Theatre studies

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.

Despite constant hindrance from government interference and control, the Russian theater has produced many memorable playwrights, schools of thought, and plays, whose influence can be seen throughout the world.

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.

What knowledge and tools do pre- and in-service educators need to teach for and about social justice across the curriculum in K-12 classrooms?

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.

A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffer's play Equus.

Why should the digital bring about ideas of progress in the theatre arts?

Marking the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage, Leslie Hill provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement.

The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated.

This book opens up Twelfth Night as a play to see and hear, provides useful contextual and source material, and considers the critical and theatrical reception over four centuries.

On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York.

This book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States during the 1920s.

Playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.

Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett's rich influences over American writing.

Life in the theatre is often a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows.

Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations bridges the fields of performance, feminism, maternal studies, and ethics.

Unions, Strikes, Shaw: 'The Capitalism of the Proletariat' is the first book to treat Bernard Shaw-socialist, dramatist, public speaker and union member-in relation to unions and strikes.

Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight.

This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw's Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama.

This volume is the seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance.

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

The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell'Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original.

This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b - 1977d).

This book examines applied theatre projects that bring together diverse groups and foster intercultural dialogue.

This monograph provides the first sustained, chronological account of Northern Irish police officers' representation in theatre.

El volumen II de 'El ciclo ruso', de Matei Visniec, reúne dos obras que constituyen sendos homenajes a Chéjov.

El volumen I de 'El ciclo ruso' reúne dos obras de Matei Visniec ambientadas en la Rusia estalinista.

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360(deg) view on the circus.

Political theatre, like any kind of political action, can only be judged in relation to the political moment in which it tries to intervene.