Theatre studies

Rescue at Sea reveals the stories, people, and equipment behind the world's most dramatic rescues at sea.

Mountain Rescue reveals the stories, people, and equipment behind the world's most dramatic rescues.

This book teaches readers about what field trips are, why people take field trips, and what you can learn from a field trip to a museum.

This book teaches readers about what field trips are, why people take field trips, and what you can learn from a field trip to a concert.

Accessible yet sophisticated book that covers the difficult issue of drug legalization.

Accessible yet sophisticated book that briefly explains the science behind "e;designer babies.

Accessible yet sophisticated book that explains the delicate issue of assisted suicide and asks readers to think about whether this difficult decision is ever right, wrong, or if it varies from case to case.

Discover the amazing adventures of heroes and monsters.

An entertaining and eye-opening journey through the history of humans.

Eyewitness Guides are best-selling, high-quality visual information books.

Did you know early lighthouses were used up to 3,000 years ago with woodfires on headlands?

As kids grow up and reach puberty, their bodies start to change and develop; they re bound to have all kinds of questions but what exactly is happening?

This book shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth.

Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community.

Pizzato focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the 'mind's eye', as Hamlet says).

Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and international cultural contexts, but adds a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship, and the regulatory discourses of desire.

This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics.

This book explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580 and 1660.

Gentlemen Callers provides a fascinating look at America's greatest Twentieth-century playwright and perhaps the most-performed, even today.

This book is a feminist reading of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnogata, of the Kabuki theatre.

In Staging Politics and Gender , Cecilia Beach examines the political and feminist plays of French playwrights who have largely been overlooked until now.

While analyzing Damon Runyon's high spirited work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture, and of the changing function of the media, Schwarz argues that in his columns and stories Runyon was an indispensable figure in creating our public images of New York City culture, including our interest in the demi-monde and underworld that explains in part the success of The Godfather films and The Sopranos .

This book spotlights artworks and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of artists in the 'woman' category in scenes of love and sexuality.

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