Theater on the Cape began in 1916 when a group of artists and writers in Provincetown mounted a production of a one-act ......more
This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded t......more
Applied Theatre is a widely accepted term to describe a set of practices that encompass community, social and participat......more
This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professio......more
This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts for the global success of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’......more
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Renaissance Fun explores the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects;......more
Renaissance Fun explores the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects;......more
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Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its pol......more
Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its pol......more
Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European thea......more
Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers’ plays, which have long been regarded as a form of ’folk’ or ’traditional’ ......more
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How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian’s work? How do performers adapt......more
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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to resear......more
This book situates the production of The Boy Friendand the Players’ Theatre in the context of a post-war London and read......more
To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Cont......more
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Paris and the Musical explores how the famous city has been portrayed on stage and screen, investigates why the city has......more
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Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious ......more
Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama. In Fes......more
Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama. In Fes......more
In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex a......more
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Love’s Victory is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman, and this Revels edition is the first fully-au......more
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprisi......more
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprisi......more
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The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southe......more
The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in e......more
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each de......more
How do we define movement in performance? Who or what is being moved and how? And which movements are felt, observed, or......more
The Theatre of Christopher Durang considers the works of one of the foremost comedic writers for the American stage. Fro......more
The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in e......more
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each de......more
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each de......more
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each de......more
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each de......more
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each de......more
This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson’s unconventional rehearsal methodology. Neilson’s no......more
This is the first collection on Rancière, a key thinker of political philosophy and aesthetics, which deals explicitly w......more
"We live in a society that places an increasing value in ethnic diversity and cultural identity. However, the contributi......more
Ghostly Fragments gathers the essays of the late Barbara C. Hodgdon, a renowned scholar of Shakespeare and performance s......more
1. Chapter 1: Introduction: A Tale of Multiple Cities: Setting the Stage for Transnational Chinese Theatres.- 2. Chapter......more
A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the c......more
Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief explores the integration and interaction of mimetic theatricality and represe......more
Finalist, ATHE Outstanding Book Award for 2022 Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief explores the integration and i......more
Middle Eastern American Theatre explores the burgeoning Middle Eastern American theatre movement with a focus on Arab Am......more
Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau’s ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party......more
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A companion to American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1, this volume charts the development and achievements of theatre compa......more
This important book offers a thematic collection of critical essays, ideal for undergraduate courses on modern British t......more
For many years, the oral performing and dramatic literatures of China from 1200 to 1600 CE were considered some of the m......more
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Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster spectatorial critiqu......more
Robert Lepage and Ex Machina’s theatricality is inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural, and, inevitably, characterised by......more
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Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline......more
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A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vint......more
In 1928, Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre, which quickly became renowned for prod......more
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This book examines contemporary English drama and its relation to the neoliberal consensus that has dominated British po......more
Reconstructs the constitutive role that German actresses played on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theat......more
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Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance......more
This film analysis textbook contains sixteen essays on historically significant, artistically superior films released be......more
This film analysis textbook contains sixteen essays on historically significant, artistically superior films released be......more
Examining how performers engage and delight their audience through persona, appearance, and spectacle...more
Telltale Women fundamentally reimagines the relationship between the history play and its source material as an intertex......more
This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on ......more
Theatre Institutions in Crisis examines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pre......more
A guide to the contemporary London stage as well as an argument about its future, the book walks readers through the cit......more
How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremo......more
How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremo......more
The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how s......more
The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how s......more
What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers’ provocations for change need to b......more