Theatre Studies books

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

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There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50...  Read More >>

Intimate Commentaries on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre is a collection of Michal Kobialka’s essays, written between 1986...  Read More >>

Intimate Commentaries on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre is a collection of Michal Kobialka’s essays, written between 1986...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the transformative role of emerging technologies in advancing SDG 5— Gender Equality....  Read More >>

A toe-tapping, gut-busting musical satire about a woman whose body takes revenge on the patriarchy. Premiered at...  Read More >>

A new guide to creating equitable, inclusive, and diverse community engagement in the arts.  Read More >>

This Element explores how medieval devotional and disciplinary practices acted as 'immersive technologies' for producing...  Read More >>

This book offers the first multidisciplinary perspective on the formation and practices of fandoms before the term...  Read More >>

Dans mon travail de chorégraphe de combat, j'ai souvent puisé mon inspiration dans les traités d'escrime anciens....  Read More >>

A series of alphabetical, standalone mini essays exploring participatory theatre - live performance where the audience...  Read More >>

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Un drame symboliste et poétique sur l'amour mis à l'épreuve du destin.  Read More >>

This Element explores how medieval devotional and disciplinary practices acted as 'immersive technologies' for producing...  Read More >>

This book is the first written history of the development of African dance in the UK covering the last sixty years...  Read More >>

Nora Helmer's struggle for identity in 1870s Norway sparks a fight for family and self in a society limiting women's...  Read More >>

Monstrous Utopias builds on the growing discourse surrounding the figure of the monster in performance, theatre,...  Read More >>

This book explores acting in a range of Hitchcock films, with leading scholars providing close readings of a selection...  Read More >>

These plays are written by Alireza Shilser, an Iranian playwright based in Luxembourg. It is a work born out of...  Read More >>

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Gina Gershon offers cautionary (and often hilarious) tales of surviving the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood, revealing...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ‘the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque....  Read More >>

​Leave Yourself Alone: Zen and the Art of Acting is an examination of acting that focuses on the spiritual aspects...  Read More >>