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Books on: theater of cruelty

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The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence

Book by Jody Enders; Cornell University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Drama, Medieval--History And Criticism, Violence In Literature, Violence In The Theater

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Why did medieval dramatists include so many scenes of torture in their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. According to Enders, theories of rhetoric ...
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Why did medieval dramatists include so many scenes of torture in their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. According to Enders, theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis in order to fabricate truth.
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American Theater of the 1960s

Book by Zoltán Szilassy; Southern Illinois University Press, 1986

Subjects:

American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Experimental Theater--United States, Theater--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...often European imports. The Theater of Cruelty Artaud , the Theater of Commitment...theatrical strivings like the Theater of Cruelty. The possibility for differentiation...Salesman . In his opinion, "the theater of cruelty, the theater of the ridiculous...
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Jean-Claude Van Itallie and the Off-Broadway Theater

Book by Gene A. Plunka; University of Delaware Press, 1999

Subjects:

Off-Broadway Theater--History, Theater--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century, Van Itallie, Jean Claude--1936---Stage History--New York (Astate)--New York

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...realism, ritualistic theater, revues, Oriental...expressionism, and Theatre of Cruelty. His contin...Artaud and his theater of cruelty, and pictures and...American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts...Genets Theatre of Cruelty, van Itallie realized...
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Dionysus in Paris: A Guide to Contemporary French Theater

Book by Wallace Fowlie; Meridian Books, 1960

Subjects:

French Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Theater--France

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...hate, of anguish or cruelty. He was the god of excess whose acts...the spirit of the theater. In whatever form...tragedy, are pride, cruelty, stupidity, or...Ondine. The lesson of moderation which...a tragedy in the theater, Giraudoux would...
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Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England

Book by Huston Diehl; Cornell University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Aesthetics, British, English Drama (Tragedy)--History And Criticism, English Drama--17th Century--History And Criticism, English Drama--Early Modern And Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History And Criticism, Protestantism And Literature--History--16th Century, Protestantism And Literature--History--17th Century, Renaissance--England, Theater--England--History--16th Century, Theater--England--History--17th Century, Theater--Religious Aspects--Christianity

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...they courageously fight the oppression, tyranny, cruelty, arrogance, and fraud of authorities he associates with the pope, Rome...antitheatrical and thus necessarily hostile to the London theater that flourishes under Elizabeth and James. Although...

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Journal Articles on: theater of cruelty

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Mocking Dead Bones: Historical Memory and the Theater of the Dead in Richard III

Journal article by Stephen Marche; Comparative Drama, Vol. 37, 2003

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...truth was perverted, here theater is the very agent of its triumph. Rather than destroying...history. And they do so by means of theater. At this sudden revelation of the misplacement of his faith in political theater as an agent capable of controlling...
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Theater of the Absurd

Journal article by K. Johnson Bowles; Afterimage, Vol. 23, 1996

Subjects:

Blume, Anna--Exhibitions, Blume, Bernhard--Exhibitions, Photography--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...intended audience? Other artists, theoreticians? The cruelty and absurdity of this work is overwhelming. Again, Kasprzik is on target...Blumes activities as both directors and actors in this theater of the absurd are carefully planned and referenced...
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Spaces of Dream, Protection, and Imprisonment in the Theater of Paul Willems

Journal article by Donald F. Friedman; World Literature Today, Vol. 65, 1991

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that of other pure beings in Willemss theater -- Remy in Warna, Vincent in Nuit avec...couleur -- is private poetry, a product of solitude and intuition: "Je nentendrai...in time of war, concede the harshness, cruelty, and destructive nature of a world in...
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Broad Exemptions in Animal-Cruelty Statutes Unconstitutionally Deny Equal Protection of the Law

Journal article by William A. Reppy Jr.; Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 70, 2007

Subjects:

Animal rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Animal welfare--Laws, regulations and rules, Cruelty to animals--Laws, regulations and rules, Equal protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Equality before the law--Laws, regulations and rules, Exemption (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Exemptions (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, North Carolina. General Statutes--N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-360

Collections: Entire Library

...equal protection by rewriting the animal-cruelty exemptions, the cure would have to be, instead, excision of all the exemptions. If such a cure were...prosecution a nonmanagerial employee of a movie theater that displayed an obscene movie, but not...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Theater: Negotiating Meaning and Technology in Performance

Journal article by R. John Rice, Paul M. Malone; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 28, 1995

Subjects:

Technological innovations--Social aspects, Theater--Evaluation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...provided the impetus for theaters "re-definition" of itself. Antonin Artaud...to The Theatre of Cruelty," he writes: "We cannot...Jacques. "The Theatre of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation." Trans...Geschichte des deutschen Theaters. Tubingen: Francke...

