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 volume offers a concise guide to the teaching and philosophy of one of the most significant figures in twentieth century actor training. Jacques ..
This book uses original archival material to consider Joan Littlewood and her company, 'Theatre Workshop'. Littlewood was a theatrical and cultural in..
Now reissued, this book examines Jacques Copeau, a leading figure in the development of twentieth century theatre practice, a pioneer for work on acto..
A dancer, teacher and choreographer, Mary Wigman was a leading innovator in Expressionist dance. Her radical explorations of movement and dance theory..
Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre’s most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo giv..
This book offers a timely discussion of the interventions and tensions between two contentious fields, performance and phenomenology. Acknowledging th..
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this emerging field. It collects work by over 30 scholars in this dis..
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 proce..
Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean play texts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and co..
Taking into account theories of gender, performance and performativity within a historical context, this study explores how the Baroque comedia's preo..
Approaching individual plays in the Chester cycle from the point of view of recent and startling research findings, this volume investigates how new s..
Focusing on John Foxe, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Milton, David Anderson argues that the English tragedians refle..