Professor%20Kirsten%20E%20Shepherd-Barr: List of publications
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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
November 2020
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Edited book
Book review of Ivo de Figueiredo biography of Ibsen
October 2020
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Journal article
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Scandinavica
Plague Inc.: Theatre’s Engagement with Mechanisms of Contagion and Containment
January 2019
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Theatres of Contagion
3604 Performing Arts, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
A Global Doll's House: Ibsen and Distant Visions. By Julie Holledge , Jonathan Bollen , Frode Helland and Joanne Tompkins . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. v + 233. €93.59 Hb; €76.99 Eb.
October 2017
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Journal article
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Theatre Research International
3604 Performing Arts, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Against interpretation?: Hedda and the performing self
January 2017
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Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives
This chapter reads Hedda Gabler as self-conscious actor and director of her own drama. It builds on the groundbreaking work of Gay Gibson Cima on Elizabeth Robins’s depiction of Hedda in 1891. Cima traced Robins’s development of an “autistic gesture” in acting the role of Hedda, whereby she would pause and gaze directly out at the audience. This created a tension between private mental state and public action, which in turn was part of a wider movement by actresses like Eleonora Duse and Janet Achurch to carve out a specific interior female space on stage through their gestures, expressions, and readings of roles. At the same time as Ibsen’s plays were premiering, suffrage theatre was beginning to highlight the related theme of how women were always performing a role and following a script someone else had written. Hedda is perhaps Ibsen’s strongest representation of women’s self-suppression and adoption of another’s identity.
Emerging poetic forms
December 2016
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Late Victorian Into Modern
This chapter fastens on the ‘first moment in literary history when poetry was not expected to follow fixed, inherited, generically specific rules about scansion, line length, syllable weight, or rhyme’—a moment when poetry blossomed in a remarkable efflorescence of prosodic and musical experiment, as represented by Eliot, Dobson, Dowson, Pound, Whitman, and others. The First World War invigorated the writing and reading of poetry but it also had a recursive effect on form and diction. By the 1920s, it is contended, poetry was at a three-way stand-off between modish <i>vers libre</i>, the consoling traditional poetic forms of the soldier poets, and the increasingly complex experiments and pastiches of the avant-garde.
diction, vers libre, experiment, prosody, scansion, pastiche
Late Victorian into Modern
October 2016
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Book
The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.
This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasises the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The volume examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. The organising principle of this book is to retain a key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press and publishing history, performance events and visual culture, while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations, avant-garde poetics, and theatricality.
What Was the New Drama?
October 2016
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Chapter
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Late Victorian into Modern
fin de siecle theatre, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century drama, G.B. Shaw, Elizabeth Robins, Susan Glaspell, theatre and modernism
Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction
February 2016
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Book
The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has become, and how vibrant and diverse in both text and performance.
This Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, covering two decades per chapter, from early modernist theatre through post-war developments to more recent and contemporary theatre. Shepherd-Barr tracks the emergence of new theories from the likes of Brecht and Beckett alongside groundbreaking productions to illuminate the fascinating evolution of modern drama.
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Drama
The Diagnostic Gaze: Nineteenth-Century Contexts for Performance and Medicine
February 2016
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Chapter
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Performance and the Medical Body
Victorian theatre, medicine, drama, theatre and science
‘Unmediated’ Science Plays: Seeing What Sticks
January 2016
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Chapter
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Staging Science
3604 Performing Arts, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett
March 2015
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Book
Evolutionary theory made its stage debut as early as the 1840s, reflecting a scientific advancement that was fast changing the world. Tracing this development in dozens of mainstream European and American plays, as well as in circus, vaudeville, pantomime, and "missing link" performances, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times. The stage proved to be no mere handmaiden to evolutionary science, though, often resisting and altering the ideas at its core. Many dramatists cast suspicion on the arguments of evolutionary theory and rejected its claims, even as they entertained its thrilling possibilities. Engaging directly with the relation of science and culture, this book considers the influence of not only Darwin but also Lamarck, Chambers, Spencer, Wallace, Haeckel, de Vries, and other evolutionists on 150 years of theater. It shares significant new insights into the work of Ibsen, Shaw, Wilder, and Beckett, and writes female playwrights, such as Susan Glaspell and Elizabeth Baker, into the theatrical record, unpacking their dramatic explorations of biological determinism, gender essentialism, the maternal instinct, and the "cult of motherhood." It is likely that more people encountered evolution at the theater than through any other art form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Considering the liveliness and immediacy of the theater and its reliance on a diverse community of spectators and the power that entails, this book is a key text for grasping the extent of the public's adaptation to the new theory and the legacy of its representation on the perceived legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of scientific work.
