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Eloquent Shakespeare A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue

Logan Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226006314, ISBN: HB: 9780226491158, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm

An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as "chanson", "phantasime", or "quaestor", many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. "The Eloquent Shakespeare" aims to untie those tongues a...

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Culture Studies

Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life

Gross Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...

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Shaping Society through Dance Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes

Mendoza Zoila S.

ISBN: DVD: 9780226520070, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
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During the patron saint fiesta in the Andean town of San Jeronimo, Peru, crowds gather at sunset in the town square, eagerly awaiting the entrance of the colorful dance troupes, or comparsas. With their masks, music, and surprising interpretations of...

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Persecution, Plague, and Fire Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England

MacKay Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226500195, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
256 pp., 22.9x16 cm, 9 halftones

The theater of early modern England was a disastrous affair. The scant record of its performance demonstrates as much, for what we tend to remember today of the Shakespearean stage and its history are landmark moments of dissolution: the burning down...

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Performing Arts

Unsettling Opera Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

Levin David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226475233, ISBN: HB: 9780226475226, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 musical examples, 26 halftones

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work...

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Leading Roles 50 Questions Every Arts Board Should Ask

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781584659068, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not-for-profit arts organizations struggled to survive the recent economic recession. In this increasingly hardscrabble environment, it is absolutely imperative that the boards of these organizations function as energetically, creatively, and efficie...

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Culture Studies

Fireworks Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226893778, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 36 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics – in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs – have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon W...

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Art of the Turnaround Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781584657354, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2008
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Many arts organizations today find themselves in financial difficulties because of economic constraints inherent in the industry. While other companies can improve productivity through the use of new technologies or better systems, these approaches a...

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Jewish Studies

Our Musicals, Ourselves A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

Bush Jones John

ISBN: PB: 9780874519044, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2004
426 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Our Musicals, Ourselves" is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many afi...

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