Over the last decade, Samuel Beckett's popularity has rocketed around the world and he is increasingly recognised as one of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century but there has been very little scholarly work on Beckett's reception outside Europe.
The terrorist attacks in the USA and UK on 9/11 and 7/7, and subsequent media coverage, have resulted in a heightened awareness of extremists and terrorists.
This major interdisciplinary collection captures the vitality and increasingly global significance of the Faust figure in literature, theatre and music.
This is a unique, comprehensive and authoritative guide to media education in all its aspects - the key concepts, resources, research findings, movements, issues, debates, educators and organizations that characterize the subject.
A unique exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear, with its themes of banishment, alienation and hope, via a personal memoir that embraces the history of Australia.
A thorough exploration of the issues in teaching controversial issues in classroom, drawing on international case studies sharing teachers' and pupils' experiences.
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.
A unique exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear, with its themes of banishment, alienation and hope, via a personal memoir that embraces the history of Australia.
A thorough exploration of the issues in teaching controversial issues in classroom, drawing on international case studies sharing teachers' and pupils' experiences.
The terrorist attacks in the USA and UK on 9/11 and 7/7, and subsequent media coverage, have resulted in a heightened awareness of extremists and terrorists.
MasterClass in Drama Education explores drama teaching, drawing directly on international research and practice, presenting effective and engaging approaches for drama learning and focusing on the skills, knowledge and understanding needed by researchers teachers and Master's-level students.
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.
This major interdisciplinary collection captures the vitality and increasingly global significance of the Faust figure in literature, theatre and music.
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.
American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical.
This much-needed book introduces readers to the related fields of expertise, creativity, and performance, exploring our understanding of the factors contributing to greatness in creative domains.
Authored by a leading exponent of the form, this book provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring its origin, evolution, and characteristics and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience.
The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective.
Ausgehend von literarischen Texten Nikolaj Gogols, Fedor Dostojevskijs, Lev Tolstojs und Anton Cechovs werden Grundzüge einer Poetik des Sehens in der russischen Kultur rekonstruiert und bis in den Film, die Literatur und Kunst der sowjetischen und postsowjetischen Moderne weiterverfolgt.
The Tudors is an intimate, delicious, and daring drama revealing the early years of Henry VIII, an idealistic, lustful tyrant torn between bedding wives and mistresses and conquering Europe.
"e;Anzac, the Play: A Saga of War and Peace in the 20th Century"e;, waswritten in Berkeley in 1969,published in 1971 andproducedat the Globe Playhouse Los Angeles in 1984 with readings at the Lankershim Arts Center, No-Ho,North Hollywood in 1996.
