Theatre studies

Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship.

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound.

Artists, musicians, actors, singers, designers and other creative individuals need to understand basic business concepts if they are to successfully pursue their chosen artistic profession.

This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title 'Queer Mythologies'.

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What properties of light can be manipulated for aesthetic effect?

This textbook provides a global, chronological mapping of significant areas of theatre, sketched from its deepest history in the evolution of our brain's 'inner theatre' to ancient, medieval, modern, and postmodern developments.

This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

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

Singing and the Actor takes the reader step by step through a practical training programme relevant to the modern singing actor and dancer.

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First published in 1999.

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama.

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era.

'Actors always talk about what the audience does.

The Student Actor Prepares is a practical, interactive approach to a student actor's journey.

Iago's 'I am not what I am' epitomises how Shakespeare's work is rich in philosophy, from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning the complex nature of the self, the notions of being and identity, and the possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge and knowledge of others.

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual "e;origins"e; of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene.

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world.

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange.

Interwar Poland was home to more Jews than any other country in Europe.

If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, 'many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical'.

The Routledge Companion to Music, Autoethnography, and Reflexivity represents a substantial contribution to the field of writing reflexively about an individual's practice within music studies.

Task centred social work is one of the best known and most strongly supported approaches to social work practice.

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice.

Though development researchers have proven that the participation of women is necessary for effective sustainable development, development practitioners still largely lack culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive tools for including women, especially women living in poverty.

What is a live performance?

Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is world-famous for her voice teaching.

The Art of Experience provides an interdisciplinary analysis of selected plays from Ireland's premier female playwright, Marina Carr.

This 2004 book describes the transformation of politics from a territorial voting behavior to one of national homogeneity.

For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity.

A wonderful anthology of eight stories addressing children's rights and sustainable development, written by child authors from all around the world and produced in conjunction with UNESCO's Voices of Future Generations initiative.

Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of 'the Other' through the ages in British theatre.

First published in 1990.

Provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre since the end of World War II.

The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics.

I'm not afraid, Tom.

Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre.

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.

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First Published in 1997.

In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections.

Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts.

Foundations of Stage Makeup, Second Edition is a comprehensive exploration into the creative world of stage makeup.

Contemporary theatre, like so much of contemporary life, is obsessed with the ways in which information is detected, packaged and circulated.