Theatre studies

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Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era.

In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural production in early modern England.

Delve into the dynamic interplay of theater and society in 18th-century London with Box, Pit, and Gallery: Stage and Society in Johnson's London.

1590s Drama and Militarism is a fascinating interdisciplinary study of various textual interventions into the military realities of the late Elizabethan period.

Paris and the Musical explores how the famous city has been portrayed on stage and screen, investigates why the city has been of such importance to the genre and tracks how it has developed as a trope over the 20th and 21st centuries.

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice.

By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective.

This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles.

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse contexts of creativity and research that characterize contemporary sound design practice.

First Published in 1996.

In this first substantive study of directing Shakespeare in the USA, Charles Ney compares and contrasts directors working at major companies across the country.

This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present.

The book offers a compelling combination of analyis and detailed description of aesthetic projects with young refugee arrivals in Australia.

Lyric Incarnate examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.

Most movies include a love story, whether it is the central story or a subplot, and knowing how to write a believable relationship is essential to any writer's skill set.

The Baroque Spanish stage is populated with virile queens and feminized kings.

Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under discussion.

This volume chronicles the lives and artistry of Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, and Lloyd Richards.

Just Adrian is a patchwork tour of a legendary playwright, poet and activist s life in the theatre.

Why is there always one child who persistently plays with the door, who mixes sand with water or throws objects across the room?

The first study in any language of the Berliner Ensemble, the theatre company co-founded by Bertolt Brecht.

Western civilization and world history are often seen as different, or even mutually exclusive, routes into historical studies.

For the first time, there is an anthology of monologues for young people available, taken from plays commissioned as part of the National Theatre Connections over the past 20 years.

Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date.

A reference for high school theatre teachers covering both curricular and extracurricular problems - everything from how to craft a syllabus for a theatre class to what to say to parents about a student's participation in a school play.

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

Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socio-economic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies presents an inclusive mix of voices from varied cultural and geographic affiliations.

Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire.

In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre.

Research Methods in Performance Studies offers a unique approach for readers to engage with performance research and methods in practice.

John Arden was one of the major playwrights to have emerged during the 1950s, yet his work has arguably been misunderstood.

This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse - from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of 'labour time' to 'life time'.

Pierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and trousers, is a ubiquitous figure in French art and culture.

In this memoir, Sascha Feinstein recounts life with his father, Sam Feinstein, who was both a brilliantartist and a hoarder of monumental proportions.

Este libro es reflejo del día a día en el trabajo teatral.

This book is the first study of the prolific German filmmaker, performance artist, and TV host Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) that identifies him as a practitioner of realism in the theater and lays out how theatrical realism can offer an aesthetic frame sturdy enough to hold together his experiments across media and genres.

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

First Published in 1998.

In Inner Rhythm, Naomi Benari provides exciting new ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf by showing: methods and games she devised with children to heighten their awareness of rhythm, music and the breath inherent in every dance movement; how the knowledge of music is the basis for dance teaching and how this knowledge can enhance the raining of hearing dancers; opportunities for children to express their unarticulated feelings and thoughts; how children can learn to socialize and to explore the world in which they live; and how to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a vareity of schools and settings.

Drawing on Ken Rea's 35 years' teaching experience and research, as well as interviews with top actors and directors, The Outstanding Actor identifies seven key qualities that the most successful actors manifest, along with practical exercises that help nurture those qualities and videos to demonstrate them.

This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media.