Theatre & Performance Studies

Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study, Hyland examines various conceptual and practical issues that provide a..

The African dancer requires complete technical mastery and must respect the precise rules handed down by the society of the Masques de Sagesse. Alphonse Tirou is from the Ouenon people of the Ivory Coast. His major study is the first written record of this oral tradition and it explains the movement..

Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibilities. At the heart of this text lies the question of how theatre can illuminate the urban and how theatre is illuminated by the urban. _x000D_ This book wa..

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660...

Contributors to this collection argue for the importance of academic drama as a site of cultural production in England from 1500 to 1700. They explore how these plays address various aspects of culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and r..

Contributors to this collection argue for the importance of academic drama as a site of cultural production in England from 1500 to 1700. They explore how these plays address various aspects of culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and r..

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This unique text uses material never previously published on theatre life during the Communist years. Chapters begin with introductions by well-known theatre professionals or lively interviews with a major directors or playwrights...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In this collection of essays, the four branches of radical cognitive science will dialogue with performance, with particular focus on post-cognitivist approaches to understanding the embodied mind-in-society. The essays originally published as a special issue in Connection Science...