Theatre Studies books

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Without a precise separation between ’science’ and ’magic’, the line between the natural and supernatural worlds...  Read More >>

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In 'Actor's Ultimate (Myths and Truths)' we delve into the world of acting and debunk common misconceptions surrounding...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics,...  Read More >>

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews...  Read More >>

Lisa Plummer Crafton argues that, throughout her works, Mary Wollstonecraft engages with early Romantic notions...  Read More >>

In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood- playwright, miscellanist and...  Read More >>

This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and...  Read More >>

This book discusses the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. The essays pose questions...  Read More >>

By tracing the evolution of farce from Pantagruel and Gargantua through the Tiers and Quart livres, Bruce Hayes...  Read More >>

The essays gathered here examine the legacy of Roxolana, a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who, from harem slave,...  Read More >>

In Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger, Joanne Rochester examines examples of on-stage spectatorship...  Read More >>

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays, and the issue...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest...  Read More >>

This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European...  Read More >>

This collection explores the issues of how children fit into national discourse on international stages. The authors...  Read More >>

Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and Restoration theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater,...  Read More >>

Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical...  Read More >>

Murray contends that cycles of catastrophe and catharsis are everywhere in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...  Read More >>

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published...  Read More >>

In the first full-length study devoted to John Lowin, Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and...  Read More >>