Theatre Studies books

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 >>

Actor Tommy Demenkoff redesigned his career, unleashed his brash ego, and risked his life and everything he believed...  Read More >>

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Two noble kinsmen, Arcite and Palamon, fall for Emilia, sparking a deadly rivalry in this final Shakespearean play....  Read More >>

A witty and intricate comedy of manners exploring love, societal norms, and deception in 18th century England.  Read More >>

A dark, realist drama by Tolstoy, exploring the downfall of peasants Anísya and Nikíta amidst poverty and moral...  Read More >>

Wit and scandal reign in 18th-century London as high society's hypocrisies are skewered in Sheridan's timeless comedy....  Read More >>

A professor bets he can transform a flower girl into a duchess, exploring themes of class, identity, and social...  Read More >>

King Henry IV's crusade plans are derailed by border skirmishes and his son Hal's reckless behavior, as rebellion...  Read More >>

Idealist Barbara Undershaft clashes with her munitions-industry father over wealth, morality, and helping the poor....  Read More >>

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

This book provides an auto-ethnographic perspective on the complexities of working as a practitioner within marginalised...  Read More >>

This monograph offers a compelling exploration of Duncan’s Russian years—both before and after the October Revolution—drawing...  Read More >>

Technology is now integral to theater, dance, and performance—not just a tool but part of our cultural ecology....  Read More >>

This book provides an auto-ethnographic perspective on the complexities of working as a practitioner within marginalised...  Read More >>