History & Criticism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857285164Author Magda RomanskaFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857284440Author Robert W. GoldsbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503520582Author Dr Kate CreganFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503510217Author BUCCIARELLIImprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 990g

By examining the life and career of the most prominent noh practitioner of the furyA noh composer, Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435-1516), the author showcases the critical presence of the late Muromachi period in the history of noh.Book InformationISBN...

The Politics of the Pantomime examines English pantomime productions in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, focusing not on the pantomimes of the major London theatres but rather on the variety and independence of those in the provinces, in particular...

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women’s playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783088355Author Denise VarneyFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783086665Author Amanda Weldy BoydFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

The vanished world of India's late-colonial theatre provides the backdrop for the autobiographies in this book. The life-stories of a quartet of early Indian actors and poet-playwrights are here translated into English for the first time. These men were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839983924Author Laurence SenelickFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781089983422Author Tarl WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 41g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841501536Author Ralph YarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of drama...

Life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution A Man of the Theater tells the personal story of a theater artist caught between the two great upheavals of Iranian history in the 20th century. One is the White Revolution of...

Life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution A Man of the Theater tells the personal story of a theater artist caught between the two great upheavals of Iranian history in the 20th century. One is the White Revolution of...

This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778). Its purpose is three-fold. First, it provides a comprehensive biography and account of...

Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a...

Embodying Difference: Scripting Social Images of the Female Body in Latina Theatre explores contemporary theatrical productions by Latina dramatists in the United States and focuses on the effects that neoliberal politics, global market strategies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585103614Author Suzanne BurgoyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411074Author Linda DeMerittFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 558g

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes...

Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the Anthropocene   Since its first staging in 2016, Estado Vegetal, Manuela Infante’s riveting piece of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495072413Author Richard WesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Applause Theatre Book...

Some of the most raucous evenings in the history of theater are chronicled in this lively discussion of occasions when theater-makers changed the course of theatrical, and sometimes world, history. Covering a wide range of events from the inauspicious...

This volume is the seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance. Featuring eleven essays from the 2021 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, it includes new research on...

W. C. Fields is known as a virtuoso comedian and legendary iconoclast who gave the gift of laughter to multitudes. As the first author to use the newly-opened Fields Papers at the Academy library, Arthur Frank Wertheim illuminates the comedian's arduous...

This book examines Samuel Beckett's unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism's postwar crisis-the courage to go on living even after experiencing life as a series of catastrophes. Rabate, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a...

As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public...

For more than 150 years, Irish playwrights, beginning with Dion Boucicault, have been celebrated by American audiences. However, Irish theater as represented on the American stage is merely a sampling of the national drama, and the underlying causes of...

Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits...

Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama criticism exhibits this tendency to the fullest. Though known...

African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and...

Staged Readings studies the social consequences of 19th-century America's two most prevalent leisure forms: theater and popular literature. In the midst of watershed historical developments-including numerous waves of immigration, two financial Panics,...

This is a rare glimpse into North Korean propaganda - in parades, posters, murals, theater, and films. No nation stages massive parades and collective performances better than North Korea. Amid a series of intense political/economic crises and...

Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education and acculturation, and a battleground for ideologies and artistic...

Hispanic theatre flourished in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the Second World War-a fact that few theatre historians know. A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940 is the very first...

As America passed from a mere venue for English plays into a country with its own nationally regarded playwrights, William Dunlap lived the life of a pioneer on the frontier of the fledgling American theatre, full of adventures, mishaps, and close calls...

Embodying Difference: Scripting Social Images of the Female Body in Latina Theatre explores contemporary theatrical productions by Latina dramatists in the United States and focuses on the effects that neoliberal politics, global market strategies,...

Fortune magazine called Gilbert V. Hartke one of the five most powerful men in Washington, D.C. He was at once a flamboyant showman, respected statesman, and devout Dominican priest. The day after his death in February 1986, the Washington Post mourned...