David Krasner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1196597 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Krasner |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Krasner |
| FIRMA | KRASNER D |
| AFILIACIONES | Five Towns College |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-3859-5580 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Baroque Modernity
Reviewed by: Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetic of Theater by Joseph Cermatori David Krasner BAROQUE MODERNITY: AN AESTHETIC OF THEATER. By Joseph Cermatori. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2021; 298 pp. In Thornton Wilder's inaugural 1938 production of Our Town, director Jed Harris staged a moment in the play where over a dozen actors portraying townspeople hold open umbrellas aloft on an otherwise bare stage. The decorative image, a sea …
The Method
Reviewed by: The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler David Krasner THE METHOD: HOW THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT. By Isaac Butler. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022; pp. 512. Isaac Butler’s engaging book aims to examine Method Acting as a significant cultural event during the twentieth century. According to Butler, the Method challenged previously accepted norms and techniques of performing, defining the Meth…
Henrik Ibsen
Reviewed by: Henrik Ibsen: The Man and The Mask by Ivo de Figueiredo, and: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: Philosophi Cal Perspective ed. by Kristin Gjesdal David Krasner HENRIK IBSEN: THE MAN AND THE MASK. By Ivo de Figueiredo. Translated by Robert Ferguson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019; pp. 704. IBSEN'S HEDDA GABLER: PHILOSOPHI CAL PERSPECTIVE. Edited by Kristin Gjesdal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp. 272. The nineteen-century…
The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy
Reviewed by: The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama by David Kornhaber David Krasner THE BIRTH OF THEATER FROM THE SPIRIT OF PHILOSOPHY: NIETZSCHE AND THE MODERN DRAMA. By David Kornhaber. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016; pp. 256. Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy is one of the most important philosophical texts on modernity and drama. Nietzsche's thesis shifts our understandi…
Expectation, Melancholy, and Loss
Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman were produced in 1964, during a period of paradigm shifts in African American history. This essay examines the plays from the perspective of the historical background and social climate during the epicenter of the civil rights movement. Moreover, the essay argues that the protagonists of the plays were intellectuals beset by conflicting forces that impeded their desires for inte…
The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley
Reviewed by: The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley David Krasner THE BOYS IN THE BAND. By Mart Crowley. Directed by Joe Mantello. Booth Theatre, New York City. June 6, 2018. The Boys in the Band opened off-Broadway in 1968 and had a powerful impact on American theatre and culture. The revival on Broadway fifty years later raised the question: How much of an impact remains? With its Oscar Wilde–like wit and sharply defined characterizations, Crowle…
Nicholas Gebhardt. Vaudeville Melodies
Nicholas Gebhardt’s compelling book Vaudeville Melodies examines the rise of popular entertainment during the fifty-year period of vaudeville’s heyday in America. Vaudeville, likely derived from the French term voix de ville (voice of the city), emerged as the dominant form of American entertainment because, according to Gebhardt, it combined “solo singers and instrumentalists, song-and-dance acts, comics, animal acts, jugglers, monologists, one-…
Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play by Michael Y. Bennett
Reviewed by: Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play by Michael Y. Bennett David Krasner ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE WORLD OF THE PLAY. By Michael Y. Bennett. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies series. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017; pp. 156. In Michael Bennett's thoughtful book, analytic philosophy and dramatic performance share a balancing act between data and potentiality. In the case of analytic philosophy, as explaine…
Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann
Reviewed by: Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann David Krasner TRAGEDY AND DRAMATIC THEATRE. By Hans-Thies Lehmann. Translated by Erik Butler. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016; pp. 466. Few theories pose as great a challenge to define as those of tragedy. From ancient Greece through the Renaissance and into the modern age, the idea of what constitutes tragedy has been examined and reworked by philosophers and theorists, with shifting …
Tragic Modernities by Meriam Leonard, and
Reviewed by: Tragic Modernities by Meriam Leonard, and: Adorno and Modern Theatre: The Drama of the Damanged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker, and Kane by Karoline Gritzner David Krasner Tragic Modernities. By Meriam Leonard. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015; pp. 224. Adorno and Modern Theatre: The Drama of the Damanged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker, and Kane. By Karoline Gritzner. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 206. Trage…
Swing Along
Reviewed by: Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook David Krasner Marva Griffin Carter. Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. 184 pp. $27.95. Will Marion Cook (née William Mercer, 1869–1944) was a musician and composer best known for his work in black musicals. A student of the violin at the Oberlin Conservatory, tutored by Heinrich Jocobson at the Berlin Hochschule for Musik, and a protégé of An…
Forgotten Manuscripts
Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown Krystyn R. Moon (bio), David Krasner (bio), and Thomas L. Riis (bio) Finding A Trip to Coontown, by Krystyn R. Moon By 1897, most American audiences had had an opportunity to see African Americans perform on the stage during the previous thirty years. Hired by European American agents and managers, they were expected to reproduce many of the songs and skits that had been made famous in blackface minstrels…
The American Play, 1787–2000 (review)
Reviewed by: The American Play, 1787–2000 David Krasner The American Play, 1787–2000. By Marc Robinson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009; pp. 416. $45.00 cloth. The American Play illuminates the contradictory and competing features of selected American dramas, from Royall Tyler’s The Contrast to Wallace Shawn’s The Designated Mourner. Marc Robinson’s aim is to discourage the common view of American drama as primarily linear and realisti…
Babylon Girls
This book examines African American female performers—actresses, singers, vaudevillians, and comediennes—who revolutionized the theater and shaped modern black culture. Focusing on well-known performers (Florence Mills, Josephine Baker) and lesser-known artists (Aida Overton Walker, Ida Forsyne, Dora Dean), Jayna Brown analyzes the success of black women attempting to forge theatrical careers amid considerable obstacles during the late nineteenth…
Ira Aldridge
The Stanislavsky System of Acting
Reviewed by: The Stanislavsky System of Acting: Legacy and Influence in Modern Performance David Krasner The Stanislavsky System of Acting: Legacy and Influence in Modern Performance. By Rose Whyman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. pp. xviii + 297. $99.00 cloth. Stanislavsky's system is considered the gold standard of actor training in the West. Yet in the English-speaking world, we still lack many details of his critical method beca…
Rethinking Tragedy (review)
Reviewed by: Rethinking Tragedy David Krasner Rethinking Tragedy. Edited by Rita Felski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008; pp. viii + 368. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. In Edward Bond’s 1973 comedy The Sea, the iconoclastic hermit Evans observes: “They used to say tragedy purified, helped to let you go. Now it only embarrasses. They’ll make a law against it.” Along similar lines, the essays collected in Rethinking Tragedy examine tra…
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism
Reviewed by: Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy David Krasner Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy. By Toril Moi . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. xvi + 396. $35.00 cloth. Toril Mio, who is the James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, mounts an impressive challenge to those who consider Ibsen a "boring old realist." Ibsen's theatre, the aut…
Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism, and
Professing Performance
Reviewed by: Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity David Krasner Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity. By Shannon Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. xi + 254. $55.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. Among the more important of the many issues raised by Professing Performance are the history of theatre and drama education and the rise of performance stu…
What Have We Learned
W. E. B. Du Bois's profoundly important "four fundamental principles" of "a real Negro theatre" in 1926—"About us, By us, For us, and Near us"1 —were hardly written in a vacuum. One of the goals of the Harlem Renaissance was to define a "black play." The emergence of an African American theatre movement during the Harlem Renaissance raised questions about the meaning of black theatre. Drama critic Theophilus [End Page 585] Lewis put it succinctly…
The Stage Life of Props (review)
The Stage Life Of Props . By Andrew Sofer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003; pp. xvi + 278. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper
Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery
1. Introduction: Oprah Winfrey and the Sociology of Culture2. The Success of a Self-Failed Woman3. Everyday Life as the Uncanny: The Oprah Winfrey Show as a New Cultural Genre4. Pain and Circuses5. The Hypertext of Identity6. Suffering and Self-Help as Global Forms of Identity7. The Sources and Resources of The Oprah Winfrey Show8. Toward an Impure Critique of Popular Culture9. Conclusion: Ordinary People, Extraordinary TelevisionNotesBibliograph…
Stage Fright
In this superb examination of theatricality and its detractors, Martin Puchner takes a close look at the theories of Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett. According to Puchner, modernist anti-theatricalism was a reaction to a rise in theatrics, especially to anything indebted to Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk. The subjects of his study decidedly rejected Wagnerian illusion as t…
From Girl to Woman
The Rez Sisters
Whose Role is it Anyway
Parody and Double Consciousness in the Language of Early Black Musical Theatre
The early decades twentieth century were, in many respects, beginning period black aesthetic and intellectual reconstruction. Alain Locke identifies era as sudden flood-tide new life and vitality in African American music, dance, and musical comedy (57). Henry Louis Gates, Jr., maintains during time there emerged the era myth a a in search a Renaissance suitable contain culturally willed myth.(1) The notions new life, vitality, and New Negro in A…
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Hamlet
My Mother Said I Never Should
The Rez Sisters
Dusky Maidens
Stupid Plays and the Real World
Whose Role is it Anyway
Parody and Double Consciousness in the Language of Early Black Musical Theatre