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Magazine Articles on: theater of cruelty

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Confronting the Russian Bear: The Soviet Response to Stirrings of Freedom in the Baltic Nations Is Theater of the Absurd, but We're Not Laughing

Magazine article by Juris Kaza, John P. Roche; National Review, Vol. 42, April 30, 1990

Subjects:

Desertion, Military, Gorbachev, Mikhail--Public opinion, Lithuania, Military desertion, National liberation movements, Soviet Union--Politics and government, Soviet foreign relations--United States, United States, United States foreign relations

Collections: Entire Library

...response to stiffings of freedom in the Baltic nations is theater of the absurd, but were not laughing. WHY DO superpowers...Lithuanian youths were captured and beaten bloody. Here, the cruelty was not diluted by absurdity. The TV images were of doors...
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Love & Pain

Magazine article by Samantha Rachel Healy; American Theatre, Vol. 17, July 2000

Subjects:

Actors Theater of Louisville--Management, Drama festivals--Social aspects, Jory, Jon--Production and direction, Theater companies--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...force, torture and pain. Four of the seven full-length plays and one of the 10-minute plays dealt with violence--mostly against women. In these works, extraordinary cruelty causes the victims to feel eviscerated and exposed--but the plays also...
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Comedy, Cruelty, and Tourism: Thoreau's Cape Cod

Magazine article by Robert Pinsky; American Scholar, Vol. 73, Summer 2004

Subjects:

American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Cape Cod (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Thoreau, Henry David--Criticism and interpretation, Thoreau, Henry David--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Comedy, Cruelty, and Tourism: Thoreaus Cape Cod. by...sets out to write Walden in 1846 at the age of twenty-nine does not feel the pressure of...lecture form. A secular pulpit, an uplifting theater, and an entertaining classroom, for these...
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A Flood, a Wolf, and Gays: Playwright Tim Maddock Wants People to Think about the Discrimination He Encountered after Katrina, Particularly toward a Dog Named Pete

Magazine article by Todd Henneman; The Advocate, September 12, 2006

Subjects:

Actors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Actors--Services, Actresses--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Actresses--Services, Cruelty to animals, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Economic aspects, Hurricanes--Economic aspects, Hurricanes--Louisiana, Maddock, Tim--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Maddock, Tim--Services, New Orleans, Louisiana--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Now on the first anniversary of his search-and-rescue mission...through October 1 at the Lounge Theater in Los Angeles, traces Maddocks...unnatural, but Maddock wouldnt hear of it. "Here is this animal whom...It didnt seem to be so much of a stretch that that happens to...
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Do You HEAR WHAT I HEAR?

Magazine article by Tom Sellar; American Theatre, Vol. 18, February 2001

Subjects:

Experimental theater--Analysis, Music in theaters--United States, Musical theater--Analysis, Theater equipment and supplies industry--Innovations

Collections: Entire Library

...in September. At American Conservatory Theater, director-choreographer Martha Clarke...dance-theatre works such as The Garden of Earthly Delights--mounted a musical adaptation...necessarily happy tales; some reflect on human cruelty and several even end in death. Clarke...

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Newspaper Articles on: theater of cruelty

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Laughter in the Abyss of Human Cruelty

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 5, 2006

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Laughter in the Abyss of Human Cruelty. Byline: NICK CURTIS ITS a credit to Lucy Baileys production...It is bracing to look into, and to be revolted by, the abyss of human cruelty that this play opens up, and then to be pulled back from the...
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Powerful but Confusing, This Nightmare Vision of Britain; First Night Review

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 6, 2005

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...dictatorship. It worked brilliantly, the cruelty of the Shakespearean plot being all too...power. This new playwright takes two of the many ghastly things happening today in Africa - child soldiers and shortages of Aids drugs - and sets them in modern...
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Lea Rocks 'Philippine Idol;' Pow Bows out of the Competition

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 23, 2006

Subjects:

Prisoners of war

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...judge on Sunday and Monday at the Idol theater at SM Megamall. This week, the contest...American Idol for years and I have kept track of the competition. I was religiously following...judge Im objective without resorting to cruelty. Ayoko naman kasi na sabihin sakin na wow...
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Taut 'Machinal' a Spellbinding Tale; Play Is Treatise on Institutional Cruelty to Women

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Treatise on Institutional Cruelty to Women. Byline...TIMES The stresses of modern life hold deadly...the American Century Theaters crisply involving production...scenes to tell the story of one woman who refuses...The American Century Theaters production is further...
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AFI Theater Revives Kurosawa's 'Ran'

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, September 11, 2000

Subjects:

Kurosawa, Akira

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...opportunity to take out his contempt for such royal cruelty on Kaede herself, and its one of the most stunning, richly deserved executions...son or father, becomes a besieged and terrifying theater of violence. The setting is riven by flights...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: theater of cruelty

5 results

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Theater

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...expressionist and symbolic movements in theater were developing, such as Vsevolod Meyerhold s constructivism, the "theater of cruelty" of Antonin Artaud , and the "epic theater" of Bertolt Brecht . There was also a growing interest in Asian theater...
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Artaud, Antonin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...theories of drama, particularly his concept of the "theater of cruelty," greatly influenced 20th-century theater. He related...which it lacks morality and reason. The aim of the "theater of cruelty" was to disturb the audience and reveal the forces...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the absurd is the so-called theater of cruelty, derived from the ideas of Antonin...playwrights. Elements of the theater of cruelty can be found in the brilliantly...hyper-realism mingled with echoes of the theater of cruelty in the formers Buried Child...
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Directing

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Wroclaws Polish Laboratory Theatre. During the 1950s and 60s the emergence of the theater of the absurd and the theater of cruelty granted directors more scope than ever. Many directors, among them Peter Brook , began incorporating music, acrobatics...
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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...laws protecting them against excessive cruelty or abuse. However, the slaves were regarded as property and had no rights in courts of law. Slaves could obtain their freedom...great numbers. They were employed in the theater, in gladiatorial combats, and, to some...

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