December 2012
Theatre Booklist
CRITICISM
Studies of Playwrights and their Works; Discussions of Types of Theatre; English Literature Studies
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ABRAMOVIC, MARINA
ALBEE, EDWARD
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Mary Richards
Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art
which transcends the form’s provocative origins. Her visceral and
extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and
mind, communicating with audiences world wide on a personal
and political level. The book combines: A biography setting out the
derails of Abramovic’s work, an examination of the artist through her
writings, interviews and influences, a detailed analysis of her work,
practical explorations of the performances and their origins. ISBN
978 0 415 43208 5
ALBEE IN PERORMANCE Rakesh H Solomon With a Foreword by
Edward Albee
A premier playwright, Edward Albee is also a gifted director. Albee
in Performance details Albee’s directorial vision and how that vision
animates his plays. ISBN 978 0 253 22205 3
AESCHYLUS
AESCHYLUS: AGAMEMNON. Duckworth Companions to
Greek and Roman Tragedy. Barbara Goward. Series Editor Thomas
Harrison.
This detailed study sets the play against the rich traditions of archaic
poetry from which the drama had only recently sprung. It considers the
ethical dilemmas of the plot in the context of fifth-century Athenian
religious and political thinking, and the play’s attitude to women.
ISBN 0-7156-3385-6
AESCHYLUS: EUMENIDES Robert Mitchell-Boyask
The Eumenides, the concluding drama in Aeschylus’ sole surviving
trilogy, the Oresteia, is not only one of the most admired Greek
tragedies, but also one of the most controversial. It stands at the crux of
controversies over the relationship between the fledgling democracy
of Athens and the dramas it produced, and over the representation
of women in the theatre and their implied status in Athenian society.
ISBN 978 0 7156 3642 8
AESCHYLUS IN AN HOUR. Carl R. Mueller. Introduction by
Robert Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and
actors to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding
in classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank
Bluestein, Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1
9362 3206 2
AESCHYLUS: The Orestia A Student Guide Simon Goldhill Second
Edition
This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus’ Orestia,
one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas.
It discusses the Greek drama festival and the social and political
background of Greek tragedy, and offers a reeding of this central
trilogy. Simon Goldhill focuses on the play’s themes of justice, sexual
politics, violence and the position of man within culture and explores
how Aeschylus constructs a myth for the city in which he lived.
ISBN 978 0 521 53981 4
ALBEE IN AN HOUR. E. Teresa Choate. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3201 7
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO EDWARD ALBEE edited by
Stephen Bottoms
This collection of new essays on Albee, which includes contributions
from the leading commentators of Albee’s work, brings fresh critical
insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright’s career,
from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his most recent
Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). ISBN
O-521-54233-2
EDWARD ALBEE A Literary Companion Phyllis T Dircks
This work covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best
known as the author 0f Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf/ Comprehensive
entries detail the plays and major characters. ISBN 978 0 7864 3401 5
EDWARD ALBEE — A Singular Journey. A Biography. Mel Gussow
“Mel Gusset has caught the exhilarating feel of that time in the Fifties
and Sixties when traditional theatre world was flying apart and there at
the centre stood Edward Able. Gussow’s haunting portrait of an artist
thriving and surviving in the American theatre over the last forty years
is splendid, riveting and happily unfinished.” John Guare, playwright
ARISTOPHANES
ARISTOPHANES An Introduction James Robson
This accessible introduction to the work of one of the world’s greatest
comic writers tackles key questions posed by Aristophanes’ plays,
such as staging, humour, songs, obscene language, politics and the
modern translation and performance of Aristophanic comedy. ISBN
978 0 71563 452 3
ARISTOPHANES IN AN HOUR. Carl R. Mueller. Introduction by
Robert Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and
actors to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding
in classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank
Bluestein, Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1
9362 3207 9
ARISTOTLE
ARISTOTLE — Poetics. A New Translation by Kenneth McLeish
This brand new translation seeks to make this famous text as accessible as
possible without cutting or paraphrasing. Instead, important passages are
highlighted, while key words and concepts are glossed within the text so
as to dispense with the need for intrusive footnotes. The aim is to allow
readers to experience Aristotle’s arguments directly for themselves.
ARTAUD, ANTONIN
ANTONIN ARTAUD — A Critical Reader. Edited by Edward Scheer
This unique resource brings together for the first time a selection of the
best critical writing available on the key themes of Artaud’s life and
work. This book challenges traditional perceptions of Artaud; explores
the circumstances of his life and work, including the relationship
between his mental illness, drug addiction and creativity and reflects
the multi-disciplinary nature of Artaud’s work by including material
drawn from a wide range of sources on a number of subjects. ISBN 0
415 28255 1
ANTONIN ARTAUD— The Man and His Work. Martin Esslin
Artaud was both a revolutionary and a man of great originality but
sometimes clinically mad, dying at 52 in 1948. The author shows how
the man and his life and work cannot be separated, and redefines the
revolution in theatre that Artaud created, which still continues today.
ARTAUD ON THEATRE — Edited by Claude Schumacher with
Brian Singleton
This volume contains all of Artaud’s key writings on theatre and cinema
from 1921 to his death in 1948, including new selections which have never
appeared in English before. Together with an introduction, biographical
notes and commentary, the collection charts Artaud’s work from his early
association with surrealism, through his founding of Théâtre Alfred Jarry,
to the invocation of his compelling vision in his most famous manifesto,
The Theatre and its Double. ISBN 0 413 73770 5
GREENWICH EXCHANGE Student Guide Literary Series.
ANTONIN ARTAUD. From Theory to Practice. Lee Jamieson
Antonin Artaud’s ideas and the terms invented by him, most famously
“Theatre of Cruelty” are a vital part of contemporary theatre’s everyday
vocabulary. This book demonstrates how his theories, his practice and
his influence interlink by exploring Artaud’s proposal for a Theatre of
Cruelty and assessing the extent to which he achieved his aims during
his own lifetime. ISBN 978 1 871551 98 3
AYCKBOURN, ALAN
AYCKBOURN IN AN HOUR. E. Teresa Choate. Introduction by
Robert Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and
actors to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding
in classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank
Bluestein, Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1
9362 3202 2
THE CRAFTY ART OF PLAYMAKING — Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn shares all the tricks of the trade. From helpful hints
on writing (Where do you start? How do you continue? What is
comedy and how does it work?), to tips on directing (working with
actors and technicians, when to listen to the other experts, how to cope
with rehearsals), the book provides a complete primer for the tyro and
refresher for the more experienced. Written in an accessible and highly
entertaining style, with anecdotes galore to illustrate the how, when,
where and why, it’s worth the cover price for the jokes alone. ISBN 0
571 21510 6
A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH AYCKBOURN COUNTRY. AlbertReiner Glaap, Nicholas Quaintmere (Editors)
An opportunity for those who do not know Ayckbourn so well to get
a glimpse into what makes the great bard tick. Ideally, this book will
act as a springboard, or maybe even a goad, to find out more about
Ayckbourn, to experience his work firsthand. To those who already
know his work this volume hopes to provide the sort of background
information that usually is not available to the general public as it
comes straight from the horse’s mouth. ISBN 3-88476-678-3
A POCKET GUIDE TO ALAN AYCKBOURN’S PLAYS — Paul
Allen
Do you belong to an amateur theatre group wanting to “do an
Ayckbourn”? Are you the Artistic Director of a professional theatre
seeking to slot an Ayckbourn into next season? Are you a fan of
Ayckbourn’s work and would love a handy reference book? This guide
will tell you all you need to know and more: all plays in chronological
order with an alphabetical index. A complete listing of male and female
characters in each play. A plot break down for each play. Useful hints
on production.
BARBA, EUGENIO
EUGENIO BARBA. Routledge Performance Practitioners. — Jane
Turner
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 the
twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance. ISBN 0415 27328 5
NEGOTIATING CULTURES — Eugenio Barba and the Intercultural
Debate. Ian Watson and Colleagues
This is a collection of essays and interviews that examines the role
of cultural fusion, negotiation and conflict in Eugenia Barb’s creative
work, research, and theories about theatrical performance. ISBN 0
7190 6170 9
ON DIRECTING AND DRAMATURGY Burning the House Eugenio
Barba
On Directing and Dramaturgy is Eugenio Barba’s unprecedented
account of his own life and work. This is a major retrospective of
Barba’s working methods, his practical techniques, and the life
experiences which fed directly into his theatre-making. The book
provides a unique insight into a philosophy and practice of directing
for the beginning student, the experienced practitioner, and everyone
in between. ISBN 978 0 415 54921 9
THEATRE — Solitude, Craft, Revolt. Eugenio Barba
This is a highly illuminating and provocative professional
autobiography by one of Europe’s leading theatre directors. It is
a collection of essays dating from 1964 to 1995 by Eugenio Barba,
director, theorist and founder of Odin Teatret. As a chronicle of over
thirty years’ sustained work with a permanent ensemble, it reveals the
meaning of his influential theatre practice, his life’s work and guiding
principles. ISBN 1 902867 03 3
BARKER, HOWARD
DEATH, THE ONE AND THE ART OF THEATRE. Howard Barker
This is the latest collection of Barker’s distinctive and revelatory
philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations,
deductions, prose poems and poetic aperçus that casts a unique and
unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love and theatre.
ISBN 0 415 36987 7
HOWARD BARKER: POLITICS AND DESIRE An Expository Study
of His Drama and Poetry, 1969-87 David Ian Rabey
This a new, revised and updated paperback edition of the acclaimed
first full-length critical assessment of this most individual, challenging,
conceptually energetic of British dramatists, whose recognition has
extended to a position of international eminence. It traces Barker’s
movement in style towards a unique form of political expressionism,
his characteristically ruthless and holy vision of sexuality and its
radicalising power and the honing of an unparalleled verbal style based
on extravagant rhythms and painful wit which alternately undermines
and elevates. ISBN 978 0 230 57740 4
THEATRE OF CATASTROPHE. New Essays on Howard Barker.
Edited by Karoline Gritzner and David Ian Rabey.
This collection of essays is the first to consider the full range of Barker’s
theatrical objectives and achievements, and reflects his international
status as an artistic thinker and practitioner. Contributors from around
the world consider key events and themes in Barker’s plays such
as death, sexuality, performance, blindness, politics, eroticism and
cruelty. Overviews of Barker’s career explore his rejection of standard
dramatic and theatrical techniques and his pursuit of a new tragic form
ISBN 1 84002 672 3
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3208 6
THE THEATRE OF HOWARD BARKER — Charles Lamb
Through his powerful stage poetry, Howard Barker creates a world
peopled by characters who live at the extreme edges of experiences
— characters who challenge the very limits of actors’ imaginations. In
this acclaimed study of Barker’s work, Charles Lamb sets out to make
emotional sense of these characters and of their interactions, leading
to detailed exploration of the “scene of seduction” — the challenge,
the secret, the abject and the catastrophic processes which dominate
Barker’s work. ISBN 0 415 31531 X
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO SAMUEL BECKETT.
Ronan McDonald University of Reading.
This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most
important writers of the twentieth century, explaining how we might
interpret famously difficult and experimental works such as Waiting
for Godot, Endgame and Happy Days, and providing an invaluable
overview of Beckett and his time. ISBN 9 780521 547383
BARNES, PETER
DARK ATTRACTIONS — The Theatre of Peter Barnes. Brian
Woolland
This is major study of one of the most enduring and distinctive
playwrights and screenwriters of the last fifty years. ISBN 0 413 77442
2 (HB)
BECKETT, SAMUEL
ABOUT BECKETT — the Playwright and the Work. John Fletcher
Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and
accessible dossier that aims to explain why Beckett’s work is so
significant and why it will last. Professor Fletcher first met Beckett in
1961 in Paris and his book is filled not only with insights into the work
but first-hand stories by theatre practitioners who worked with Beckett,
as well as interviews with the playwright himself. As an introduction
to Beckett and his work, Professor Fletcher’s book is incomparable.
ISBN 0 571 20124 5
BECKETT & AESTHETICS — Daniel Albright
As a young man, Beckett hoped that writing could provide psychic
authenticity and true representation of the physical world; instead he
found himself immersed in artificialities, self-enclosed word games.
Daniel Albright argues that Beckett escaped from this bind by allegories
of artistic frustration and through an art of non-representation and
estrangement. ISBN 0 521 82908 9 (HB)
BECKETT AT 100 REVOLVING IT ALL Edited by Linda Ben-Zvi
and Angela Moorjani
The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel Prizewinning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the
occasion, editors Linda Ben-Zvi and Angela Moorjani have gathered a
collection of original essays that make a clear case for the challenges
and rewards of thinking through Beckett in his second century. ISBN
978 0 19 532548 5
BECKETT BEFORE BECKETT: Samuel Beckett’s Lectures on
French Literature Brigitte Le Juez
In 1930 Rachel Burrows studied French at Trinity College and her
notes of Beckett’s lectures have recently been found in the archives
of Trinity College. Brigitte Le Juez is the first writer to fully study
thelectures, the most complete record of Beckett the young intellectual
and a valuable guide to the inspirations behind his work and concept
of literature. Beckett before Beckett reveals Beckett’s own history of
French literature and his understanding of the origins of the modern
literature of his time. HB ISBN 978 0285638129
BECKETT IN AN HOUR. E. Teresa Choate. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
BECKETT ON SCREEN The Television Plays Professor Anna
McMullen
This ground-breaking study analyses Samuel Beckett’s television
plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that
they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to
Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual
arts. HB ISBN 978 0 7190 6420 3
CAMBRIDGE STUDENT GUIDE — Second edition
Beckett. Waiting for Godot. — Lawrence Graver. ISBN 0 521 54938 8
BECKETT’S BOOKS. A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett’s
“Interwar Notes”. Matthew Feldman.
