{"title":"Theatre studies","description":"Books on the subject of Theatre studies","products":[{"product_id":"french-visual-culture-and-the-making-of-medieval-theater-hardback-9781107040472","title":"French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater (Hardback) 9781107040472","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrench Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book revives the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaura Weigert (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107040472, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 December 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e305 pages, 143 b\/w illus.  8 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e28.2 x 18.3 x 2 cm, 0.88 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A particular strength of this book is the attention paid to language. Throughout, Weigert offers illuminating analyses of words such as mystère, personnage, scena, theatrum, and vif (het levende\/dlevende in Middle Dutch), which had broad semantic fields and for which there exist no direct equivalents in modern English. … Readers interested in late medieval and early modern art history, history, literature, performance studies, and urban studies will find much to appreciate.' Mark Cruse, Mediaevistik\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book revives what was unique, strange and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval performance located not in 'theaters' but in churches, courts, and city streets and squares. By stressing the theatricality rather than the realism of fifteenth-century visual culture and the spectacular rather than the devotional nature of its effects, she offers a new way of thinking about late medieval representation and spectatorship. She shows how images that ostensibly document medieval performance instead revise its characteristic features to conform to a playgoing experience that was associated with classical antiquity. This retrospective vision of the late medieval performance tradition contributed to its demise in sixteenth-century France and promoted assumptions about medieval theater that continue to inform the contemporary disciplines of art and theater history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: from theatricality to theater\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'Vocamus personagias': the enlivened figures of ephemeral stagings\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Ouvrez vos yeux et regardez': illuminated passion plays and the commemoration of performance\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Faire semblant': make-believe and the experience of heroic battles\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Cy s'ensuit le mystère': creating a spectator and a reader of French plays\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'C'était qu'un jeu industrieux': artifice and authenticity in the devil's play\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: mysterious ends, 1548–77.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20history:%20c%20500%20to%20c%201450\/1500%20%5BHBLC%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913118802200,"sku":"9781107040472","price":83.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107040472i_fca38ba4-305a-438d-a143-945a6504544d.jpg?v=1691361517"},{"product_id":"shakespeares-reading-audiences-early-modern-books-and-audience-interpretation-hardback-9781107190641","title":"Shakespeare's Reading Audiences; Early Modern Books and Audience Interpretation (Hardback) 9781107190641","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare's Reading Audiences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEarly Modern Books and Audience Interpretation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book asks what Shakespeare's contemporary audiences read and how their reading shaped their reception of his work.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCyndia Susan Clegg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107190641, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 June 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e226 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis study grows out of the intersection of two realms of scholarly investigation - the emerging public sphere in early modern England and the history of the book. Shakespeare's Reading Audiences examines the ways in which different communities - humanist, legal, religious and political - would have interpreted Shakespeare's plays and poems, whether printed or performed. Cyndia Susan Clegg begins by analysing elite reading clusters associated with the Court, the universities, and the Inns of Court and how their interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Henry V arose from their reading of Italian humanists. She concludes by examining how widely held public knowledge about English history both affected Richard II's reception and how such knowledge was appropriated by the State. She also considers The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, and Othello from the point of view of audience members conversant in popular English legal writing and Macbeth from the perspective of popular English Calvinism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Audiences and reading\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reading Italian humanism: elite literary coteries and Shakespeare's sonnets\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reading Italian humanism: elite political coteries and Henry V\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reading law: popular legal treatises and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V and Othello\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reading religion: Macbeth and the calvinist drama of discernment\u003cbr\u003e 6. Reading politics: history, Richard II, and the public sphere.