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Scenography with purpose: activism and intervention (2012)
Book Chapter
Baugh, C. L. (2012). Scenography with purpose: activism and intervention. In A. Aronson (Ed.), The disappearing stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. Arts and Theatre Institute/Prague Quadrennial

Baroque to romantic theatre (2012)
Book Chapter
Baugh, C. (2012). Baroque to romantic theatre. In D. Wiles, & C. Dymkowski (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History (33-54). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cco9781139019651.005

The history of the theatre from the late sixteenth to late in the nineteenth century is usually framed around dominant periods of national dramatic literatures: theatre of the Spanish golden age; Shakespeare and his contemporaries; the classic theatr... Read More about Baroque to romantic theatre.

Intimacy across visceral and digital performance (2012)
Book
Chatzichristodoulou, M., & Zerihan, R. (2012). R. Zerihan, & M. Chatzichristodoulou (Eds.). Intimacy across visceral and digital performance. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283337

Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance is an edited collection designed to address a diverse set of critical responses to and practical interrogations of the notion of being intimate in emergent and hybrid performance practices, aiming to e... Read More about Intimacy across visceral and digital performance.

České pokusy o Shakespeara : dějiny českých překladů Shakespeara doplněné antologií neznámých a vzácných textů z let 1782-1922. (Czech attempts at Shakespeare) (2012)
Book
Drábek, P. (2012). České pokusy o Shakespeara : dějiny českých překladů Shakespeara doplněné antologií neznámých a vzácných textů z let 1782-1922. (Czech attempts at Shakespeare). Větrné mlýny

A History of Czech Translations of Shakespeare with an Anthology of Unknown and Rare Texts from the Years 1782-1922. The history of Czech translations of Shakespeare dates back to the 1780s when the first versions of Shakespeare’s plays were printed.... Read More about České pokusy o Shakespeara : dějiny českých překladů Shakespeara doplněné antologií neznámých a vzácných textů z let 1782-1922. (Czech attempts at Shakespeare).

"I've never murdered anyone in my life. The decisions are up to them.": Ethical Guidance and Cultural Pessimism in the Saw Series (2012)
Journal Article
Walliss, J., & Aston, J. (2012). "I've never murdered anyone in my life. The decisions are up to them.": Ethical Guidance and Cultural Pessimism in the Saw Series. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 24(3), 352-364. https://doi.org/10.1353/rpc.2012.0034

In this article we examine the ethical vision presented in the Saw series of films, focusing in particular how it represents a trend within popular culture post-9/11 towards increasing cultural pessimism. We will locate the Saw films within this cult... Read More about "I've never murdered anyone in my life. The decisions are up to them.": Ethical Guidance and Cultural Pessimism in the Saw Series.

Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française (2012)
Book Chapter
Haworth, R. (2012). Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française. In Chanson et performance: Mise en scène du corps dans la chanson française et francophone (73 - 83). L'Harmattan

Authenticity is a key preoccupation for the French popular music genre, chanson, and the figures of Brassens, Brel and Ferré are the paradigmatic 'big three' of the genre. This chapter analyses the place of performance within chanson. It takes these... Read More about Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française.

Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida) (2012)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida). In Shakespeare: Troilus a Kressida (14 - 33). Národní divadlo

A critical essay on William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, written for the programme notes for David Radok's production at the National Theatre in Prague. The text discusses the play as as well as its sources and later adaptations, including sev... Read More about Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida).

Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s (2012)
Book
Bielby, C. (2012). Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s. Camden House

As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger's 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany's terrorist period, which reached its height in the "German autumn" of 1977, is still a fascinating -... Read More about Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s.

Freaks and not freaks: theatre and the making of crip identity (2012)
Journal Article
Conroy, C. (2012). Freaks and not freaks: theatre and the making of crip identity. Lambda Nordica, 17(1-2), 168 - 193

ON SOME LEVEL it seems obvious that some disabled actors will want to explore the history of freak show performances. To replicate a performance form that neither performer nor audience have experienced has the frisson of an historical re-enactment.... Read More about Freaks and not freaks: theatre and the making of crip identity.

Women’s Body, State's Power: A Study on Chinese Miss Etiquette in International Games (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, C. (2012). Women’s Body, State's Power: A Study on Chinese Miss Etiquette in International Games. Collection of Women’s Studies 妇女研究论丛, 6(114), 65-69

本文在“身体一文化象征身份一民族国家”的框架下论述了微观权力机制下礼仪小姐的公共性别身份的建构。一方面，礼仪小姐在与民族国家的互动中实现了身体资本的理性运作，这体现在对身体的自我评估和对男性他者评定的认同上，但在公共父权制下，身体的主体性淹没在力图使之... Read More about Women’s Body, State's Power: A Study on Chinese Miss Etiquette in International Games.

John Russell Brown: studying Shakespeare in performance (2012)
Journal Article
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). John Russell Brown: studying Shakespeare in performance. Theatralia, 15(2), 194 - 196

A critical review of John Russell Brown's Studying Shakespeare in Performance (2011) with contextual links to Brown's other critical works.

The Routledge companion to actors' Shakespeare (2012)
Journal Article
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). The Routledge companion to actors' Shakespeare. Theatralia, 15(2), 196 - 199

A critical review of The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare (2012, ed. John Russell Brown) reflecting the methodology of writing about acting.

Alice Dubská: the travels of the puppeteers Brát and Pratte through Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2012)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2012). Alice Dubská: the travels of the puppeteers Brát and Pratte through Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Theatralia, 15(2), 206 - 207

A critical review of Alice Dubská's monograph on the marionettist family Brát/Pratte (2012), who were active in Central and Northern Europe from the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries.

Dominique Manotti and the roman noir (2012)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2013). Dominique Manotti and the roman noir. Contemporary Women's Writing, 7(3), 235-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vps012

Dominique Manotti's crime fiction novels have as their setting a variety of contemporary political and economic issues, a deliberate choice for an author who sees her work not as traditional detective novels, where order is reestablished upon the res... Read More about Dominique Manotti and the roman noir.