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Major Works: Theatre & Performance Studies

You are currently browsing 1–10 of 14 new and published major works in the subject of Theatre & Performance Studies — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

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Routledge Major Works has a strong international focus and each of the sets is edited by a leading expert in their field. This publishing programme continues to grow with new book series being created all the time. Worthy mentions include a new Sports Studies and Construction Series.

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New and Published Books

  1. The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge

    Giordano Bruno in England

    By Hilary Gatti

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

    Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama. This book explores Bruno's...

    Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Today and Tomorrow Volume 24 Music and Drama

    Terpander or Music and the Future Timotheus: the Future of the Theatre Iconoclastes or the Future of Shakespeare Eurydice or the Nature of Opera Orpheus or the Music of the Future

    By Dent, Dobree, Griffith, Hussey, Turner

    Terpander Or Music and the Future E J Dent Originally published in 1927 "Remarkably able and stimulating." Times Literary Supplement "…a skilful review of the development of music." Musical News With reference to the works of Bach, Beethoven, Byrd, Cimarosa, Elgar, Handel, Haydn, Mozart,...

    Published April 15th 2008 by Routledge

  3. Music and Drama: Mini-set N Today & Tomorrow 1 vol

    Today and Tomorrow

    By Various

    Originally published between 1925 and 1929 the volumes in this mini-set examine the history and future of the theatre, the theory of music, and a survey of opera. Authors included are E J Dent, Bonamy Dobree, Hubert Griffith, Dyneley Hussey and W J Turner. ...

    Published February 29th 2008 by Routledge

  4. Reworking the Ballet

    Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies

    By Vida L. Midgelow

    Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets. In this book, Vida L. Midgelow illustrates the ways in which these...

    Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge

  5. Performance

    Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    Edited by Philip Auslander

    Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    Over the past twenty years, 'performance' has emerged as a central analytical and critical concept. Now the focus of a burgeoning academic discipline, performance studies, it is also crucial to many other fields, including anthropology, sociology, communications, art history, cultural studies,...

    Published March 12th 2003 by Routledge

  6. Part II - Early English Stages 1576-1600

    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 March 27th 2002 by Routledge

  7. Plays and their Makers up to 1576

    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 March 27th 2002 by Routledge

  8. Early English Stages

    Edited by Glynne Wickham

    Series: Routledge Library Editions

    This set not only reissues Volumes 1, 2 (part I and II) and 3, originally published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1958, 1963, 1972 and 1981, but also, for the first time, Volume 4 is being produced to complete this fascinating and valuable set.Early English Stages is a history of the development of...

    Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge

  9. Early English Stages 1300-1576

    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 March 27th 2002 by Routledge

  10. Part I - Early English Stages 1576-1600

    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 March 27th 2002 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Shakespeares Last Plays
    By F.A. Yates
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  2. Plays and their Makers up to 1576
    Edited by Glynne Wickham
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  3. Neil Simon: A Casebook
    Edited by Gary Konas
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  4. Part I - Early English Stages 1576-1600
    Edited by Glynne Wickham
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  5. Part II - Early English Stages 1576-1600
    Edited by Glynne Wickham
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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