History of Performing Arts

An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around the dramatic stakes of dignity, but that to do so reveals - in new ways - central aspects of serial television drama as an art form.

Marking the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage, Leslie Hill provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement.

This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter's overtly political activity.

This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present.

Motion Capture in Performance explores the historical origins, properties and implications of Motion Capture.

This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights.

Winner of the TaPRA New Career Research in Theatre/Performance Prize 2016 This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.

Shaul Bassi is AssociateProfessor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University ofVenice, Italy.

The first ever full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department, covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, its London-based residences for writers from overseas, and the legacies of workshops conducted in more than 30 countries.

At the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues.

Child labor greatly contributed to the cultural and economic success of the British Victorian theatrical industry.

This book explains the connections between traditional performance (e.

This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first century.

Combining a range of content with self-reflexive examination by scholars and practitioners, this edited volume interrogates the contemporary significance of the avant-garde.

Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface.

Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre.

Performance, Transport and Mobility is an investigation into how performance moves, how it engages with ideas about movement, and how it potentially shapes our experiences of movement.

Focusing on Glasgow's earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city's most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century.

This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance - social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground - is employed as a mechanism for survival.

This book illustrates how local awareness of Western cultural hegemonic entities such as Broadway and Shakespeare have been implemented within South Korean theatre in the global era.

This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000.

This book considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking.

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.

Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance.

Collaboration between artists has been practised for centuries, yet over recent decades the act of collaborating has taken different meanings.

American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance.

Gao Xingjian has been lauded for his inventive use of Chinese culture in his paintings, plays, and cinema, however he denies that his current work participates in any notion of Chinese.

A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984.

Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day.

This book reflects on the aftermath of shifts encountered in the maturing of digital culture in areas of critical theory and artistic practices, focusing on the awareness that contemporary subjectivity is one that dwells within both the virtual and the real.

Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity.

This book explores the secret relations between theatre and diplomacy from the Tudors to the Treaty of Westphalia.

The earliest complete morality play in English, The Castle of Perseverance depicts the culture of medieval East Anglia, a region once known for its production of artistic objects.

This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane's Blasted and Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem.

In New Labour's empathetic regime, how did diverse voices scrutinize its etiquettes of articulation and audibility?

This interdisciplinary project draws on a wealth of sources (visual, material, literary and theatrical) to examine Austen's depiction of female performance, display and desire through her deployment of a culturally and symbolically charged accessory: the muff.

This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance.

Many theatres host post-show discussions, or talkbacks, as part of their season.

As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners"e; to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays.

Performance and Temporalisation features a collection of scholars and artists writing about the coming forth of time as human experience.

This handbook is the first to provide a systematic investigation of the various roles of producers in commercial and not-for-profit musical theatre.

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Everyone has heard of Method acting .

The first edited volume to examine philosopher Slavoj Zizek's influence on, and his relevance for, theatre and performance studies.

This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.

British Theatre and the Great War examines how theatre in its various forms adapted itself to the new conditions of 1914-1918.

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context?

Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change.

History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts.