Theatre Studies books

This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive critical examination of the intersections between contemporary...  Read More >>

While remapping the region by examining enduring historical and cultural connections, this study discusses multiple...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization...  Read More >>

This book examines modern dance as a form of embodied resistance to political and cultural nationalism in India...  Read More >>

Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place offers new readings of the kinaesthetic experiences of site-specific and...  Read More >>

In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance...  Read More >>

Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment...  Read More >>

Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War...  Read More >>

Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance...  Read More >>

This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language...  Read More >>

This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late...  Read More >>

Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory brings memory studies into conversation with a focus on feelings as cultural...  Read More >>

Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality...  Read More >>

The first edited volume to examine philosopher Slavoj Žižek's influence on, and his relevance for, theatre and performance...  Read More >>

Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent...  Read More >>

Works of theatre that depict grievous histories derive their force from making audible voices of the past. Such...  Read More >>

English summary: This second volume in the series Proszenium: Studies in the Historical Study of the Theatrical...  Read More >>

A play by William Shakespeare in 16 point type.  Read More >>

Friendship and Greed!-- Timon is a wealthy and generous man. Over the length of the play we watch as he slowly gives...  Read More >>

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A play by William Shakespeare in 16 point type.  Read More >>

Much Ado About Nothing of the Ratna Sagar Shakespeare Series is enriched with complete text of the original play,...  Read More >>