Theater Studies

Holistically addressing the documented needs of practicing artists, this book applies contemporary business management principles to the unique cir...

Holistically addressing the documented needs of practicing artists, this book applies contemporary business management principles to the unique cir...

This book is an intervention in Hamlet scholarship. In Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885), Nietzsche famously posited the death of God, taken to mean th...

Body painter extraordinaire Chris Peck, aka Rainbowskinz, shows you the fundamental techniques he uses to create an infinite number of extraordinar...

First Published in 1999. 'Our subject is of blood and tragedy, Murther, foul incest and hypocrisy'. In the sensational history of Borgias, Barnabe ...

Now in its seventh edition, The Art of Voice Acting covers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. Starting with the basics ...

This book comprises of key articles from the 2023 AusAct: The Australian Actor Training Conference that addresses innovative and fresh discussions ...

This book is a conversation about acting with noted actor, director and educator Cynthia Henderson. Cynthia takes the reader on a journey to the he...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A Level Subject: Drama and Theatre First teaching: 2015 F...

Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of North.The choreogra...

To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over a...

In Wagner's Theatre, Patrick Carnegy presents the turbulent story of Wagner and his interpreters over the course of the twentieth century. Carnegy ...

An Actor Prepares is the most famous acting training book ever to have been written and the work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors...

This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre. This ground-br...

Robert Cohens book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the...

This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular a...

Im thinking this night wasnt I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by. Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synges The Playbo...

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbrea...

I'm thinking this night wasn't I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.' Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge's The Pl...

The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilizat...

Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatric...

Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a mi...

For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity. Emerging in the...

In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic ...

The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of...

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in th...

This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, ...

In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social...

In this book leading scholars come together to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and other media from 1920 to th...

Navarasas, Autoethnodrama & DIY Immersive Theatre is composed of two interwoven texts, each in dialogue with the other.Part One presents a dist...

Applied Theatre and Gender Justice is a collection of essays highlighting the value and efficacy of using applied theatre to address gender in a br...

Applied Theatre and Gender Justice is a collection of essays highlighting the value and efficacy of using applied theatre to address gender in a br...

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance sc...

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theat...

Am Beispiel der Stadt Frankfurt a.M. untersucht die interdisziplinäre Studie anhand dreier Fallstudien das komplexe Verhältnis zwischen gesellschaf...

French Drama of the Revolutionary Years (1990) examines the years following the Revolution which saw an explosion both in the number of theatres an...

Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in ...

Originally published in 1969, this was the first book of its kind: an attempt to describe the different approaches that the actor needs to make to ...

This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artifici...