History of Performance Books

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1. The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

   Edited by John Russell Brown

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-48301-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Jerzy Grotowski and the Secret Police

   By Seth Baumrin

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57524-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance

   By Catherine Silverstone

   In this original study, Silverstone explores the relationship between performances of Shakespeare’s plays and the ways in which they engage with various traumatic events and histories. In considering this relationship, she asks how performance might articulate traumatic events and investigates the...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-95645-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Twentieth Century Performance: An Introduction

   By Peggy Phelan

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-33460-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

   By Shannon Jackson

   At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental art-making....

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-48601-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Polish Ensemble Theatres

   By Grzegorz Ziolkowski

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-33129-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Theatre of the Bauhaus: The Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer

   By Melissa Trimingham

   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...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-40398-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Global Ibsen: Performing Multiple Modernities

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Barbara Gronau, Christel Weiler

   Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy,...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-87713-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure

   By Sara Jane Bailes

   What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political and everyday reality? What can we learn from performances that expose and then celebrate their ability to fail? In Performance Theatre and the Poetics...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-58565-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski

    By Giuliano Campo, Zygmunt Molik

    One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book, constructed from conversations between Molik and author Giuliano Campo, provides a...

    May 2010 | 978-0-415-56847-0 | Paperback (Routledge)