Performance Art

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understandin...

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them. Jakub Boguszak shows how the idiosyncrasies ...

This book reports on one of the largest co-ordinated efforts to survey the theatrical audience experience: the City Study of the Project on Europea...

Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment.Written b...

Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment.Written b...

Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive...

The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It pre...

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single a...

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplina...

For courses in Environmental studies, Environmental Sociology, Environmental geography and Development studies; Women's studies and Women's issues ...

Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association Winner of the 2017 Annual Book Prize from th...

Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association Winner of the 2017 Annual Book Prize from th...

Every year in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas", The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion brings together members of the former League of Exot...

Originally published in 1987. In this book we find songs reflecting every aspect of life in the twentieth-century Royal Navy, both upper and lower ...

Lively yet intriguing, The Body in Performance is a varied collection of essays about this much-discussed area. Posing the question "Why this curre...

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse ...

Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth’s reign....

Originally published in 1971. Nineteenth-century theatre in England has been greatly neglected, although serious study would reveal that the roots ...

Documentary, Performance and Risk explores how some of the most significant recent American feature documentaries use performance to dramatically a...

"Outstanding … a technical manual (for actors and directors), an historical document of importance, and a volume that is a delight to read." Ian Wa...

Originally published in 1982. The songs on which this study is based were once vibrant in the throats and ears and minds of living people. This boo...

First Published in 1992. Medieval Theatre in Context is the first systematic attempt to relate the development of medieval drama - both Christian a...

As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals’ engagement with networks of heterogeneo...

This edition first published in 1962. The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of...

Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about ...

Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the fou...

This edition first published in 1962. The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of...

This is an authorized translation of Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow, 1979) by Inna Solovyova, historian, author, and senior researcher of the Moscow ...

How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts, devotional music...

Devising Theatre and Performance is a hands-on guide for artists, students and teachers of performance at any stage of their practice. It offers a ...

This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discu...

Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and t...

Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the cognitive processes invol...

How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts, devotional music...

The first-ever overview on the multimedia art of free-jazz pioneer and creative polymath Milford Graves Milford Graves (born 1941) has been a reve...

Drawing out the particularities of working in twos, with a focus on collaborative performance making, this book considers the duet as a particular ...

Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers’ plays, which have long been regarded as a form of ‘folk’ or ‘traditional’ drama, somehow separate fro...

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanisla...

In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of...

A retrospective monograph of Alistair MacLennan’s performance art practice, its influence on the Belfast art scene, and its relationships with wide...

Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and t...

Identity and Diversity in New Music: The New Complexities aims to enrich the discussion of how musicians and educators can best engage with audienc...

The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light dra...

This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors wor...

This book is an investigation into church music through the lens of performance theory, both as a discipline and as a theoretical framework. Schola...

This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet’s Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure in the play. It shows how traditio...

Jatinder Verma has been a pioneering figure in the development of British South Asian theatre, and a prominent spokesperson for the importance of i...