Theatre studies

This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality.

Audiences are not what they used to be.

This book assembles texts by renowned academics and theatre artists who were professionally active during the wars in former Yugoslavia.

This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics.

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

This book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned, either thematically, methodologically, or formally, with acts of commemoration and the commemorative.

This book is a study of the plays, performances and writings of Christina Reid.

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 investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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

This book offers a provocative and groundbreaking re-appraisal of the demands of acting ancient tragedy, informed by cutting-edge scholarship in the fields of actor training, theatre history, and classical reception.

This collection of essays investigates the way Africa has been portrayed on the London stage from the 1950s to the present.

This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War and subsequent conflicts with Daesh, or the so-called Islamic State.

This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama.

The Road to Wicked examines the long life of the Oz myth.

How might spoken words be translated into choreography?

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

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 about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship.

Beckett's Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss.

This book reflects the changes in technology and educational trends (cross-disciplinary learning, entrepreneurship, first-year learning programs, critical writing requirements, course assessment, among others) that have pushed theatre educators to innovate, question, and experiment with new teaching strategies.

This book provides an interpretative analysis of the notion of spirituality through the lens of contemporary performance and posthuman theories.

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.

This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues.

This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare's presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of exploring individual and collective forms of identity.

This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.

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

This book is the first comprehensive critical assessment of the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Augusta Gregory, founder, patron, director, and dramatist of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

This book is about the history of character in modern Irish drama.

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

This volume is a collection of scholarly articles and interviews with intermedial artists working with the concepts of public sphere at the intersection of aesthetics and politics.

This volume frames the concept of a national play.

This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them.

This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

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

This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

The theo-political idea of covenant-a sacred binding agreement-formalizes relationships and inaugurates politics in the Hebrew Bible, and it was the most significant revolutionary idea to come out of the Protestant Reformation.

This book explores the concept and vocabulary of postdramatic theatre from a pedagogical perspective.

This book investigates the representation of rape in British and Irish theatre since the second wave of the Women's Movement.

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 examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948.

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager.

This book examines the trope of echo in early modern literature and drama, exploring the musical, sonic, and verbal effects generated by forms of repetition on stage and in print.

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

This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War.

This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces.

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 argues that the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way musicals are produced, followed, admired, marketed, reviewed, researched, taught, and even cast.

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process.

This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies.