Theatre: technical and background skills

Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.

This book explores collaboration, theatre practice, and Shakespeare''s canon by analysing the evidence of manuscripts used in early modern playhouses.

This book explores collaboration, theatre practice, and Shakespeare''s canon by analysing the evidence of manuscripts used in early modern playhouses.

An invaluable introduction for students to the purpose and scope of scenography, its theories and concepts, pioneers and future potential.

An invaluable introduction for students to the purpose and scope of scenography, its theories and concepts, pioneers and future potential.

With over one thousand entries, this is the first encyclopedia of stage actors and acting around the world.

With over one thousand entries, this is the first encyclopedia of stage actors and acting around the world.

A unique account of the way architects, dramatists, and philosophers transformed theatre space in the eighteenth century.

A unique account of the way architects, dramatists, and philosophers transformed theatre space in the eighteenth century.

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

Examines staging conventions in the medieval English theatre and ways in which they conditioned the reactions of the audience.

The first in-depth study of theatre''s relationship to the public sphere in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.

Examines staging conventions in the medieval English theatre and ways in which they conditioned the reactions of the audience.

The first in-depth study of theatre''s relationship to the public sphere in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.

Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

Get to know a national icon in Eddie Izzard's hilarious and dazzling autobiography'Comic genius .

This richly illustrated short, extracted from the official book The Chronicles of Downton Abbey peels back the curtain on the making of Series 3.

The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions.