[NEohioPAL] Cleveland Public Library: Books on Aristophanes, Bollywood, and Comedies

[Donald Boozer]

The following books pertaining to the performing arts are just a 
sampling of the variety available from the Literature Department at 
Cleveland Public Library...
The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main 
Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue. 
Click on the link provided to access the library’s catalog to reserve 
any of these titles. For more information, visit our location, call 216-
623-2881, or email us at “literature <at> cpl.org.”

Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance 
Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy.
Martin Reverman.
Oxford University Press, 2006.
(PA3879 .R48 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=019815271x
(Link includes cover art and a link to table of contents)
This book “situates Aristophanic comedy in the context of competitive 
reperformance culture in fifth- and fourth-century Greece. It seeks of 
illuminate how the dazzling busyness of Aristophanic comedy is the 
creation of a carefully manipulating craftsman trying to out do his 
rivals in the fierce competition of the dramatic festivals. Informed by 
theatre semiotics and frame-based models of conceptualizing the 
theatrical event, the book analyses in a number of case studies how 
theatrical resources of all kinds are utilized in order to generate 
theatrical meaning as well as capture and sustain audience interest. 
Martin Revermann's approach therefore combines philological analysis 
with methodologies developed in Theatre Studies. Special attention is 
given to the visual dimension of theatrical communication. Material 
from comparator traditions is brought to bear, as is the evidence of 
the pictorial record." – from book jacket


Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian 
Moviemaking.
Stephen Alter.
Harcourt, 2007.
(PN1993.5.I8 A73 2007)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=9780156030847
(Link includes cover art, a review, and table of contents)
“Stephen Alter – a writer who grew up in India and has inside access to 
Bollywood – acts as translator and tour guide in [this] firsthand look 
into the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywood 
version of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindi movies 
and the actors, directors, musicians, and feats of artifice that make 
them so compelling and unique. The result is a beguiling introduction 
to the rituals and culture of a moviemaking industry so similar to and 
yet utterly different from our own.” – from book jacket.


Four Great Restoration Comedies: Wycherley, Etherege, Behn, Vanbrugh.
Edited by Janet Baine Kopito.
Dover Publications, Inc., 2005.
(PR1266 .F673 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=0486445704
(Link includes cover art and table of contents)
“When England's theaters reopened in 1660, eighteen years after being 
closed by an act of Parliament, audiences embraced the witty and 
satirical dialogue spoken by "plain folks" characters-it was a new era 
in drama. The four comedy classics featured in this one convenient 
collection are typical of the works popularized during one of the most 
exciting and innovative periods in English theater.” – from book jacket

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Donald Boozer
Subject Department Librarian
Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer at cpl.org
216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
http://www.cpl.org