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Bertolt Brecht

By Meg Mumford

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the…

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November 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37509-2 (Routledge)

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Federico Garcia Lorca

By Maria M. Delgado

Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dalí, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico García Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the…

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March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36243-6 (Routledge)

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Robert Wilson

By Maria Shevtsova

This book is a comprehensive study of the theatre work of Robert Wilson with some reference to his installations and design. The focus is Einstein

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33881-3 (Routledge)

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Ariane Mnouchkine

By Judith Miller

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33885-1 (Routledge)

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Joan Littlewood

By Nadine Holdsworth

The only book currently available on Joan Littlewood and her company, 'Theatre Workshop', this book explores the background to, and the work of a major…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33887-5 (Routledge)

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Postdramatic Theatre

By Hans-Thies Lehmann

Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26813-4 (Routledge)

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Brecht and Critical Theory

Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics

By Sean Carney

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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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34974-1 (Routledge)

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Death, The One and the Art of Theatre

By Howard Barker

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…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34987-1 (Routledge)

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Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramas

A Puppet Show, The King on the Square and the Unknown Woman

Edited by Timothy C. Westphalen

Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramas gathers together for the first time in English translation the first three plays by Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28050-1 (Routledge)

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Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre

Edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre is a lively and accessible biographical guide to the key figures in contemporary drama. All who enjoy the theatre…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14162-8 (Routledge)

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