Theatre Studies books

From Commedia dell Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone,...  Read More >>

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Small-Screen Shakespeare is a guide to all the Shakespeare productions available for viewing on computer or TV....  Read More >>

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She is the most wonderfully inventive and brilliantly talented designer Dame Judi Dench on Clancy. Deirdre Clancy...  Read More >>

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Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent playwrights of West and East Africa respectively and their...  Read More >>

Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists...  Read More >>

Die Volksbuhne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin ist ein Erfolgsmodell der deutschen und internationalen Kulturszene...  Read More >>

Life After Kes examines the history and legacy of the 1969 award-winning British film, Kes, about a boy s (Billy...  Read More >>

Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing's...  Read More >>

Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the...  Read More >>

There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period...  Read More >>

Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater...  Read More >>

When it was first published in 1993, Secrets of ScreenActing broke new ground in explaining how acting for the camera...  Read More >>

This enthralling collection of weird and wonderful tales from the world of theatre includes such unusual stories...  Read More >>

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection...  Read More >>

Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors...  Read More >>

Sublime Comedies -- Collected here are all sixteen of Shakespeare's brilliant comedies. Including The Two Gentlemen...  Read More >>

Discovering the common performance strategies of an unlikely pairing: evangelical Christians and left-progressive...  Read More >>

David Muncaster has been the playscript reviewer for Amateur Stage magazine since 2010. Each month he reviews scripts...  Read More >>

The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest...  Read More >>

Apart from readings of Shakespeare's plays and poems, this book maps Renaissance contexts of his art in politics,...  Read More >>

A gentle satire on the artificiality of Court life, the plot revolves around the King of Navarre, who has retired...  Read More >>