Theatre studies

This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and personal identity.

What is the object of comedy?

This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region.

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare's time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other forms of cultural activity.

This wide-ranging and ground-breaking book, especially relevant given Brexit and renewed Scottish independence campaigning, provides in-depth analysis of ways Scottishness has been performed and modified over the centuries.

This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces.

This book charts how promotional campaigns in which Bernard Shaw participated were key crucibles within which agency and personality could re-negotiate their relationship to one another and to the consuming public.

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This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the genero chico criollo in the context of Argentina's modernization.

How does the moving, dancing body engage with the materials, textures, atmospheres, and affects of the sites through which we move and in which we live, work and play?

This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen's work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present.

Its no mystery that fun and exciting programs bring teens into the library.

This volume frames the concept of a national play.

Curating material from Applauses Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, weve created the must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama.

Samuel Beckett's work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense.

The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia's most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry.

Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s.

This is a completely revised and expanded second edition of The Broadway Song Companion, the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer.

The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated contexts.

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

In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency.

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.

How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian's work?

'One in four people in Germany today have a so-called migration background, however, the relationship between theatre and migration there has only recently begun to take centre stage.

This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error.

This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but also as philosophical queries.

This book looks at the connection between contemporary theatre practices and cosmopolitanism, a philosophical condition of social behaviour based on our responsibility, respect, and healthy curiosity to the other.

Do you have to be an extrovert to succeed as an actor?

The traditional view of Shakespeare's mastery of the English language is alive and well today.

This book is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze.

Winner of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's 2021 Bevington Award for Best New BookSounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period.

Digital Theatre is a rich and varied art form evolving between performing bodies gathered together in shared space and the ever-expanding flexible reach of the digital technology that shapes our world.

This book examines the influence of the early modern period on Antonin Artaud's seminal work The Theatre and Its Double, arguing that Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and their early modern context are an integral part of the Theatre of Cruelty and essential to its very understanding.

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660.

This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power.

This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated.

This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers - Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noe, Caro Novella, and duskin drum - to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse.

This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage's scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts.

This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality.

This book, the first of its kind, surveys the career of the renowned Australian-German theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky.

This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurelien Lugne-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W.

This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship.

This book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern Irish drama.

Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses.

Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925.

Now in its fourth edition, Illustrated Theatre Production Guide delivers a step-by-step approach to the most prevalent and established theatre production practices, focusing on essential issues related to the construction of wooden, fabric, plastic, and metal scenery used on the stage.

Ibsen's plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies.

This book analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR.