Bøger af Marvin Carlson

This comprehensively revised, illustrated edition discusses recent performance work and takes into consideration changes that have taken place in the study of performance since the book's original publication in 1996.

(Please note: This book is published in Hungarian) The volume titled A színpadtól a színpadig (From the Stage to the Stage) edited by Mária Kurdi and Zsuzsa Csikai contains selections from various parts of the work of theatre studies expert Professor Marvin Carlson (City University of New York, Graduate Center), in Hungarian translation. The selections were made from the following books by the author: Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life; Performance: A Critical Introduction; The Haunted Stage: Theatre as Memory-Machine; Speaking in Tongues: Languages at Play in the Theatre; Theatre is More Beautiful than War: German Stage Directing in the Late Twentieth Century. Besides, the following articles of Marvin Carlson are represented in the volume, in part or in full: "The Status of Stage Directions," "Performing the Past: Living History and Cultural Memory," "Intercultural Theory, Postcolonial Theory, and Semiotics: The Road Not (Yet) Taken," "Space and Theatre." The translators are affiliated to the University of Pécs as full-time or part-time teachers, PhD students and graduated MA students. The aim of the volume is to help the work and studies of teachers, students and theatre makers in Hungary.

A fascinating, hilarious, and provocative collection of Arab works inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Esteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010.

Examines recent and contemporary work by such groups as Rimini Protokoll, Societas Raffaelo Sanzio, the Gob Squad, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, and Foundry Theatre, while revealing the deep antecedents of today's theater, placing it in useful historical perspective. While many may consider it a post-postmodern phenomenon, the "theater of the real", as it turns out, has very deep roots.

Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to post-colonial expression remain especially neglected, a problem that this book addresses.

Presents an account of how language has been employed in the theater not simply as a means of communication, but as a stylistic device essential to theater's function. This book investigates the various 'levels' of language and their respective social implications.