Stage Combat Resource Materials - A Selected And Annotated Bibliography

Informationen zum Autor Michael Kirkland is Chairman, Department of Theatre Arts, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Klappentext This book is designed to educate the reader about the evolution and development of arms, armor, and personal combat for the stage. It is the perfect guide for locating books, articles, and videos for those involved in the historical reenactment of duels and battles. It simultaneously offers historical context and points the reader toward useful and easily obtainable resources to inform their fights, costumes, and stage weaponry. This resource text is a must have for fight directors, teachers of stage combat, historical re-enactors, costumers, and weapons makers. The body of the work is divided up into five chapters and a series of appendices containing a compendium of useful information for fight directors and weapons makers. Chapter one surveys the evolution and development of arms, armor, and personal combat. Chapters two, three, and four consist of annotations of books, articles, and videos respectively. Chapter five offers concluding remarks on the project. Zusammenfassung This resource text is a must have for fight directors! teachers of stage combat! historical re-enactors! costumers! and weapons makers. The body of the work is divided up into five chapters and a series of appendices containing a compendium of useful information for fight directors and weapons makers.

Product details

• Authors: J. Michael Kirkland, Michael Kirkland, Kirkland Michael
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2006
• EAN: 9780313307102
• ISBN: 978-0-313-30710-2
• No. of pages: 343
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in; Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, The Arts: Drama