Texts Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook

   From Modernism to Contemporary Performance

   Edited by Maggie B. Gale, John F. Deeney

   The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook is a groundbreaking compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre, from the late Nineteenth Century to contemporary performance practice. Each of the book’s five sections comprises a selection of plays and performance texts that...

   Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
2. Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage

   Collected Studies in Mediaeval, Tudor and Shakespearean Drama

   By Glynne Wickham

   Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage shows that the drama of Elizabethan and Jacobean England is deeply indebted to the religious drama of the Middle Ages and represents a climax, in secular guise, to mediaeval experiment and achievement rather than a new beginning. This is fully examined in terms of...

   Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
3. Award Monologues for Men

   Edited by Patrick Tucker, Christine Ozanne

   Award Monologues for Men is a collection of fifty monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards in London. The book provides an excellent range of...

   Published August 30th 2007 by Routledge
4. Award Monologues for Women

   Edited by Patrick Tucker, Christine Ozanne

   Award Monologues for Women is a collection of fifty-four monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards in London. The book provides an excellent...

   Published August 30th 2007 by Routledge
5. The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous

   By Hélène Cixous

   Cixous' work as a playwright - working mainly with Theatre du Soleil and their director Ariane Mnouchkine - establishes her as a participant in some of the most adventurous European theatre making of the last 40 years.This collection brings together for the first time, four translations into...

   Published September 24th 2003 by Routledge
6. Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf

   By Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

   Edited by Daniel Gerould

   The Polish playwright and artist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, is now recognized as Poland's leading theatrical innovator of the interwar years and one of the outstanding creative personalities of the European avant-garde. This volume contains two of Witkacy's "tropical" plays...

   Published December 12th 2001 by Routledge
7. Ireneusz Iredynski

   Selected One-Act Plays for Radio

   Edited by Kevin Windle

   This vibrant anthology of radio plays features works by one of Poland's 'angry young men' playwrights. Ireneusz Iredynski made his début in literature as a Polish 'angry young man' in the late 1950s. He moved with great versatility from verse to stage plays, film-scripts and plays for radio. While...

   Published December 5th 2001 by Routledge
8. A Dream

   By Felicja Kruszewska

   Edited by Jadwiga Kosicka

   The translation of Felicja Kruszewska's A Dream introduces a major play by a twentieth-century female playwright to the English-speaking world. On March 7, 1927 A Dream - a large-scale expressionistic drama by an unknown poet - burst on the Polish theatrical scene in a dazzling debut production by...

   Published December 5th 2001 by Routledge
9. 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. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with...

   Published April 18th 2001 by Routledge
10. Your Murderer

    By Vassily Aksyonov

    Edited by Daniel Gerould, Jadwiga Kosicka

    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 defies all rules and mixes a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and...

    Published October 30th 2000 by Routledge