Theatre Studies books

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Exploring the role of amateur theatre associations in 19th-century Germany, this study demonstrates how their practices...  Read More >>

Im Jahr 1455 unternahm der sächsische Edelmann Kunrâdt von Kauffungen ein gewagtes Unternehmen, um seine Forderungen...  Read More >>

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Diagrammatical Performances’ traces some of the traditions and contemporary developments in the uses of diagrams...  Read More >>

Kantor: A Biography offers the first comprehensive English-language artistic biography of the Polish visual artist,...  Read More >>

This open access book examines the innovation and inheritance of Cantonese opera singing styles in Hong Kong from...  Read More >>

Barcelona is a story of two partners, four friends, intertwining a broken timeline of memory; sharing each individual's...  Read More >>

First published in 1933, The Indian Theatre provides a comprehensive overview of the origin and the later developments...  Read More >>

In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

No Mother, No Future examines how theatre portrays pregnancy loss as challenging dominant narratives linking motherhood...  Read More >>

This study offers a historicization of the 2010s in British theatre with a focus on the representation of systemic...  Read More >>

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

This book uses rigorous case studies with definitive conclusions; this work develops a critical Cultural Studies...  Read More >>

This monograph explores the work of scholars and performance artists from the US and México to expose the dire realities...  Read More >>

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

An introduction to the cultural history of jingju, from its origin to the present, with case studies demonstrating...  Read More >>

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The first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on...  Read More >>

Performing Emancipatory Rites of Passage illuminates an unexpected connection between traditional ritual structures...  Read More >>

This anthology explores Gina Pane (1939-1990), a pioneering artist who used her body as medium through Actions involving...  Read More >>