Theatre Studies books

The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a pertinent voice of theatrical performance within...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays on the most important questions faced...  Read More >>

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce examines the systemic and institutional barriers and...  Read More >>

In the mid-eighteenth century, the Ottawa chief Pontiac led an intertribal confederacy that resisted British power...  Read More >>

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Since Chicago's founding, theatre has blossomed in the city's makeshift spaces, from taverns to parks, living rooms...  Read More >>

Through a study of the innovative work of Senegalese theater-makers from the 1930s onward, Senegalese Stagecraft...  Read More >>

Examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of...  Read More >>

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Full of ideas and provocations from a range of theatre practitioners, and drawing on examples from inside and outside...  Read More >>

""Lady Susan, a young widow, flees London and arrives at the country home of her obliging brother-in-law and his...  Read More >>

A practical and instructional reference guide to the hairstyles from the Shakespearean era.  Read More >>

Lew Holton is an award-winning playwright, a retired teacher, an actor, a director, and a musician. His plays--including...  Read More >>

In this sardonic mashup, Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled, glamorously pickled American sleuths, Nick and Nora Charles,...  Read More >>

A group of strangers discover a dead body after riding through a train tunnel. Surely it was murder! This motley...  Read More >>

In the beautiful Naples the theater was born since the dawn of time. A gesture, a grimace, a cry, a song, a cry,...  Read More >>

This guide aims to provide the expert advice needed to get your break, jump-start your career and land that paying...  Read More >>

Ziel des Buches ist es, die Grenzen zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft zu durchbrechen, indem das Kernstuck der rechtsphilosophischen...  Read More >>

This book takes Roland Barthes’s famous proclamation of ‘The Death of the Author’ as a starting point to investigate...  Read More >>

In the absence of full-length texts on actor-director coaching for the stage, Forrest Sears aims to fill the gap...  Read More >>

From “The Lottery” to The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson’s oeuvre has created an influential apocalyptic...  Read More >>

The first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850, offering a...  Read More >>

The first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850, offering a...  Read More >>

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