By Paul Allain, Jen Harvie
October 01, 2024
What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers ...
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By Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson, Trish Reid
October 01, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers, and audiences that emerged over this formative one-hundred-year period. This first volume covers the first half of the ...
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By Krista Cowman
July 25, 2024
The suffrage movement remains the largest autonomous political movement of women in British history. The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art contemporary scholarship on this movement. Arranged across four thematic sections, this ...
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By Selina Busby, Kelly Freebody, Charlene Rajendran
May 27, 2024
This companion interrogates the relationship between theatre and youth from a global perspective, taking in performances and theatre made by, for, and about young people. These different but interrelated forms of theatre are addressed through four critical themes that underpin the ways in which ...
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By Jonathan Pitches, Stefan Aquilina
May 27, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It presents a detailed picture of the Russian director’s work from when it first emerged on the modern stage to its multifarious present-day manifestations. ...
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By Gianna Bouchard, Alex Mermikides
February 16, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and medicine in the contemporary moment. The scope of this book's broad range of chapters includes medicine and illness as the subject of drama and plays; the performativity of ...
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By Noe Montez, Olga Sanchez Saltveit
February 29, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in contemporary US theatre and performance practices affirm the value of Latine life in a theatrical culture that has a legacy of misrepresentation and erasure. This collection draws on ...
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By Lauren Miller, David Syring
November 30, 2023
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and ...
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By Corin Bailey, Roy McCree, Latoya Lazarus, Natalie Dietrich Jones
June 01, 2023
This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean. It highlights the methodological diversity of qualitative research by drawing on various approaches to the study of Caribbean society, addressing the lack of published qualitative research ...
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By Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Kim Nelson, Mia E.M. Treacey
November 07, 2023
The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and television to digital streaming into the age of user-created content. The volume ...
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By Ann McGrath, Lynette Russell
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research. Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics...
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By Chiel van den Akker
May 31, 2023
This Companion provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. The book offers both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance. Structured in three...