“Exciting new scholarship that will make quite an impression on
the Beckett industry, well written and argued, but especially full of
empirical evidence that is so often lacking in criticism.” Professor
Geert Lernout, University of Antwerp. HB ISBN 0 8264 9059 X
THE COMING OF GODOT. A Short History of a Masterpiece.
Jonathon Croall. Foreword by Peter Hall.
During Peter Hall’s landmark anniversary production of Beckett’s
masterpiece the writer Jonathon Croall was given exclusive access to
rehearsals, and talked at length to director, actors and designer. His
vivid rehearsal diary is an illuminating inside account of how this
acclaimed production was put together. ISBN 1-84002-595-6
THE ESSENTIAL SAMUEL BECKETT — An Illustrated Biography.
Enoch Brater
Professor Brater follows Beckett’s career from the early days in
Ireland, to the efflorescence in France just after the Second Word War,
and beyond that to the unfolding of his success in the rest of the world
as a result of universal appeal of his cryptic, moving play Waiting for
Godot. ISBN 0 500 28411 3
IMAGES OF BECKETT — John Haynes and James Knowlson
Images of Beckett sets John Haynes’ unique repertoire of photographs
of Beckett’s dramatic opus alongside three newly written essays by
Beckett’s biographer and friend James Knowlson.
ISBN 0 521 82258 0. HB
THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT 1929-1940 Edited by:
Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck
The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide
a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s and mark
the gradual emergence of Beckett’s unique voice and sensibility.
For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature and theatre this
edition is essential reading, offering not only a record of Beckett’s
achievements but a powerful literary experience in itself. HB ISBN
978 0 521 86793 1
MODERN THEATRE GUIDES Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Mark Taylor-Batty and Juliette Taylor-Batty
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is not only an indisputably
important and influential dramatic text — it is also one of the most
significant western cultural landmarks of the twentieth century.
ISBN 978 0 8264 9594
THE PLAYS OF SAMUEL BECKETT. Katherine Weiss
Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth
century whose radical experimentations in form and content
transformed the very concept of theatre and won him the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1969. This comprehensive and accessible investigation
explores not only the lasting impact of Beckett’s stage plays, but also
shows how his remarkable work for television and radio can inform an
understanding of his theatrical aesthetic. ISBN 978 1 4081 4557 9
offers a delightfully original and intriguing series of approaches To
Beckett’s work and his inimitable style. Each essay deftly illuminates
aspects of Beckett’s thinking and craft, making astute and often
surprising discoveries along the way. ISBN 978 1 4081 3722 2
TRAPPED IN THOUGHT: A Study Of the Beckettian Mentality. Eric
P Levy
“Wholly enlightening and an important read… The import, strength
and originality of the project lie in Levy’s thorough knowledge of the
Beckett oeuvre and his related concern for allowing primary texts to
speak as much as possible about the uniquely complex and profound,
ultimately discernible and consistent, modes of existence that
concerned their author.” Nels Pearson, Tennessee State University. HB
ISBN 978 0 81563 1026
TRAPPED IN THOUGHT: A Study Of the Beckettian Mentality. Eric
P Levy
“Wholly enlightening and an important read… The import, strength
and originality of the project lie in Levy’s thorough knowledge of the
Beckett oeuvre and his related concern for allowing primary texts to
speak as much as possible about the uniquely complex and profound,
ultimately discernible and consistent, modes of existence that
concerned their author.” Nels Pearson, Tennessee State University. HB
ISBN 978 0 81563 1026
SAMUEL BECKETT. Sinead Mooney.Writers and Their Work.Isobel
Armstrong General Editor.
In this accessible guide to Beckett’s prose and drama, Sinead Mooney
offers a concise and informative account of the development of Beckett’s
oeuvre across its two languages, from the erudite experiments of the early
fiction through the major works of the radio and television plays, to the
formidable minimalism of the late prose and drama. ISBN 0 7463 0857 4
BEHN, APHRA
SAMUEL BECKETT. Anatomy of a Literary Revolution. Pascale
Casanova Introduction by Terry Eagleton.
Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work,
Casanova provides an arresting portrait of Beckett as radically
subversive, doing for writing what Kandinsky did for art — and in
the process presents the key to some of the most profound enigmas of
Beckett’s writing. HB ISBN 978 1 84467 112 0
SAMUEL BECKETT. 100 YEARS. Centenary Essays. Edited by
Christopher Murray
Samuel Beckett — 100 Years consists of thirteen essays by many of the
foremost academics studying Beckett today. Literary luminaries such
as John Banville and Anthony Cronin line up alongside philosophers
Dermot Moran and Richard Kearney to delve into the psyche of the
man responsible for such classics as Murphy, Krapps Last Tape and
Waiting for Godot, while actors Barry McGovern and Rosemary
Pountney describe what makes his works so theatrical. The book is a
challenging and serious look at his work and its impact on literature
today. ISBN 1 905494 08 4
SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE PRIMACY OF LOVE. John Robert
Keller
This new study places the emotional world at the centre of Beckett’s
writing. Dr Keller re-esseses the reason for the author’s influence
and enduring popularity, by suggesting that Beckett is “primarily
about love”. This study integrates highly readable discussions of
psychoanalytic theory, and clinical examples, with textual analysis.
It will be valuable to scholars and readers if Beckett, and to anyone
interested in modern literature and culture. ISBN 0 7190 6313 2
SAMUEL BECKETT’S PLAYS ON FILM AND TELEVISION.
Grayley Herren
Samuel Beckett’s Plays on Film and Television provides meticulous
analysis of every play Beckett wrote, directed, or adapted for the screen.
Herren studies Beckett’s use of “memory machines” — technological
media for channelling personal, cultural, philosophical and artistic
ghosts from the past. HB ISBN 978 1 4039 7795 3
SAMUEL BECKETT’S SELF-REFERENTIAL DRAMA. The
Sensitive Chaos. Shimon Levy. ISBN 1 902210 46 8
This current collection of essays is divided almost equally between
theory and performance, but the author treats the two as a single field.
ISBN 1 902210 46 8
10 WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT SAMUEL BECKETT The Falsetto
of Reason Enoch Brater
This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater
APHRA BEHN The Comedies. Kate Aughterson
The author provides readers with an approachable and fascinating
critical guide to the dramatic works of an important seventeenthcentury woman writer. Aughterson analyses Aphra Behn’s abilities as a
playwright, showing particularly how she skilfully employs comic and
dramatic conventions to radical ends, and how she forces her audience
to engage with issues about gender and sexuality whilst retaining her
witty and accessible style. ISBN 0 333 96321 0
BERKOFF, STEVEN
STEVEN BERKOFF AND THE THEATRE OF SELFPERFORMANCE. Robert Cross
This first thorough and in-depth study of this contentious artist,
examines the wide-ranging strategies adopted by Berkoff in the
construction and projection of his larger-than-life public persona,
ISBN 0 7190 6254 3
BOAL, AUGUSTO
AUGUSTO BOAL. Frances Babbage
This study combines a biographical and historical overview of Boal’s
career as playwright and director; in-depth analysis of Boal’s classic
text on radical theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed; exploration of training
and production techniques and practical guidance to the Theatre of the
Oppressed workshop methods. ISBN 0 415 27326 9
THE AESTHETICS OF THE OPPRESSED Augusto Boal, Translated
by Adrian Jackson
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed describes the basis of a practical theatre
project which enables individuals to reclaim themselves as subjects.
Its central message is that we can discover Art by discovering our own
creativity, and by discovering our creativity we discover ourselves.
In this latest despatch, Boal communicates his inspirational vision,
articulating and expanding upon the practical and theoretical
foundations of the work, which over the last thirty years has become a
vibrant international theatre movement. ISBN 978 0 415 37177 3
BOND, EDWARD
EDWARD BOND AND THE DRAMATIC CHILD Edward Bond’s
plays for young people. Edited by David Davis
This is the first book in English to explain fully Edward Bond’s new
form of theatre. ISBN 1 85856 312 7
SELECTIONS FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF EDWARD BOND —
Volume One 1959-1980 Ed. and introduced by Ian Stuart. HB
BRECHT, BERTOLT
BERTOLT BRECHT By Meg Mumford
Bertolt Brecht was amongst the most profound contributors to the theory
and practice of theatre. His methods of collective experimentation and
his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for aesthetic and
political change continue to have a significant impact on the work of
performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. ISBN 978 0 415
37509 2
BERTOLT BRECHT – Ronald Speirs
Brecht is recognised as a major contributor to political theatre in the
twentieth-century. This study surveys his development, considering
the continuities and discontinuities between the earlier work and the
later Marxist writing, critically examining the relation between theory
and practice with a detailed study of several of the major plays.
theatre, and the relationship between text, performance, and politicocultural context. As the only play which Brecht staged in the Weimar
Republic, during his exile, and in the GDR The Mother offers a unique
opportunity to compare his theatrical practice in contrasting settings
and at different points in his career. HB ISBN 0 19 928658 2
BRECHT AND METHOD Frederic Jameson
Rendered with unparalleled deftness and sensitivity, Frederic
Jameson’s classic study explores the political theatre of Bertolt Brecht
and affirms its importance to the artistic practices of a troubled age.
ISBN 978 1 84467 677 4
BERTOLT BRECHT — Brecht on the Theatre. The Development of
an Aesthetic. Ed. and trans. by John Willett
The book charts Brecht’s thinking over four decades. We hear how the
theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved, and contains notes
and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny,
Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo and many others. Also included is A
Short Organum for the Theatre, Brecht’s most complete statement of
his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre.
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BRECHT. Second Edition
Edited by Peter Thompson and Glendyr Sacks.
This updated edition properly retains much that was in the original
Companion, but also introduces new voices and new themes. It brings
together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners
and contains new essays on Brecht’s early experience of cabaret, his
significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach
to dramaturgy. ISBN 0 521 67384 4
BERTOLT BRECHT — Poems and Songs from the Plays. Edited
translated by Ronald Speirs
“This is Brecht at his Bolshie best. Now available thanks to Willett and
Manheim, in the best hard-bitten English around. All who relish the
sight and sound of it are in their debt.” Christopher Hope, Financial
Times
THE CRAFT OF THEATRE Seminars and Discussions in Brechtian
Theatre Ekkehard Schall Translated by Jack Davies
Although Brecht himself wrote extensively on his theory of drama
he left little in the way of practical advice about how actors should
apply his methods. The rich mixture of anecdote, practical advice,
autobiographical sketches and theory that informs Schall’s writing
offers the reader an engaging master class in the actor’s craft and
an illuminating study of Brechtian drama from one of its greatest
exponents. PB 978 1 4081 5989 7
BERTOLT BRECHT COLLECTED SHORT STORIES. Edited and
Introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim
Bertolt Brecht’s collected short stories reveal yet another facet of this
protean writer best known for his plays and poetry. Spanning the years
1921-1945, the stories fall into three groups: those written in Bavaria
at the start of the twenties, in Berlin before Hitler and in exile up to
World War II.
BERTOLT BRECHT’S DRAMATIC THEORY John J White
ISBN 978 1 57113 473 6
BRECHT — A CHOICE OF TWO EVILS. Fourth Edition. Martin
Esslin
“ A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perpetually
fascinating figure of the twentieth—century European theatre.”
Kenneth Tynan
When first published the wide-ranging study of Brecht’s life and work
was unanimously well received. Martin Esslin has thoroughly revised
and up-dated the book for this edition, paying particular attention to
the extensive reference section at the end. ISBN 0 413 54750 7
BRECHT — The Cambridge Companion. Edited by Peter Thomson
and Glendyr Sacks
Crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of this complex and
controversial writer, bringing together the contrasting views of major
critics and active practitioners.
BRECHT IN CONTEXT. John Willett. New Revised Edition
In this classic study, the author sets in context not only Brecht the
theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time. A
detailed and wide-ranging account of one of the most significant men
of this century.
BRECHT AND CRITICAL THEORY Dialectics and contemporary
aesthetics. Sean Carney
Brecht and Political Theory maps the many ways in which Brechtian
thinking pervades critical thought today, informing the critical tools
and stances that make up the contemporary study of aesthetics. ISBN
0-415-34974-5 HB
BRECHT AND POLITICAL THEATRE. The Mother on Stage. Laura
Bradley.
This production history of The Mother provides substantial new
insights into Bertolt Brecht’s theatre and drama, his impact on political
DARING TO PLAY: A Brecht Companion. Manfred Wekwerth, edited
by Anthony Hozier.
Translated into English for the first time, Daring to Play: A Brecht
Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht’s theatre by Manfred
Wekwerth, Brech’s co-director and former director of the Berliner
Ensemble. ISBN 978 0 4155 6969 9
A GUIDE TO THE PLAYS OF BERTOLT BRECHT —Stephen Unwin
This is an indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable
companion to the work of this challenging and rewarding writer. ISBN
0 413 77416 3
POST-IMPERIAL BRECHT. Politics and Performance, East and
South. Loren Kruger
Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht’s theatre
and politics. Most political theatre critics place Brecht between West
and East in the Cold War, and a few have explored Brecht’s impact as a
Northern writer on the global South. Loren Kruger is the first to argue
that Brecht’s impact as a political dramatist, director and theoretical
writer makes full sense only when seen in a post-material framework
that links the East/West axis between US capitalism and Soviet
communism with the North/South axis of post-colonial resistance to
imperialism. ISBN 978 0 521 81708 0
STREET SCENES: BRECHT, BENJAMIN & BERLIN. By Nicolas
Whybrow.
