Search results for “[subject: performance]”

• Author(s): Anne Duncan • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismActors in the classical world were often viewed as frauds and impostors, capable of deliberately fabric...

• Author(s): David Raeburn • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAbout the Book This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended f...

• Author(s): PanditMimasha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book serves as the corridor to one’s ‘self’. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance histo...

• Author(s): OberlinHeiki; ShulmanDavid(Eds.) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryAbout the Book Kutiyattam, India's only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually perfor...

• Author(s): Meiling Cheng • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex t...

• Author(s): Aniket De • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoriographyCombining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance ha...

• Author(s): Kyle Frackman • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer Ltd • BISAC: Performing ArtsThe first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in t...

• Author(s): J.P. Mittal • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe present book, New History of Ancient India, is an attempt to present the Indian history in the light of recent discoveries and excavations made in ...

• Author(s): Donny Gluckstein • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThis history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'. The vast majority of h...

• Author(s): Ravindra Kumar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryIn the thirty two years (1915-1947) history of National Liberation Movement and eleven years (1947-1958) after the dawn of the Independence, Maulana...

• Author(s): Pauline Maier • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Representing a fresh approach to the teaching of American history, this textbook takes innovation as its theme. The book ...

• Author(s): Michael Lynch • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoricalMichael Lynch's second edition of Mao examines the life of this controversial figure. Opening with a detailed chrono...

• Author(s): Gyan Prakash • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • Subject: History • BISAC: Social ScienceTo the modern world, the notions that freedom is an innate condition of human beings and t...

• Author(s): Martin Gilbert • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see also Travel - Maps & Road AtThe Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces n...

• Author(s): Hvenegaard Rasmussen | Cas • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Museum StudiesIn this anthology, top scholars researching libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) issues in Scandi...

• Author(s): Michael Gehler | Robert Rollinger • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFrom the Back CoverBy applying a comparative approach the volume focuses on a select group of "...

• Author(s): G. E Manwaring • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoricalFirst published in 1927. 'This diary is history' The ObserverThis is the first complete published edition of Teonge...

• Author(s): Rose | Sophie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 17th CenturyExamining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, bot...