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As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful clichés that pit, above all, the director against the playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between Continental theatre and Continental philosophy. The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf, Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the works of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative dialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek in order to explore the thinking of Regie – how to think Regie, and how Regie thinks. -- .

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Few Victorian women could claim to have had as adventurous a life as May French Sheldon. Brought up in a well-to-do home, her mother was a medical doctor and her father took her with him on his travels. After meeting and marrying Eli Sheldon, she moved from the United States to London, running a small publishing house there. In 1891, she set out on her own to explore Africa, meeting chiefs and sultans in a stunning full-length white dress, accompanied by 140 porters over whom she wielded control with pistol, lash and a banner proclaiming 'Noli me tangere' which flew from her walking stick. Upon her return a year later, her account was published: a century later, it is accompanied by a critical introduction by Ohio-based professor Tracey Jean Boisseau, who examines her impact both culturally and politically. (Kirkus UK)

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Tracey Jean Boisseau has recently received her Ph.D. in U.S. Women's History from Binghamton University in New York.

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