Performance Art

Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunn...

This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practi...

The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence an...

Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunn...

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you – the performer – with engaging and inspiri...

How is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around – and beyond – psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? M...

Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive pros...

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you – the performer – with engaging and inspiri...

This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno’s character...

First published in 1937. This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entitie...

This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United Sta...

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and b...

The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has bee...

Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself mean...

Old Vic Prefaces is a collection of the author's talks to the actors on those plays which he produced, while a Director of the Old Vic from 1949 to...

How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring abou...

First published in 1979. How do the elements of swearing and perjury work in Shakespeare's plays? What effect did Shakespeare intend when he wrote...

This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primari...

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches, tools, and techniques for electronic music performance, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI con...

How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring abou...

Old Vic Prefaces is a collection of the author's talks to the actors on those plays which he produced, while a Director of the Old Vic from 1949 to...

First published in 1952. This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical...

First published in 1971. The only substantial text of a series of lectures on Shakespeare by S T Coleridge is that provided by J P Collier's Seven...

In this study, Josefine Wikström challenges a concept of performance that makes no difference between art and non-art and argues for a new concept....

First published in 1971. This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultura...

First published in 1957. This edition re-issues the second edition of 1965. Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English Histor...

This volume in the Routledge Key Guides series provides a round-up of the fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of ...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practi...

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveal...

This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre.Through the rise, fall and tenuous survival of male dan in C...

Digital art practitioners work under the constant threat of a medium – the digital – that objectifies the self and depersonalises artistic identiti...

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and b...

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches, tools, and techniques for electronic music performance, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI con...

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity. This book explores ...

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveal...

Through a close re-examination of Eugene O’Neill’s oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O’Neill’s visio...