Art
Guest Editorial
September 2014
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Journal article
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Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
'I'm Evolving!': Varieties of Evolution on the Victorian Stage
January 2014
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Chapter
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Evolution and Victorian Culture
theatre, evolution, Victorian drama
Ibsen in France from Breakthrough to Renewal
June 2012
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Journal article
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Ibsen Studies
‘It Was Ugly’: Maternal Instinct on Stage at the Fin de Siècle
January 2012
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Journal article
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Women: a cultural review
Faustus and the Modern Scientist on Stage
January 2011
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Other
Commissioned article for membership magazine of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Staging Modernism: A New Drama
January 2011
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms
Des 'Lien significatifs': Luca Ronconi et les scientifiques ['Meaningful Joinings': Luca Ronconi and the Scientists]
January 2009
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Journal article
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Alternatives Theatrales
Darwin on Stage: Evolutionary Theory in the Theatre
January 2008
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Journal article
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Interdiscipliniary Science Reviews
The Development of Norway’s National Theatres
January 2008
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National Theatres in a Changing Europe
Wilde About Ibsen: The Fusion of Dramatic Modes in A Woman of No Importance
January 2008
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Chapter
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde
Science and Theatre in Open Dialogue: Biblioetica, Le Cas de Sophie K., and the Postdramatic Science Play
September 2006
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Journal article
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Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Ibsen's Globalism
January 2006
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Journal article
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Ibsen Studies
Science on Stage From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen
January 2006
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Book
In the process, she raises timeless questions about truth, morality, and social responsibility. This is a scholarly tour de force equally accessible to scientists, artists, and humanists.
Performing Arts
From Copenhagen to Infinity and Beyond: Science Meets Literature on Stage
September 2003
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Journal article
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Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Hilbert's Hotel, Other Paradoxes, Come to Life in New ‘Math Play'
September 2003
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Journal article
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SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Acting out the search for infinity
July 2003
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Physics World
49 Mathematical Sciences, 51 Physical Sciences
Reconsidering Joyce's Exiles in its Theatrical Context
July 2003
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Theatre Research International
3604 Performing Arts, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Copenhagen and Beyond: The ‘Rich and Mentally Nourishing' Interplay of Science and Theatre
January 2002
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Journal article
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Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Science as Theater
January 2002
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Journal article
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American Scientist
Ibsen, Munch, and the Relationship between Modernist Theatre and Art
January 2000
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Journal article
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Nordic Theatre Studies
‘Mise en Scent’: The Théâtre d'Art's Cantique des cantiques and the Use of Smell as a Theatrical Device
January 1999
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Journal article
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Theatre Research International
3604 Performing Arts, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Madeleines and Neuromodernism: Reassessing Mechanisms of Autobiographical Memory in Proust
January 1998
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a/b Auto/Biography Studies
4705 Literary Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 3602 Creative and Professional Writing
Ibsen and Early Modernist Theatre, 1890-1900
January 1997
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Book
One of the aims of the current study is to suggest ways in which we can reclaim
the term 'modernism' from its literary-critical currency, by putting theatrical
performance and dramatic writing firmly in the context of contemporary
movements in the ...
Literary Criticism
Conference Organizer
Conference paper
Conference Organizer
Conference paper
Conference Paper
Conference paper
Gould as Darwin: Speculations on a Lost Play
Conference paper
Guest Speaker
Conference paper
Separate Pools of Light: Gender, Biography, and Science on Stage
Conference paper
Staging Modernism
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Handbook to Modernisms
Unspeakable Acts: Silence, Death and the Female Body in Plays od Robius and Glaspell