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Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Anti-Slavery Speech in the Antebellum United States by Laura L. Mielke
RRP: £79.95£78.94In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of widespread destruction. Provocative... -
Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy by Melissa Mueller
RRP: £48.00£45.99Objects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this book,... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by Professor Michael Gamer
£88.04This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the... -
The Modern Stage and Other Worlds by Austin E. Quigley
RRP: £115.00£99.36Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is of primary importance in particular plays; to focus on... -
Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage by Peter Matthew McCluskey
RRP: £135.00£117.28Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing superior technology in a number of fields and enjoying governmental protection, the Flemish were charged by many native artisans... -
The Second Wave: British Drama for the Seventies by John Russell Taylor
RRP: £26.99£23.46In the 1970s the revolution that had swept the British theatre in the 1950s had already become accepted as the new establishment. Areas that had been previously regarded as remote ideals - including permanent repertory companies, a lively provincial... -
God Off-Broadway: The Blackfriars Theatre of New York by Matthew Powell
RRP: £93.00£85.60The Blackfriars Theatre, founded in 1940, was one of New York's first Off-Broadway playhouses. It was unique in another way: it was started by two Catholic priests and was the only professional level theatre in the United States under Roman Catholic... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age by Professor Naomi Conn Liebler
£88.04In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. ... -
Chinese Theatre Arts (Vol. 3) by Yang Yang
RRP: £15.95£10.38This book is a collection of 12 academic papers published in Chinese Theatre Arts, a journal of the Shanghai Theatre Academy. They include pieces on contemporary theatre, modern drama, foreign drama, stage art, acting, and directing. The Editor in Chief,... -
Corrosive Solace: Theater, Affect, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 by Daniel O'Quinn
£57.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512823110Author Daniel O'QuinnFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania... -
Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group by Stephen B. Comee
£100.62This long-awaited volume presents the fifth and final category of Noh plays, often called kiri-no, or "ending Noh," because they are staged last in a formal performance. This group comprises fifty of the most active and exciting of all plays in... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity by Emily Wilson
£88.04In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Professor Mitchell Greenberg
£88.04The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates... -
Transcultural Theater by Günther Heeg
RRP: £125.00£107.86Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist and populist movements that promote the development and... -
Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931–1985 by Catherine O'Leary
RRP: £75.00£60.54This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain. It draws on extensive archival evidence, vivid personal testimonies and in-depth analysis of legislation to document the different kinds of theatre... -
Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era by Esther Kim Lee
RRP: £34.95£32.51Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific case studies from European and U.S. theater, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee... -
Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater by Lim Beng Choo
£100.22By 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 Ancient Comedians: And the Influence They Had on Contemporary Theatre by Clem Martini
£18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770912731Author Clem MartiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Playwrights Canada Press,CanadaPublisher Playwrights Canada Press,Canada -
Timelines: Writings and Conversations by Bonnie Marranca
RRP: £14.99£9.88In more than thirty pieces from the last decade, the well-known arts critic Bonnie Marranca addresses issues in performance, media, visual art, and writing in the work of artists who include Joan Jonas, Caryl Churchill, Robert Wilson, Alvis Hermanis,... -
Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 by Corry Cropper
£116.86In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent 'others,' however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their... -
In the Lurch: Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation by Ryan Claycomb
£29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055746Author Ryan ClaycombFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press -
A Soviet Theatre Sketch Book by Joseph Macleod
£93.60First Published in 1951, A Soviet Theatre Sketch Book presents Joseph Macleod's take on Russian Theatre in a semi-fictional way to show the effect of the productions upon different audiences. By using his pen as an artist uses his pencil, he gives, for... -
Hamlet after Deconstruction by Aneta Mancewicz
RRP: £89.99£89.87Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies. Such features are at odds with the traditional model of adaptation, which focuses on expanding and explaining the source. Inspired by Derrida's deconstruction, this... -
Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film by David L. Boushey
RRP: £31.99£29.94In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight director David L. Boushey writes about his life, the history of stage and screen combat and stunt work,... -
Why the Theatre: In Personal Essays, College Teachers, Actors, Directors, and Playwrights Tell Why the Theatre Is So Vital to Them by Sidney Homan
RRP: £39.99£35.06Why the Theatre is a collection of 26 personal essays by college teachers, actors, directors, and playwrights about the magnetic pull of the theatre and its changing place in society.The book is divided into four parts, examining the creative role of the... -
American Vaudeville by Geoffrey Hilsabeck
RRP: £19.99£15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952271069Author Geoffrey HilsabeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint West Virginia University PressPublisher West Virginia University... -
Ira Aldridge - The Last Years, 1855-1867 by Bernth Lindfors
RRP: £60.00£50.11This final volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography records the remarkable achievements and experiences of Ira Aldridge in the last years of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, the... -
Theater and Human Flourishing by Harvey Young
RRP: £21.49£19.50The Humanities and Human Flourishing series publishes edited volumes that explore the role of human flourishing in the central disciplines of the humanities, and whether and how the humanities can increase human happiness. This volume presents essays... -
Commedia dell'Arte Scenarios by Sergio Costola
RRP: £34.99£30.85Commedia dell'Arte Scenarios gathers together a collection of scenarios from some of the most important Commedia dell'Arte manuscripts, many of which have never been published in English before. Each script is accompanied by an editorial commentary... -
The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde by Sara Farrington
RRP: £11.99£8.13In this collection of interviews conducted between 2019-2021 with New York theater artists who have spent their lives working in and inventing the avant-garde, playwright Sara Farrington brings to light a series of "lost conversations" about class, race,... -
The Global White Snake by Liang Luo
RRP: £31.95£27.97The story of The White Snake is one of the "four great narratives" of China and yet it is almost unknown in the West. It is as much a founding text in China as The Odyssey is in the West. Like The Odyssey, it is not only an enchanting tale full... -
Scenes from Bourgeois Life by Nicholas Ridout
£30.94Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout's formulation, this... -
Post-War British Theatre by John Elsom
RRP: £36.99£32.53Since the Second World War, we have witnessed exciting, often confusing developments in the British theatre. This book, first published in 1976, presents an enlightening, objective history of the many facets of post-war British theatre and a fresh... -
Affect, Animals, and Autists: Feeling Around the Edges of the Human in Performance by Marla Carlson
£31.01When theater and related forms of live performance explore the borderlands labeled animal and autism, they both reflect and affect their audiences' understanding of what it means to be human. Affect, Animals, and Autists maps connections across ... -
The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Al Coppola
RRP: £92.00£83.36The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how... -
Necroperformance - Cultural Reconstructions of the War Body by Dorota Sajewska
RRP: £38.00£37.09In Necroperformance, Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements... -
The American Theatre Reader: Essays and Conversations from American Theatre magazine by Staff of American Theatre Magazine
RRP: £24.95£18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363464Author American Theatre magazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 615Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications... -
Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality by Adrian Curtin
RRP: £85.00£60.17Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities... -
Acting Egyptian: Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869-1930 by Carmen M. K. Gitre
£39.18In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the "protectorate" period of British occupation in Egypt-theaters and other performance sites were vital for imagining, mirroring, debating, and shaping competing conceptions of modern Egyptian... -
The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust by Grzegorz Niziolek
RRP: £90.00£28.91Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory -...