Martin Banham
Biographic Data
| ID | 176738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Banham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Banham |
| SIGNATURE | BANHAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African Theatre 16
A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untranslated works - a superb resource for scholars and theatre practitioners.
African Theatre 15
African Theatre 15
African Theatre 14
African Theatre 12
African Theatre 11
Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre. During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing ar…
African Theatre 9
African Theatre 7
Profiles theatre companies in Africa working creatively in the context of financial and political constraints. A close scrutiny of how theatre companies operate is an often neglected aspect of theatre life in Africa, yet, as companies profiled here grapple with the issues of 'creativity and collaboration' much is revealed about the way theatre companies across the continent face the challenges of financial constraints, the political complications…
A History of Theatre in Africa
Preface Martin Banham 1. Concepts of history and theatre in Africa Kole Omotoso 2. North Africa: (a) Egypt Ahmed Zaki (b) Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia Kamal Salhi (c) Sudan Khalid AlMubarak Mustafa 3. Francophone Africa south of the Sahara John Conteh-Morgan 4. Anglophone West Africa: (a) Nigeria Dapo Adelugba and Olu Obafemi, additional material by Sola Adeyemi (b) Ghana James Gibbs (c) Sierra Leone Mohamed Sheriff (d) A note on recent Anglophon…
Ira Aldridge
Reviewed by: Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius Martin Banham Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius Ed. Bernth LindforsRochester: U of Rochester P, 2007. xii + 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-58046-258-7 cloth. My own introduction to the extraordinary career of Ira Aldridge was through the late Errol Hill's fascinating study Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors (Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1984). For an appetite thus whetted, the presen…
African theatre and the University of Leeds
This paper discusses the impact that teaching and research on African theatre in the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds’ School of English may have had in Africa and elsewhere. After surveying the productivity and influence of the Workshop Theatre to the present, the authors ask if they have contributed meaningfully to the development, the promotion, and the excellence of African theatre. In addition, the authors question if the Leeds Un…
Shakespeare and Africa
Shakespeare's work reached Africa no later than it reached the most distant parts of his own country. In 1607 there are reports of performances of Hamlet and Richard II by British sailors off the coast of Sierra Leone. This hardly raised the floodgates of performance, but in 1800 the African Theatre – an amateur theatre set up in Cape Town, South Africa, by the soldiers of the British garrison – opened with a performance of I Henry IV , and since…
A Rebirth in African Theatre
The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre
endeavor present dynamic interaction of performance traditions from all cultures in presentday is further enhanced by the Cambridge Guide Asian Theatre and the present Guide African and Caribbean Theatre. The policy of the original guide to celebrate popular theatre and popular entertainment, also by tracing systematically the indebtedness of art theater popular forms of entertainment has been further developed in the present guide. This Guide co…
Power and Performance
The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre
The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre is a new, illustrated, single-volume reference that emphasizes international theater and performance in its broadest sense. A-to-Z entries provide clear and concise information on traditions, theories, companies, playwrights, practitioners, venues and events. More than 300 photographs and drawings supplement the text to make this the ideal resource for theatergoers, general readers, students and professionals.…
Ola Rotimi
Recent Writing on Interculturalism
Teaching African Literature Critically
BBC Television's dull Shakespeares
African Theatre Today
South Africa
Idanre and Other Poems
African Literature II
America, Their America
African Literature II
Idanre and Other Poems
African Theatre Today
South Africa
BBC Television's dull Shakespeares
Teaching African Literature Critically
Recent Writing on Interculturalism
Ola Rotimi
The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre
The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre is a new, illustrated, single-volume reference that emphasizes international theater and performance in its broadest sense. A-to-Z entries provide clear and concise information on traditions, theories, companies, playwrights, practitioners, venues and events. More than 300 photographs and drawings supplement the text to make this the ideal resource for theatergoers, general readers, students and professionals.…
Power and Performance
The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre
endeavor present dynamic interaction of performance traditions from all cultures in presentday is further enhanced by the Cambridge Guide Asian Theatre and the present Guide African and Caribbean Theatre. The policy of the original guide to celebrate popular theatre and popular entertainment, also by tracing systematically the indebtedness of art theater popular forms of entertainment has been further developed in the present guide. This Guide co…
A Rebirth in African Theatre
Shakespeare and Africa
Shakespeare's work reached Africa no later than it reached the most distant parts of his own country. In 1607 there are reports of performances of Hamlet and Richard II by British sailors off the coast of Sierra Leone. This hardly raised the floodgates of performance, but in 1800 the African Theatre – an amateur theatre set up in Cape Town, South Africa, by the soldiers of the British garrison – opened with a performance of I Henry IV , and since…
African theatre and the University of Leeds
This paper discusses the impact that teaching and research on African theatre in the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds’ School of English may have had in Africa and elsewhere. After surveying the productivity and influence of the Workshop Theatre to the present, the authors ask if they have contributed meaningfully to the development, the promotion, and the excellence of African theatre. In addition, the authors question if the Leeds Un…
African Theatre 7
Profiles theatre companies in Africa working creatively in the context of financial and political constraints. A close scrutiny of how theatre companies operate is an often neglected aspect of theatre life in Africa, yet, as companies profiled here grapple with the issues of 'creativity and collaboration' much is revealed about the way theatre companies across the continent face the challenges of financial constraints, the political complications…
A History of Theatre in Africa
Preface Martin Banham 1. Concepts of history and theatre in Africa Kole Omotoso 2. North Africa: (a) Egypt Ahmed Zaki (b) Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia Kamal Salhi (c) Sudan Khalid AlMubarak Mustafa 3. Francophone Africa south of the Sahara John Conteh-Morgan 4. Anglophone West Africa: (a) Nigeria Dapo Adelugba and Olu Obafemi, additional material by Sola Adeyemi (b) Ghana James Gibbs (c) Sierra Leone Mohamed Sheriff (d) A note on recent Anglophon…
Ira Aldridge
Reviewed by: Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius Martin Banham Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius Ed. Bernth LindforsRochester: U of Rochester P, 2007. xii + 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-58046-258-7 cloth. My own introduction to the extraordinary career of Ira Aldridge was through the late Errol Hill's fascinating study Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors (Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1984). For an appetite thus whetted, the presen…
African Theatre 9
African Theatre 11
Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre. During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing ar…
African Theatre 12
African Theatre 14
African Theatre 15
African Theatre 15
History (15 works) · Art (13 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (8 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (7 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works)