Street Scenes offers various points of entry for the reader, including
those interested in: theatre, performance, visual art, architecture,
theories of everyday life and culture and the politics of identity.
Ultimately, it is an interdisciplinary book, which strives to establish the
‘porosity’ of areas of theory and practice rather than hard boundaries.
ISBN 1 84150 114 X
THE THEATRE OF BERTOLT BRECHT — John Willett
Willett has emerged as the greatest living English language authority
on Brecht’s position as a writer and man of the theatre.
“Seldom if ever has Brecht been looked at with such a combination of
approval and commonsense, interest and detachment ... The Theatre of
Bertolt Brecht is brilliantly successful.” Eric Bentley, New Statesman
BROOK, PETER
BETWEEN TWO SILENCES — Talking with Peter Brook. Edited by
Dale Moffitt HB
The result of twelve hours of spontaneous question and answer sessions,
this book shows Peter Brook responding to points raised by students
and lecturers about his work and ideas. He discuses acting, directing,
auditions, film versus the stage, his responses to the work of other
theatre figures like Grotowski and Artaud, and the multiculturalism
which characterizes his most recent work. ISBN 0 413 75580 0
CONVERSATIONS WITH PETER BROOK — 1970–2000. Margaret
Croyden
The author has followed Peter Brook’s career from the 1970 to the
present, gaining unparalleled perspective on the evolution of his work.
Throughout the interviews in this book, she uses that knowledge to
elicit from Peter Brook some of his most insightful thoughts and
deepest feelings about theatre and the world. ISBN 0 571 22172 6
THE EMPTY SPACE. Peter Brook
This book, based on a series of four university lectures, shows the
depth of the humanity that underlies Peter Brook’s professionalism
and throws new light on the great recent achievements of the Royal
Shakespeare Company. ISBN 978 0 141 18922 2
CAMUS, ALBERT
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CAMUS. Edited by Edward
J Hughes
Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French
literature. As the author of L’Etranger and the architect of the notion of
‘the Absurd’ in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond.
This Companion explores his best selling novels, his ambiguous
engagement with philosophy, his theatre, his work as a journalist
and his reflections on ethical and political questions that continue to
concern readers today. ISBN 978 0 521 54978 3
CHEKHOV, ANTON
THE ACTOR’S CHEKHOV — Nikos Psacharopoulos and the
Company of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, on the Plays of Anton
Chekhov. Written and edited by Jean Hackett
“Nikos was an inspired teacher, and a great director of Chekhov.
It is a gift to have his words and thought recollected by his closet
Williamstown family.” Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Manhattan
Theatre Club.
ANTON CHEKHOV Rose Whyman
Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays of this canonical
playwright, examining the genius of Chekhov’s writing, theatrical
representation and dramatic philosophy. ISBN 978 0 415 41144 8
ARE YOU THERE, CROCODILE? Inventing Anton Chekhov.
Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington’s highly acclaimed one-man stage show Anton
Chekhov first appeared at the National Theatre, London. In Are You
There, Crocodile?, Pennington retraces his search for identification
with the great but elusive playwright and finds vivid and intimate
insights. ISBN 1 84002 458 5
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO CHEKHOV James N
Loehlin
Beginning with an engaging account of Chekhov’s life and cultural
context in nineteenth-century Russia, this introductory guide includes
detailed discussions of both Chekhov’s short stories and his plays, and
considers the enduring legacy of this fascinating, complex and elusive
personality. ISBN 978 0 521 70688 9
CHEKHOV IN AN HOUR. Coral Rocamora. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3200 0
THE CHEKHOV THEATRE — A Century of the Plays in Performance.
Laurence Senelick
Many now consider Chekhov a playwright equal to Shakespeare, and
this book studies how his reputation evolved, and how the presentation
of his plays varied and altered from their initial productions in Russia
to the most recent postmodern deconstructions of them.
CHEKHOV ON THEATRE. Compiled by Jutta Hercher and Peter
Urban. Translated, with an introduction and commentary by Stephen
Mulrine
Anton Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles
and in letters even before he began writing plays. Collected in this
volume, these writings reveal Chekhov’s instinctive curiosity about
the way theatre works — and his concerns about how best to realise his
intentions as a playwright. Often peppery, passionate, even distraught,
as he feels his plays misinterpreted or undermined, Chekhov comes
over in these pages as a true man of the theatre. ISBN 978 1 8484
2075 5
CHEKHOV’S PLAYS — An Opening into Eternity. Richard Gilman
The author places the plays in the context of Russian and European
drama and the larger culture of the period and, offering textual
commentary and a discussion of stagecraft and dramaturgy, explores
the reasons behind the enduring power of these works.
IF WE COULD ONLY KNOW! An Interpretation of Chekhov. Vladimir
Kataev. Translated from the Russian and Edited by Harvey Pitcher
In this luminous book of criticism, Chekhov’s foremost Russian
interpreter offers to Western readers a remarkably clear and
commanding appraisal of the master’s work. With ringing authority
and critical common sense, the author examines Chekhov’s major tales,
stories, and plays, pointing out patterns of development in Chekhov’s
approach to characters and themes, tracing the roots of Chekhov’s
ideas as expressed through his plots. ISBN 1 56663 523 3
PERFORMING CHEKHOV — David Allen
Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov’s plays in
performance. Drawing on extensive interviews with actors, directors
and designers, it offers in-depth case studies of a number of significant,
and often controversial, productions of Chekhov’s plays. It focuses on
the work of key directors in Russia, America and England.
PLAYS IN PODUCTION: Series Editor: Michael Robinson
CHEKHOV: The Cherry Orchard. James N Loehlin
Chekhov’s masterpiece, about a Russian family losing its ancestral
home, combines a lament for a vanishing past with a hopeful dream of
the future. In the century since its first performance The Cherry Orchard
has undergone a wide range of conflicting interpretations: tragic and
comic, naturalistic and symbolic, reactionary and radical. Beginning
with the 1904 premiere at Stanislavsky’s Moscow Art Theatre, this
study traces the performance history of one of the landmark plays of
modern theatre. . ISBN 978 0 521 53330 0
SEEING CHEKHOV. Life and Art. Michael C. Finke
Seeing Chekhov is essential reading for students of Russian literature,
devotees of the short story and modern drama, and anyone interested
in the intersection of literature, psychology, and medicine. HB ISBN
0-8014-4315-6
UNDERSTANDING CHEKHOV A Critical Study Chekhov’s Prose
and Drama. Donald Rayfield
This book by a leading British scholar, reveals the layers of meaning
on which the stories and plays are built up. All the important layers
works are studied: we see how closely the two genres are connected
and gain insight into Checkov’s rapid development over his brief
twenty years of creative life, from a medical student supplementing
his income by writing comic stories, to the father of twentieth-century
drama and narrative prose.
CHEKHOV, MICHAEL
COPEAU, JACQUES
MICHAEL CHEKHOV — Franc Chamberlain
This book — from the Routledge Performance Practitioners series
— includes a biographical introduction to Chekhov’s life, a clear
explanation of his key writings, an analysis of his work as a director
and a practical guide to his unique actor-training exercises. ISBN 0
415 25878 2
JACQUES COPEAU — Biography of a Theater. Maurice Kurtz
The author here recreates the vitality Copeau imbued in theatre
artists throughout the world. He conveys Copeau’s enthusiasm,
the crusading spirit that enabled Copeau and his Théâtre du VieuxColombier to transform experimentation into tradition, into the
heritage of civilization. He has written a biography of a theatre that
was tremendously influential in Europe and America.
CHRISTIE, AGATHA
AGATHA CHRISTIE — A Reader’s Companion. Vanessa Wagstaff
and Stephen Poole
In this companion the authors have assembled a mouth-watering feast
of period memorabilia — the jackets and binding of first editions,
stills from television dramas, photographs of the places and buildings
that Christie used as settings for her stories. They discuss each of her
novels in chronological order of publication, with a summery of plotline, bibliographical data, and background information on Christie’s
own life at the time the book was written, an account of its reception
by readers and the press, and details of subsequent films and TV series.
ISBN 1 84513015 4 (HB)
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S SECRET NOTEBOOKS Fifty Years of
Mysteries in the Making (Includes Two Unpublished Poirot Stories)
John Curran
This book lifts the lid on Agatha Christie’s biggest secret — how her
pencilled notes, lists and drafts led to her many successful books, plays
and stories. Alternative plots, titles and characters, deleted scenes,
even her plans for the books she didn’t get to write — John Curran’s
investigation reveals a wealth of material, including two complete
Hercule Poirot short stories never before published, The Incident of
the Dog’s Ball and the unseen thirteenth Labour Of Hercules! HB
ISBN 978 0 00 731056 2
THE COMPLETE CHRISTIE — An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia.
Matthew Bunson
Simply the most comprehensive guide to the life and works of the
immortal Dame Agatha Christie. Whether you’ve read every title in
the Christie canon, or just discovered her writing, this entertaining
and highly enjoyable tour of the vast world of mystery created by
Christie reveals in delectable detail why the mystique, fascination, and
brainteasing fun of the mysteries remain forever undiminished. Sixty
illustrations include book covers and shots from the movies and stage
productions. ISBN 0 671 02831 6.
CHURCHILL, CARYL
ABOUT CHURCHILL: The Playwright and the Work Philip Roberts
In About Churchill Philip Roberts presents not only an analysis
of Caryl Churchill’s published work, but also a detailed account
of her unpublished pieces. This enlightening survey of the plays is
augmented by comment from theatre directors, actors, designers,
dancers, a choreographer and a composer. The book demonstrates and
celebrates Churchill’s unceasing experimentation and moral courage
over a period of more than forty years. ISBN 978 0 571 22962 8
CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CARYL CHURCHILL Edited by
Elaine Aston and Elin Diamond
Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career
that spans almost fifty years, the Companion pays fresh attention to
Churchill’s poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.
ISBN 978 0 521 72894 2
WRITERS AND THEIR WORK
CARYL CHURCHILL Elaine Aston Third Edition
Critically informed and accessible in approach, this is a knowledgeable
and thoroughly readable account of an influential figure and an
important political voice in British Theatre. ISBN 978 0 7463 1208 7
JACQUES COPEAU Mark Evans. Routledge Performance
Practitioners
A leading figure in the development of twentieth century theatre
practice, Jacques Copeau pioneered work on actor training. physical
theatre and ensemble acting, and was a key mover innovator in the
movement to de-centralise theatre and culture to the regions. ISBN 0
415 35435 8
COWARD, NOËL
COWARD IN AN HOUR. Howard Kissel. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3210 9
COWARD THE PLAYWRIGHT. John Lahr
In five dextrously argued chapters, Lahr investigates all the major
plays and many of Coward’s lesser known pieces. In them all, Lahr
detects a coherent philosophy in which charm is both the subject of
Coward’s comedies and the trap which made his very public life a
perpetual performance.
THE ESSENTIAL NOËL COWARD COMPENDIUM The Very Best
of His Work, Life and Times Edited by Barry Day
For fans and newcomers to Coward’s work, this compendium represents
the very best of Noël Coward in one entertaining volume, with extracts
from the best scenes from his plays and screenplays, songs, verse and an
entire short story. Material is also included from Coward’s autobiography,
diaries and letters, along with caricature drawings, photographs,
anecdotes and trivia. If you only buy one book on Noël Coward this
collection represents excellent value. ISBN 978 1 4081 0869 7
NOËL COWARD In His Own Words Compiled and Introduced by
Barry Day
This insightful portrait includes not only his best-loved witticisms,
bons mots and lyrics but also hidden gems from his private papers.
The Editor, Coward expert, Barry Day, delves into the whole range
of Cowards talents, revealing his thoughts on theatre, England, The
Arts, religion, life and the man himself. In His Own Words displays
the usual frivolity, precision and wit alongside a surprising capacity for
depth and compassion. ISBN 978 1 4081 0758 4
CRAIG, GORDON
CRAIG ON THEATRE. Edited by J. Michael Walton
This volume — a companion to Brecht on Theatre and Artaud on
Theatre — presents the essence of Gordon Craig’s ideas. Included are
not only the key sections of his most influential book, On the Art of the
Theatre, but also essays from a variety of sources.
CRAMPHORN, REX
A RAFFISH EXPERIMENT The Selected Writings of Rex Cramphorn
Edited by Ian Maxwell
In A Raffish Experiment, Ian Maxwell presents an eclectic collection of
Rex Cramphorn’s writing, including theatre reviews, self-assessments,
production diaries, essays and proposals, working notes for actors and
selections from surviving correspondence. ISBN 978 0 86819 818 7
CRIMP, MARTIN
THE THEATRE OF MARTIN CRIMP. Aleks Sierz
This volume provides the first full-length study of both Crimp’s plays
and his craft as a writer. As well as giving an account of each of his
plays for stage and radio, and a fascinating and insightful analysis of
his oeuvre, Aleks Sierz includes a wide-ranging interview with Martin
Crimp. There are also interviews with all the key directors responsible
for staging his work, including James Macdonald, Katie Mitchell,
Lindsay Posner and Sam Walters. ISBN 0 413 77588 7
DECROUX, ETIENNE
ETIENNE DECROUX Routledge Performance Practitioners. Thomas
Leabhart
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
the twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance. ISBN 978 0 415
35437 0
THE DECROUX SOURCEBOOK Edited by Thomas Leabhart and
Franc Chamberlain
The Decroux Sourcebook is the first point of reference for any student
of the ‘hidden master’ of twentieth-century theatre. Etienne Decroux’s
pioneering work in physical theatre is here richly illustrated not only by
a library of source material, but also with a gallery of images following
his life, work and influences. ISBN 978 0 415 47800 7
DODIN, LEV
LEV DODIN — Journey Without End. Reflections and Memoirs.
