The Quintessential Zerka documents the origins and development of the theory and practice of psychod... more

It is a generally accepted fact that in the first half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Gore bec... more

For British playwright, John Osborne, there are no brave causes; only people who muddle through life... more

Two outstanding examples of socialist-themed plays are combined in this remarkable volume. The Consp... more

The activity of the most glorious Italian costume tailoring company of our time, founded by Umberto ... more

The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples’ own reflections on poli... more

The book offers an intercultural perspective on the work of Alice Munro, the Canadian 2013 Nobel Lau... more

Voice Studies brings together leading international scholars and practitioners, to re-examine what v... more

The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on ’The Real Housewives’ explores the series and the women o... more

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on ho... more

The volume reveals an astonishing richness in the theatrical approaches to Ibsen across the world: i... more

Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an ’exchange’ between performers and audience members,... more

Technological development has changed the nature of industrial production so that it is no longer a ... more

A collection that includes a lengthy introduction describing historical trends in critical interpret... more

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare s play as text and as theat... more

The volume explores intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and recent media: music,... more

This collection of essays is devoted to the intersections of poetic speech, literary criticism, theo... more

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard’s geni... more

In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between me... more

The book offers a compelling combination of analyis and detailed description of aesthetic projects w... more

This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on -- John Flet... more

Inspired by new approaches in performance studies, theatre history, research in material culture and... more

Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of ’the aesthetic’ is relevant to performance i... more

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imp... more

Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Ge... more

This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on -- John Flet... more

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare s most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition o... more

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition o... more

Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal... more

Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents th... more

Originally published in 1988. Arranged by play, the essays presented here focus first on production ... more

Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare s ... more

Originally published in 1993. Presenting excerpts and articles on the themes and characters from the... more

Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of ... more

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by explor... more

The Actor Training Reader is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of acting, offering ac... more

This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities du... more

The Actor Training Reader is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of acting, offering ac... more

How did Brazilian theater survive under the military dictatorship of 1964-1985? How did it change on... more

Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many embedded assumptions and hierarch... more

Performance and Temporalisation features a collection of scholars and artists writing about the comi... more

French Renaissance and Baroque Drama helps us rethink pressing issues of the day, such as war, posse... more

From Philip Henslowe to David Merrick, the producer or theatre manager has generally been seen as a ... more

Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr’acte de... more

This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and ... more

Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many embedded assumptions and hierarch... more

Long held as Britain’s ’national poet’, Shakespeare’s role in the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad conf... more

The first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of Lyly’s Pap with an Hatchet, this volume in the... more

Samuel Beckett: A Casebook may be characterized as a new collection of essays by a generation of Bec... more

Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration,... more

There has never been a retrospective on Christopher Marlowe as comprehensive, complete and up-to-dat... more

The Natyasastra is the deep repository of Indian performance studies. It embodies centuries of perfo... more

This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of d... more

Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed investigates a performance strategy which aims to develop possibl... more

A field-shaping anthology by top cultural critics and practitioners representing a wide range of dis... more

The Irish Theatre in Transition explores the ever-changing Irish Theatre from its inception to its v... more

This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are he... more