Theatre History Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. The Piscator Notebook

   By Judith Malina

   "Piscator is the greatest theatre man of our time." Bertolt Brecht Judith Malina and The Living Theatre have been icons of political theatre for over six decades. What few realise is that she originally studied under one of the giants of twentieth century culture, Erwin Piscator, in his Dramatic...

   Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11

   Patriotic Dissent

   Edited by Jenny Spencer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama’s election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments’ actions and policies during this time. The plays take up topics such as the ongoing wars...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Russians in Britain

   British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training

   Edited by Jonathan Pitches

   From Komisarjevsky in the 1920s, to Cheek by Jowl’s Russian ‘sister company’ almost a century later, Russian actor training has had a unique influence on modern British theatre. Russians in Britain, edited by Jonathan Pitches, is the first work of its type to identify a relationship between both...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. Adolphe Appia

   Texts on Theatre

   By Richard C. Beacham

   Adolphe Appia swept away the foundations of traditional theatre and set the agenda for the development of theatrical practice this century. In Adolphe Appia: Texts on Theatre, Richard Beacham brings together for the first time selections from all his major writings. The publication of these essays,...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. Ecology and Environment in European Drama

   By Downing Cless

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force....

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Requiem and an Epilogue

   Edited by Glynne Wickham

   This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660....

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Politics of American Actor Training

   Edited by Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   The essays in this volume address the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning...

   Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge
10. Daring to Play

    A Brecht Companion

    By Manfred Wekwerth

    Edited by Anthony Hozier

    Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht’s theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brecht’s co-director and former director of the Berliner Ensemble. Wekwerth aims to challenge prevailing myths and misconceptions of Brecht’s theatre,...

    Published May 29th 2011 by Routledge