Pirandello's Debut as Director: the Opening of the Teatro d' Arte

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 349-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Bassnett
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
State Patronage ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The University ◽  
Creative Life

In this, the centenary year of Pirandello's birth, there has been a revival, hopefully more than just circumstantial, of interest in his work in the English-speaking theatre – which has previously tended to acknowledge his influence without often producing his plays. But Pirandello's own theatrical ambitions, which came quite late in his creative life, were initially as a director – indeed, the association with Mussolini which has sometimes cast a pall upon his reputation was largely in the interests of obtaining state patronage for his Teatro d' Arte company, which struggled unsuccessfully for survival between 1925 and 1928. Initially, however, hopes were high, and the inaugural productions both artistically and technically exciting. In the following feature. Susan Bassnett, a Pirandello specialist who teaches in the Graduate School of Comparative Literature in the University of Warwick and is a regular contributor to NTQ, describes the circumstances behind the opening of the company, while Alessandro Tinterri, of the Actors' Museum of Genoa, analyzes the curious encounter in the first major production. The Gods of the Mountain, between Pirandello as director and the now little-remembered Irish cricketer-dramatist. Lord Dunsany.

Women Experiment with Theatre: Magdalena 86

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 224-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Bassnett
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
International School ◽  
Female Role ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Experimental Theatre ◽  
The University

In the autumn of last year, two events took place which marked in very different ways the recognition that feminist thinking has affected theatre more profoundly than through the necessary logistics of job and role redistribution. In August, the first-ever festival of women in experimental theatre, known as Magdalena 86, took place in Cardiff. Then, in the following month, the International School of Theatre Anthropology devoted its congress in Holstebro, Denmark, to the subject of ‘The Female Role’ – a title we borrow for this short feature, in which Susan Bassnett. who teaches in the Graduate School of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, and has been a regular contributor both to NTQ and its predecessor, analyzes and evaluates these occasions in successive reports. The core paper presented at Holstebro by ISTA director Eugenio Barba, which discusses the balance between the qualities of ‘animus’ and ‘anima’ necessary to the actor's energy, ‘completes’ a feature which, in the questions it raises for further discussion, remains necessarily inconclusive.

Structuralism and After: Trends and Tendencies in Theatre Analysis, Part One

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Susan Bassnett
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
European Theatre ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University ◽  
New Generation

Susan Bassnett's ‘Introduction to Theatre Semiotics’ appeared in TQ38 (1980). reflecting in its very title the need to make theatre people of the English-speaking world better aware of approaches to theatre analysis which had been influential on the Continent since the work of the pioneer Czech semioticians of the 'thirties. But, as she now points out. these early workers in the field were themselves theatre practitioners, while more recent approaches have suffered from a tendency to divorce creators of theatre from the process and the vocabulary of analysis. Developing her account from the papers presented at the Conference on Theatre Analysis held last year at the University of Warwick, where she herself teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature. Susan Bassnett here introduces the corrective work of the new generation of continental theatre analysts, and relates their ideas and approaches to the recent decline of energy felt in British (as in most European) theatre, paralleled as it is by a growth in the influence of non-western theatre forms.

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

Adam Ferguson was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment. A friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, Ferguson was among the leading exponents of the Scottish Enlightenment’s attempts to develop a science of man and was among the first in the English speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society, and political science. This book challenges many of the prevailing assumptions about Ferguson’s thinking. It explores how Ferguson sought to create a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising with a view to supporting the virtuous education of the British elite. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a nostalgic republican sceptical about modernity, and instead is one much closer to the mainstream Scottish Enlightenment’s defence of eighteenth century British commercial society.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 887-890
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Temple University ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
The University ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Tuition Fee

POSTGRADUATE COURSE A continuous course of 2 weeks duration is being offered by the Departments of Allergy and Applied Immunology of the Temple University Medical Center and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Sessions will be held daily at the Temple University Medical Center from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. from February 27 to March 10, 1961. Tuition Fee—$175.00. Enrollment limited. An outstanding faculty has been assembled to review the basic principles of immunology and allergy as applied to clinical practice.

Hiroyuki Suzuki (1945–2014)

2014 ◽  
pp. 90-91
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Matsukuma ◽  
Yoshiaki Hanada
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
The University ◽  
General Director

We must bring to you all a very heartbreaking notice of the sudden and totally unexpected loss of a giant, our beloved and most admired Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki, who was not only the former and first president of docomomo Japan but also a Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo, Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University Graduate School and the General Director of the Museum Meiji-Mura (a major outdoor architectural museum).

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

PMLA ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-882
Author(s):  
Cyndia Susan Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Local Committee ◽  
The University ◽  
Slavic Studies

The association's most significant news is its change in name from PAPC to PAMLA to strengthen its identification with the Modem Language Association and to maintain the historic presence of classical languages. The association's ninety-third annual meeting will be held 3-5 November 1995 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, hosted by the College of Letters and Science with its Division of the Humanities, and cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Department of Classics, the Comparative Literature Program, the Department of English, the Department of Germanic, Semitic, and Slavic Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Gerhart Hoffmeister, professor of German, is serving as chair of the local committee.

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