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Jean Genet
By D. Bradby, Claire Finburgh
Jean Genet has emerged in recent years as a key figure in defining and understanding twentieth-century theatre. This timely book, the only introductory text to Genet in English, offers an overview of this influential and controversial writer whose work prefigured many recent postmodern and...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-37506-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Caryl Churchill
By Mary Luckhurst
One of Europe's greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has been internationally celebrated for four decades. She has exploded the narrow definitions of political theatre to write consistently hard-edged and innovative work. Always unpredictable in her stage experiments, her plays have stretched the...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-34578-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Mark Ravenhill
By John F. Deeney
Mark Ravenhill is the first book to provide a detailed analysis of the work of arguably the most important dramatist to have emerged from the British theatre over the past twenty years. Shopping and F***ing (1996), with its unrelenting representation of dysfunctional youth, dark humour and...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-37511-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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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...
August 2010 | 978-0-415-46662-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski
By Giuliano Campo, Zygmunt Molik
Zygmunt Molik is one of the last living members of Jerzy Grotowski’s original acting company and was a leading trainer at the Teatr Laboratorium. Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book,...
May 2010 | 978-0-415-56847-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama
By Anna McMullan
The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished...
April 2010 | 978-0-415-38598-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Contemporary European Theatre Directors
Edited by Maria M. Delgado, Dan Rebellato
'An invaluable book that we shall all be using for a long time to come' - Michael Billington Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years. It is a vivid account of the vast...
March 2010 | 978-0-415-46251-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation
By Margaret Jane Kidnie
'Kidnie's study presents original, sophisticated, and profoundly intelligent answers to important questions.' - Lukas Erne, University of Geneva 'This is a fine and productive book, one that will surely draw significant attention and commentary well beyond the precincts of Shakespeare studies.' -...
2008 | 978-0-415-30868-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Bertolt Brecht
By Meg Mumford
Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Bertolt Brecht is amongst...
2008 | 978-0-415-37509-2 | Paperback (Routledge)