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Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom by Ernst Bloch 9781844673940
Booksplease Price: £24.06In the twenty-first century, religion has come under determined attack from secular progressives in documentaries, opinion pieces and international bestsellers. Combative atheists have denounced... -
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century Owen Hatherley 9780241378205
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.92A momentous history of the 1930s emigre generation, and how they reshaped BritainAs the horrors of fascism ran riot through Europe in the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans, most of them... -
Selected Essays by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.38Friedrich Durrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific... -
Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley 9781846941764
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"Militant Modernism" argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le... -
The New Adventures of Don Quixote by Tariq Ali
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58MULE. Who created us? ROCINANTE. What kind of dumb question is that? The great master Cervantes, of course. Who else? MULE. God. ROCINANTE. Listen you obstinate fool. We're animals. We don't have to... -
Georg Buchner: The Major Works: A Norton Critical Edition by Georg Büchner 9780393933512
Booksplease Price: £23.99The Georg Buchner Prize is the highest literary honor for German language writers, and the full extent of Buchner's influence-from Gerhart Hauptmann to Christa Wolf, Max Reinhardt to Robert Wilson,... -
Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War by Christopher Balme 9783319480831
Booksplease Price: £102.62This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a... -
Actor Training by Alison Hodge
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.84Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge's highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more... -
Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz - Plays, Stories, Essays, and Poems by J. M. R. Lenz
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92First representative English collection of the Sturm und Drang writer Lenz, suited for the classroom and anyone interested in German literature, the European Enlightenment, or the theory and practice... -
Poetry for the Many Jeremy Corbyn 9781682195024
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal... -
Brecht in La: A Play by Rick Mitchell 9781841501055
Booksplease Price: £24.74Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university... -
Proverbs: A Handbook by Wolfgang Mieder 9781433120244
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £30.39The book comprises a comprehensive survey of the multifaceted nature of proverbs as colorful expressions of folk wisdom. The first part deals with the definition and classification of proverbs,... -
Need/Emergency: Political Theater in Exigent Times by Benjamin Lewis Robinson 9781503647077
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socioeconomic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's... -
Staging Voice by Michal Grover-Friedlander
Booksplease Price: £60.08Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This study reflects on what it would mean to take opera's decisive attribute-voice-as the foundation of... -
Yerma Federico Garcia Lorca 9781350249844
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.16"Well we've got three floors right. Plenty of room... Room for a children's bedroom. Room for two." London, the present day. A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a... -
Staging Voice by Michal Grover-Friedlander 9781032034287
Booksplease Price: £20.14Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This study reflects on what it would mean to take opera's decisive attribute-voice-as the foundation of... -
The Heritage of Our Times by Ernst Bloch 9780745647111
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Heritage of Our Times is a brilliant examination of modern culture and its legacy by one of the most important and deeply influential thinkers of the 20th century. Bloch argues that the key elements... -
A Test of Powers: Writings on Criticism and Literary Institutions Franco Fortini 9781803095950
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.26A foundational work of Italian intellectual life that blends political essays and literary criticism, anticipating key debates of the New Left and exploring the intersection of ideology and... -
Morning Sun by Simon Stephens
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a... -
King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt by David J. Shepherd
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £84.95Of all the characters bequeathed to us by the Hebrew Bible, none is more compelling or complex than David. Divinely blessed, musically gifted, brave, and eloquent, David's famous slaying of Goliath... -
Landscapes: John Berger on Art by John Berger 9781836743774
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Landscapes showcases the development and practice of John Berger's unique way of seeing. Here he surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished his understanding of the... -
After Brecht: British Epic Theater by Prof. Janelle G. Reinelt 9780472084081
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £23.27After Brecht: British Epic Theater is the first book to fully explore contemporary British drama in the light of the influence of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Focusing on the work of Howard... -
Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading by Dr Angelos Koutsourakis 9781501307690
Booksplease Price: £36.04This is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in the films of Lars von Trier. Focusing mainly on early films, Politics as Form in Lars... -
A Bird Called Elaeus: poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology David J. Constantine 9781780377223
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The Greek Anthology, marvellous salvage from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, is a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by about 300 authors, a colossal... -
Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960 Ela Ela Gezen (Customer) 9781640140240
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts. Bertolt Brecht... -
Lukacs and Brecht by David Pike 9780807865811
Booksplease Price: £57.30David Pike traces the evolution of interrelated political and literary theoretical currents in the Soviet Union from the early 1930s to the late 1940s and places the writings of Georg Lukacs and... -
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bruce Norris 9781350052109
Booksplease Price: £14.24Here's some advice:Don't ever underestimate Arturo.You'll be found out and stopped, eventually,Just like I stopped this fuckin' treacheryAnd better late than never. Now ya seeWhat happens when ya... -
Open Hatch: The Theater Criticism of Robert Hatch, 1950-1970 by James R Russo 9781789762082
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.42Robert Hatch's critical life spanned five decades. Starting in 1947 and continuing until 1984, he wrote about drama (and film) for The New Republic, The Nation, Theatre Arts, The Reporter, and... -
An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences by John Lutterbie 9781474257046
Booksplease Price: £30.23This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitive sciences to throw light on the processes of... -
![Hall Plays: v. 2: "Mr Puntila"; "Mother Courage"; "A Servant to Two Masters"; "The Good Hope" by Lee Hall 9780413773777](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5244896/5322156/9780413773777__00467.1724773748.jpg?c=1 "Hall Plays: v. 2: "Mr Puntila"; "Mother Courage"; "A Servant to Two Masters"; "The Good Hope" by Lee Hall 9780413773777")
Hall Plays: v. 2: "Mr Puntila"; "Mother Courage"; "A Servant to Two Masters"; "The Good Hope" by Lee Hall 9780413773777
Booksplease Price: £25.47A collection of major play adaptations by the author of Billy Elliott MR PUNTILA: "Brecht's Puntila is the Jekyll and Hyde of the class war. When he's plastered this Finnish landowner drips with... -
Plays by Women: v. 9 by Annie Castledine 9780413658500
Booksplease Price: £25.91Volume Nine in Methuen's highly successful series of anthologies provides a stunning selection of plays chosen by theatre director Annie Castledine. In addition to 'these fine new translations by... -
Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement by Heidi Lucja Liedke 9781350340961
Booksplease Price: £95.78This significant contribution to the study of the live and recorded broadcasting of stage plays focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009. Assessing livecasting through the... -
Fritz Bennewitz in India: Intercultural Theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare by Joerg Esleben 9781487500382
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £44.11This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994. Joerg Esleben has gathered together many of Bennewitz'... -
Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship Laura Bradley 9780198934943
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £80.79Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre sought to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. Taking its cue from his call for theatre... -
Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement Heidi Lucja Liedke 9781350341005
Booksplease Price: £31.92This significant contribution to the study of the live and recorded broadcasting of stage plays focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009. Assessing livecasting through the... -
Aesthetics and Modernity from Schiller to the Frankfurt School by Jerome Carroll 9783034302173
RRP: £47.20Booksplease Price: £42.65The essays in this book investigate the complex and often contradictory relationships between aesthetics and modernity from the late Enlightenment in the 1790s to the Frankfurt School in the 1960s... -
Mamas of Dada: Women of the European Avant-Garde by Paula K. Kamenish 9781611174687
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.51Mamas of Dada focuses on the lives and works of six representative female supporters of the Dada movement: Emmy Hennings, Gabrielle Buffet, Germaine Everling, Celine Arnauld, Juliette Roche, and... -
From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage by Samuel Leiter 9780313276613
Booksplease Price: £61.35The careers, directing accomplishments, ideas, and techniques of six distinguished directors of the European stage--each considered a master of the art--are surveyed in depth by author Samuel L... -
The Complete Novels: Includes The Trial, Amerika and The Castle by Franz Kafka
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one literary masterpiece.Kafka's characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and... -
Brecht: A Practical Handbook by David Zoob
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they...