Theatre History

In this new and updated edition of his well-known study, readers will gain insight into a key period of theatrical history and the life of one of its most fascinating individuals...

_x000D_ Considering affect as mood, inclination, and manner, as well as emotion, and addressing affect as both an economic and cultural phenomenon, this collection of fourteen original essays showcases historical modes of affect within the formal productions of early modern English theater as well a..

This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing by experts it the field on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies...

_x005F_x000D_ Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic advances an innovative and compelling approach to writing comparative studies of performance in trans-national, intercultural relation to one another...

_x005F_x000D_ "An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him." - Henry_x005F_x000D_ George Bernard Shaw famously refused to permit any play of his "to be degraded into an operetta or set to any music except its own." Allowing..

The material in this five-volume reset edition examines opera not simply as a genre of performance, but as a wider topic of comment and debate. The collection includes only complete, published material organised chronologically so as to accurately retain the contexts in which the original readers en..

The material in this five-volume reset edition examines opera not simply as a genre of performance, but as a wider topic of comment and debate. The collection includes only complete, published material organised chronologically so as to accurately retain the contexts in which the original readers en..

The material in this five-volume reset edition examines opera not simply as a genre of performance, but as a wider topic of comment and debate. The collection includes only complete, published material organised chronologically so as to accurately retain the contexts in which the original readers en..

The material in this five-volume reset edition examines opera not simply as a genre of performance, but as a wider topic of comment and debate. The collection includes only complete, published material organised chronologically so as to accurately retain the contexts in which the original readers en..

The material in this five-volume reset edition examines opera not simply as a genre of performance, but as a wider topic of comment and debate. The collection includes only complete, published material organised chronologically so as to accurately retain the contexts in which the original readers en..

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

A pioneering study of the theatre's treatment of homosexuals and homosexuality from the 1920s to the present day. Only in the 60s did theatres confront heterosexual prejudice and in the wake of AIDS, the issue is once again highly charged...