Theatre & Performance Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre

   Practical Projects for Secondary Schools, 2nd Edition

   By Martin Lewis, John Rainer

   This revised and updated edition of Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre will be an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom. It presents a model teachers can use to draw together different methodologies of drama and theatre studies, exemplified by a series of contemporary,...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Shakespeare: The Basics

   3rd Edition

   By Sean McEvoy

   Series: The Basics

   Now in its third edition Shakespeare: The Basics is an insightful and informative introduction to the work of William Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare’s plays including the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations, this text looks at how a range of plays from across...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Live Art in LA

   Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983

   Edited by Peggy Phelan

   Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time initiative – a series of exhibitions, performance re-enactments and...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. African Theatres and Performances

   By Osita Okagbue

   Series: Theatres of the World

   African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines: masquerade theatre in Eastern Nigeria the trance and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Indian Folk Theatres

   By Julia Hollander

   Series: Theatres of the World

   Indian Folk Theatres is theatre anthropology as a lived experience, containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows as well as historical and cultural context. It looks at folk theatre forms from three corners of the Indian subcontinent: Tamasha, song and dance entertainments from...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights

   A Casebook

   Edited by Philip C. Kolin

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   'The impressive array of scholars gathered in this collection, all experts in the field, read the plays with nuance and situate them deftly within their cultural and historical contexts. Scholars of contemporary theater and drama and of African American literature will find value in this engaging...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Suzan-Lori Parks

   A Casebook

   Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr, Alycia Smith-Howard

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award. Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. The Theatre of the Bauhaus

   The Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer

   By Melissa Trimingham

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Focusing on the work of painter, choreographer and scenic designer Oskar Schlemmer, the "Master Magician" and leader of the Theatre Workshop, this book explains this "theatre of high modernism" and its historical role in design and performance studies; further, it connects the Bauhaus exploration...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. Archaeologies of Presence

    Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks

    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this...

    Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge