Theatre: individual actors & directors books

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Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This...  Read More >>

Bennewitz, Goethe, Faust makes a cogent argument for this director's place alongside the twentieth century's greatest...  Read More >>

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The complete script to the critically acclaimed play.  Read More >>

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Alan Bates, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Robert Shaw...  Read More >>

Offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes' earliest surviving plays: Acharnians, Knights, and...  Read More >>

The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known...  Read More >>

This original and useful contribution to knowledge about the theatre focuses on the playgoer. Samuel Selden shows...  Read More >>

With the use of song, music, poetry, dance, pantomime, and story-line, Green has created a colourful symphonic drama,...  Read More >>

Portraits of the earliest actresses and what they convey about a once-disreputable profession  Read More >>

Details the extraordinary life & times of actress Helena Modjeska  Read More >>

The Lux Radio Theatre was the longest-running radio drama program ever broadcast. Starting in 1934 the show usually...  Read More >>

In this bold new way of looking at dramatic structure, Jim Linnell establishes the central role of emotional experience...  Read More >>

The first widely available biography of this important black Victorian-age actor, Ira Aldridge: The Early Years,...  Read More >>

Volume 2 of the first available biography of this great African-American classical actor, covering his emergence...  Read More >>

This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues. Beginning...  Read More >>

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Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with...  Read More >>

Examines the historical and political context of acclaimed African American actor Paul Robeson's three portrayals...  Read More >>

""This biography recounts the early life of this superstar as well as her coronation on Broadway, her work in silent...  Read More >>

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This title is an accessible and authoritative A-Z offering strong coverage of actors, playwrights, directors, and...  Read More >>