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Author: Simon Shepherd (The Royal Central School of Speech and D, London) ,
Simon Shepherd (The Royal Central School of Speech and D, London)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Weight: 1.967kg
ISBN: 9781474254113
ISBN 10: 147425411
Publication Date: 18 October 2018
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Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active
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Simon Shepherd is Emeritus Professor of Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. He conceived and edits Palgrave's Readings in Theatre Practice series, for which his volume Direction appeared in 2012. Among his other titles are The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre, Drama/Theatre/Performance (with Mick Wallis), and Studying Plays (with Mick Wallis, Bloomsbury, 2010). Professor Peta Tait (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) is an academic scholar and playwright with an extensive background in theatre, dramatic literature, performance theory and creative arts practice. She researches in the interdisciplinary humanities fields of emotions, body theory and gender identity. Professor Tait has authored four scholarly books, and edited and co-edited three further books, with sixty other publications including articles in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama and Performance Research. David Barnett is Reader in Drama, Theatre and Peformance at the University of Sussex, UK. He has published monographs on Heiner Muller (1998) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2005, paperback 2009), and co-edited a volume and edited a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on contemporary German theatre. He is the author of Brecht in Practice (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014) and A History of the Berliner Ensemble (2015), and he edited the anthology of Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble Adaptations (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014). Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include Vsevolod Meyerhold (2003), Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting (2006/9), Russians in Britain (2012) and Stanislavsky in the World (with Dr Stefan Aquilina, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016). Michael Patterson is Emeritus Professor of Theatre and has taught at five universities in the UK. His publications include: The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (1981); Peter Stein (1981); Strategies of Political Theatre (2003); The Oxford Dictionary of Plays (2005); The Oxford Guide to Plays (2007); for Bloomsbury he edited Buchner: The Complete Plays (1987); and has written over 20 articles and chapters in books.
