Non-graphic and electronic art forms

First Published in 1997.

Originally published in 1974, this book examines in detail some of the finest plays from the great cycles of York, Wakefield and Chester.

This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910.

The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition.

This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online.

From Aristotle's theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails.

Performing Home is the first sustained study of the ways in which artists create artworks in, and in response to, domestic dwellings.

AI, AR, and VR in Theatre and Performance investigates the cutting-edge application of evolving digital technologies within the creative industries, with a focus on theatre and the dramatic arts.

This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.

First published in 1990, this book emerged from the author's experiences talking to homeless women and her desire to bring these problems to light along with the social injustice that often underlies them.

From A Midsummer Night's Dream's Puck to Othello's Desdemona, this new edition of Speaking Shakespeare gives you all the necessary tools to bring any of Shakespeare's eclectic characters to life.

Als das Portrat einer Randgruppe fordert dieses Buch zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem Phanomen Outcast heraus, indem es das vielfaltige Material, das in zahlreichen Projekten kunstlerischer Forschung mit weiblichen Drogenabhangigen in europaischen Gefangnissen und Therapieeinrichtungen entstanden ist, ordnet und in einen Zusammenhang bringt.

This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004.

This third volume in the 4x45 series addresses some of the most current and urgent performance work in contemporary theatre practice.

How do people identify, locate, or express home?

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation.

This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the award-winning British television dramatist.

Die Bildhauerei Griechenlands fasst in sich die Seele aller Bildhauerei zusammen.

Taking up questions of artists' materials and technical processes currently at the vanguard of art-historical scholarship, this book studies the contiguity and interchange of workshop methods in the linked fabrication of both ephemeral and preparatory works by Bernini.

The art of public structure is nearly as old as society itself, and its figurative representations (and gaps) represent deep wells of insight into culture.

Originally published in 1991.

The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders.

Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun.

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans' 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on the trilogy in recent years.

With this book, Brooke O'Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself.

Children's picture books from the Romantic period.

Irish Drama in Poland is the first book to broadly assess Irish drama's impact on both Poland's theatrical world and its cultural and literary heritage in the twentieth century.

Includes the plays Chips With Everything, Their Very Own and Golden City, The Journalists, Badenheim 1939 and, published here for the first time, Phoenix Phoenix, Burning Bright.

The sculpture of the early bronze age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century.

This book foregrounds the subjectivity of 'acting women' amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and marriage.

The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years.

Künstlerische Performances und Aktionen wurden im Ostmitteleuropa der 1970er Jahre oftmals im halböffentlichen oder privaten Raum und ohne Publikum realisiert.

This publication is the first comprehensive account in English of the history of the Freie Volksb^D"e;hne, founded in Berlin in 1890 through the interaction of Social Democracy and Theatrical Naturalism.

This volume in the Routledge Key Guides series provides a round-up of the fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of musical theater discourse in the English-speaking world.

This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity.

Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W.

This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 1960s.

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama.

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity.

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre.

This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance.

The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather combines original writings from Les Waters with short essays by a wide range of his collaborators, creating a personal and multi-faceted portrait of an influential director, revered mentor, and inspirational theatre artist.

All societies are, by their very nature, dramatic.

Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment.

Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault's entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish.

The Necessity of Sculpture brings together a selection of articles on sculpture and sculptors from Eric Gibson's nearly four-decade career as an art critic.

Analysis through Action for Actors and Directors is a comprehensive view of an innovative and exciting process for making new theatre.

"Es ist cinematografisch die spannendste Stadt überhaupt.

Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today s digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.