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The Theatre of Imagining


The Theatre of Imagining

A Cultural History of Imagination in the Mind and on the Stage

von: Ulla Kallenbach

96,29 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 13.07.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319763033
Sprache: englisch

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<div>This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of&nbsp;imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination?&nbsp;In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European&nbsp;context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical&nbsp;strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It&nbsp;covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth&nbsp;case studies: William Shakespeare’s <i>Macbeth</i> (c.1606); Henrik Ibsen’s <i>A Doll’s House</i> (1879);&nbsp;and Eugène Ionesco’s <i>The Killer</i> (1957).</div>
1. Introduction.- 2. The Mirror and the Messenger.- 3. Corruption or Perfection? The Precariousness of the Early Modern Imagination.- 4. <i>Macbeth</i>: A Dramaturgy of Deceit.- 5. From Mirror to Lamp.- 6. The Disenchantment of the Idealist Imagination.- 7. <i>A Doll’s House </i>- Performing the Cultural Imaginary.- 8. The Late Modern Re-Imagining Imagination.- 9. <i>The Killer </i>- The Interplay of Absence and Presence.- 10. Towards a Dramaturgy of Physicalization and Imagination.
<b>Ulla Kallenbach</b> is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark. Previous publications include the co-edited anthology <i>stage/page/play: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theatre and Theatricality</i> (2016). She has served as co-editor of <i>Nordic Theatre Studies</i> and worked as a freelance dramaturge.<br>
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of&nbsp;imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination?&nbsp;In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European&nbsp;context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical&nbsp;strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It&nbsp;covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth&nbsp;case studies: William Shakespeare’s&nbsp;<i>Macbeth</i>&nbsp;(c.1606); Henrik Ibsen’s&nbsp;<i>A Doll’s House</i>&nbsp;(1879);&nbsp;and Eugène Ionesco’s&nbsp;<i>The Killer</i>&nbsp;(1957).<br>
<p>Relevant for scholars with an interest in aesthetics and drama, theatre history and new analytical dramaturgic strategies</p><p>Offers a broad history of the concept of imagination as well as analytical dramaturgic strategies that allow for an understanding of the imagination of the spectator</p><p>Combines historical perspective with a focus on imagination in theatre</p>
“This is an extremely bold attempt to investigate the cultural history of imagination in a European context and to analyse the cultural enactment of imagination in dramatic texts as potential performance. As a concept imagination is more often assumed than actually investigated or historicised, both which&nbsp; this study very definitely does.” (Christopher Balme, Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Theatre, Chair of Theatre Studies at LMU Munich, Germany)

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