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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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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
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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
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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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory offers a comprehensive introduction and overview of screenplay theor......more
Elaine Romero is an award-winning and prolific Latina playwright with a career spanning more than thirty years. In her B......more
Elaine Romero is an award-winning and prolific Latina playwright with a career spanning more than thirty years. In her B......more
"The first and only edited collection of plays written by Rachel Crothers, who wrote and directed over 20 popular and mo......more
"The first and only edited collection of plays written by Rachel Crothers, who wrote and directed over 20 popular and mo......more
Adaptation in Musical Theatre examines adaptation as inherent to musical theatre, an art form with an established histor......more
The second collection of work by Olivier award-winning British playwright Laura Wade, bursting with her trademark satiri......more
seven methods of killing kylie jenner combines theatre with gifs, memes and emojis to explore stereotypes of Black woman......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
Scenography in Musical Theatre answers the questions: What are the ways that scenography acts as a mode of storytelling ......more
A new edition of the celebrated Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (2002), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of ......more
How does a feminist spectator navigate misogynist representations of women? Musicals have always appealed to women as au......more
Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an e......more
A groundbreaking exploration that reveals the powerful impact of marginalized groups on the evolution of the Broadway Mu......more
A groundbreaking exploration that reveals the powerful impact of marginalized groups on the evolution of the Broadway Mu......more
Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since ......more
Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since ......more
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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
This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeare’s work with "the human", his drama plays a c......more
This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Twelfth Night was received and......more
This book presents a contextualised volume of memoirs penned by the pioneering Polish-Yiddish actor Ester-Rokhl Kaminska......more
This book presents a contextualised volume of memoirs penned by the pioneering Polish-Yiddish actor Ester-Rokhl Kaminska......more
’Tender and rigorous, this book invites readers to linger with difficult pasts and consider how best to grasp their haun......more
Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramat......more
A new Student Edition of Willy Russell’s enduring 1983 play, Blood Brothers, offering accessible and vivid insights into......more
The authoritative guide to teaching Shakespeare’s Othello, The Folger Guide to Teaching Othello is an invaluable resourc......more
The authoritative guide to teaching Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Folger Guide to Teaching A Midsummer Ni......more
Speaking Our Selves brings together plays by women writers from the under-represented African countries of Tanzania, Moz......more
Speaking Our Selves brings together plays by women writers from the under-represented African countries of Tanzania, Moz......more
A collection of four stunningly imaginative plays that examine and deconstruct Asian American identity from the acclaime......more
This volume reframes the critical conversation about Shakespeare’s histories and national identity by bringing together ......more
Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to ......more
In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States tod......more
The first of its kind, this anthology documents some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary queer performances, through ......more
"An Asian face on stage is significant, and signifying. So as a writer I consider it my job to try and shape how and wha......more
The first of its kind, this anthology documents some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary queer performances, through ......more
"An Asian face on stage is significant, and signifying. So as a writer I consider it my job to try and shape how and wha......more
This is the first full-length book to investigate Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wi......more
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Exploring persistent connections between absolute rulers and dramatic performance in Greek and Roman drama and history, ......more
Drawing on interview material, current scholarship and documents from the Ku Na’uka and SPAC archives, this book is the ......more
Captures how this journal serves theatre historians, as scholars and laborers, as they work to attend and tend to their ......more
In this decisively innovative approach to Shakespeare s plays through their competitive relation to other choices from L......more
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The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the aca......more
Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of t......more
This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of......more
In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor......more
In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor......more
Despite historic, seemingly insurmountable setbacks of five openings, Bob Dylan’s musical Girl from the North Country ha......more
"Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies, studied and performed around the world. These new volumes in Shake......more
A guide to working backstage and in the technical areas of theatre from the Director of Technical Training and Head of L......more
Where is the line that separates the "normal" from the "abnormal"? Liubov, a young Ukrainian woman of small nobility, st......more
Where is the line that separates the "normal" from the "abnormal"? Liubov, a young Ukrainian woman of small nobility, st......more
How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current env......more
How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current env......more
The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators ......more
The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators ......more
A valedictory public donation by a celluloid-loving collector includes, unbeknownst to him, the earliest extant feature-......more