Theatre Studies books

This rollicking comedy follows the adventures of Truffaldino, a servant, as he tries to fulfill the requests of...  Read More >>

Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily...  Read More >>

Now considered Behn's most famous and most accomplished play, The Rover is in many ways firmly in the tradition...  Read More >>

This is above all, an indictment of arranged marriages. Young Leticia Bredwell has been purchased as a bride for...  Read More >>

This play by the English writer D. H. Lawrence is the dramatised version of the author s short story Odour of Chrysanthemums....  Read More >>

Although it may read to modern audiences like a hilarious slapstick comedy, The Inspector-General is actually much...  Read More >>

The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov's four full-length plays. It explores the romantic and artistic tension...  Read More >>

Although it may read to modern audiences like a hilarious slapstick comedy, The Inspector-General is actually much...  Read More >>

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​This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded...  Read More >>

Provides an overview of the current research undertaken across the country, thereby providing a valuable resource...  Read More >>

Provides an overview of the current research undertaken across the country, thereby providing a valuable resource...  Read More >>

In 'Imaginary Performances', visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities...  Read More >>

Sophocles' great masterpiece, Oedipus the King, is here translated into highly-polished English verse alongside...  Read More >>

Theatre has always been technological. This book explores the technicity of theatre, its changing work as an intermedial...  Read More >>

L'Aiglon is a play in six acts based on the life of Napoleon's son, Napoleon II of France, Duke of Reichstadt. The...  Read More >>

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Stage Fright in the Actor explores the phenomena of stage fright – a universal experience which ranges in intensity...  Read More >>

Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon...  Read More >>

Playing Shakespeare’s Monarchs and Madmen is the third volume in the Peter Lang series, Playing Shakespeare’s Characters....  Read More >>

Hedda's married name is Hedda Tesman; Gabler is her maiden name. On the subject of the title, Ibsen wrote: My intention...  Read More >>

IT IS CLEAR THAT, IF THE PLAY IS TO LIVE, it must live largely off the dialogue, and that the dialogue has to be...  Read More >>

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""Published in 2016 by arrangement with Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House...  Read More >>