Theatre Studies books

From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and...  Read More >>

Enter the Undead Author explores the points of tension between the idea of authorship and the realities of theatrical...  Read More >>

During her 40-year career, Margit Koppendorfer has designed costumes for the greats of theatre history: characters...  Read More >>

This collection charts the teeming legacies of William Hogarth and explores the ways in which his works and ideas...  Read More >>

Laura's husband, Victor, has just died. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years ago and their children forced...  Read More >>

What goes on inside a great narrator to make them great? This ground-breaking work answers this question by exploring...  Read More >>

This book draws on the author’s experience as a storyteller, drama practitioner and researcher, to articulate an...  Read More >>

Steve Waters examines how the very idea of film has defined him as a playwright and a person in this book. Through...  Read More >>

The digital age had heralded the possibility that error could be eradicated by the logic of computers but several...  Read More >>

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Explores how women in Irish theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have employed mythic narratives...  Read More >>

Why would an intelligent, talented, educated woman tolerate living with an abusive partner? And why can the legal...  Read More >>

Dans la belle Naples, le theatre est ne depuis la nuit des temps. Un geste, une grimace, un cri, une chanson, un...  Read More >>

A unique, inside account of preparing for, rehearsing and performing in one of the most important cultural phenomena...  Read More >>

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A History of Romanian Theatre from Communism to Capitalism analyses the last three decades of Romanian theatre and...  Read More >>

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Art and Performance offers a unique...  Read More >>

In this forceful study, Helen C. Scott situates The Tempest within Marxist analyses of the ‘primitive accumulation’...  Read More >>

Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre examines the function of dramaturgy...  Read More >>

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music. It argues that context,...  Read More >>

Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive...  Read More >>

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Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage examines professional wrestling as a century-old, theatrical form...  Read More >>