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Sounding bodies : music and the making of biomedical science / by Pesic, Peter

Making the scene : a history of stage design and technology in Europe and the United States / by Brockett, Oscar G. (Oscar Gross), 1923-2010

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Scenic design in ancient Greek and Roman theatres -- Medieval scenic design -- The Italian Renaissance -- Design in France and the Holy Roman Empire from 1640 to the early eighteenth century -- The influence of Scena per Angolo on eighteenth-century design -- Neoclassicism and romanticism: a rivalry of opposites -- Realism and naturalism -- Modernism -- American new stagecraft, Russian constructivism, epic theatre, and the Bauhaus -- Post/World War II and the late twentieth century -- Epilogue: looking toward the twenty-first century.…”
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The complete plays of sophocles : a new translation / by Sophocles

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Theory for theatre studies : sound / by Bennett, Susan, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Theatres in ancient Greece and Aristotle's poetics -- The vocal map of ancient Greek drama -- Case study : Aristophanes's The frogs -- Vitruvius on acoustics : de architectura -- Shakespeare's Globe and Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarum -- Acoustic world-making on the early modern stage -- Case study : Shakespeare's The tempest -- A sonic imagination of early modern London -- New technologies for sound performance -- Case study : Luigi Russolo's Intonamuri and "the art of noise" -- Hanging on the telephone : Sigmund Freud and Roland Barthes -- Case study : Jean Cocteau's The human voice -- The sounds of silence : John Cage's Future of music -- Acousmatics and radiophonics : Pierre Schaffer and the BBC -- Aura and archive : making sound memories -- Case study : Samuel Beckett's Krapp's last tape -- Prosthetic performance and deterritorialised listening -- Case study : Janet Cardiff's Sound walks -- Listening to women : Andrea Hornick and Luce Irigaray -- Affective theatres of embodied sound -- Case study : Shannon Yee's "Reassembled slightly askew" -- Case study : Rimini Protokoll's Situation rooms -- Coda : sound across the world.…”

Theory for theatre studies : sound / by Bennett, Susan, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Theatres in ancient Greece and Aristotle's poetics -- The vocal map of ancient Greek drama -- Case study : Aristophanes's The frogs -- Vitruvius on acoustics : de architectura -- Shakespeare's Globe and Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarum -- Acoustic world-making on the early modern stage -- Case study : Shakespeare's The tempest -- A sonic imagination of early modern London -- New technologies for sound performance -- Case study : Luigi Russolo's Intonamuri and "the art of noise" -- Hanging on the telephone : Sigmund Freud and Roland Barthes -- Case study : Jean Cocteau's The human voice -- The sounds of silence : John Cage's Future of music -- Acousmatics and radiophonics : Pierre Schaffer and the BBC -- Aura and archive : making sound memories -- Case study : Samuel Beckett's Krapp's last tape -- Prosthetic performance and deterritorialised listening -- Case study : Janet Cardiff's Sound walks -- Listening to women : Andrea Hornick and Luce Irigaray -- Affective theatres of embodied sound -- Case study : Shannon Yee's "Reassembled slightly askew" -- Case study : Rimini Protokoll's Situation rooms -- Coda : sound across the world.…”

Utopian drama : in search of a genre / by Adiseshiah, Siân Helen

The Oxford handbook of dance and theater /

Table of Contents: “…/ Susan Leigh Foster -- A theater of bodily presence : Pina Bausch and Tanztheater Wuppertal / Royd Climenhaga -- The total theater aesthetic paradigm in African theater / Praise Zenenga -- Jean Gascon's theatricalist approach to Molière and Shakespeare / Jane Baldwin -- Dancing drama : ancient Greek theater in modern shoes and shows / Marianne McDonald.…”
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