Performance Art

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...

This is the first book to investigate the social, political, cultural, artistic and economic forces which created conditions for the rise, success ...

This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson’s unconventional rehearsal methodology. Neilson’s notably collaborative rehears...

First published in 1961. Critiquing the critics, and examining the vocabulary of twentieth century criticism of the Shakespearean tragedies, John H...

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...

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

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and ...

First published in 1972. The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a stri...

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and ...

First published in 1971. This volume explains and analyses the last plays of Shakespeare as dramatic structures. Beginning from the dark comedies, ...