Theatre & Performance Studies Books

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1. Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

   By James Loxley, Mark Robson

   This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-99327-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Routledge Companion to Brecht's Theatre

   By Manfred Wekwerth

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56969-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Creating a Role: CWE

   By Konstantin Stanislavsky

   June 2011 | 978-0-87830-031-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Playwriting across the Curriculum

   By Caroline Jester, Claire Stoneman

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59096-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Bodily Expression in Electronic Music: Perspectives on a Reclaimed Performativity

   Edited by Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel, Andreas Dorschel

   In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-89080-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Indian Popular Theatres

   By Sudipto Chatterjee

   Indian Popular Theatres foregrounds an aspect of contemporary performance that has for some time warranted but not received serious study. It explores the living traditions of Indian Theatre in terms of its audience and the specific circumstances that surround them, focusing on four key forms:...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-35605-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Sarah Kane

   By Chris Megson

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-45032-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. 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)

9. The Mobile Interface of Everyday Life: Technology, Embodiment, and Culture

   By Jason Farman

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-87891-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Stanislavski: The Basics

    By Rose Whyman

    Stanlislavki: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the life, thought and impact of Constantin Stanislavski. Regarded by many as a great innovator of 20th century theatre, this book examines Stanlislavski’s: life and the context of his writings; major works in English translation;...

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-49297-3 | Paperback (Routledge)