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Joseph Roach is an American theater historian and scholar, a Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale University. He is also a published author and an honorary Doctor of Letters recipient from University of Warwick.
Joseph Roach is a scholar of theater, drama, and performance studies. He has taught at Yale, NYU, Northwestern, and Washington University, and has published books on topics such as charismatic celebrity, circum-Atlantic performance, and the science of acting.
Mar 5, 2019 · Joseph Roach, a theater historian and professor emeritus at Yale, discusses how actors in Shakespeare's era were believed to manipulate animal spirits and humors to stir up passions in the audience. He also explores how modern science and psychology have changed our understanding of acting and emotion over time.
That mysterious characteristic “It”—“the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people”—is the subject of Joseph Roach’s engrossing new book, which crisscrosses centuries and continents with a deep playfulness that entertains while it enlightens.
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Apr 12, 2007 · That mysterious characteristic “It”—“the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people”—is the subject of Joseph Roach’s engrossing new book, which...
Joseph Roach is professor of English at Tulane University. He is the author of The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting, which won the Barnard Hewitt Award, and coeditor, with Janeele Reinelt, of Critical Theory and Performance.
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Framed within the paradoxical world-views of each Western theatre time period from Roman theatre onwards, Joseph Roach masterfully introduces the evolution of Western theatre. An insightful book that provokes much thoughts with regards to the on-going evolution of theatre.
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