Theatre studies

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre.

Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship.

Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship.

In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity.

Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research.

Canada boasts a remarkable number of talented theatre artists, scholars, and educators.

In 2002, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project marked its twenty-fifth anniversary with a special series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University.

This book is designed to guide social workers in their work as field instructors.

Religious drama was one of the most vital art forms of the medieval era.

The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art.

It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century.

Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Moliere, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hotel de Bourgogne and later at the Comedie Francaise during the first five years of its existence.

The papers in this volume were given by some of the world’s foremost Jonsonian scholars at a conference at the University of Toronto which marked the 400th anniversary of his birth.

This volume, based on an interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and social scientists, explores a topic of vital importance today-moral education.

In a tight, dramatic, two-character, two-act play Ted Allan, one of Canada's best-known playwrights, challenges us to think again about love and guilt, about madness and normalcy.

Toronto Workshop Productions was Toronto's first 'alternative' theatre, and for thirty years, from 1959 until its closure in 1989, it introduced audiences to a radically new form of theatre.

At the centre of China's Cultural Revolution in its first stages stands the ambiguous figure of Wu Han.

Why theatre now?

Why theatre now?

Canada boasts a remarkable number of talented theatre artists, scholars, and educators.

What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures?

What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures?

The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky.

The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky.

Here is a book to hearten playgoers, stimulate young actors, lead theatrical executives to reconsider methods of management, and encourage benefactors to open their wallets.

Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions.

Right on time for election season comes an updated biography of our 44th Presidentwritten just for kids!

Following the ethos and ambition of the Shakespeare NOW!

This is a comprehensive history of stage musicals from the 1840s all the way up to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway as it we know it today.

Inspired Drama Teaching is packed full of practical ideas to inspire your students and colleagues.

Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture.

Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success.

This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.

David Mamet is widely considered to be the voice of contemporary American Theatre.

Hamlet's Dreams brings together the Robben Island Prison of Nelson Mandela and the prison that is Denmark for Shakespeare's Hamlet.

With an outstanding introductory essay, one of the greatest living English novelists has assembled her writings, essays and reviews about the theatre to provide a highly individual view of contemporary theatre and actors.

Inspired Drama Teaching is packed full of practical ideas to inspire your students and colleagues.

This original study offers a timely reconsiderationof the work of French philosopher Jean-Fran ois Lyotard in relation to art,performance and writing.

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is one of the most important twentieth century writers.

Harold Pinter is one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century.

Look Back in Anger is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known in postwar cultural history.

Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre.

Drama teachers often thrive on shared experience and the imaginative exchange of ideas and perspectives.

Fences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize.

Gaining a view behind the scenes into the jobs and personalities of people who work in the theatre is a privilege afforded to few.

Closer emerged as one of the most successful plays of the 1990s, and one with a continuing afterlife through the academy award nominated film adaptation in 2004.

Angels in America paved a new way for American theatre in its combination of heightened theatricality and politics.