PLATONOV observed: Rehearsal Notes. Foreword by Peter Brook
Lev Dodin, Artisitc Director of the remarkable and acclaimed Russian
ensemble the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg, is considered by
many to be amongst the greatest theatre directors in the world. Journey
Without End is the first publication of his writing in English. The
collection includes Dodin’s articles, memoirs and lectures that offer
a rare insight into his work, professional relationships and views on
theatre. ISBN 0 9542944 2 4
EURIPIDES
EURIPIDES AND THE TRAGIC TRADITION. Ann Norris
Michelini
ISBN 978 0 29910 764 2
EURIPIDES IN AN HOUR. Carl R. Mueller. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3211 6
EURIPIDES: HIPPOLYTUS. Sophie Mills
The Hippolytus is generally acknowledged to be one of Euripides’ finest
tragedies, for the construction of its plots, its use of language and its
memorable characterisations of Phaedra and Hippolytus. Furthermore,
it asks serious and disturbing questions about the influence of divinity
on human lives. Sophie Mills considers these and many other themes
in detail, setting the play in its mythological, cultural and historical
contexts. ISBN 0 7156 2974 3
EURIPIDES:ION Laura Swift Duckworth Companions to Greek and
Roman Tragedy Series Editor: Thomas Harrison
Euripides’ Ion is the story of a young man’s search for his identity, and
a woman’s attempt to come to terms with her past. Through the story
of a divine rape and its consequences it asks questions about the justice
of the gods and the nature of parenthood, encouraging its audience
to consider contemporary concerns through the filter of traditional
myth. This detailed study outlines the pre-history and later reception
of the Ion myth and provides a literary interpretation of the play’s main
themes.ISBN 978 0 7156 3744 9
EURIPIDES: MEDEA — William Allan
Euripides’ Medea is one of the greatest and most influential Greek
tragedies. This book outlines the development of the Medea myth
before Euripides and explores his uniquely powerful version from
various angles. ISBN 0 7156 3187 X
EURIPIDES: ORESTES Matthew Wright Duckworth Companions to
Greek And Roman Tragedy Series Editor; Thomas Harrison
Orestes was one of Euripides’ most popular plays in antiquity. It’s plot,
which centres on Orestes’ murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its
aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of
madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a
way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies;
and it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Despite all this,
Orestes is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should
this be so? Perhaps it is because Orestes does not conform to modern
audiences’ expectations of what a “Greek tragedy” should be. ISBN
978 0 7156 3714 2
EURIPIDES TALKS Edited by Alan Beale
Actors of Dionysus (aod) formed in 1993 to tour Classical drama in
translation and have established themselves as the leading exponents
of Greek tragedy in contemporary theatre and education. Scholars
have been generous in their support for aod, and this selection of talks
on five of Euripides’ plays, Bacchae, Medea, Hippolytus, Electra and
Trojan Women, represents but a fraction of their contribution to aod’s
success. Less formal than lectures, essays or articles, these talks offer
sixth-form students and the general public a more accessible approach
to the thoughts of some of our leading academics.ISBN 978 1 85399
712 9
EURIPIDES: Our Contemporary J Michael Walton
In a work intended to inspire actors, directors and the lay reader to
return to the playwright, Euripides clearly emerges, not as an example
of a primitive and dead culture, but as a master among Athenian
playwrights for his timeless humanity and his ability to speak to
subsequent generations. ISBN 978 1 408 11204 5
OXFORD READINGS IN CLASSICAL STUDIES — EURIPIDES.
Judith Mossman
This volume aims to bring together for students some classical essays
illustrating the main strands of Euripidean criticism over the last forty
years. ISBN 0 19 872184 6
FIELDING, HENRY
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HENRY FIELDING. Edited
by Claude Rawson
This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars
describes and analyses the many facets of Fielding’s work in theatre,
fiction, journalism and politics. Including a Chronology and Guide
to Further Reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of
Fielding’s life and work. ISBN 978 0 521 67092 0
FO, DARIO & RAME, FRANCA
DARIO FO — Revolutionary Theatre — Tom Behan
This is the first biography of Dario Fo to explore the “Fo phenomenon”
by focusing specifically on his political beliefs. Drawing on unpublished
archive material and oral interviews, Tom Behan traces Fo’s life and
work from his beginnings in cabaret and mime in postwar Italy and
his early writings for television and radio, to the development of his
political ideas and the influence of his plays both inside and outside
Italy. He examines the issues that have made his plays so popular.
DARIO FO AND FRANCA RAME — Proceedings of the International
Conference on the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame Cambridge,
28-30 April 2000
The research papers include Puppets and Marionettes in the Theatre of
Dario Fo; Franca Rame: Pedestal, Megaphone or Giullaressa; Directing
Fo in the UK; British Anarchists: Fo in Translation; Dario Fo and Franca
Rame in the 1990s; Playing Monologue. ISBN 0 906305 11 X
FORNES, MARIA IRENE
MARIA IRENE FORNES by Scott T. Cummings
Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist
of the twentieth century. That is the argument of this important new
study, the first to assess Fornes’s complete body of work.
Scott T. Cummings considers comic sketches, opera libretti, and
unpublished pieces, as well as her best-known plays, in order to trace
the evolution of her dramaturgy from the whimsical Off-Off Broadway
plays of the 1960s to the sober, meditative work of the 1990s. ISBN
978 0 4154 5435 3
FOSSE, JON
THE LUMINOUS DARKNESS, The Theatre of Jon Fosse. Leif Zern,
translated by Ann Henning Jocelyn. “An important and timely study
of a playwright who demands our attention.” — Patrick Londergan,
National University of Ireland, Galway. ISBN 978 1 8494 3058 6
FRAYN, MICHAEL
CELIA’S SECRET — An Investigation. Michael Frayn and David Burke
One day during the run of Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen, a curious
letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded
pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some
relevance to the mystery at the play’s heart. They turn out to mark the
start of a long and winding trail, taken up by Michael Frayn and the
actor David Burke.
STAGE DIRECTIONS Writing on Theatre 1970-2008 Michael Frayn
“ Frayn’s book has something in it for writer, reader, actor, spectator,
translator, historian, professional and layman alike. Affectionate
towards his subject without being indulgent, Frayn is never pretentious
and never impenetrable: this is writing on theatre as it ought to be.”
Sarah Burton, Spectator ISBN 978 0 571 24056 2
UNDERSTANDING MICHAEL FRAYN. Merritt Moseley.
Michael Frayn has garnered widespread critical acclaim and a number
of literary honors for his work as a journalist, playwright, novelist,
philosopher and translator. Merritt Moseley introduces readers to the
accomplishments of one of Britain’s most versatile writers. HB ISBN
978 1 57003 627 9
FRIEL, BRIAN
ABOUT FRIEL — The Playwright and the Work. Tony Coult
Teacher and playwright Tony Colt has put together a wide-ranging
choice of material which gives equal emphasis to the study of Friel’s
work and the all-important lived experience of the practitioners who
put that work on stage. This stimulating dossier of interviews with the
author and others provides a unique and accessible resource. If you
want to read just one book on Brian Friel and the titanic power of his
work, this is it. ISBN 0 571 20164 4
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BRIAN FRIEL Edited by
Anthony Roche
Brian Friel is widely recognized as Ireland’s greatest living playwright,
winning an international reputation through such acclaimed works as
Translations (1980) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). This collection
of specially commissioned essays explores the entire range of his
career. The essays approach Brian Friel’s plays both as literary text and
as performed drama and provide the perfect introduction for students
as well as theatregoers. This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive
study of Friel’s work to be published, and includes a chronology and
further reading suggestions. ISBN 978 0 521 66686 2
BRIAN FRIEL’S (POST) COLONIAL DRAMA — Language,
Illusion. and Politics. F.C. Mc Grath HB
An important, accessible, scholarly introduction, this book illustrates
how Friel playfully subverts the English language and transcends
British influence. Friel’s reality is constructed from personal fiction,
and it is his liberating response to oppression
GREENWICH EXCHANGE STUDENT GUIDE TO THE
STAGECRAFT OF BRIAN FRIEL. David Grant
David Grant’s study of the stagecraft of Brian Friel results from many
years of professional association with the Irish playwright’s work. The
Student Guide explores the dramatic and cultural significance of Friel’s
vision in Ireland, the ways in which the plays might be interpreted on
the stage and a synoptic view of his contribution to the theatre. Of
special interest is grant’s inclusion of theatrical workshops to enhance
our understanding of Friel’s craft. ISBN 1 871551 74 9
WRITERS AND THEIR WORK: BRIAN FRIEL Geraldine Higgins
Brian Friel is Ireland’s leading living playwright, a fact that is easily
observable on the billboards of Derry, Dublin, London and NewYork.
Friel’s work forms the cornerstone of contemporary Irish drama and
this comprehensive study shows why he is recognized as one of the
most significant and influential playwrights writing today. ISBN 978
0 7463 0819 6
FUGARD, ATHOL
ATHOL FUGARD His Plays, People and Politics by Alan Shelley
Based on a close reading of Fugard’s theatre works from No-Good
Friday (1958) to Victory (2007) and supplemented with personal
interviews — including with the playwright himself — Allan Shelley’s
book is a comprehensive but accessible analysis of Fugard’s work,
the personal and political injustices that inform it and the lives of the
people it portrays. This is a valuable contribution to the study of a
modern master of world theatre. 978 1 84002 821 8
GENET, JEAN
JEAN GENET. Stephen Barber. With an introduction by Edmund White
This new short biography and critical work cuts directly to the essence
of Genet’s life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always
profoundly entangled with his work. Stephen Barber emphasizes those
elements that made Genet’s life particularly inspirational in the 1960s
and which continue to make it vital for us today. ISBN 1 86189 178 4
JEAN GENET. David Bradby and Clare Finburgh
Jean Genet’s sinificance within twentieth-century theatre has long been
understated. This timely book, the only introductory text in English to
Genet’s plays in production, presents an overview of an influential and
controversial writer, whose work prefigured many recent postmodern
and post-colonial developments in theatre and performance studies.
ISBN 978 0 4153 7506 1
GILBERT W.S.
CREATED IN OUR OWN IMAGES.COM: W.S. Gilbert’s Pygmalion
& Galatea — An introduction to the art, ethics and science of cloning
A collection of essays by Tom Freudenheim, Jamie Love, Bill
McKibben, Lee Silver, Jonathan Shaw, and Carolyn Williams. Edited
by Fred M. Sander, M.D.
ISBN 978 0 6153 9004 8
GILMAN, RICHARD
THE DRAMA IS COMING NOW The Theater Criticism of Richard
Gilman.
1961 — 1991. Foreword by Gordon Rogoff
Presented here is the first collection in more than three decades of
the writings of one of America’s finest drama critics. Richard Gilman
chronicles a major period in American theater history — the 1960’s
to the 1990’s which witnessed the birth or spread of Off-Broadway,
regional theater, non profit companies, and avant-garde performance,
as well as growing interest in plays by women and minorities in world
drama. HB ISBN 0-300-10046-9
GINKAS, KAMA
PROVOKING THEATRE — Kama Ginkas Directs. Kama Ginkas and
John Freedman
Through John Freedman’s format of “question and monologues”
Ginkas illuminates the dynamics of his creative process. He offers no
simple formulas, yet his lively discussions reveal the secrets of the
master creator. ISBN 1 57525 332 1
is a must read for actors, academics, students and theatre buffs. ISBN
978 1 84002 989 5
GLASPELL, SUSAN
EXPOSED BY THE MASK Form and Language in Drama Peter Hall
The central argument is that form and structured language
paradoxically give freedom to power of thought and feeling, much
like the masks which enabled actors in early Greek drama to express
extreme emotion. The mask may take many forms — the precise
language of Beckett and Pinter, the classical form of Mozart’s operas,
or Shakespeare’s verse. ISBN 978 1 84002 993 2
SUSAN GLASPELL AND SOPHIE TREADWELL Routledge Modern
and Contemporary Dramatists Barbara Ozieblo and Jerry Dickey
Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell presents critical introductions to
two of the most significant American dramatists of the early twentieth
century. Glaspell and Treadwell led American Theatre from outdated
melodrama to the experimentation of great European playwrights like
Ibsen, Strindberg and Shaw. This is the first book to deal with Glaspell’s
and Treadwell’s plays from a theatrical rather than literary perspective,
and presents a comprehensive overview of their work from lesserknown plays to seminal productions of Trifles and Machinal. ISBN
978 0 415 40484 6
SUSAN GLASPELL. Essays on Her Theatre and Fiction. Edited by
Linda Ben-Zvi
This book is the first collection devoted to the study of the body of
Glaspell’s work. Essays by leading playwrights and scholars provide
an array of perspectives on the writer and her work. The book features
the first complete Glaspell bibliography, including original reviews of
her plays and fiction and recent critical studies of her writing. ISBN 0
472 08438 0
GRAY, SPALDING
SPALDING GRAY’S AMERICA William W Demastes
Spalding Gray (1941-2004) had a career in the theatre that spanned
one of the most dynamic periods of American history and culture.
From the 1960s into the twenty-first century, Gray took the stage and
mesmerized his audiences with twisted and often hilarious tales about
life in America and abroad. Spalding Gray’s America traces Gray’s
work with the Performance Group and the Wooster Group to his career
as a storyteller famously presenting captivating monologues in his
signature plaid shirt while sitting behind a desk on an otherwise bare
stage. It is the first comprehensive study of his art. ISBN 978 0 87910
360 6
GREIG, DAVID
COSMOTOPIA. Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre.
Edited by Anja Muller and Clare Wallace
David Greig is one of Scotland’s most important contemporary
dramatists. Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig’s
Theatre offers the first sustained and multifocal analysis of his work
with a collection of twelve original scholarly essays and a specially
commissioned interview with the author, focused upon a major and
recurring issue in his plays, one that is of keen theoretical importance
in cultural studies today — the ways in which globalisation and
postmodernity have tranformed contemporary identity politics and the
possibility of an engaged theatre. ISBN 978 0730 8355 7
HALL, PETER
MAKING AN EXHIBITION OF MYSELF — The Autobiography of
Peter Hall
Sir Peter Hall is one of the greatest theatre, film and opera directors
of our time. At the age of 29 he founded the Royal Shakespeare
Company. In 1973 he became Director of the National Theatre and
opened the new theatres on the South Bank. He later founded the Peter
Hall Company, producing many West End and Broadway successes.
This is his story. ISBN 1 84002 115 2
PETER HALL’S BACCHAI The National Theatre at Work Jonathon
Croall New Edition Foreword by Peter Hall
On the National’s Olivier stage Peter Hall presented a stunningly
imaginative production of the Bacchai, Euripides’ powerful tragedy
about the cult of Dionysus, played in masks using a new translation by
Colin Teevan, with original music by Harrison Birtwistle and designs
by Alison Chitty. Jonathon Croall observed the rehearsal process in
minute detail, regularly interviewing the actors and creative team as
the production moved from readthrough to preview. His book offers an
intimate and absorbing picture of how a team of world-class theatrical
talents brought one of the masterpieces of Greek theatre to the stage.
ISBN 978 1 84002 817 1
HAMPTON, CHRISTOPHER
HAMPTON ON HAMPTON — Edited by Alistair Owen
Christopher Hampton has amassed over 50 credits in theatre, film
and television. From his best-known play, Les Liaisons Dangereuses,
to personal and critical favourites like Total Eclipse and Tales from
Hollywood; from his films as writer-director (Carrington) to his work
as screenwriter-for-hire (The Quiet American), Hampton eloquently
and entertainingly discusses a career which puts him among Britain’s
most prominent but least predictable playwrights.
ISBN 0 571 21418 5
HANSBERRY, LORRAINE
HANSBERRY IN AN HOUR. E. Teresa Choate. Introduction by
Robert Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and
actors to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3215 4
GROTOWSKI, JERZY
HARE, DAVID
JERZY GROTOWSKI. Routledge Performance Practitioners. James
Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta.
Jerzy Grotowski was a master director, teacher and theorist whose
work extends beyond the conventional limits of performance. As a first
step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before
going on to further research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are
unbeatable value for today’s student. ISBN 978 0 415 25880- 7
ABOUT HARE — The Playwright and the Work. Richard Boon
Professor Richard Boon provides an in-depth critical study of one of
the great post-war British playwrights. With a rigorous analysis of
Hare’s work to date, plus new interviews with the playwright and other
practitioners, Professor Boon presents a complete guide to the writer
and his plays. With the increasing interest in this major playwright,
whose work attracts the very best of acting talent, this book is a timely
publication for student and theatregoer alike. ISBN 0 571 21429 0
HALL, GEORGE
AN UNTIDY CAREER: Conversations with George Hall Lolly Susi
Lolly Susi’s interviews with performer and teacher George Hall are a
unique insight into the mind of a great all-round theatre practitioner. It
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO DAVID HARE Edited by
Richard Boon
David Hare is one of the most important playwrights to have emerged
in the UK in the last forty years. This volume examines his stage plays,
television plays and cinematic films and is the first of its kind to offer
such comprehensive and up-to-date critical treatment. Contributions
from leading academics in the study of modern British theatre sit
alongside those from practitioners who have worked closely with
Hare throughout his career, including former Director of the National
Theatre Sir Richard Eyre. ISBN 978 0 521 61557 0
DAVID HARE — Acting Up
Hare’s hilarious diary of his experience on both sides of the Atlantic
tells of his difficulties in coming to terms with his frightening change
of career, but also grapples with more serious questions about what
the difference is between acting and performance, whether anyone can
learn to do either.
THE PLAYS OF DAVID HARE. Carol Homden
This is the first full-length survey of one of the leading playwrights of
the post-war generation. Through his career as playwright, filmmaker
and director, David Hare has been at the forefront of modern theatre,
and his work is frequently seen as a reflection of the contemporary
political and social environment of Britain. In this analysis Homden
identifies the key themes which dominated and influenced his plays
including his most recent work, the trilogy of plays Racing Demon,
Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War.
HAVEL, VACLAV
ACTS OF COURAGE — VACLAV HAVEL’s LIFE IN THE
THEATRE. Carol Rocamora
This book tells the dramatic story of Vaclav Havel’s life in the theatre
during three dark decades under Communism and the extreme risks that
he and many others took to perform his works. Havel’s ten full-length
plays and seven one-act plays are also discussed. IBSN 57525 344 5 1
One hundred years after Ibsen’s death, Toril Moi presents a radical new
appraisal. Ibsen is here an astonishing innovator; a powerful influence
on a generation of European writers; a painter and philosopher whose
clear-eyed chronicling of relationships overturned idealism, the
dominant aesthetic of his age. ISBN 978 0 19 920259 1
IBSEN IN AN HOUR. Rick Davis and Brian Johnston. Introduction by
Robert Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and
actors to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding
in classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank
Bluestein, Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1
9362 3216 1
IBSEN — THE DRAMATURGY OF FEAR. Micheal Goldman
In this wide ranging study, the author focuses on many features of Henrik
Ibsen’s dramaturgy that have been overlooked or underappreciated.
Goldman looks at the dramatist’s unsettling dialogue, driving plots, and
radically new demands on the actor, then explores the impact on the
audience when Ibsen’s powerful vision takes effect. With considerable
attention to Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, The wild Duck, Rosmersholm,
The Master Builder, and Little Eyolf, Goldman examines characteristic
moments of crisis and crucial similarities of language, as well as
Ibsen’s continuing grip on the contemporary imagination.
IBSEN’S DRAMA — Right Action and Tragic Joy. C. Theoharis
This book is a groundbreaking piece of work that will change the way
Ibsen is currently viewed and engender even more debate about this
most influential master of modern drama. This work of criticism situates
Ibsen and his plays within the entire sweep of western culture.
IBSEN’S LIVELY ART — A Performance Study of Major Plays.
Frederick J. Marker & Lise-Lone Marker. ISBN 0 521 61924 6
CENSORING TRANSLATION. Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics
of Translation. Michelle Woods
“An insightful, provocative, and often amusing investigation of
the translation of Vaclav Havel’s plays into English. Woods reveals
economic censorship to be often more severe and distorting than the
traditional political variety and especially effective in framing and
silencing the voices of “minor” nations and of female translators. This
book will fundamentally change the way you think about censorship and
translation.” Brian James Baer, Professor of Russian and Translation
Studies, Kent State University. ISBN 978 1 4411 0057 3
SPARKNOTES.
SparkNotes are created by Harvard students for students everywhere,
SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each
SparkNote contains Complete Plot Summary and Analysis; Key
Facts about the Work; Author’s Historical Context; Analysis of Major
Characters, Suggested Essay Topics; Themes, Motifs, and Symbols;
25-Question Review Quiz; Explanation of Important Quotations.
A Doll’s House. Henrik Ibsen. ISBN 1 58663 459 3
HELMAN, LILIAN
COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE BLOOM’S
MAJOR DRAMATISTS.
These research and study guides are the perfect introduction to critical
analysis of the most poplar dramatists today. Each book covers three
to six plays, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the
important aspects of each work, Each volume also includes an editor’s
note and introduction by Harold Bloom, author’s biography, plot
summery, extracts of major critical essays, extensive bibliography,
index of themes and ideas. Eugène Ionesco Edited and With an
Introduction by Harold Bloom. ISBN 0 7910 7037 9. (HB)
UNDERSTANDING LILIAN HELMAN
“A concise overview of Hellman’s career and major works in language
and approach that is easily accessible… The chapters on the memoirs
are unfailingly interesting.” Theatre Research International
ISBN 9781 57003 898 3
HENLEY, BETH
THE PLAYS OF BETH HENLEY — A Critical Study. Gene A.
Plunka
The first critical study of Henley’s complete plays including a brief
account of Henley’s childhood and career. ISBN 0 7864 2081 2
IBSEN, HENRIK
HENRIK IBSEN Second Edition Sally Ledger
This new edition of Sally Ledger’s study of Henrik Ibsen includes
a renewed bibliography and expanded critical evaluation. It delivers
readings of ten of Ibsen’s best-known plays including A Doll’s House,
Ghosts, An Enemy of the People and Hedda Gabler. It also surveys
Ibsen’s total dramatic output, carefully situating his plays in their
cultural, historical and intellectual contexts. ISBN 978 0 7463 1168 4
HENRIK IBSEN AND THE BIRTH OF MODERNISM.Art, Theater,
Philosophy Toril Moi.
IONESCO, EUGÉNE
JONSON, BEN
BEN JONSON AND ENVY Lynn S Meskill
Drawing on the historical and anthropological studies of evil-eye
beliefs, this study focuses on the authorial imperative to charm and
baffle ritualistically the eye of the implied spectator or reader, in
order to protect his works from defacement. Comparing the exchange
between authors and readers to social relations, the book illuminates
the way in which the literary may be seen to be informed by popular
culture. Ben Jonson and Envy tackles a previously overlooked, but
vital, aspect of Jonson’s poetics. HB ISBN 978 0 521 51743 0
BEN JONSON AND THE POLITICS OF GENRE Edited by A D
Cousins and Alison V Scott
While Ben Jonson’s political visions have been well documented,
this is the first study to consider how he threaded his views into the
various literary genres in which he wrote. For Jonson, these genres
were interactive and mutually affirming, necessary for negotiating
the tempestuous politics of early modern society. Some of the most
renowned Jonson scholars provide a collection of essays that discuss his
use of genre. They present new perspectives on many of Jonson’s major
works, from his epigrams and epistles, through to his Roman tragedies
and satirical plays like Volpone. HB ISBN 978 0 521 51378 4
BEN JONSON: Renaissance Dramatist Sean McEvoy
This new guide to the English renaissance’s most erudite and yet most
street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his
greatest plays in performance, then and now. It traces the sources of
that phenomenon to Jonson’s vision of himself as a poet in the Roman
tradition, and to his commitment to the sane and progressive ideals
of humanism in a city where a rampant free-market and political
authoritarianism made life conflicted, dangerous and darkly, hilariously
absurd. In his best plays, all of these forces are crafted into formal
structures glittering with wit and provocation ISBN 978 0 7486 2302 0
BEN JONSON, VOLPONE AND THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
Richard Dutton
Ben Jonson’s Volpone is the most widely taught and commonly
performed English Renaissance play apart from Shakespeare.
However the dramatic circumstances of its writing are little known.
Jonson wrote the play very shortly after the Gunpowder Plot in 1605,
an event in which he was personally involved. This book argues that
the play alludes to the Plot as openly as censorship will allow, using
the traditional form of the beast fable. As a Roman Catholic himself,
Jonson shared in the repression suffered by his co-religionists in the
wake of the Plot, and the play fiercely satirizes the man they chiefly
blamed for this, Robert Cecil. HB ISBN 978 0 521 87954 5
VOLPONE A CRITICAL GUIDE Edited by Matthew Steggle
Ben Jonson’s Volpone (1606) is a particularly important play for
thinking about early modern drama as a whole. This guide offers students
an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent
versions on stage and screen. ISBN 978 0 8264 1153 2
KANE, SARAH
ABOUT KANE: The Playwright & The Work Graham Saunders
‘The strong point of the books in this series is the distinctive voices of
the writers, their attitudes and how these are reflected in their plays.
Smart chronologies and brief annotated bibliographies give the books a
student friendly feel and are all readable and jargon free.’ Aleks Sierz,
Times Higher Education Supplement ISBN 978 0 571 22961 1
LOVE ME OR KILL ME” — SARAH KANE AND THE THEATRE
OF EXTREMES. Graham Saunders
This book is the first study of the most significant British dramatist
in post-war theatre. It covers all Kane’s major plays and productions,
contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her
continuing influence after her tragic early death. Locating the main
dramatic sources and features of her work, as well as centralising her
place within the “new wave” of emergent British dramatists in the
1990s, the author provides an introduction for those unfamiliar with
her work. ISBN 0 7190 5956 9
KANTOR, TADEUSZ
TADEUSZ KANTOR Noel Witts (Routledge Performance
Practitioners)
Tadeusz Kantor was a key figure in European avant-garde theatre.