The early decades twentieth century were, in many respects, beginning period black aesthetic and intellectual reconstruction. Alain Locke identifies era as sudden flood-tide new life and vitality in African American music, dance, and musical comedy (57). Henry Louis Gates, Jr., maintains during time there emerged the era myth a a in search a Renaissance suitable contain culturally willed myth.(1) The notions new life, vitality, and New Negro in A…
The Hairy Ape
African American Performance and Theater History
The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (review)
In The First Black Actors on the Great White Way, Susan Curtis provides an account of Ridgley Torrence's Three Plays for a Negro Theater. The focal point of her examination is the April 1917 opening of Torrence's one-act plays, The Rider of Dreams, Granny Maumee, and Simon, the Cyrenian. According to Curtis, the reception of these plays tells us a good deal about how "the ideas and values implied by Torrence's dramas were received, reworked, and …
Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African-American Theatre, 1895-1910
The First Black Actors on the Great White Way
Taken together, the two books reviewed here form a history of a neglected period of African American theatrical history: The two decades between Booker T. Washington's Cotton States Exposition speech in 1895 and the coming of the Great War. The age was startling in its energetic motion: Blacks moved north; cotton moved west; in Cuba the nation won its place among the imperialist powers; movies altered the rhythms of urban life; the fiftieth anniv…
Migration, Fragmentation, and Identity
Geography and migration played a key role in the description and formation of the Harlem Renaissance-New Negro era. 3 The Great Migration, which began just prior to World War I and continued well after, had a profound effect both on the cities of the north as well as the southern, rural communities left behind. Indeed, during the 1910s, nearly a half a million African Americans left the rural south for the urban north. 4 Within a decade more than…
Writing Himself into History
Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951) was a prolific novelist and filmmaker, producing forty-three films and seven novels. He was a leader in the production of African American silent films, director of early black “talkies,” and a strong supporter of Booker T. Washington's racial uplift policies. Known for his ballyhoo, he had a reputation for being an aggressive self-promoter. Some in the black press, however, referred to him as a “colored Judas.” He was …
Stage Fright
In this superb examination of theatricality and its detractors, Martin Puchner takes a close look at the theories of Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett. According to Puchner, modernist anti-theatricalism was a reaction to a rise in theatrics, especially to anything indebted to Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk. The subjects of his study decidedly rejected Wagnerian illusion as t…
From Girl to Woman
The Stage Life of Props (review)
The Stage Life Of Props . By Andrew Sofer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003; pp. xvi + 278. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper
Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery
1. Introduction: Oprah Winfrey and the Sociology of Culture2. The Success of a Self-Failed Woman3. Everyday Life as the Uncanny: The Oprah Winfrey Show as a New Cultural Genre4. Pain and Circuses5. The Hypertext of Identity6. Suffering and Self-Help as Global Forms of Identity7. The Sources and Resources of The Oprah Winfrey Show8. Toward an Impure Critique of Popular Culture9. Conclusion: Ordinary People, Extraordinary TelevisionNotesBibliograph…
Professing Performance
Reviewed by: Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity David Krasner Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity. By Shannon Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. xi + 254. $55.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. Among the more important of the many issues raised by Professing Performance are the history of theatre and drama education and the rise of performance stu…
What Have We Learned
W. E. B. Du Bois's profoundly important "four fundamental principles" of "a real Negro theatre" in 1926—"About us, By us, For us, and Near us"1 —were hardly written in a vacuum. One of the goals of the Harlem Renaissance was to define a "black play." The emergence of an African American theatre movement during the Harlem Renaissance raised questions about the meaning of black theatre. Drama critic Theophilus [End Page 585] Lewis put it succinctly…
Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism, and
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism
Reviewed by: Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy David Krasner Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy. By Toril Moi . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. xvi + 396. $35.00 cloth. Toril Mio, who is the James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, mounts an impressive challenge to those who consider Ibsen a "boring old realist." Ibsen's theatre, the aut…
Rethinking Tragedy (review)
Reviewed by: Rethinking Tragedy David Krasner Rethinking Tragedy. Edited by Rita Felski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008; pp. viii + 368. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. In Edward Bond’s 1973 comedy The Sea, the iconoclastic hermit Evans observes: “They used to say tragedy purified, helped to let you go. Now it only embarrasses. They’ll make a law against it.” Along similar lines, the essays collected in Rethinking Tragedy examine tra…
Babylon Girls
This book examines African American female performers—actresses, singers, vaudevillians, and comediennes—who revolutionized the theater and shaped modern black culture. Focusing on well-known performers (Florence Mills, Josephine Baker) and lesser-known artists (Aida Overton Walker, Ida Forsyne, Dora Dean), Jayna Brown analyzes the success of black women attempting to forge theatrical careers amid considerable obstacles during the late nineteenth…
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