Theater Studies

Stanislavskys system of actor-training has revolutionised modern theatre practice, and he is widely recognised to be one of the great cultural inno...

In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight...

Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV, introduces and demonstrates a variety of mask ...

Now in its third edition, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician is a comprehensive, practical study guide for aspiring and...

Originally published in 2000, this book highlights the interst Sedaine's life and work is now, belatedly, provoking in many scholarly disciplines. ...

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello...

This book examines representations of the teacher on stage - in both theatrical performances and dramatic text - in order to demonstrate how these ...

Theatre Masks Out Side In examines masks from different angles and perspectives, combining the history, design, construction, and use of masks into...

This book foregrounds the subjectivity of acting women amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and mar...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

First published in 1999, this volume aims to develop the field of theatre studies by promoting the study of performative elements and thus fosterin...

In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the tyrant by entrie or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ...

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods a...

This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present. One of the most popular heroines of clas...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowskis work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued...

This edition represents a thorough reworking, expansion and updating of an earlier work, distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition...

The refusal on the part of academic critics to recognize the primacy of farce in Moliere's theatre is contradicted by wide spread theatrical pracit...

Throughout the twentieth century, live theatre has been challenged by a range of new media based on increasingly sophisticated technologies. In Sta...

'Hasa Diga Eebowai'In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that years Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant retu...

Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brechts theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brechts...

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and m...

In the second edition of Designer Drafting and Visualization for the Entertainment World, Patricia Woodbridge, a highly experienced art director of...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the und...