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Missing Persons: Essays on Character and Characterization in Modern Drama by William E. Gruber 9780820338521
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £28.50In the hands of the twentieth century's most innovative dramatists, characters have revealed their identities on stage in a variety of unconventional ways: they speak with electronic voices or engage... -
Mediations: Essays on Brecht, Beckett, and the Media by Martin Esslin
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin's earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht. In the third section of this collection of essays, Esslin... -
Kneipp health resort Buckow 9783899207699
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.83Buckow, the pearl of Märkische Schweiz, not only enchants its visitors with its unique location in a valley basin between six lakes and a wooded chain of hills that was formed during the Ice Age, but... -
Intercultural Aesthetics in Traditional Chinese Theatre: From 1978 to the Present by Wei Feng 9783030406370
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre's (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Western drama and theatrical forms in both mainland China and Taiwan since 1978... -
Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent by Maggie Gray 9783319665078
Booksplease Price: £112.42This book explores Alan Moore's career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts... -
Writing Revolution: Representation, Rhetoric, and Revolutionary Politics by Sheila Delany 9798888903230
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38How do the commitments of the revolutionary and the artistic aspirations of the writer fit together? Using literary texts from French, German, Russian and American pro-revolutionary writers, Sheila... -
Charles Laughton: A Filmography, 1928-1962 David A. Redfern 9781476670898
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £27.58Oscar-winning actor, translator of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, and director of the iconoclastic The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton's name alone commanded box office and theatre acclaim. This... -
Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany Dorothy Rowe 9781138272927
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study,... -
Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination by Efterpi Mitsi 9783030269074
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.82This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and... -
The Complete Brecht Toolkit by Stephen Unwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice. The Complete... -
The Craft of Theatre: Seminars and Discussions in Brechtian Theatre by Ekkehard Schall 9781408159897
Booksplease Price: £29.55The Craft of Theatre is a first-hand account by one of the greatest actors and directors of the Berliner Ensemble, whose work with the company spanned over forty years. It offers an unparalleled... -
Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays by John Willett 9780413685704
Booksplease Price: £26.60Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.Volume One of... -
Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile by Ronald Speirs 9780521782159
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile is the first comprehensive study devoted... -
A History of the Berliner Ensemble by David Barnett 9781107663763
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05The Berliner Ensemble was founded by Bertolt Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel in 1949. The company soon gained international prominence, and its productions and philosophy influenced the work of... -
Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies by Amanda Stuart Fisher 9781526145741
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this book examines what... -
Makers of Modern Theatre: An Introduction by Robert Leach 9780415312417
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Who were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre?Robert Leach's Makers of Modern Theatre is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key... -
Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht by Keith O'Regan 9781642597868
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.15In Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O'Regan mobilises a constellative approach to compare the political-aesthetic strategies of... -
Representation and Reception: Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking by Shehla Burney 9781433148507
RRP: £35.50Booksplease Price: £32.58Representation and Reception: Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht's theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of... -
In Praise of Theatre Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9780745686974
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou's latest work on the `most complete of the arts,' the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike,... -
In Praise of Theatre by Alain Badiou 9780745686967
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.35In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike,... -
A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory Peter Brooker (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.) 9781138955486
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory provides researchers and students with an up-to-date guide through the vibrant and changing debates in Literary and Cultural Studies. In a field where... -
A Historical Dictionary of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 by C.Paul Vincent 9780313273766
Booksplease Price: £65.97The failure of Germany's first republic after World War I has aroused several decades of concentrated study. Synthesizing much of that study, this historical dictionary will enhance an understanding... -
Drama, Politics, and Evolution: Cliodynamics in Play by Bruce McConachie 9783030813765
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various... -
Brecht Collected Plays: 6: Good Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti by John Willett 9780413685803
Booksplease Price: £25.62Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This sixth... -
Socialist Cultures East and West: A Post-Cold War Reassessment by Dubravka Juraga 9780275974909
Booksplease Price: £75.81Decades of Western Cold War propaganda were designed to depict socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic acheivement. Now, in the wake of the Cold War, it is becoming possible to reassess the past... -
Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley 9781917991322
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption... -
Studies of Literature from Marginalized Nations in Modern China, with a Focus on Eastern European Literature by Binghui Song 9789819711987
Booksplease Price: £100.19This book presents the first systematic study of the 100-year history of translation, research, reception, and influence of Central and Eastern European literature in China from the late Qing Dynasty... -
Coriolanus: The 40 Years War by David Grunwald 9780359042333
RRP: £12.13Booksplease Price: £11.91Coriolanus was one of Shakespeare's last tragic plays along with Romeo and Juliet. It was adapted for stage by Bertolt Brecht and made into a movie in 2011 starring Ralph Feinnes. In this adaptation,... -
Benjamin and Brecht: The Story of a Friendship by Erdmut Wizisla
Booksplease Price: £25.09Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin-acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist-and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century's... -
Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre Hans-Thies Lehmann (University of Frankfurt, Germany) 9781138191969
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. It is a major milestone in our... -
Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya by Ethan Mordden 9780312676575
Booksplease Price: £24.00For the first time, Ethan Mordden chronicles the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in "Love Song", a dual biography that unfolds against the background of the tumultous twentieth century, scored... -
Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War by Christopher B. Balme 9783319838953
Booksplease Price: £70.88This 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... -
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II by James A. W. Heffernan 9781350324954
Booksplease Price: £91.39Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers... -
What's So Funny?: Sketches from My Life Lotte Goslar 9789057021770
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Illustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her... -
Laughing Cult: Poems by Kevin McCaffrey 9781940423005
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.11Inspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht's Manual of Piety, the poems of Laughing Cult often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature... -
Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance by Olga Taxidou
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances /... -
The Theatre of Meyerhold and Brecht. by Katherine Eaton 9780313245909
Booksplease Price: £46.29This book focuses on the relationship of Bertolt Brecht to the theater of Russian director Vsevold E. Meyerhold. Eaton's analysis places Brecht's dramatic theory and practice in proper historical... -
Intercultural Aesthetics in Traditional Chinese Theatre: From 1978 to the Present by Wei Feng 9783030406349
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre's (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Western drama and theatrical forms in both mainland China and Taiwan since 1978... -
Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television by Brenda Murphy 9780521640886
RRP: £103.00Booksplease Price: £97.96Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays, films, and teleplays that responded to the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities... -
Poems About Trees Harry Thomas 9781841598178
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them- and poets have long chronicled the relationship. In this collection, Robert Frost's...