He was a theoretician, director, innovator and painter famed for his
very visual theatre style. Kantor was also known for his challenging
theatrical innovations, such as extending stages and the combination
of mannequins with living actors. ISBN 978 0 415 43487 4
KILROY, THOMAS
THE PLAYS OF THOMAS KILROY A Critical Study Thierry Dubost
This appraisal of the works of Thomas Kilroy focuses on the common
themes and methodology of his plays. Including an unusual alliance
between serious theatrical complexity and varied but demanding
forms of comedy. Plays discussed include Kilroy originals such as
Talbot’s Box, The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde and Blake as well as
adaptations of well-known works such as The Seagull, Six Characters
in Search of an Author and Henry. ISBN 978 0 7864 2797 0
KOPS, BERNARD
BERNARD KOPS’ EAST END. By the Waters of Whitechapel.
Bernard Kops
“ Kops allows life to flow over him, never losing his sense of sheer
delight”. The Guardian.
Bernard Kops is one of the best-known playwrights of his time. He
achieved recognition with his first play The Hamlet of Stepney Green,
which has been performed worldwide. He has subsequently written
more than forty plays for stage and radio, nine novels, seven volumes
of poetry and two volumes of autobiography. His Dreams of Anne
Frank tours constantly. At eighty he is still writing.
Bernard Kops’East End comprises extracts from novels, poems, all
related to Londons East End. The book includes his recent Radio 4
play “The Lost Love of Phoebe Myers”. ISBN 1 905512 11 9
KUSHNER, TONY
KUSHNER IN AN HOUR. James Fisher. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3248 2
TONY KUSHNER IN CONVERSATION — Ed. by Robert Vorlicky
This collection of interviews with Tony Kushner traces his phenomenal
success and his maturing artistic and political vision. The young
playwright’s eloquence, wit, and strong moral convictions continue to
engage and impress audiences as he speaks out on issues ranging from
art and sexuality to American politics and social justice.
UNDERSTANDING TONY KUSHNER James Fisher
Understanding Tony Kushner surveys the acclaimed writings of the
author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Angels in America and
co-author of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film
Munich. Tony Kushner as a socio-political dramatist in the tradition of
Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht, James Fisher
guides readers through Kushner’s influences and creations to map the
importance of the writer’s body of work in post-modern literary and
cultural landscapes. HB ISBN 978 1 57003 749 8
LABUTE, NEIL
NEIL LABUTE Stage and Cinema Christopher Bigsby
In this first full-length study on LaBute, Christopher Bigsby examines
his darkly funny work which explores the cruelties, self-concern
and manipulative powers of individuals who inhabit a seemingly
uncommunal world. Individual chapters are dedicated to particular
works, and the book also includes an interview with LaBute,
providing a fascinating insight into the life of this influential and often
controversial figure. ISBN 978 0 521 71285 9
LACY, SUZANNE
LEAVING ART Writings on Performance, Politics and Publics 19742007 Suzanne Lacy
“Suzanne Lacy’s work is a communal improvisation inviting life to
happen in all its drama, absurdity, pain and danger. At its best, it has
the passion and complexity of Action Painting.” Eleanor Antin, artist
and Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
ISBN 978 0 8223 4569 5
LECOQ, JACQUES
JACQUES LECOQ — Routledge Performance Practitioners. Simon
Murray
This volume explains the background to and the work of one of the
major influences on twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance.
Lecoq’s influence on the theatre of the latter half of the twentieth
century cannot be overestimated. This book combines an historical
introduction to his life and the context in which he worked; an analysis
of his teaching methods and principles of body work, movement,
creativity and contemporary theatre; detailed studies of the work
of Théâtre de Complicité and Mummenschanz; practical exercises
demonstrating Lecoq’s distinctive approach to actor training. ISBN 0
415 25882 0
JACQUES LECOQ THE MOVING BODY (Le Corps Poétique )
Teaching Creative Theatre Jean-Gabriel Carasso and Jean-Claude
Lallias Foreword by Simon McBurney
Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of
our a
Ge. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris remains an
unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre. In The Moving Body,
Lecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation,
masks, movement and gesture which together form one of the greatest
influences on contemporary theatre. ISBN 978 1 4081 1146 8
LEPAGE, ROBERT
THEATER SANS FRONTIERES — Essays on the Dramatic Universe
of Robert Lepage. Ed by Joseph I. Donohoe Jr. and Jane M. Koustas
ROBERT LEPAGE Aleksandar Sasa Dunjerovic
Robert Lepage is one of Canada’s foremost playwrights and directors.
His company, Ex Machina, has toured to international acclaim and he
has lent his talents to areas as diverse as opera, concert tours, acting
and installation art. His most celebrated work blends acute personal
narratives with bold global themes, ISBN 978 0 415 37520 7
THE THEATRICALITY OF ROBERT LEPAGE
Ropert Lepage, one of the pioneers and main exponents of mixedmedia performance, is internationally renowned for a notoriously
distinct aesthetic. In the first book to explore Lepage’s practical
work, Aleksandar Dundjerovic offers a comprehensive analysis of his
creative process and transformative mise-en-scene. ISBN 978 0 7735
3251 9
LITTLEWOOD, JOAN
ROUTLEDGE PERFORMANCE PRACTITIONERS: JOAN
LITTLEWOOD Nadine Holdsworth.
A theatrical and cultural innovator, Joan Littlewood’s contribution to
theatre made a huge impact on the way in which theatre was generated,
rehearsed and presented during the twentieth century. ISBN 0 415
33887 5
LORCA, FEDERICO GARCIA
FREDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Routledge Modern and Contemporary
Dramatists Maria M Delgado
Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvadore Dalí,
Dimitri Shostakovich, Carlos Saura and Lindsay Kemp, Frederico
García Lorca ‘s spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the
cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of
one of the Spanish language’s most resonant voices, exploring how
the very factors which led to Lorca’s emergence as a cultural icon also
shaped his dramatic output. ISBN 978 0 415 36243 6
THE THEATRE OF GARCIA LORCA Text, Performance,
Psychoanalysis Paul Julian Smith
The Theatre of Garcia Lorca offers radical readings of his major plays,
drawing on cultural studies, women’s and gay studies, psychoanalysis,
and archival material. It provides fascinating historical accounts of
productions in different times and places, from New York in the 1930s.
ISBN 978 0 521 05746 2
McGRATH, JOHN
FREEDOM’S PIONEER — John McGrath’s Work in Theatre, Film
and Television. Edited by David Bradby and Susanna Capon. Foreword
by Richard Eyre
Freedom’s Pioneer defines the importance of John McGrath’s role in
the development of theatre, film, and television in the last four decades
of the twentieth century. Through play and script-writing, through
directing, producing and co-ordinating work, and through his critical,
political and philosophical reflections, McGrath exerted a powerful
influences over developments and innovations in all three art forms.
ISBN 0 85989 749 4
MACKAYE, STEELE
PICTORIAL ILLUSION: The Theatre of Steele MacKaye. J. A.
Sokalski
In the first full-length critical study of the work of Steele MacKaye —
director, actor, inventor, painter, theorist, and writer — J.A. Sokalski
draws on a wealth of primary sources to examine the aims and methods
of Steele’s unified theory of pictorial illusionism. Sokalski argues that
MacKaye’s infamous failure, the colossal Spectatorium theatre for the
1893 Chicago World’s Fair, was the most complete reealization of his
illusionary aesthetic and explores MacKaye’s influence on Buffalo Bill
Cody’s successful stage show. ISBN 978 0 7735 3204 5
MAMET, DAVID
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO DAVID MAMET — Edited
by Christopher Bigsby
This collection of specially written essays offers both student and
theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists
working today. The volume covers the full range of Mamet’s writing,
as well as his films. Additional chapters also explore Mamet and
acting, Mamet as director, his fiction, and a survey of Mamet criticism.
ISBN 0 521 89468 9
DAVID MAMET IN CONVERSATION. Ed by Leslie Kane
David Mamet in Conversation collects interviews with the playwright
that offers readers insight into his life in the theatre, his artistic vision,
and the evolution of his craft. in drama, film, and prose over a twentyfive-year career. ISBN 0 472 06764 8
DAVID MAMET — Three Uses of the Knife, on the Nature and
Purpose of Drama.
Renowned playwright, screenwriter, poet and essayist David Mamet
explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration
of the ties that bind art to life. Three Uses of the Knife will enthral
anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the curtain to give way to
Act One. ISBN 0 413 77133 4. HB
MODERN THEATRE GUIDES David Mamet’s Oleanna David K
Sauer
Oleanna is a particularly complex play despite its apparent simplicity
of form and content and this guide offers a theoretically informed
introductory analysis. It offers students a comprehensive critical
introduction to the play and includes a new interpretation of the play
text in the light of Mamet’s recent playwriting developments and the
intervening shifts in the political landscape. ISBN 978 o 8264 9646 1
THE PLAYS, SCREENPLAYS AND FILMS OF DAVID MAMET A
Readers Guide to Essential Criticism Steven Price
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Academy Award-nominated writer,
a successful film director, and creator of the TV hit The Unit, David
Mamet is arguably the most important living American playwright and
screenwriter. No stranger to controversy thanks to the uncompromising
profanity of the dialogue in his early plays, his 1992 drama Oleanna
even provoked fighting in the audience. ISBN 978 0 230 55535 8
THEATRE David Mamet
Containing a distillation of his thoughts and practice of a working life
of more than forty years, Mamet explodes many of the holy cows of
contemporary theatre. ISBN 978 0 571 25524 5
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
— Edited by Patrick Cheney
This provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the
Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe
was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and if Ovidian
narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such
masterpieces of tradgedy and lyric as Doctor Faustus.
ISBN 0 521 52734 1
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTOPHER
MARLOWE — Edited by Tom Rutter
Providing a comprehensive survey of Christopher Marlowe’s literary
career, this Introduction presents an approachable account of the life,
works and influence of the ground-breaking Elizabethan dramatist
and poet. It includes in-depth discussions of all of Marlowe’s plays,
stressing what was new and revolutionary about them as well as how
they made use of existing models. ISBN 978 0 5211 2430 0
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Renaissance Dramatist Lisa Hopkins
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to all of
the plays of Christopher Marlowe. It explores Marlowe as a playwright
whose work taps into the central concerns of his age, and our own:
religious uncertainty, the clash between Islam and Christianity, the
discovery of America, ideas of sexuality and gender identity and the role
of the marginalised individual in society. ISBN 978 0 7486 2473 7
A COMPANION TO RENAISSANCE DRAMA. Edited by Arthur F.
Kinney
In its pages, today’s best Renaissance scholars chart the cross-currents
of belief and daily experiences that illuminate the meaning of the works
by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, or Webster, as it has changed over time,
place, and audience. The contributors explain why the plays do or say
what they do, and raise provocative possibilities of what the plays might
have said to Tudor and Stuart playgoers by discussing values, attitudes,
and the material conditions of performance, along with the lives and
particular ideas of individual playwrights. ISBN 1 4051 2179 3
MARLOWE — Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks).
Edited by Avraham Oz
This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of essays
on Marlow’s major plays. Articles from the last two decades by
leading critics of English early modern drama provide a variety of
fresh, controversial and enlightening critical perspectives on five of
Marlowe’s plays: Tamburlaine the Great Parts one and Two, The Jew
of Malta, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II. ISBN 0 333 62499 8
McDONAGH, MARTIN
THE THEATRE OF MARTIN McDONAGH. A World of Savage
Stories. Edited by Lilian Chambers and Eamonn Jordan.
This collection of essays is a vital and significant response to the many
challenges set by McDonagh for those involved in the production and
reception of his work.
The volume brings together critics and commentators from around the
world, who assess the work from a diverse range of often provocative
approaches. What is not surprising is the focus and commitment of
the engagement, given the controversial and stimulating nature of the
work. ISBN 1 904505 19 8
THE THEATRE AND FILMS OF MARTIN MCDONAGH. Patrick
Lonergan
Since the premiere of his first play in 1996 Martin McDonagh has
been recognised as a singular talent, whose anarchic and provocative
stage plays and films have provoked more critical debate, and at times
controversy, than perhaps any of his contemporaries. This highly
readable and illuminating analysis of his career to date will appeal to
the legions of fans of both his drama and the award-winning films Six
Shooter and In Bruges. ISBN 978 1 4081 2611 9
MENANDER
WOMEN AND THE COMIC PLOT IN MENANDER Ariana Traill
Taking a fresh look at mistaken identity in the work of an author who
helped to introduce the device to comedy, Professor Traill shows how
the outrageous mistakes many male characters in Menander make
about women are grounded in their own emotional needs. The core of
the argument derives from analysis of speeches by or about women,
with particular attention to the language used to articulate problems
of knowledge and perception, responsibility and judgement. Not only
does Menander freely borrow language, situations and themes from
tragedy, but he also engages with some of tragedy’s epistemological
questions, particularly the question of how people interpret what they
see and hear. HB ISBN 978 0 521 88226 2
MEYERHOLD, VSEVOLOD
VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD — Routledge Performance Practitioners
Jonathan Pitches
This volume explains the background to and the work of one of the
major influences on twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance.
