Grounded in theatre history, this is the first guide on pageantry as a dramatic form. Covering examples from the middle ages, early 20th century and the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, it equips students with a thorough understanding of the dramatic form.
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Joan FitzPatrick Dean is Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Emerita at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. Her monographs include All Dressed Up: Modern Irish Historical Pageantry (2014), Riot and Great Anger: Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland (2005), and the Cork/Irish Film Institute's Dancing at Lughnasa (2004). She was Fulbright Scholar at University College Galway (1992-93) and Fulbright Lecturer at Université de Nancy (1982-83).
SIMON SHEPHERD is Professor of Theatre and Deputy Principal (Academic) at the Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.
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Hardback. Etat : New. Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form. By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely appropriating elements of history plays, patriotic celebrations, opera, and film, pageants create spectacles of sensory overload. Impressive recent scholarship recognizes pageants as public history, but this is the first authoritative account of the origins, characteristics, and techniques of pageants as a theatrical idiom. Performed in sporting arenas, the open air, or purpose-built theatres, these paratheatrical events express identity through what Erika Fischer-Lichte calls "the re-theatricalization of theatre." Pageants are intimately connected with power-they either assert and celebrate it or seek and demand it. Medieval religious pageants were so popular and powerful that they were suppressed and extinguished. The vogue for pageantry that swept through the English-speaking world in the decade before WWI was closely tied to the expansion of the franchise. Many early twentieth century pageants celebrated localities; others subversively advocated for women's suffrage. First performed in 1909, Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women depicted historical personages from the near and distant past as well as allegorical figures such as Justice and Prejudice. Today, the Olympic Games mandate an opening ceremony that "details the country's history, culture, and overall importance for the global community." London delivered just such a pageant in 2012. This book features a wide-ranging introduction that maps the cultural evolution of this enduring theatrical form and covers popular and readily accessible pageants from medieval England, the early twentieth century, and our own day. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781350144521
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