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Brecht and Critical Theory
Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics
Arguing that Brecht’s aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of…
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Musicology: The Key Concepts
Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31692-7 (Routledge)
Talking to the Audience
Shakespeare, Performance, Self
This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33223-1 (Routledge)
Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre
Illustrations of the Original Productions
The Moscow Art Theatre is still recognized as having more impact on modern theatre than any company in the world. This lavishly illustrated and beautifully… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34440-1 (Routledge)
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The Theatre of Howard Barker
In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31531-9 (Routledge)
Death, The One and the Art of Theatre
Death, The One and the Art of Theatre is the latest collection of Barkers distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34987-1 (Routledge)
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Makers of Modern Theatre
An Introduction
Who 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…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31241-7 (Routledge)
History of European Drama and Theatre
This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history,…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18060-3 (Routledge)
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Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company
Creativity and the Institution
2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-21202-1 (Routledge)
Merely Players?
Actors' Accounts of Performing Shakespeare
Merely Players? marks a groundbreaking departure in Shakespeare studies by giving direct voice to the Shakespearean performer. It draws on three centuries worth of actors'… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31958-4 (Routledge)
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Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation
By Margaret Jane Kidnie
To be published November 28th 2008
Gothic Shakespeares
Edited by John Drakakis, Dale Townshend
To be published December 1st 2008
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By Alan Perks, Jacqueline Porteous
To be published February 12th 2009
Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction: Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen
By Emily Hodgson Anderson
To be published April 1st 2009
A2 Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel
By Alan Perks, Jacqueline Porteous
To be published May 15th 2009