The second collection of work by Olivier award-winning British playwright Laura Wade, bursting with her trademark satiri......more
The first-ever anthology from celebrated playwright Kate Hamill Bringing together seven critically acclaimed feminist ad......more
Scenography in Musical Theatre answers the questions: What are the ways that scenography acts as a mode of storytelling ......more
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The definitive biography of Johnny Carson, the entertainer who redefined late-night television and American culture, tol......more
This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeare’s work with "the human", his drama plays a c......more
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From Bollywood to K-Pop, from Crazy Rich Asians to YouTube stars and Boys’ Love media, this book brings together leading......more
A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays performed in private non-playhouse settings between 15......more
This workbook draws together over 100 of the most frequently used and treasured exercises from playwrights across the wo......more
This workbook draws together over 100 of the most frequently used and treasured exercises from playwrights across the wo......more
"James Graham is a political playwright so on top of his game that you kind of take it on faith that any play he comes u......more
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A new edition of the celebrated Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (2002), The Methuen Drama Encyclopedia ......more
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My Cue to Fight is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of how the greatest playwright in the E......more
This volume reproduces key critical texts engaging with the play from the past three centuries. During this period criti......more
What did Shakespeare’s first audiences know about the objects they saw on stage in his plays? How would people have unde......more
What did Shakespeare’s first audiences know about the objects they saw on stage in his plays? How would people have unde......more
An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights......more
Mark Fisher was the creator of a new art form: the travelling rock show. This book details every major project and more ......more
An annotated edition of Marlowe’s much-studied drama of pasion and politics which gives students a wealth of contextual ......more
An annotated edition of Marlowe’s much-studied drama of pasion and politics which gives students a wealth of contextual ......more
Anne Frank & Emmett Till is an effort to reveal how some of the people the author has known and the seminal events she e......more
A funny and profound meditation on the complexity of chronic illness and the ache of desire. At a clinic in Northern Cal......more
A hauntingly surreal play that plumbs the depths of a group of close friends reuniting for the first time in decades. Tw......more
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Storytelling and performance have been at the centre of Black traditions for as long as Black existence. From griots and......more
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Drawing on interview material, current scholarship and documents from the Ku Na’uka and SPAC archives, this book is the ......more
Adaptation in Musical Theatre examines adaptation as inherent to musical theatre, an art form with an established histor......more
This book provides the first ever English translation of the Yiddish play, Mississippi. Penned in 1935 by Leyb Malakh, i......more
This book provides the first ever English translation of the Yiddish play, Mississippi. Penned in 1935 by Leyb Malakh, i......more
This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, 7 yea......more
seven methods of killing kylie jenner combines theatre with gifs, memes and emojis to explore stereotypes of Black woman......more
This edited collection gathers contributions by Shakespeare scholars from a wide range of countries, both European and n......more
Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation to quot......more
Rowena Hawkins develops an analysis of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) as a productive, intercultural ......more
Powerfully immersive...timely, educational and engrossing. --South West Londoner When contented housewife Edith wanders ......more
An intimate portrayal of queer love, aching with authenticity, pain and joy. --Russell T. Davies, screenwriter and TV pr......more
Studying three tragic authors to explore the meanings--and consequences--of modernity The emergence of a distinctly mode......more
’Oh, be not afraid. I am cast out of society, but you, is it not true, you walk around as a man of honour? What more do ......more
A joyfully queer fantasia that draws on jazz music and operatic form to reimagine the last hours of Socrates as an ecsta......more
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Plautus’ Poenulus (or Little Carthaginian) is a staggering work. Performed in the years after Rome’s traumatic struggle ......more
A star-making factory without rival, the Japanese talent agency Johnny’s Jimusho has brought fame to several generations......more
This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for......more
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In Drama and the Death of God, John Parker argues that the secularity often associated with Shakespeare inspired a varie......more
In Drama and the Death of God, John Parker argues that the secularity often associated with Shakespeare inspired a varie......more
Finalist for the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Break-ups aren’t just about who gets the CD collection. As Jo and Harr......more
Beautiful and deeply moving: a testament to the indomitable flowering of queer identity and found family through grief a......more
An extraordinary play that puts the audience inside the maelstrom of its characters’ lives...a multifaceted portrait of ......more
A play bubbling with timely insights about trust, truth and the hard art of compromise. --Financial Times The Kremlin, M......more
A smartly composed exploration of greed, loss and the loneliness of eternity, More Life is an incredibly human play abou......more
What material conditions were Shakespeare’s plays performed in? How were they staged and what did they look like? Early ......more
This collection brings Crothers’s best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continued rel......more
This collection brings Crothers’s best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continued rel......more
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory offers a comprehensive introduction and overview of screenplay theor......more
Written at a time of great social upheaval, Hippolytus is one of the most studied plays in Greek drama. As befits such a......more
A Roman tragedy widely considered to be post-Senecan and of unknown authorship, Hercules on Oeta is the longest play to ......more
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Digital Humanities has emerged in recent years as a new paradigm within theatre and performance studies. This is the fir......more
Drawing upon miscellaneous theories from Eugenio Barba, Friedrich Nietzsche and contemporary sound studies, Sonorous Dra......more
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This book sets out a fresh approach to stand-up comedy. By constructing a theoretical framework using laughter theory, p......more
This book sets out a fresh approach to stand-up comedy. By constructing a theoretical framework using laughter theory, p......more
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From Sarajevo to Tunisia to Rome, these five plays trace the invisible scars of exile, where memory and identity are bot......more
Theatricality and the Arts presents a series of investigations of the notion of ’theatricality’. Primarily, theatricalit......more
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: "I’m making this up as I go" Lawrence Kasdan and Raiders of the Lost Ark Chapter 1......more
From its inception in the northern city of Mosul in the late nineteenth century, Iraqi theatre leaned toward the utopian......more
This book examines the emergence of documentary theatre in Ireland during the 2010s, linking this to a combination of po......more
This anthology of four plays written or performed between 1662 and 1677 offers a unique snapshot of the diverse nature o......more
A romantic psychological thriller that tells a heartfelt story exploring the complexities of relational trauma, sexualit......more