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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheyer, Lauri, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and theater.

Theater and society.

Theater--Political aspects.

Theater.

Performing arts--Political aspects.

Performing arts.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

monochrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Methuen Drama, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Lauri Scheyer, Hunan Normal University, China

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, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada ; "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, Rutgers University, USA ; Mothers and lovers mourning fallen soldiers: tracing the shift from Victorian Age to interwar period mourning in Noël Coward's Post-mortem / Anna Rindfleisch, Kings College London, UK ; The Romans at war: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra on the nazi stage / Alessandra Bassey, Kings College London, UK ; Terror and eros in Ernest Hemingway's The fifth column

a play on the Spanish Civil War / Jon Woodson, Howard University, USA ; 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, Islampur College, North Bengal University, India ; Two truths and a lie: theatrical form, plays about terrorism, and the search for understanding / Lindsey Mantoan, Linfield College, Oregon, USA

Section II. Global perspectives on theatres of war. Reenacting the tecord: theatrical historiography in Alfian Sa'at's Tiger of Malaya / Kevin Riordan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ; Ferenc Molnár's White cloud and World War I / Márta Pellérdi, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary ; Presenting Picasso presents : exploring the process of crafting and staging historical docudrama / Annika C. Speer and Begoña Echeverria, UC Riverside, USA ; War, tyranny, and political sacrifice in Luis Vélez de Guevara's Más pesar el rey que la sangre y blasón de los Guzmanes, Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown University, USA ; Seeing through discursive screens in Matei Visniec's The body of a woman as a battlefield in the Bosnian War / Oana Popescu-Sandu, University of Southern Indiana, USA ; Wartime gender advocacy and revival of theatre in Afghanistan / Bahar Jalali, independent scholar

Section III. Perspectives on black watch unities, communities, and disunities in Gregory Burke's Black watch / Kate McLoughlin, University of Oxford, UK ; Better break it: a case study of black watch / Christopher Merrill, University of Iowa, USA ; Gallant forty twa: the national theatre of Scotland's black watch as exemplary and relevant political theatre / Shawn Lent, Columbia College Chicago, USA ; Black watch and the Edinburgh military tattoo: legacies of Scotland's martial identity / Lynn Ramert, University of Nebraska, USA ; Performing war: the meaning of the missing sign of war in media and theatre / Eva Aldea, University of London, UK

Section IV. Perspectives on the great game: Afghanistan "My country has been imagined enough:? The great game, neo-imperialism, and gender / Daniel O'Gorman, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Emer O'Toole, Concordia University, Canada ; The geography of identity / Reza Aslan, University of California, USA ; The legacy of an empire / Farid Younos, California State University, USA ; 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, University of Southern California, USA ; The freedom of boredom / Shane Belvin, independent scholar ; Understanding theatres of war: from Ancient Greece to Afghanistan to DARPA / Tyler Reeb, Center for International Trade & Transportation, USA.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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1350132934

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1350132950

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1350132942

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99988910537

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