{"product_id":"shakespeare-shamans-and-show-biz-david-kaplan-9781601822086","title":"Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz: An Impolite Guide to Theater History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn twenty-four chapters David Kaplan offers ideas, opinions, theories, and facts for someone who wants to be a theater artist today in hopes of creating their own vision of theater-making, one informed by, and in the context of, theater history. This book explores what theater artists have done before and what they, inspired by history, might do next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA non-lineal theater history, \u003cem\u003eShakespeare Shamans, and Show Biz\u003c\/em\u003e explores theater as a shaman's vision, as a storyteller's heritage, as religious propaganda, as a mirror of life, as a critique of society, as a prompt for hard laughter, as fantasy, and as national epic, with plays as different (and the same) as the writings of August Wilson, Gertrude Stein, Shakespeare, and people who never made it into history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter explores a particular theme: \"The Middle Ages as a State of Mind,\" \"Commedia dell'arte and Moli鑽e,\" \"Shakespeare-To Begin,\" \"Euripides-Forever Modern,\" \"Aeschylus-Writing in an Age of Certainty,\" \"Sophocles and Aristotle-Defining Tragedy,\" \"Greek Comedy,\" \"Roman Theater,\" \"Asian Classics and Rules\" (Bunrakuken, Chikamatsu, Zeami), China-The Pear Garden and the Red Pear Garden,\" \"Neoclassic Theater and Why There is Such a Thing,\" \"Shakespeare's Classic,\" \"Bad Boys Breaking the Rules\" (Brecht, Ibsen, and Jarry), \"Inside Outside\" (Ibsen, Strindberg, Turgenev, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Antoine), \"Beyond Illusion\" (Appia, Craig, Poel), \"Melodrama and Popular Theater in America\" (Aiken, Brice, Cohan, Stone, Tyler, Bert Williams), \"American Classic: Eugene O'Neill and Martha Graham,\" \"Expressionism to Epic\" (Brecht, Meyerhold, O'Neill, Piscator, Treadwell), \"American Agitprop: Overt and Disguised\" (Adler, Clurman, Flanagan, Kazan, Le Gallienne, Miller, Odets, Robeson, Strasberg, Wilder), \"Poetry of the Theater\" (Artaud, Breton, Cocteau, Ionesco, Kharms, Stein), \"Personal Mythology\" (Genet, Lorca, Mishima, Strindberg), \"Two Masters: Samuel Becket and Tennessee Williams,\" \"Theater of Identity\" (Baraka, Ensler, Kramer, Wilson), and \"Missing from History\" (Bonner, Forn駸, Kennedy, Maeterlinck).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1601822081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781601822086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hansen Publishing Group, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"David Kaplan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994670530815,"sku":"9781601822086","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0762baa3-4b1d-47bf-aefd-66233692d482.jpg?v=1683331508","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-shamans-and-show-biz-david-kaplan-9781601822086","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}