Theatre Studies books

Uncovers a haunting yet vital record of bodies commodified, archived, and performed Currencies of Cruelty is a...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking work explores Søren Kierkegaard as a pioneering figure in performance theory, revealing how...  Read More >>

Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how...  Read More >>

Award-winning British playwright, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage...  Read More >>

The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre Third Edition demystifies the process of devising theatre, offering...  Read More >>

Uncovers a haunting yet vital record of bodies commodified, archived, and performed Currencies of Cruelty is a...  Read More >>

This volume argues that virtual models are dispositifs that act as critical instruments in theatre, art and architecture...  Read More >>

Award-winning British playwright, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage...  Read More >>

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  Read More >>

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Set in northern Malawi, the story in A Love Triangle evolves around two families whose children are about to tie...  Read More >>

This book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race,...  Read More >>

This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses...  Read More >>

This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964.  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec...  Read More >>

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the interrelations among Greek tragedy, theatre practices,...  Read More >>

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian ‘resources’, from novellas to dramas, scenarios and...  Read More >>

This book investigates the eruption of NFT crypto art, and its impact on copyright law.  Read More >>

This study explores the formation, establishment, expansion, and disintegration of stage design as a modern profession...  Read More >>

This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate...  Read More >>

This book adapts a cultural-semiotic approach to analyze contemporary circus performances. It offers the first comprehensive...  Read More >>

This book explores drag performance in London since 2009 via the pubs, bars and clubs that make LGBTQ+ communities...  Read More >>

This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years...  Read More >>

This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.  Read More >>