Richard Paul Knowles
Biographic Data
| ID | 1508796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Paul Knowles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Knowles |
| SIGNATURE | KNOWLES R P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, raises questions about how alternative origin stories …
From Dream to Machine
From Dream to Machine: Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, and the Contemporary Shakespearean Director as (Post)Modernist Richard Paul Knowles (bio) This essay considers the cultural work done by the role of the Shakespearean director, locates the discourses and practices of contemporary Shakespearean directing within the appropriative discourses and practices of high modernist formalism, and traces continuities between modernist and postmodernist manife…
Representing Canada
From Nationalist to Multinational
The Stratford Story, it is called,' particularly story of Festival's founding, has been told and retold in Canada, most often under auspices of Festival's official discourse, where it not surprisingly functions, like a kind of institutional autobiography, justification. According to this narrative, Festival's first opening night on July 13, 1953-which Herbert Whittaker, who has been called dean of Canadian theatre critics, called the most excitin…
The Stratford Festival Story
Myth and Type in As You Like It
If many a careful scholar still hesitates to accept mythical readings of Shakespeare, it is largely because up to now there have been few studies in the middle range between theoretical interpretations on the one hand and historical fact on the other. One has had to be content. with the best of either world but seldom of both. Drawing on anthropological and psychological theories, Northrop Frye makes illuminating, even dazzling analogies between …
From Nationalist to Multinational
The Stratford Story, it is called,' particularly story of Festival's founding, has been told and retold in Canada, most often under auspices of Festival's official discourse, where it not surprisingly functions, like a kind of institutional autobiography, justification. According to this narrative, Festival's first opening night on July 13, 1953-which Herbert Whittaker, who has been called dean of Canadian theatre critics, called the most excitin…
From Dream to Machine
From Dream to Machine: Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, and the Contemporary Shakespearean Director as (Post)Modernist Richard Paul Knowles (bio) This essay considers the cultural work done by the role of the Shakespearean director, locates the discourses and practices of contemporary Shakespearean directing within the appropriative discourses and practices of high modernist formalism, and traces continuities between modernist and postmodernist manife…
Myth and Type in As You Like It
If many a careful scholar still hesitates to accept mythical readings of Shakespeare, it is largely because up to now there have been few studies in the middle range between theoretical interpretations on the one hand and historical fact on the other. One has had to be content. with the best of either world but seldom of both. Drawing on anthropological and psychological theories, Northrop Frye makes illuminating, even dazzling analogies between …
The Stratford Festival Story
Representing Canada
From Nationalist to Multinational
The Stratford Story, it is called,' particularly story of Festival's founding, has been told and retold in Canada, most often under auspices of Festival's official discourse, where it not surprisingly functions, like a kind of institutional autobiography, justification. According to this narrative, Festival's first opening night on July 13, 1953-which Herbert Whittaker, who has been called dean of Canadian theatre critics, called the most excitin…
From Dream to Machine
From Dream to Machine: Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, and the Contemporary Shakespearean Director as (Post)Modernist Richard Paul Knowles (bio) This essay considers the cultural work done by the role of the Shakespearean director, locates the discourses and practices of contemporary Shakespearean directing within the appropriative discourses and practices of high modernist formalism, and traces continuities between modernist and postmodernist manife…
The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, raises questions about how alternative origin stories …
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works)