Theatre & Performance Studies

A lively and accessible biographical guide to the key figures in modern drama and performance. Its distinctive blend of information, analysis and anecdote makes for entertaining and enlightening reading...

Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of female actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, hi..

Drawing on a comprehensive range of early modern British, German and other European images and texts, this study offers the first interdisciplinary gendered assessment of early modern performing itinerant quacks. The contribution of women is taken as the focus for an investigation of the nature of t..

Drawing on a comprehensive range of early modern British, German and other European images and texts, this study offers the first interdisciplinary gendered assessment of early modern performing itinerant quacks. The contribution of women is taken as the focus for an investigation of the nature of t..

Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in early modern England. The collection considers how drama act..

Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in early modern England. The collection considers how drama act..

Now available in paperback for the first time this volume covers the Americas from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. An indispensible tool for anyone interested in the cultures of the Americas or in modern theatre...

This third volume of the ground-breaking WECT series provides national overviews of the recent theatrical development of some thirty-two non-Arabic African countries. The volume is illustrated with over 90 black and white photographs...

This new paperback edition covers theatre in Europe since World War II in fort-seven European nations. This book is an invaluable resource to anyone interested in European theatre...

Now available in paperback for the first time this volume covers the Americas from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. An indispensible tool for anyone interested in the cultures of the Americas or in modern theatre...

This Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in African theatre and also provides an indispensible tool for students of a wide range of disciplines including performance studies, anthropology and history..

The second volume of WECT documents artistic development all over the Americas, country by country. Overall, the volumes record and analyse world theatre in some 177 countries from 1945 up to the present day...