863

Category: Drama

Page: 295

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"Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as 'Chicago Shakes, ' and now in its twenty-fifth season, this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this ... collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics"--

Covering employees from relief rolls who have made application for work on Federal theatre project . ... name of employee , sex , identification number , occupation , class , rate of pay , check number , remarks , and totals .

Author: Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.)

Publisher:

ISBN: IND:30000091909469

Category: Archival resources

Page: 548

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Covering employees from relief rolls who have made application for work on Federal theatre project . ... name of employee , sex , identification mimber , occupation , class , rate of pay , check number , remarks , and totals .

Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)

Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105119085665

Category: Archives

Page: 548

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