Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, Wes... more

Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, Wes... more

This book provides an unorthodox array of perspectives on materialist thought and representation in ... more

These new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Tw... more

The first edited volume to examine philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s influence on, and his relevance for, t... more

Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance w... more

Plautine Trends: Studies in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, a collective volume published as a Fe... more

Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutiona... more

Newly available in paperback, this collection of essays, written by distinguished international scho... more

While remapping the region by examining enduring historical and cultural connections, this study dis... more

The second volume of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada... more

The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times cons... more

One of Paul Green’s best plays, The House of Connelly, was the first play performed (on Broadway in ... more

This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutini... more

This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book sp... more

A comprehensive overview of the dance culture of Singapore, this book embodies storytelling, persona... more

Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. I... more

Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academ... more

Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Ital... more

This book uses a gender perspective to study the female Amerindian characters in Early Modern Spanis... more

The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early mo... more

This is a critical edition, or "édition critique," of Victor Hugo’s play Hernani. Following the play... more

Martin Garrett s comprehensive collection presents and explains the history of the critical receptio... more

The International Shakespeare Association meeting, held in Tokyo in August of 1991, was regarded by ... more

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-se... more

Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1... more

Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1... more

The First World War (1914-1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literar... more

Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a varie... more

This volume contains Brecht’s post-1950 adaptations of world dramatic classics for the Berliner Ense... more

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on "Europe... more

Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field o... more

Why do Shakespeare and the English Bible seem to have an inherent relationship with each other? How ... more

A companion volume to Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000, this anthology contains nine e... more

A companion volume to Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000, this anthology contains nine e... more

Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic wor... more

Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance explores how children and young people fit into nat... more

Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a liv... more

"Wonderfully informative and fun. You can’t do better."--Charles P. Lord, headmaster, St. Timothy’s ... more

An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults, "road tested" at the Folger Shake... more

This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implic... more

The essays in this volume challenge current ’givens’ in medieval and early modern research around pe... more

In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet ... more

This collection of 171 letters, most never before published, finally makes the fascinating Shaw/Murr... more

Brian Friel is Ireland’s foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has won numero... more

Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This ’freeze ... more

Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This ’freeze ... more

The Comedy of Errors is a brilliant piece of theatrical mechanism, a story of mounting confusion inv... more

Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophane... more

Due to the unique cultural capital of his works, Shakespeare has long been the test subject for new ... more

This book comprises the latest revisiting of Kantor’s artistic oeuvre by international authors refle... more

Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the ’death’ o... more

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare’s controversial late romance from its... more

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. ... more