Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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1. Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage

   In History’s Wings

   By Alexander Feldman

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama

   By Katrine Wong

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Global Ibsen

   Performing Multiple Modernities

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Barbara Gronau, Christel Weiler

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy,...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama

   Community, Kinship, and Citizenship

   By Kanika Batra

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Unwritten Grotowski

   Theory and Practice of the Encounter

   By Kris Salata

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theatre, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer. Salata posits Grotowski’s work as...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. Performance and the Politics of Space

   Theatre and Topology

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Adapting Chekhov

   The Text and its Mutations

   Edited by J. Douglas Clayton, Yana Meerzon

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist...

   Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
8. Brecht and Critical Theory

   Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics

   By Sean Carney

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   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 modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht’s aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

   By Anna McMullan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater

    Upstaging Dictatorship

    By Ana Elena Puga

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge