This collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and dev......more

This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as re......more

While Ibsen’s plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century, historical sources highlight......more

This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves......more

In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and lo......more

In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and lo......more

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues t......more

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues t......more

Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of farce ......more

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The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway is the first book-length history of the multi-aw......more

This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in......more

British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion explores......more

Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets is the first of two volumes dedica......more

Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes up the i......more

Explore the intricate tapestry of ancient art and ritual in this enlightening volume, where Jane Ellen Harrison unveils ......more

Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biograph......more

Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world’s leading producer......more

The legendary 1964 Broadway run of Hamlet directed by John Gielgud is one of the most famous productions of Shakespeare’......more

This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which......more

On 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that w......more

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The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in cont......more

This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywo......more

This book examines the transformations Egyptian theatre has undergone since 1967....more

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn black......more

In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and th......more

This book explores how avant-garde directors in French theatre play on their audiences’ frustration to generate an encou......more

This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of......more

The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and......more

"Very smart and entertaining . . . dishy-yet-earnest . . . Gefter shows why Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the ’60s......more

This book delves into the fascinating journey of American drama in Catalonia, exploring how the theatrical output of a w......more

How can theatre and Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and developme......more

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Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor will help performers discover new and valuable insights into the charact......more

This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Mexican-American/Chicana/o theatre experience. This book adds to......more

This book examines the French theatricalization of India from 1770 to 1865 and how a range of plays not only represented......more

This study analyses the Finnish National Theatre’s activities throughout the decades during which the post-war generatio......more

ASHÉ Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international schola......more

This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crosse......more

This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th ......more

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This book will be of great......more

In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by whic......more

This book explores how teachings and ideas of specific historical mystical thinkers might influence all aspects of conte......more

This book offers a broad overview of the contemporary state of the Gardzienice theatrical company and its evolution. It ......more

This edited collection explores methods for conducting critical empirical research examining the potential impacts of th......more

This volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with particular focus on festivals and......more

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance condition.This exp......more

Women and Indian Shakespearesexplores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in I......more

The stage of the 1700s established a star culture with the emergence of acting celebrities such as David Garrick, Susann......more

Covid-19 has been described as a ’digital pandemic’. But who might the characterisation of the pandemic as ’digital’ lea......more

This is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at th......more

On the eve of a global pandemic, Kathleen Gough, a theatre professor, becomes immersed in the lives of five artist-mysti......more

With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and......more

Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era Emerging amid the turbulent rise of......more

This book discusses how an internationally renowned ballet company sustained itself without financial support for years ......more

​This project is the first to explore how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial in......more

America’s third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a boroug......more

New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclus......more

New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclus......more

This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoe......more

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre and performance case studies with a focus on their di......more

This book analyzes Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions and evocation of doctrinal topics in Hamlet, Measure for Meas......more

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of......more

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy & Casting the Witch for Stage & Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type......more

Borrowing concepts from cognitive philosophy and bringing them into a conversation with critical theory, Gareth White sh......more

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical ......more

In Sonic Strategies, author Christina Baker highlights the tactics employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexic......more

This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral......more

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focus......more

"Only Idle Chatter" contains over 65 texts ranging from historical insights to production details, from personal reflect......more

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This book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers. This study explores ......more