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDSGS%5D%22\"\u003eDSGS\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201500%20to%20c%201800%20%5BDSBD%5D%22\"\u003eDSBD\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913239650584,"sku":"9781107190641","price":81.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107190641i_63d3a1a8-599c-4cec-aef8-5e98cc09e3ad.jpg?v=1691362679"},{"product_id":"performing-oaths-in-classical-greek-drama-hardback-9780521762731","title":"Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (Hardback) 9780521762731","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePerforming Oaths in Classical Greek Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book demonstrates how oaths influence dramatic plots by compelling characters to behave in certain ways.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJudith Fletcher (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521762731, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of speech act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. From curses to blessings: horkos in the Oresteia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Speaking like a man: Sophocles' Trachiniae and Philoctetes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Horkos in the polis: Athens, Thebes, and Sophocles\u003cbr\u003e 4. Perjury and other perversions: Euripides' Phoenissae, Orestes, and Cyclops\u003cbr\u003e 5. Twisted justice in Aristophanes' Clouds\u003cbr\u003e 6. Women and oaths in Euripides\u003cbr\u003e 7. How to do things with Euripides: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae\u003cbr\u003e 8. Swearing off sex in Aristophanes' Lysistrata\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ancient history: to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ancient%20history:%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BHBLA%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913298960664,"sku":"9780521762731","price":47.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521762731i_2f42cecf-063d-47a3-a563-0db1f0e40cb8.jpg?v=1691380828"},{"product_id":"the-neural-code-of-pitch-and-harmony-paperback-9780521697019","title":"The Neural Code of Pitch and Harmony (Paperback) 9780521697019","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Neural Code of Pitch and Harmony\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn introduction to the neuronal mechanisms of pitch and harmony, and the role of neuronal oscillations for brain and mind.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGerald D. Langner (Author), Christina Benson (Assisted by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521697019, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 23 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e241 pages, 132 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.7 x 17.4 x 1.1 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHarmony is an integral part of our auditory environment. Resonances characterised by harmonic frequency relationships are found throughout the natural world and harmonic sounds are essential elements of speech, communication and, of course, music. Providing neurophysiological data and theories that are suitable to explain the neural code of pitch and harmony, the author demonstrates that musical pitch is a temporal phenomenon and musical harmony is a mathematical necessity based on neuronal mechanisms. Moreover, he offers new evidence for the role of an auditory time constant for speech and music perception as well as for similar neuronal processing mechanisms of auditory and brain waves. Successfully relating current neurophysiological results to the ancient ideas of Pythagoras, this unique title will appeal to specialists in the fields of neurophysiology, neuroacoustics, linguistics, behavioural biology and musicology as well as to a broader audience interested in the neural basis of music perception.