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Feb 15, 2019 · Japanese woodblock print triptych by Kunichika, showing, from right, male kabuki actors in a version of Bulwer-Lytton’s play “Money,” and Western actors in Offenbach’s operetta “The Grand Duchess,” Shintomi-za, Yokohama, 1879. Photo: Courtesy of Laurence Senelick Collection
Laurence Senelick (born October 12, 1942) is an American scholar, educator, actor and director. He is the author, editor, or translator of many books. Teaching [ edit ]
Laurence Senelick has published over two dozen books on topics ranging from the Romantic operettas of Jacques Offenbach to the Realist dramas of Anton Chekhov to global histories of drag performance. His latest offering, The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage, broadens the scope of his oeuvre beyond the stage and to the grave. In this new ...
Oct 4, 2022 · Shakespeare’s plays provide ample opportunity for dramatic deaths onstage, and 18th-century English actors like David Garrick transformed simple stage directions in the text into “stirring set-pieces,” as Laurence Senelick writes in the below excerpt from his new book, The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage.
Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Oratory Emeritus. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard. His expertise is in Russian theatre and drama, history of popular entertainment, gender and performance, visual studies, history of directing, classical theory.
Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory at Tufts University. His last book The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre won the George Jean Nathan award as the best critical book about drama for 2000, and his previous book The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance won ASTR's Barnard Hewitt award for 1998.
Aug 21, 2014 · Laurence Senelick— Only in societies where art and literature are taken so seriously are they regarded as potent and dangerous. The Soviet conviction that culture matters was evident in the attention paid to even minor details of theatrical activity by the highest levels of the state bureaucracy.
