Author: Millie Taylor File Type: pdf This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961 the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology different interpretations of single plays in multiple iterations have provided a picture of developing styles, genres, working practices, technologies and contexts actor musicianship has been practiced quietly and without fuss and the role of the sound designer has appeared and transformed the theatrical soundscape. This book moves to musical theatre to evidence a continuum between its rich interdisciplinary textures and the musicodramatic world of Shakespeares plays, positioning the RSC as an innovative company that continually expands the creative and collaborative possibilities of the theatre. **From the Back Cover Shakespeare is a cultural icon whose works are steeped in music, but the revered Royal Shakespeare Company is located in Stratford-upon-Avon, far from the hustle and bustle of Londons theatre scene. Yet it is here, in the Midlands, that an exciting laboratory has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961.Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology different interpretations of single plays in multiple iterations have provided a picture of developing styles, genres, working practices, technologies and contexts actor musicianship has been practiced quietly and without fuss and the role of the sound designer has appeared and transformed the theatrical soundscape. This book moves to musical theatre to evidence a continuum between its rich interdisciplinary textures and the musicodramatic world of Shakespeares plays, positioning the RSC as an innovative company that continually expands the creative and collaborative possibilities of the theatre. About the Author Millie Taylor is Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Winchester, UK. She began her career as a freelance musical director. Her publications include British Pantomime Performance (2007), Singing for Musicals A Practical Guide (2008), Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment (20122016). She is co-author of Studying Musical Theatre (Palgrave, 2014), and British Musical Theatre Since 1950 (2016) and co-editor of Gestures of Music Theater The Performativity of Song and Dance (2014).

Author: Norman Page File Type: pdf The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writers work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writers work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeares plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austens novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an authors reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writers published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.

Author: Graham Harman File Type: epub In this diverse collection of sixteen essays, lectures, and interviews dating from 2010 to 2013, Graham Harman lucidly explains the principles of Speculative Realism, including his own object-oriented philosophy. From Brazil to Russia, and in Poland, France, Croatia, and India, Harman addresses local philosophical concerns with the energy of a roving evangelist. He reflects on established giants such as Greenberg, Latour, and McLuhan, while refining his differences with such younger authors as Brassier, Bryant, Garcia, and Meillassoux. He speaks to philosophers in Paris, hecklers in New York, media theorists in Berlin, and architects in Curitiba, as object-oriented philosophy consolidates its position as the most widespread form of Speculative Realism. There has never been a more upbeat introduction to one of the most challenging philosophical schools of our time. **About the Author Graham Harman is Distinguished University Professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Author: Eric Alliez File Type: pdf The Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, their last joint work after Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. It sets What is Philosophy? in the context of earlier work by the two thinkers and, in a manner sure to challenge and provoke, juxtaposes it to the work of both analytic philosophers and continental phenomenologists. Alliez explores the distinctive theory of thought put forth by Deleuze & Guattari from a series of angles, delving into their revolutionary, Spinozist treatment of the history of philosophy, elucidating their engagement with the metaphysics of current research programmes in the sciences and delineating their invention of a material meta-aesthetics capable of responding to the most radical experiments in contemporary art. Much recent philosophy has revelled in declaring the end of metaphysics, of ontology, and sometimes of philosophy itself. In sharp contrast, The Signature of the World is a forceful reminder of the power of ontology and the need for a materialist reinvention of metaphysics. The Signature of the World is here accompanied by two appendices, Deleuze Virtual Philosophy and On the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze An Introduction to (the) Matter, as well as a preface by Alberto Toscano. **Review fascinating and importantThat such a short book contains so many potential points of departure is further testimony to its power, and further reason for it to be recommended to all those interested in contemporary French thought. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, September 2005 Continuum Press is or is near the center of the publication of works by major Continental thinkers Luce Irigaray, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Henri Lefebrve, Paul Virilio, Michael Foucault, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno...some of its subsidiary series like the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series, and the Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy are where one looks to find the likes of the new Heideggerians or the new Deleuzians those younger philosophers having more recently completed their apprenticeships with the skilled masters and now setting their own philosophical compasses by problems left unsolved or inserted into philosophical futurality by those very teachers. Eric Alliez is among the new Deleuzians. This book follows his enormously influential Capital Times Tales from the Conquest of Time (1996)...the specific challenge and the very heart of this book is Alliez grappling explicitly with the very question of how to philosophize in the wake of Deleuze and Guattaris harsh lessons in What is Philosophy? regarding that very question. Karen Houle, Philosophy in Review Continuum Press is or is near the center of the publication of works by major Continental thinkers Luce Irigaray, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Henri Lefebrve, Paul Virilio, Michael Foucault, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adornosome of its subsidiary series like the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series, and the Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy are where one looks to find the likes of the new Heideggerians or the new Deleuzians those younger philosophers having more recently completed their apprenticeships with the skilled masters and now setting their own philosophical compasses by problems left unsolved or inserted into philosophical futurality by those very teachers. Eric Alliez is among the new Deleuzians. This book follows his enormously influential Capital Times Tales from the Conquest of Time (1996)the specific challenge and the very heart of this book is Alliez grappling explicitly with the very question of how to philosophize in the wake of Deleuze and Guattaris harsh lessons in What is Philosophy? regarding that very question. Karen Houle, Philosophy in Review About the Author Eric Alliez is Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, UK. His publications include Capital Times (translated by G. Abbeele, University of Minnesota Press, 1996). Eliot Ross Albert received a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Warwick.