Performance Art

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers theatre of the 1920s and 1930s trans...

Russian Theater (1963) is a comprehensive study of the main trends in Russian theatre in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with its...

The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, crit...

An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship. This is th...

Received the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or TheatreBlack Movements analyzes how artists and act...

What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it?1000 Ways to Ask Why is a practical how-to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgica...

What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it?1000 Ways to Ask Why is a practical how-to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgica...

Representing the output of the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, this volume brings together diverse voices, meth...

This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find ...

Der maskuline Maschinenmann, der sich seit den 1980er Jahren mit Vorstellungen eines virilen und hypermuskulösen Männerkörpers verbindet, gehört in...

How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of performing contribute to philosop...

Examining early Chinese ritual discourse during the Warring States and early Western Han Periods, this book reveals how performance became a fundam...

This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important cl...

American adaptations of Aristophanes enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike ...

Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance explores how children and young people fit into national political theatre and, moreover, how yout...

This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest in the idea of performance and tran...

This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the fir...

The distances that separate East from West the two extremes of the Eurasian continent are enormous. Yet, since ancient times, the people of Europ...

This book explores the ways that pre-existing national works or national theatre sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the cont...

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual origins of feminist performance, offering a fresh an...