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Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender

By Michelene Wandor

In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-13856-7 (Routledge)

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Postcolonial Plays

An Anthology

Edited by Helen Gilbert

This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. read more

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-16449-8 (Routledge)

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Enter The Body

Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage

By Carol Chillington Rutter

Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex,…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14164-2 (Routledge)

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Your Murderer

By Vassily Aksyonov

From Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov. Your Murderer is a richly grotesque hodgepodge of different linguistic levels that…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-9057551031 (Routledge)

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American Avant-Garde Theatre

A History

By Arnold Aronson

This stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24139-7 (Routledge)

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The Mannequins' Ball

By Daniel Gerould, Bruno Jaslenski

This play, by Futurist poet Bruno Jasienski, is an outstanding example of the joining of left-wing politics and avant-garde interest in human mechanization that characterized…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-9057550522 (Routledge)

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A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre

Edited by Christopher Innes

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15229-7 (Routledge)

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Plautus in Performance

The Theatre of the Mind

By Niall W. Slater

Plautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-9057550379 (Routledge)

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Brecht Sourcebook

Edited by Henry Bial, Carol Martin

Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-20043-1 (Routledge)

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Performing Chekhov

By David Allen

Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. Drawing on extensive interviews with actors, directors, and designers, it offers in-depth case studies…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18935-4 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

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

AS Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel
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