Theatres of war : contemporary perspectives / edited by Lauri Scheyer.

Medverkande: Språk: Engelska Utgivning: London : Methuen Drama, 2023Utgåva: Paperback editionBeskrivning: vii, 207 sidorInnehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • unmediated
Bärartyp:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781350264830
  • 1350264830
Ämne: Genre/Form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 809.293581 23/swe
SAB-klassifikation:
  • G.02
Innehåll:
Introduction / Lauri Scheyer -- Section I: British and American Perspectives on Theatres of War. “Carry on to the Place of Pain:” Embodiment and Aversion in Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie / Robert Brazeau -- “I Do Want to Take Part in this Show:” The Early War Diary as Rehearsal Stage for the Creation and Navigation of the Newly Militarized Masculine Self / Nancy Martin -- Mothers and Lovers Mourning Fallen Soldiers: Tracing the Shift from Victorian Age to Interwar Period Mourning in Noël Coward's Post-Mortem / Anna Rindfleisch -- The Romans at War: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra on the Nazi Stage / Alessandra Bassey -- Terror and Eros in Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column-A Play on the Spanish Civil War / Jon Woodson -- Joshua McCarter Simpson's Counter-Performances of American Civil War Nationalism / Lauri Scheyer -- Performing Trauma: Narratives of Rupture in Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children / Mamata Sengupta -- Two Truths and a Lie: Theatrical Form, Plays About Terrorism, and the Search for Understanding / Lindsey Mantoan -- Section II: Global Perspectives on Theatres of War. Reenacting the Record: Theatrical Historiography in Alfian Sa'at's Tiger of Malaya / Kevin Riordan -- Ferenc Molnár's White Cloud and World War I / Márta Pellérdi -- Presenting Picasso Presents: Exploring the Process of Crafting and Staging Historical Docudrama / Annika C. Speer and Begoña Echeverria -- War, Tyranny, and Political Sacrifice in Luis Vélez de Guevara's Más pesar el reyque la sangre y blasón de los Guzmanes / Alani Hicks-Bartlett -- Seeing Through Discursive Screens in Matei Visniec's The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in The Bosnian War / Oana Popescu-Sandu -- Wartime Gender Advocacy and Revival of Theatre in Afghanistan / Bahar Jalali -- Section III: Perspectives on Black Watch. Unities, Communities, and Disunities in Gregory Burke's Black Watch / Kate McLoughlin -- Better Break It: A Case Study of Black Watch / Christopher Merrill -- Gallant Forty Twa: The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch as Exemplary and Relevant Political Theatre / Shawn Lent -- Black Watch and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Legacies of Scotland's Martial Identity / Lynn Ramert -- Performing War: The Meaning of the Missing Sign of War in Media and Theatre / Eva Aldea -- Section IV: Perspectives on The Great Game: Afghanistan. “My Country Has Been Imagined Enough:” The Great Game, Neo-imperialism, and Gender / Daniel O'Gorman and Emer O'Toole -- The Geography of Identity / Reza Aslan -- The Legacy of an Empire / Farid Younos -- Imagining The Great Game / Christopher Merrill -- Staging the Catastrophe: The Tricycle Theatre's The Great Game: Afghanistan and Its Diplomatic Journey from London to the Pentagon, 2010-11 / Nicholas J. Cull -- The Freedom of Boredom / Shane Belvin -- Understanding Theatres of War: From Ancient Greece to Afghanistan to DARPA / Tyler Reeb
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First published in Great Britain 2022.

Introduction / Lauri Scheyer -- Section I: British and American Perspectives on Theatres of War. “Carry on to the Place of Pain:” Embodiment and Aversion in Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie / Robert Brazeau -- “I Do Want to Take Part in this Show:” The Early War Diary as Rehearsal Stage for the Creation and Navigation of the Newly Militarized Masculine Self / Nancy Martin -- Mothers and Lovers Mourning Fallen Soldiers: Tracing the Shift from Victorian Age to Interwar Period Mourning in Noël Coward's Post-Mortem / Anna Rindfleisch -- The Romans at War: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra on the Nazi Stage / Alessandra Bassey -- Terror and Eros in Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column-A Play on the Spanish Civil War / Jon Woodson -- Joshua McCarter Simpson's Counter-Performances of American Civil War Nationalism / Lauri Scheyer -- Performing Trauma: Narratives of Rupture in Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children / Mamata Sengupta -- Two Truths and a Lie: Theatrical Form, Plays About Terrorism, and the Search for Understanding / Lindsey Mantoan -- Section II: Global Perspectives on Theatres of War. Reenacting the Record: Theatrical Historiography in Alfian Sa'at's Tiger of Malaya / Kevin Riordan -- Ferenc Molnár's White Cloud and World War I / Márta Pellérdi -- Presenting Picasso Presents: Exploring the Process of Crafting and Staging Historical Docudrama / Annika C. Speer and Begoña Echeverria -- War, Tyranny, and Political Sacrifice in Luis Vélez de Guevara's Más pesar el reyque la sangre y blasón de los Guzmanes / Alani Hicks-Bartlett -- Seeing Through Discursive Screens in Matei Visniec's The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in The Bosnian War / Oana Popescu-Sandu -- Wartime Gender Advocacy and Revival of Theatre in Afghanistan / Bahar Jalali -- Section III: Perspectives on Black Watch. Unities, Communities, and Disunities in Gregory Burke's Black Watch / Kate McLoughlin -- Better Break It: A Case Study of Black Watch / Christopher Merrill -- Gallant Forty Twa: The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch as Exemplary and Relevant Political Theatre / Shawn Lent -- Black Watch and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Legacies of Scotland's Martial Identity / Lynn Ramert -- Performing War: The Meaning of the Missing Sign of War in Media and Theatre / Eva Aldea -- Section IV: Perspectives on The Great Game: Afghanistan. “My Country Has Been Imagined Enough:” The Great Game, Neo-imperialism, and Gender / Daniel O'Gorman and Emer O'Toole -- The Geography of Identity / Reza Aslan -- The Legacy of an Empire / Farid Younos -- Imagining The Great Game / Christopher Merrill -- Staging the Catastrophe: The Tricycle Theatre's The Great Game: Afghanistan and Its Diplomatic Journey from London to the Pentagon, 2010-11 / Nicholas J. Cull -- The Freedom of Boredom / Shane Belvin -- Understanding Theatres of War: From Ancient Greece to Afghanistan to DARPA / Tyler Reeb

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