Theatre Studies books

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice...  Read More >>

Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers...  Read More >>

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

American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism...  Read More >>

This volume brings together important records of medieval theatre practice between 1400 and 1580. The records are...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral...  Read More >>

Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon,...  Read More >>

The guild buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings...  Read More >>

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The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Gollapudi argues, but an...  Read More >>

Applying current political theory on nationhood and methods established by recent performance studies, this study...  Read More >>

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic...  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 >>