Theatre studies

In the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s, George Alexander and the Work of the Actor Manager examines the key part this figure played in presenting new drama by authors including Oscar Wilde and Henry James.

In a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers 'see' on the stage?

Character Costume Figure Drawing is an essential guide that will improve your drawing skills and costume renderings.

Die Warnsignale sind unübersehbar: Die Wahlbeteiligung sinkt auf allen Ebenen, Parteien und Verbände verlieren ihre Mitglieder.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.

Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E.

This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day.

This is the first book to offer a clear introduction to Kattaikkuttu (or Terukkuttu), a vibrant, vocal and physical outdoor Tamil theatre tradition from India.

Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane.

To an unusual degree among writers, playwrights' creations are not simply words on a page.

Between the beginning of the tenth and the end of the sixteenth centuries, in all parts of Great Britain from Aberdeen to Cornwall, performances of liturgical and mystery plays are on record.

From Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov.

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

Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre performances were an integral part of formal gatherings, various rituals and ceremonies.

The voices that are represented in this collection come from various parts of the world and express the views of practitioners and scholars who have all had first-hand experience working in Zimbabwean theatre from the last days of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world.

At last an accessible and intelligent introduction to the energising and challenging relationship between feminism and theatre.

In this comprehensive handbook author, makeup artist, and educator Christine Sciortino offers a detailed introduction to the conceptual foundations, techniques, and on-set practices of the makeup design process, going beyond technique-centered makeup education to provide an in-depth look at the workings of the film and television world.

The first collection by Sweden's foremost contemporary playwrightNIGHT OF THE TRIBADES (1975) centres around the triangular relationship between August Strindberg, the actress Marie Caroline David and Siri von Essen.

The Art of Theatrical Design: Elements of Visual Composition, Methods, and Practice addresses the core principles that develop the student designer into a true artist, providing a foundation that ensures success with each production design.

The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in-depth look at specializations that exist within the profession.

In a new edition of this now-classic work, Robert Brustein argues that the roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eight outstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet.

Theatre designers using 3D software for computer visualisation in the theatre will find this book both a guide to the creative design process as well as an introduction to the use of computers in live performance.

The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.

Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) is to Danish theatre what playwrights such as Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, Strindberg are to their national stages - and the world stage.

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture.

Explores Places Where Terrorists Hide, Recruit Training Camps, Why They Lead Very Secret Lives, And Some Of The High-Tech Responses Since 9/11.

There was a ruckus at lunch time.

Traditional literary criticism once treated Thomas Nashe as an Elizabethan oddity, difficult to understand or value.

Quali sono le forze che agiscono nell'ombra della guerra in Ucraina, all'interno e all'esterno del teatro delle operazioni?

This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context.

Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture.

Since his emergence from the Flemish avant-garde movement of the 1980s, Ivo van Hove's directorial career has crossed international boundaries, challenging established notions of theatre-making.

Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function.

Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers' plays, which have long been regarded as a form of 'folk' or 'traditional' drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre.

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries.

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music.

2014 was a spectacular year for playwright Simon Stephens, who has been described by the Independent as 'a brilliant writer of immense imagination' and by the Financial Times as having 'emerged in this millennium as an outstanding playwright'.

Recovers eighteenth-century appreciation of transition as a critical tool for analysing the expression and reception of emotion in theatre.

Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.

From their first appearance in print, Dickens's fictions immediately migrated into other media, and particularly, in his own time, to the stage.

This book explores how theater artistry melds the forces of collaboration and leadership, igniting creativity from the first spark of an idea to the climactic curtain call.

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E.