History of Performing Arts

Winner of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's 2021 Bevington Award for Best New BookSounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period.

This book examines the influence of the early modern period on Antonin Artaud's seminal work The Theatre and Its Double, arguing that Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and their early modern context are an integral part of the Theatre of Cruelty and essential to its very understanding.

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660.

This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power.

This book, the first of its kind, surveys the career of the renowned Australian-German theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky.

This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurelien Lugne-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W.

This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship.

Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925.

This book analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Although television critics have often differed with the public with respect to the artistic and cultural merits of television programming, over the last half-century television has indubitably influenced popular culture and vice versa.

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 book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States during the 1920s.

Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens stands in a class of his own.

Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett's rich influences over American writing.

Life in the theatre is often a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows.

Unions, Strikes, Shaw: 'The Capitalism of the Proletariat' is the first book to treat Bernard Shaw-socialist, dramatist, public speaker and union member-in relation to unions and strikes.

Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight.

This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw's Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama.

This volume is the seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance.

Mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, but death and violence continue to be staples of popular television.

Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self.

The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell'Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original.

For the first 70 years of television, broadcasters dictated the terms of the viewing experience, deciding not only when but how much of a program an audience could watch.

From mindfulness in schools to meditation apps, mental health is bursting out of the psychiatrist's chair and into our everyday conversations.

This monograph provides the first sustained, chronological account of Northern Irish police officers' representation in theatre.

Some of the most raucous evenings in the history of theater are chronicled in this lively discussion of occasions when theater-makers changed the course of theatrical, and sometimes world, history.

Some of the most raucous evenings in the history of theater are chronicled in this lively discussion of occasions when theater-makers changed the course of theatrical, and sometimes world, history.

Online television streaming has radically changed the ways in which programs are produced, disseminated and watched.

Online television streaming has radically changed the ways in which programs are produced, disseminated and watched.

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A lively guide to fifty popular musicals from the comedy classics of the 1930s and 1940sto the frequently produced darlings of modern theater.

Andre Bazin's writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written.

The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America.

Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 19581977explores how documentarians working between the election of John F.

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

This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre.

This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings.

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

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.

One of the world's most well known fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887.

Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still extremely effective at creating role models with lasting psychological resonance and allegories with extraordinary emotional impact.

Fans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture.

This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen.

Premiering on Fox in 2009, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was an innovative, contentious and short-lived science fiction series whose themes were challenging for viewers from the outset.

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This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy.

The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussion.

When Ozzie Nelson died in 1975, he was no longer a household name.