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Historical aspects of harmony\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sound and periodicity\u003cbr\u003e 3. The discovery of the missing fundamental\u003cbr\u003e 4. The pitch puzzle\u003cbr\u003e 5. The auditory time constant\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pathways of hearing\u003cbr\u003e 7. Periodicity coding in the brainstem\u003cbr\u003e 8. Periodicity coding in the midbrain\u003cbr\u003e 9. Theories of periodicity coding\u003cbr\u003e 10. Periodotopy\u003cbr\u003e 11. The neural basis of harmony\u003cbr\u003e 12. The oscillating brain\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Subject index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Neurosciences [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Neurosciences\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Neurosciences%20%5BPSAN%5D%22\"\u003ePSAN\u003c\/a\u003e], Biophysics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Biophysics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Biophysics%20%5BPHVN%5D%22\"\u003ePHVN\u003c\/a\u003e], Psycholinguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psycholinguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psycholinguistics%20%5BCFD%5D%22\"\u003eCFD\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45978378436888,"sku":"9780521697019","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521697019i_34fb594b-0c97-451c-a37c-f22e6edaca0d.jpg?v=1691380137"},{"product_id":"thomas-middleton-in-context-hardback-9780521190541","title":"Thomas Middleton in Context (Hardback) 9780521190541","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThomas Middleton in Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn illuminating study of all works in the newly enlarged Middleton canon, placing them in personal, national, international and theatrical contexts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSuzanne Gossett (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521190541, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 April 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages, 20 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.79 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\".. is a fine collection, its thirty-eight short, well-illustrated chapters giving a variety of new perspectives.\"    -- Studies in English Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe redefinition of the Thomas Middleton canon has led to an explosion of interest in this quintessential Jacobean. Middleton's best-known plays, such as Women Beware Women and The Changeling, are now staged, filmed and rewritten for modern audiences. But Middleton also wrote religious poetry, satires, historical allegory, prose and less familiar plays, collaborating frequently, even with Shakespeare. His works are rooted in his historical and cultural environment, from the Overbury scandal to the fall of the boys' companies. Here, experts in literature, theatre, history, law and religion analyze the complex contexts of Middleton's works, clarifying debates over his religious and political affiliations. Divided into sections presenting new interpretations of the world in which Middleton wrote - as a Londoner, citizen, dramatist and early modern man - and concluding with a section on performance history, the essays cover the full range of his works, from the frequently performed to the newest attributions.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMiddleton timeline Tripthi Pillai\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Suzanne Gossett\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Middleton and the London Context: 1. Thomas Middleton, chronologer of his time Mark Hutchings\u003cbr\u003e 2. Middleton's comedy and the geography of London Darryll Grantley\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Puritan Widow and the spatial arts of Middleton's urban drama Andrew Gordon\u003cbr\u003e 4. The populations of London Ian Munro\u003cbr\u003e 5. Domestic life in Jacobean London Catherine Richardson\u003cbr\u003e 6. Life and death in Middleton's London Elizabeth Furdell\u003cbr\u003e 7. The city's money: made, lost, stolen, lent, invested Aaron W. Kitch\u003cbr\u003e 8. Trade, work, and workers Natasha Korda\u003cbr\u003e 9. Supplying the city Ceri Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e 10. Celebrating the city Karen Newman\u003cbr\u003e 11. Violence and the city Jennifer Low\u003cbr\u003e 12. Middleton and the law Subha Mukherji\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The National and International Context: 13. The court Alastair Bellany\u003cbr\u003e 14. States and their pawns: political tensions from the Armada to the Thirty Years War Thomas Cogswell\u003cbr\u003e 15. Religious identities Ian Archer\u003cbr\u003e 16. The obsession with Spain Trudi Darby\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Theatrical Context: 17. The social cartography of Middleton's theatres Andrew Gurr\u003cbr\u003e 18. The boys' plays and the boy players David Kathman\u003cbr\u003e 19. The adult companies and the dynamics of commerce Roslyn L. Knutson\u003cbr\u003e 20. The theatre and political control Janet Clare\u003cbr\u003e 21. Music on the Jacobean stage Linda Austern\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Context and Conditions of Authorship: 22. Middleton and 'modern use': case studies in the language of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Sylvia Adamson with Hannah Kirby, Laurence Peacock and Elizabeth Pearl\u003cbr\u003e 23. Collaboration: the shadow of Shakespeare James Bednarz\u003cbr\u003e 24. Collaboration: sustained Heather Hirschfeld\u003cbr\u003e 25. Collaboration: Middleton and the determination of authorship Eric Rasmussen\u003cbr\u003e 26. Middleton and dramatic genre Suzanne Gossett\u003cbr\u003e 27. Writing outside the theatre Alison A. Chapman\u003cbr\u003e 28. Medieval remains in Middleton's writings Anke Bernau\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Social and Psychological Contexts: 29. Gender and sexuality Caroline Bicks\u003cbr\u003e 30. Women's life stages: maid, wife, widow (whore) Jennifer Panek\u003cbr\u003e 31. Playing, disguise, and identity Farah Karim-Cooper\u003cbr\u003e 32. Drugs, remedies, poisons, and the theatre Tanya Pollard\u003cbr\u003e 33. Middleton and the supernatural Michael Neill\u003cbr\u003e 34. 'Distracted measures': madness and theatricality in Middleton Carol Thomas Neely\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Afterlives: 35. Invisible Middleton and the bibliographical context Sonia Massai\u003cbr\u003e 36. Afterlives: stages and beyond Diana E. Henderson\u003cbr\u003e 37. Middleton in the cinema Pascale Aebischer\u003cbr\u003e 38. 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If everyday social problems can be both represented and challenged through drama-based performances, then what differentiates street theatre performed in planned developments from street theatre performed within social and political movements? This multi-sited ethnography attempts to answer this question by following the works of Aarohan Theatre - a Kathmandu-based professional company, performing both loktantrik natak (theatre for democracy) in the context of the 2005–06 popular movement, and kachahari natak (forum theatre) for development projects. The analysis then extends to the forum theatre produced by one of Aarohan's partner groups, the Kamlari Natak Samuha - a Tharu grassroots activist organization based in Deukhuri Valley (West Nepal) campaigning against indentured child labour.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables, Figures and boxes\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Theatre and life: theatre at the intersection of art, politics and international development\u003cbr\u003e 2. Spacing out to dpeak up: resistance, protest and the emergence of street theatre\u003cbr\u003e 3. The streets become the stage: performance, protest and theatre in a time of political crisis\u003cbr\u003e 4. Kachahari Natak: fragments of an aesthetics of theatre for social change\u003cbr\u003e 5. Activism not development work: explorations in Tharu kachahari natak\u003cbr\u003e 6. A cultural army for a cultural revolution: Maoist cultural programmes and revolutionary theatre\u003cbr\u003e 7. The ordinariness of the special: towards the professionalization of theatre work\u003cbr\u003e 8. 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It can serve as a source of entertainment, a critical study, or a useful reference work.' David G. John, University of Waterloo. Canada\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat do men and women desire? For what will they barter their immortal souls? These two questions have haunted Western society, and these persistent queries find their fullest embodiment in the Faust legend. This memorable story, told and retold in novels, prose fiction, and drama, has also profoundly influenced music, art, and cinema. Sara Munson Deats explores its impact, tracing the development of the Faust topos from the seminal works of Marlowe and Goethe to the large number of dramatic and cinematic adaptations which have fascinated audiences and readers throughout the centuries. 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This work will benefit not only experienced forensic pathologists, but also hospital pathologists who occasionally performs medicolegal autopsies; doctors in training; medical examiners; law enforcement personnel; crime scene investigators; attorneys; and fellows and students of the medical sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ea. Foreword\u003cbr\u003eb. Preface\u003cbr\u003e1. Medicolegal investigation of death\u003cbr\u003e2. Death Scene Investigation\u003cbr\u003e3. The Forensic Autopsy\u003cbr\u003e4. Sudden Natural Death\u003cbr\u003e5. Blunt force injury\u003cbr\u003e6. Sharp Force Injuries\u003cbr\u003e7. Firearm Injuries\u003cbr\u003e8. Asphyxia\u003cbr\u003e9. Drowning\u003cbr\u003e10. Environmental Injury\u003cbr\u003e11. Motor Vehicle Collisions\u003cbr\u003e12. Aviation\u003cbr\u003e13. Death in Custody\u003cbr\u003e14. 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Now, several years later, the technology is accessible to millions of homes as products such as wide-screen televisions, digital surround sound audio, DVD Video and Audio Players, and digital satellite systems have become commonplace. Though most people don't have actual home theater set-ups in their living rooms, more and more consumers are trying to combine components they already own with new high-tech components to create an affordable home theater experience. Complete with important home theater Web site addresses and resources, Build Your Own Home Theater, Second Edition is a comprehensive, current, and well-researched text. Beginners to advanced home theater consumers, Videophiles, technicians, engineers, and electronics hobbyists from all walks of life will especially find it invaluable.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e*\"Dolby\" and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks and \"Surround Sound EX\" is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories. 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