Performance art

The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents the most influential and widely-known, critical work on gender and performing arts, together with exciting and provocative new writings.

The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents the most influential and widely-known, critical work on gender and performing arts, together with exciting and provocative new writings.

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world.

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world.

This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows.

This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows.

What is the relationship between performance and play?

What is the relationship between performance and play?

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.

This anthology of Gomez-Pena's performance chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays, and texts, sheds an extraordinary light on the life and work of this migrant provocateur.

This anthology of Gomez-Pena's performance chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays, and texts, sheds an extraordinary light on the life and work of this migrant provocateur.

Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare is a unique survey of the small supporting roles - such as foils, feeds, attendants and messengers - that feature in Shakespeare's plays.

Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare is a unique survey of the small supporting roles - such as foils, feeds, attendants and messengers - that feature in Shakespeare's plays.

This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women.

This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women.

Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance.

Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance.

It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956.

It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956.

In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled, and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics.

In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled, and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics.

Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way.

Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way.

Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens.

Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens.

The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance.

The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance.

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries.

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries.

Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century.

Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century.

A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day.

A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day.

The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way.

The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way.

'A series of accidents has brought you this book.

'A series of accidents has brought you this book.

This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance.

This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance.

How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays?

How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays?

Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance.

Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance.

From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture.

From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture.

Originally published in 1984, this book recreates the unique atmosphere of the Restoration playhouses in order to demonstrate how theatrical conditions spurred authors into creating new forms of tragedy, comedy and opera, the techniques of which anticipated the ideas of 'gestus' and 'alienation' first articulated by Bertold Brecht in the 20th century.

Mattering Spiritualities brings together an array of international scholars and practitioners to explore spirituality in embodiment through the lens of performance, performative writing, and performance studies.

Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.

Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.