Theatre studies

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume.

Performed as a one-woman show, Victim follows the power struggle between prison guard Tracey and criminal Siobhan as they come face-to-face with a notorious inmate.

This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement.

The United Nations General Assembly is arguably the most important discussion forum in global politics.

This new collection will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important dramatist.

Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it.

Through candid personal interviews with Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and other visionary performers, Queens of Comedy explores how comediennes have redefined the roles of women in not only the entertainment business, but society as a whole.

This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region.

A biography examining the life of the fortieth president of the United States and the impact of his faith.

Patrice Ch reau (1944 - 2013) was one of France's leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence on Shakespearean performance.

This book also traces the evolution of the Spanish Dance technique, marked as it is by a turbulent history.

The Sensible Stage is a collection of essays exploring the use of live performance and moving image in contemporary art practice.

Teaching Actors draws on history, literature, and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia, to offer those involved in actor training a critical framework within which to think about their work.

This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral story-singing art.

Progressive Perspective Drawing for Theatrical Scene Design provides theatrical scenic designers with the tools to create quick and precise perspective drawings.

Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "e;science plays"e;--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama.

Acting for the Screen is a collection of essays written by and interviews with working actors, producers, directors, casting directors, and acting professors, exploring the business side of screen acting.

To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line.

History, they say, has a filthy tongue.

An exploration of early modern encounters between Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the perspective of performance studies and performativity theories, this collection focuses on the ways in which these cultural contacts were acted out on the real and metaphorical stages of theatre, literature, music, diplomacy and travel.

Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature.

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Conservators and other museum professionals face a large number of issues involving the mechanical behavior of materials, including questions on craquelure, restoring physically damaged objects, art in transport, or the selection of adhesives.

This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture.

This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb's ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy.

This book explores how theatre and performance can change the way we think about dementia and some of the environments in which dementia care takes place.

This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660.

Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Repetiteur, Second Edition, is an update to the first practical guide for opera coaches when working with opera singers to help them meet the physical and vocal demands of a score in order to shape a performance.

Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences.

Fiction's Truth explores professional actors' lived experiences of representing human suffering, distress, and violence.

Graeae has been a force for change in world-class theatre since it was founded in 1980, placing D/deaf and disabled actors centre stage and challenging preconceptions.

Immigrants Sailed From Faraway Lands To Come To America For Opportunity.

This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660.

Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization.

Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers.

Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day.

Tactical Performance tells fun, mischievous stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power - through creative, targeted activist performance in the streets of cities around the world.

William D Howarth sets Le Mariage de Figaro and Beaumarchais's other dramatic works in the broad historical context of pre-revolutionary France, providing a unique and authoritative study of the dramatist and his plays.

Historical Pattern Archive 2 features a collection of women's period garment patterns taken from the Historic Clothing Collection at the University of Virginia.

Bratton presents a completely new history of the dynamic beginnings of the modern world of London West End theatre.

Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science.

Jose Limn is universally recognized as one of the most important modern dancers of the 20th century.

What was German Naturalism?

The definitive guide to the historical tumult and complex intellectual worlds that Chekhov both inhabited and influenced.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.