History & Criticism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583483930Author Mary McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 144mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514345832Author Donald McNeillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In this book, Jason B. Dorwart contends that the material presence of visible disability disrupts the framing devices that provide safe distancing for theatre's fictive nature. Conceptions of disability that place the disabled body into a permanently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514344781Author Donald McNeillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514347522Author Donald McNeillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In The Mikado to Matilda: British Musicals on the New York Stage, Thomas Hischak provides an overview of British musicals that made their way to Broadway, covering their entire history up to the present day. This is the first book to look at the...

The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493634293Author Romel SaplacoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Staging France between the World Wars aims to establish the nature and significance of the modernist transformation of French theater between the world wars, and to elucidate the relationship between aesthetics and the cultural, economic, and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534956186Author Andrea GouveiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494786922Author Dorita HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451579178Author Rachmael Ben-AvramFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 133g

Women played an integral role on the South's antebellum and Civil War stages, but theater histories have largely overlooked their contributions. Nineteenth-century southern actresses were important public figures who helped mold gendered identity in the...

By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530516926Author Jhon La CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Audiences for musical theater are predominantly women, yet shows are frequently created and produced by men. Onstage, female characters are depicted as victims or sex objects and lack the complexity of their male counterparts. Offstage, women are...

Winner of the 2019 ASCA Book Award Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has...

The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of...

An exploration of theatre groups in turn-of-the-century Ireland and how they shaped the nation's civic, political, and cultural fortunes. This title seeks to shed new light on to the history of the Abbey Theatre and also examine the diverse groups,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977764348Author Kathleen HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work...

The authoritative edition of Timon of Athens from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979183Author Gregory A WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book examines the relationships between theatrical representations and socio-political aspects of Rapa Nui culture from pre-colonial times to the present. This is the first book written about the production of Rapa Nui theatre, which is understood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530640850Author Jhon La CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Before they became household names, many would-be Hollywood stars began their careers as small-time actors in regional theatres and playhouses. Few of them earned much recognition based on their time in the footlights, but often the stage provided...

This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354207518Author Mrs Alec-TweedieFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 336g

Inspired by the verbal exuberance and richness of all that can be heard by audiences both on and off Shakespeare’s stages, Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds examines such special listening situations as overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It breaks new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950192885Author Jessica RizzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365413Author Caridad SvichFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979169Author Gregory A WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 381g

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 34th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference held in Los...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493639649Author Romel SaplacoFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481220675Author Reginald Fleming JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

This work reveals the often racy, ribald, and sexually charged nature of the vaudeville stage, looking at a broad array of provocative performers from disrobing dancers to nude posers to skimpily dressed athletes. Examining the ways in which big-time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502533005Author William Allin Storrer Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772441833Author George Bernard ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance...

As early as 1760 and as late as 1920, Romantic drama dominated Spanish peninsular theatre. The love affair with Romanticism influenced the formation of a modern national identity, an identity that depended heavily on re(defining) women's place in...