Theatre & Performance Studies

Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night..

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century...

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This edition focuses on the "pre-expressive" and a range of related concepts: "score", "underscore", or "subscore", text and performance-text, the body and mind of the performer, cultural and linguistic embedding, and "presence" or the "pre-performative"...

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

This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

By tracing the evolution of farce from Pantagruel and Gargantua through the Tiers and Quart livres, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the understanding of Rabelais' writing, and of farce's literary possibilities. He distinguishes Rabelais's use of farce from the conservative tradition,..

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...