Theater Studies

The Theatrical Firearms Handbook is the essential guide to navigating the many decisions that are involved in the safe and effective use of firearm...

Volume 2 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society continues the exploration of the fundamental contribution that artistic an...

Volume 1 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society explores the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bri...

Dick of Devonshire by Thomas Heywood dramatises Englands disastrous 1625 Cadiz expedition through the story of a foot-soldier turned national hero....

This is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting designers, ...

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new me...

Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restr...

Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restr...

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new fo...

This monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage representations of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019.  Its imbricated strands are playtexts...

 This volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts. Bringing together distinguished scholars from all o...

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in E...

Drawing from author Tim Palmer's 30 years of experience working as a cinematographer for award-winning drama series including Killing Eve, Bad Sist...

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s...

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...

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s...

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

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

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

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

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009...

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009...

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

The core goal of Directing Screen Performances is to teach aspiring directors how to prepare and work with actors. Through a practical exploration ...

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

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

Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British pla...

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...

The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 18...

Looking for a job in the theatre and entertainment industry can be daunting, especially when you are newly entering the work market. How do you tak...

Soviet Literature in the Sixties (1965) examines the Soviet literary scene and its changes following the death of Stalin. Not least among these cha...

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...

Drawing from author Tim Palmer's 30 years of experience working as a cinematographer for award-winning drama series including Killing Eve, Bad Sist...

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process in the words of those who experienced i...

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

This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeares texts obviously destined for stage performances to generate images and mental colours in the...