Senelick Laurence - The Final Curtain: The Art Of Dying On Stage - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: It is a book about dying or more accurately about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless the emphasis is on the practice of acting. This death spectacle runs the gamut. From the Greek tragic stage which was highly selective in determining which deaths it (re)enacted to the elaborately stylized murders and suicides in the Kabuki to the lavish blood - letting of the Elizabethans to the deathbed visitations of the modern era what was acceptable and/or enjoyable fluctuates wildly.
Title: The Final Curtain: The Art Of Dying On Stage
Author(s): Senelick Laurence
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781839983924
Pages: 206 Pages
Publication Date: 5/17/2022
Series: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
Category: Acting Techniques