Browsing by Author "Houlahan, Mark"

• 1869 in Stages 

  Houlahan, Mark (2019)

  My question in this paper is very simple. If you went to the Theatre in Aotearoa/NZ in 1869, what could you see? How were theatre goers in 1869 entertained? Indeed I toyed with subtitles, such as Maximus/Russell Crowe's ...

  

• Bearings: [Review of "Being here: Selected poems" by Vincent O'Sullivan] 

  Houlahan, Mark (Otago University Press, 2016)

  Review of "Being here: Selected poems" by Vincent O'Sullivan

• Book review: Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage. The Shakespearean International Yearbook, vol.9: Specialsection, South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century. Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. 

  Houlahan, Mark (Cambridge University Press, 2011-05)

  This article reviews three books: “Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage” edited by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia, “The Shakespearean International Yearbook, vol. 9: Special section, South ...

• Henry V in 1972: Learning from Ngaio Marsh. 

  Houlahan, Mark (2021)

  Mark Houlahan University of Waikato Henry the Fifth in 1972: learning from Ngaio Marsh In the evening of October 1, 1972, the James Hay Theatre in the Christchurch Town Hall was officially launched with an impressively ...

  

• Introduction 

  Houlahan, Mark (Waikato Press, 2019)

  When Dr Johnson, the 18• century critic, was asked to describe the quality of the poets from Pembroke College, Oxford (where the great doctor was briefly an undergraduate); he proudly said: "Sir, we are a nest of singing ...

  

• History in multimodal gameplay: A new language and model for constructing, experiencing, and studying the past 

  Redder, Ben Dorrington (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  This doctoral study examines how historical gameplay constructs and provides ways of experiencing history within (historical) video games. Historical gameplay is examined and defined as an expression of history within ...

  

• Poetic lives: Verse biography in Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Anderson-O'Connor, Aimee-Jane (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  Bringing together a selection of Aotearoa New Zealand verse biographies, and drawing on perspectives deriving from decolonizing methodologies, and from historical and feminist revision and reclamation, as well as my own ...

  

• Speaking Through Sacrifice: Rhetorical and Social Functions of Sacrifice within Long-Form Contemporary Fantasy Literature 

  Elder, Matthew J. (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  Long-form contemporary fantasy narratives present the opportunity for readers to immerse themselves in worlds both different from and resonant with our own. These narratives are fundamentally invested in questions of how ...

  

• The othering othered: English female travel writers in Arabia 

  Hakami, Thabit Yahya (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  This thesis examines female travel writing in Arabia. Travel writing as an Orientalist discourse influenced both ordinary and well-educated people in the West to look at the Orient through Orientalist stereotypes: “primitive” ...

  

• Takitoru: creative practice toward the development of a trilingual dramaturgical kaupapa 

  Lodge, Alexandra Rose Pittaway (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  I have focused on writing a play in the three languages of Aotearoa: New Zealand Sign Language, te reo Māori, and NZ English. Through the development of this script with three actors I have found techniques for performance ...

  

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