Theater – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:27:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Theater – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 The Fall of the Roman Republic in Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Drama https://brewminate.com/the-fall-of-the-roman-republic-in-late-elizabethan-and-early-jacobean-drama/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:09:45 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=165866 The fall of the Roman republic has prompted many historical reflections across the ages. Abstract This article synthesises

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Laughter in the Time of Cholera https://brewminate.com/laughter-in-the-time-of-cholera/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:18:45 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=164735 Exploring what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play. By

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Sacred Street Theater in Medieval England and the ‘Last Judgment’ https://brewminate.com/sacred-street-theater-in-medieval-england-and-the-last-judgment/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:02:44 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=160666 Doomsday, 1433. In York, after dark. By James Williford A red curtain. Painted stars. Actors in hoses, wigs,

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Elizabethan Theater: First Professional Actors with Non-Religious Themes https://brewminate.com/elizabethan-theater-first-professional-actors-with-non-religious-themes/ Sun, 21 Jun 2020 19:25:06 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=128454 The theater covered such diverse themes as history, romance, revenge, murder, comedy, and tragedy. Introduction Elizabethan theatre, sometimes

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Sacred Street Theater in Medieval England https://brewminate.com/sacred-street-theater-in-medieval-england/ Sun, 31 May 2020 20:01:53 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=126847 Doomsday, 1433. In York, after dark. A red curtain. Painted stars. Actors in hoses, wigs, and two-faced masks—some

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The First Women to Make Movies https://brewminate.com/the-first-women-to-make-movies/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:08:25 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=121136 For decades, women’s contributions to silent movies were mostly ignored. Motion pictures began in the East in the

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‘So Very Japanny’: The British Reception of ‘The Mikado’ in 1885 https://brewminate.com/so-very-japanny-the-british-reception-of-the-mikado-in-1885/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:16:52 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=98457 Examining the writings of The Mikado producers and opera reviewers in 1885, showing that the British were eager

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Sentiment and Sensibility: Sheridan and ‘The School for Scandal’ https://brewminate.com/sentiment-and-sensibility-sheridan-and-the-school-for-scandal/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:51:18 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=115078 Examining 18th-century satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his most famous play, The School for Scandal. Introduction Perhaps Sheridan’s

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Famous Gambling Films https://brewminate.com/famous-gaming-films/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:48:55 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=115094 There are too many films that incorporate gambling as their central theme or as part of their storyline

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Staging Kingship in Scotland and England, 1532-1560 https://brewminate.com/staging-kingship-in-scotland-and-england-1532-1560/ Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:29:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=113075 In terms of its staging of sovereignty, passivity distinguished the Scottish king from the English tyrant. Introduction ‘Quhat

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