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Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics
Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders. A study of cultural diff... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics
Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders. A study of cultural differen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
In Defence of Theatre: Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions
Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Fre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress
by Stanley Wells • Sukanta Chaudhuri • Randall Martin • Brian Walsh • Ros King • James J. Marino • Graham Holderness • Barry Freeman • Shaul Bassi • Ann Jennalie Cook • Emma Depledge • Jean-Christophe Mayer • Patrick Lonergan • Courtney Lehmann • Sharon O'Dair • Poonam Trivedi • Supriya Chaudhuri • Darryl Chalk • M. A. Katritzky • Jill L. Levenson • Margaret Shewring • Hersh Zeifman • Robert Darcy • Joel Rodgers • Atsuhiko Hirota • Kimberly R. West • Richard Fotheringham • Eleanor Collins • Martin Hilský • Vlasta Gallerová • Karel Kríž • Robert Sturua • Galz Engler • Madalina Nicolaescu • Kaori Kobayashi • Zeno Ackermann • Tina Krontiris • Emily Oliver • Carla Della Gatta • Cristiane Busato Smith • Anna Cetera • Bi-Qi Beatrice LeiSelected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance context... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Freeman's: The Best New Writing on Arrival
by Dave Eggers • Louise Erdrich • Haruki Murakami • David Mitchell • Lydia Davis • Anne Carson • Tahmima Anam • Barry Lopez • Kamila Shamsie • Aleksandar Hemon • John Freeman • Helen Simpson • Honor Moore • Etgar Keret • Laura van den Berg • Daniel Galera • Ishion Hutchinson • Colum McCann • Ghassan Zaqtan • Garnette Cadogan • Ben Huff • Fatin Abbas • Michael SaluWe live today in constant motion, traveling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states. In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry ab... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015