Major Works: Theatre & Performance Studies

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