It combines a biographical introduction to Meyerhold’s life; a clear
explanation of his theoretical writings; an analysis of his masterpiece
production Revisor, or The Government Inspector; a comprehensive
and usable description of the “ biomechanical’ exercises he developed
for training the actor. ISBN 0 415 25884 7
MIDDLETON, THOMAS
THE CHANGELING. A guide to the text and the play in
performance
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley is a luridly
sensual dramatic work which was highly regarded in its day, but then
largely forgotten until its revival three hundred years later. This timely
handbook offers a detailed theatrical commentary whihc tracks the
motivations of the capricious characters and explores performance
possibilities, examines the cultural conditions that gave rise to the
play, juxtaposing them with the conditions of the twentieth century,
analyses early performances as well as later stage and film productions
and presents key critical debates and assessments of The Changeling.
ISBN 978 0 2302 4607 2
MILLER, ARTHUR
ARTHUR MILLER’S AMERICA. Theater & Culture in a Time of
Change. Enoch Brater, Editor
This volume collects original essays and interviews on Arthur Miller,
the greatest American playwright of the twentieth-century, by a
remarkable group of critics, scholars, and theater practitioners. In
reflecting the many dimensions of his work, this volume illustrates
Arthur Miller’s long-standing commitment to forging a uniquely
American theater. ISBN 0 472 03155 4
ARTHUR MILLER’S GLOBAL THEATER. How an American
Playwright Is Performed On Stages Around the World. Enoch Brater
Editor
An original and engaging collection that will appeal to theater
aficionados, scholars, students and all those interested in Miller and
his remarkable oeuvre. With perspectives from diverse corners of
the globe, from Israel to Japan to South Africa, this ground-breaking
volume explores the challenges of translating one of the most
American of American playwrights and details how disparate nations
have adapted meaning in Miller’s most celebrated dramas. HB ISBN
978 0 472 11593 8
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ARTHUR MILLER Second
Edition Edited by Christopher Bigsby
This updated Companion includes Miller’s work since the publication
of the first edition in 1997— the plays Mr Peter’s Connections,
Resurrection Blues and Finishing the Picture, recent film adaptations
and key productions of his plays since his death in 2005. ISBN 978 0
521 74538 3
MILLER IN AN HOUR. James Fisher. Introduction by Robert Brustein
“The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors to help
them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in classrooms
and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein, Disney
Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3203 1
THE THEATRE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR MILLER — Ed. and introduced
by Robert A. Martin with a new foreword by Arthur Miller
“ What Miller has to say about his work, about the American theatre,
about politics, is well worth reading. He is one of the important writers
of the mid-twentieth-century in America”. Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles
Times
SPARKNOTES.
SparkNotes are created by Harvard students for students everywhere,
SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each
SparkNote contains Complete Plot Summary and Analysis; Key
Facts about the Work; Author’s Historical Context; Analysis of Major
Characters, Suggested Essay Topics; Themes, Motifs, and Symbols;
25-Question Review Quiz; Explanation of Important Quotations.
The Crucible. Arthur Miller. ISBN 1 58663 369 4
Death of Salesman. Arthur Miller. ISBN 1 58663 409 7
STONE TOWER The Political Theater of Arthur Miller Jeffrey D
Mason
Jeffrey D Mason’s Stone Tower sets out to enrich and challenge
traditional views of playwright Arthur Miller. While Millar has long
been acclaimed as a social dramatist, this fresh appraisal clearly
establishes him as an essentially political playwright. The book pays
close attention not only to the public and private power relations in
Miller’s dramatic works but also his nondramatic writings.
MNOUCHKINE, ARIANE
ROUTLEDGE PERFORMANCE PRACTITIONERS. ARIANE
MNOUCHKINE. Judith G Miller
Ariane Mnouchkine, the most significant living French theatre director,
has devised over the last forty years a form of research and creation
with her theatre collective, Le Théatre du Soleil, that is both engaged
with contemporary history and committed to reinvigorating theatre by
foregrounding the centrality of the actor. ISBN 978 0 415 33885 1
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 the
twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance
MOLIÈRE, JEAN-BAPTISTE.
MOLIÈRE IN AN HOUR. Christopher Baker. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3219 2
MOLIK, ZYGMUNT
ZYGMUNT MOLIK’S VOICE AND BODY WORK The legacy of
Jerzy Grotowski Giuliano with Zygmunt Molik
Zygmunt Molik was a co-founder, leading actor and for 25 years a
member of Jerzy Grotowski’s Teatr Labartorium. He played the main
role in forming the voice training initiated by Jerzy Grotowski. ISBN
978 0 415 56847 0
MÜLLER, HEINER
THE THEATRE OF HEINER MÜLLER — Jonathan Kalb
Jonathan Kalb analyzes Müller’ basic artistic method: taking on the
mantle of other writers and inhabiting the ‘bodies’ of their work like a
vampire or a historically subversive virus. His artisitc- hosts includeamong others, Brecht, Shakespeare, Artaud, Beckett, Genet and
Wagner. Kalb’s intention is to illuminate Müller texts by showing how
they relate to the writings of his carefully chosen alter egos. ISBN 0
87910 965 3
O’NEILL, EUGENE
EUGENE O’NEILL’S LAST PLAYS. Separating Art from
Autobiography. Doris Alexander
This study draws on new and unprecedented research concerning the
lives of Eugene O’Neill, his family, and his life more clearly than ever
from the creations that were inspired by, and drew on, that life. ISBN
0-8203-2709-3 (HB)
A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN ON THE AMERICAN STAGE
A History of the Major Productions Laura Shea
This work provides a production history of A Moon for the Misbegotten
in the United States, from the play’s original Theatre Guild production
in 1947 to its Broadway revival in 2007. The author provides the
inside story on the play’s often rocky transition from the page to the
stage, including detailed looks at initial casting difficulties and several
controversies over censorship. ISBN 978 0 7864 3563 0
O’NEILL IN AN HOUR. James Fisher. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3205 5
ODETS, CLIFFORD
CLIFFORD ODETS — American Playwright. The Years from
1906-1940. Margaret Brenman-Gibson
“ As a study of an American writer Dr. Gibson’s book may well be
unparalleled for its thoroughness and insight into Clifford Odets up to
his departure from Hollywood. It is a fascinating account of the Group
Theatre as well, a failed attempt to create an American art theatre on
the highest level but one which continues to challenge theatre people
to this day.” Arthur Miller ISBN 1 55783 457 1
OSBORNE, JOHN
LOOKING BACK — Never Explain, Never Apologise. John
Osborne
When John Osborne died Christmas 1994, his obituaries cited his
autobiographical writings as perfect examples of undiluted talent and
acerbic wit. Now, Osborne’s superb autobiographies, A Better Class
of Person: 1929— 1956 and Almost a Gentleman: 1955— 1966 are
available in one volume, Looking Back.
PARKER, STEWART
STEWART PARKER. DRAMATIS PERSONAE & OTHER
WRITINGS. Edited by Gerald Dawe, Maria Johnston and Clare
Wallace
This collection brings together the best of Northern Irish playwright
Stewart Parker’s literary prose and journalism. What comes across
here is Parker’s anticipation and intelligence of the changing cultural
conditions of theatre life and play-making in the closing decades of
the twentieth century. Alongside this alert cosmopolitan sensibility,
Parker’s experience of living in and through Belfast’s self-inflicted
wounding made him keenly aware of what happens when politics fail
to deliver a democratic answer to the contradictory beliefs of ordinary
citizens. His innate scepticism about politics is etched herein with
fiesty and unambivalent vigour. ISBN 978 8 0730 8241 3
PINTER, HAROLD
ABOUT PINTER:THE PLAYWRIGHT & THE WORK. Mark Batty
ISBN 0-571-22005-3
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HAROLD PINTER Second
Edition Edited by Peter Raby
Harold Pinter was one of the world’s leading and most controversial
writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion
examines the wide range of Pinter’s work — his writing for theatre,
radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as
a director and actor. Substantially updated and revised, this second
edition covers the many developments in Pinter’s career since the
publication of the first edition, including his Nobel Prize for Literature
win in 2005, his appearance in Samuel Beckett’s play Krapps Last
Tape, and recent productions of his plays. ISBN 978 0 521 71373 3
HAROLD PINTER William Baker
Placing Pinter’s life and work alongside each other, the study
illuminates Pinter’s vision of society, politics, gender, sex, violence
and human relationships. Drawing upon the full-range of his output, his
letters, journalism, writings about him, Baker combines a biographical
approach with close (re)readings of his work to create a fresh
perspective on his life and art. The book offers students, academics
and readers a rich depiction of Harold Pinter, the man and the writer.
ISBN 978 0 8264 9971 4
PINTER — The Player’s Playwright. David T. Thompson. HB
Disclosing previously unknown facts about Pinter’s early career this
throws light on his special theatrical qualities. It argues that Pinter’s
experience of the contrasting world’s of classical, repertory and the
alternative theatre fuses in his plays creating a link between Pinter’s
art and his view of life.
PINTER THE PLAYWRIGHT. Martin Esslin.
Martin Esslin’s study of Pinter’s plays has become a standard work
since its publication in 1970. This 6th edition has been updated to cover
his most recent plays, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes and Celebration.
ISBN 0 413 66860 6
VARIOUS VOICES: Sixty years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008
Harold Pinter
Various Voices is the only collection of Harold Pinter’s prose, poems
and political writing to span his career. This new edition includes a
remarkable interview in which he reflects on his time as an evacuee in
Cornwall during the Second World War, as well as new prose, poems
and his Nobel Lecture.
‘A taut polemic of which Orwell would have been proud.’ Observer
ISBN 978 0 571 24480 5
distil his long association with the Theatre, as playwright, producer,
director and —just once —actor. He relates the history and contexts of
Theatre, examines its role and value, and defends the unique experience
of watching good dama played live on a stage. ISBN 1 84002 294 9
J B PRIESTLEY Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
Maggie B Gale
J B Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date
analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright,
novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre.
Using a combination of archive, review and critical materials, the
book relocates Priestley as a theatre theorist of substance as well as a
playwright who challenged theatre conventions and assumptions about
audience expectations, at a time when theatre was considered both
conservative and lacking in innovation. ISBN 978 0 415 40243 9
PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER
THE UNCENSORED BORIS GODUNOV The Case for Pushkin’s
Original Comedy with Annotated Text and Translation Chester
Dunning with Carol Emerson, Sergei Formichev, Lidiia Lotman and
Antony Wood
The purpose of this book is to rescue the original version of Alexander
Pushkin’s historical drama Boris Godunov from obscurity. Long ignored
by specialists and virtually unknown to general readers, Pushkin’s
Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrepiev was composed in
1824-25 while the “dangerously radical” poet was living in exile on
his family’s estate. His underappreciated Comedy is a provocative and
aesthetically appealing play that differs in many ways from the well
known Boris Godunov published in 1831. ISBN 978 0 299 20764 9
REBECK, THERESA
REBECK IN AN HOUR. Alexis Greene. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3222 2
ROSTAND, EDMOND
SPARKNOTES.
SparkNotes are created by Harvard students for students everywhere,
SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each
SparkNote contains Complete Plot Summary and Analysis; Key
Facts about the Work; Author’s Historical Context; Analysis of Major
Characters, Suggested Essay Topics; Themes, Motifs, and Symbols;
25-Question Review Quiz; Explanation of Important Quotations.
Cyrano de Bergerac. Edmond Rostand. ISBN 1 58663 507 7
PIRANDELLO, LUIGI
RUHL, SARAH
COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE BLOOM’S
MAJOR DRAMATISTS.
Luigi Pirandello — Edited and With an Introduction by Harold Bloom.
ISBN 0 7910 7036 0. (HB)
RUHL IN AN HOUR. James Al-Shamma. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3236 9
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR —
PIRANDELLO. Plays in production. Jennifer Lorch
Since its explosive premiere in Rome in 1921, Six Characters in Search
of an Author has gained worldwide recognition, Pirandello’s challenge
to the very notion of stage representation was taken up by the leading
directors of the time. The playwright incorporated details from the
early performances into his revised text, which he directed himself in
1925. ISBN 0 521 64618 9
PRIESTLEY. J B
THE ART OF THE DRAMATIST AND OTHER WRITINGS ON
THEATRE. J B Priestley
Combining incisive criticism with witty instruction, Priestley’s essays
RUSSELL, WILLY
WILLY RUSSELL — Shaun McCarthy
This book — from the Creative Lives series — tells the story of
Liverpool playwright Willy Russell, with notes not only about his
plays but about the social and political context in which they were
written. Find out what inspired One for the Road, Stags and Hens,
Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine — and, of course, the perennial
favourite, Blood Brothers.
ISBN 0 431 14005 7
WILLY RUSSELL AND HIS PLAYS — John Gill
Includes an interview with Willy Russell.
SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER. Drama, Thought and Politics. Lesley Sharpe
Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller’s development as a dramatist, poet
and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works,
including his essays on aesthetics. Spanning a period from the late
1770s to 1805, they explore the themes of the age, the loss of tradition
and authority, the individual’s claim to self-expression and the search
for stability. While the early works focus on the turbulent individual,
Schiller later turns to the great public concerns of the French
Revolutionary era — legitimacy and power, the exercise of freedom
and the relationship between morality and politics. The aesthetic
essays explore the vital role of art in integrating the aesthetic, moral
and political realms. ISBN 0 521 03064 1
SCHNITZLER, ARTHUR
SCHNITZLER IN AN HOUR. “The perfect supplement to provide to
students and actors to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful
understanding in classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E.
Frank Bluestein, Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978
1 9362 3223 9
SENECA
DUCKWORTH COMPANIONS TO GREEK AND ROMAN
TRAGEDY
SENECA: PHAEDRA. Roland Mayer
Roland Mayer introduces the reader to the complex dramatic and literary
inheritance which Seneca appropriated and in his turn bequeathed, and
sets out some of the main lines of contemporary interpretation and
performance practice. ISBN 0 7156 3165 9
THE PASSIONS IN PLAY: Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan
Drama — Alessandro Schiesaro
The first monograph in English devoted to the most important of
Seneca’s tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on
Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. ISBN 0 521
81801 X
SENECA: THYESTES — P.J. Davis.
Peter Davis argues that this play needs to be understood as the response
of a major politician, philosopher and tragic poet to the increasingly
tyrannical rule of the emperor. In this companion he explores key
aspects of the play, including the circumstances of its composition, its
performance history and its impact on subsequent dramatists, including
Shakespeare and Jonson. ISBN 0 7156 3222 1
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
BERNARD SHAW by Eric Bentley.
Featuring a new preface from Eric Bentley, this classic book reads as
a fresh examination of Shaw that, as Bentley writes, disentangles “a
credible man and artist from the mass of myth that surrounds him.” A
must for all who would consider Shaw’s place in history — theatrical,
social, political and human — as well as the definitive introduction to
the man it portrays. ISBN 1 55783 559 4
THE LETTERS OF BERNARD SHAW TO THE TIMES. Collected
and annotated by Ronald Ford. Foreword by Michael W Pharand
This volume collects all of Bernard Shaw’s letters to The Times from
1898 to 1950. Although on several occasions certain Shaw enthusiasts
have ‘dipped into’ The Times letters columns to quote from some of
Shaw’s letters, this is the first time that they have been edited and
annotated. This lively compilation covers a wide range of subjects from
music, law and order, politics, phonetics, art, literature and medicine,
to the theatre, economics, censorship, Shakespeare and much more.
ISBN 978 0 7165 2919 4
SHAW IN AN HOUR. Emily Esfahani Smith. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3224 6
SHEPARD, SAM
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SAM SHEPARD
Edited by Matthew Roudane
A chronology of Shepard’s life and career, with biographical chapters
and an interview with the playwright give a fascinating first-hand
account of an exuberant and experimental personality who has exerted
great influence on the contemporary stage.
ISBN 0 521 77766 6
COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE BLOOM’S
MAJOR DRAMATISTS. Sam Shepard — Edited and With an
Introduction by Harold Bloom. ISBN 0 7910 7035 2. (HB)
These research and study guides are the perfect introduction to critical
analysis of the most poplar dramatists today. Each book covers three
to six plays, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the
important aspects of each work, Each volume also includes an editor’s
note and introduction by Harold Bloom, author’s biography, plot
summery, extracts of major critical essays, extensive bibliography,
index of themes and ideas.
SHEPHARD IN AN HOUR. Laura J. Graham. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 9362 3225 3
SIMON, NEIL
UNDERSTANDING NEIL SIMON — Susan Koprince. HB
In this guide to his work, Koprince provides an over of Simon’s career
and in-depth analyses of his major plays. Koprince suggests that, in
addition to — or in spite of — his unmatched commercial success as
a writer of comedy, Simon qualifies as master dramatist of twentiethcentury theatre. ISBN 1 57003 426 5
SOPHOCLES
DUCKWORTH COMPANIONS TO GREEK AND ROMAN
TRAGEDY. SOPHOCLES:ELECTRA. Michael Lloyd
Sophocles’ Electra deals with the story of Orestes’ vengeance on his
mother Clytemnestra for her murder of his father Agamemnon. In this
companion to the play Michael Lloyd discusses whether matricide is a
just and final act of violence, or whether Sophocles ironically implies
that it is more problematic than it seems. ISBN 0-7156-3280-9
DUCKWORTH COMPANIONS TO GREEK AND ROMAN
TRAGEDY SOPHOCLES: OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Adrian Kelly
Sophocles brings Oedipus to Athens, where he finds refuge despite the
threatening arrival of Creon, the new King of Thebes. His mysterious
sacral death at the end of the play seems to be the only fitting end
for such an exceptional figure, for it transforms him into one of the
‘powerful dead’ whose beneficence towards Athens heralds a positive
future. This useful companion provides background, context, synopsis
and detailed analysis of the play. ISBN 978 0 7156 3713
THE HERO AND THE CITY — An Interpretation of Sophocles’
Oedipus at Colonus. Joseph P. Wilson
Wilson’s study offers a radical rereading of the Oedipus’ riddle and
concludes with a substantial discussion of the play’s (and playwright’s)
role in providing a political and moral education for the troubled
Athenian polis in the last decade of the tumultuous fifth century. ISBN
0 4722 08688 X
THE PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES. Classical World Series. A F Garvie
The Plays Of Sophocles aims to help readers to understand why
Sophocles is still worth reading, or going to see in the theatre, in the
twenty-first century, and to show how far Sophoclean scholarship has
moved in recent decades from the once prevalent view that he was a
pious religious conformist who had nothing very profound or original
to say, but who said it very beautifully. ISBN 1-853-99680-7
SOPHOCLES AND THE GREEK TRAGIC TRADITION Edited by
Simon Goldhill and Edith Hall
Thirteen essays by senior experts on Greek tragedy take a fresh look at
Sophocles’ dramas. The introduction looks at the paradigm shifts during
the twentieth-century in the theory and practice of Greek theatre, in
order to gain a perspective on the current state of play in Sophoclean
studies. The following three sections explore respectively the way that
Sophocles’ tragedies provoked and educated their original Athenian
democratic audience, the language structure and lasting impact of his
Oedipus plays, and the centrality of his oeuvre in the development of the
tragic tradition in Aeschylus, Euripides, ancient philosophical theory,
fourth-century tragedy and Shakespeare. HB ISBN 978 0 521 88785 4
SOPHOCLES IN AN HOUR. Carl R. Mueller. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3226 0
SOPHOCLES’ ANTIGONE. A New Translation
Sophocles’ Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will
be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane
J. Rayor’s accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play’s
inherent theatricality. She provides an analytical introduction and
comprehensive notes, and the edition includes an essay by director
Karen Libman. ISBN 978 0 5211 3478 1
SOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS THE KING. Sean Sheehan
Described as the Mona Lisa of literature and the world’s first detective
story, Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is a major text from the ancient
Greek world and an iconic work of world literature. Aristotle’s
favourite play, lauded by him as the exemplary Athenian tragedy,
Oedipus the King has retained its power both on and off the stage.
ISBN 978 1 4411 9824 2
SOPHOCLES — OEDIPUS TYRANNUS. CAMBRIDGE
TRANSLATIONS FROM GREEK DRAMA. Series Editors: John
Harrison and Judith Affleck.
Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed
commentaries, which include suggestions for discussion and analysis.
In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and
encourage students to explore the play’s dramatic qualities. Useful features
include: full synopsis of the play; commentary alongside translations for
easy reference; comprehensive Introduction to Greek Theatre; time line
to set the play in its historical context; guide to pronunciation of names,
index of topics and themes. ISBN 0 521 01072 1
SOPHOCLES: PHILOCTETES. Hannah M. Roisman
This is an introduction to the play for students and lay readers. The
well focused chapters on Greek theatre and performance, the mythical
background, and the literary, intellectual, political context illuminate
the issues with which the play grapples. Its persuasive analyses
of the characters and plot shed light on the play’s complexities and
ambiguities, making Sophocles’ great play accessible, enjoyable and
meaningful to modern readers. ISBN 0-7156-3384-8
THE TRAGEDIES OF SOPHOCLES James Morwood
Intended for the general reader and students with or without Greek,
this book sets separate discussions of Sophocles’ seven plays, Ajax,
Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes
and Oedipus at Colonus, between an essay that outlines modern
approaches to Greek tragedy and a final chapter that spotlights a key
moment in the reception of each work. ISBN 978 1 904675 72 3
STANISLAVSKY, KONSTANTIN
AN ACTOR’S WORK KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI A
Contemporary Translation by Jean Benedetti of An Actor Prepares and
Building a Character
Stanislavski’s ‘system’ has dominated actor-training in the West since
his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s.
Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate,
misleading and difficult-to-read English-language versions. Some of
the mistranslations have resulted in profound distortions in the way
his system has been interpreted and taught. At last, Jean Benedetti
has succeeded in translating Stanislavski’s huge manual into a lively,
fascinating and accurate text in English. HB ISBN 978 0 415 42223 9
THE COMPLETE STANISLAVSKY TOOLKIT. Bella Merlin
The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit collects together for the first time the
terms and ideas developed by Stanislavsky throughout his career. It is
organised into three sections: Actor-Training, Rehearsal Processes
and Performance Practices. Key terms are explained and defined as
they naturally occur in this process. They are illustrated with examples
from both his own work and that of other practitioners. Each stage of the
process is then explored with sequences of practical exercises designed
to help today’s actors and students become thoroughly familiar with the
tools in Stanislavky’s toolkit. ISBN 978 1 85459 793 9
KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY — Bella Merlin
This book — from the Routledge Performance Practitioners series —
includes an overview of Stanislavsky’s life history, an assessment of
An Actor Prepares, a detailed commentary on his key 1898 production
of The Seagull and an indispensable set of practical exercises for
actors, teachers and directors. ISBN 0 45145 25886 3
MY LIFE IN ART KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI A Contemporary
translation by Jean Benedetti of Stanislavski’s classic autobiography
Stanislavski survived revolutions, lost his fortune, found wide fame in
America and lived in internal exile under Stalin’s Soviet Union. His
autobiography is an inspirational testimony to an artist’s imagination
and endurance, and still has compelling resonance for today’s
practitioners. HB ISBN 978 0 451 43657 1
SCIENCE AND THE STANIISLAVSKY TRADITION OF ACTING.
Jonathon Pitches.
Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting opens up the theatre
laboratories of five major practitioners in the twentieth and twenty
– first centuries and scrutinises their acting methodologies from a
scientific perspective.HB ISBN 0-415-32907-8
STANISLAVSKY IN FOCUS 2nd Edition AN ACTING MASTER
FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Sharon Marie Carnicke
Stanislavsky in Focus brilliantly examines the history and actual
premises of Stanislavsky’s System, separating myth from fact with
forensic skill. The first edition of this now classic study showed
conclusively how the System was gradually transformed into the
Method, popularized in the 1950s by Lee Strasberg and the Actors
Studio.It looked at the gap between the original Russian texts and what
most English-speaking practitioners still imagine to be Stanislavsky’s
ideas. ISBN 978 0 415 77497 0
THE STANISLAVSKY SYSTEM OF ACTING Legacy and Influence
in Modern Performance Rose Whyman
Konstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian director, actor and cofounder of the Moscow Art Theatre, was the originator of the most
influential system of acting in the history of Western theatre. Many
of Stanislavsky’s concepts are widespread in popular thought on
acting; this book offers a timely evaluation on the basis of his ideas,
discussing whether the system has survived because Stanislavsky made
discoveries about acting that are, and always have been, scientifically
verifiable or whether his methods work on a practical basis despite an
outdated theory. HB 978 0 521 88696 3
STANISLAVSKY IN AMERICA An Actor’s Workbook Mel Gordon
Part memoir and part practical guide, Stanislavsky in America is an
essential resource for any student or practitioner wanting to understand
Stanislavsky’s work and his relationship with America. ISBN 978 0
415 49670 4
GERTRUDE STEIN
MAMA DADA GERTRUDE STEIN’S AVANT- GARDE THEATER.
Sarah Bay-Cheng.
Mama Dada argues for Gertrude Stein as a major playwright of the
twentieth century through her developement of a unique playwriting
aesthetic based in avant-garde drama, cinema, and queer identity. By
examining and explaining the relationship among these three histories,
the dramatic writings of Stein can best be understood, not only as
examples of literary modernism, but also as influential dramatic works
that have had a lasting effect on the American theatrical avant-garde.
ISBN 0-415-97723-1
STOPPARD, TOM
ABOUT STOPPARD:THE PLAYWRIGHT & THE WORK Jim
Hunter. ISBN 0-571-22023-1
DOUBLE ACT — A Life of Tom Stoppard. Ira Nadel
Drawing on archives and interviews, Ira Nadel’s fascinating book
explores the double act of Stoppard’s life to show how questions of
identity and language feature in both the work and the persona of this
multi-faceted figure who has earned his reputation as one of the most
significant and successful writers of our time.
ISBN 0 413 73060 3
STOPPARD IN AN HOUR. Mikhail Alexeeff. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year ISBN 978 1 9362 3227 7
STOPPARD’S THEATRE Finding Order amid Chaos. John Fleming
“ The fullest and most complete analysis of Stoppard’s work from
their first presentations to later revivals, this book is a must for anyone
contemplating a production of any of Stoppard’s plays. Strongly
recommended for college and university libraries and for theatre
professionals.” — choice ISBN 0 292 72552 3
STRASBERG, LEE
THE LEE STRASBERG NOTES Edited by Lola Cohen
“I studied with Lee for 25 years at the Actors Studio, and to read this
book is to be inspired, stimulated and taught once again by his depth
and articulation of “The Method” Ellen Burstyn ISBN 978 0 415
55186 1
STRINDBERG, AUGUST
AUGUST STRINDBERG Eszter Szalczer
August Strindberg provides an essential and accessible guide to the
playwright’s work and illustrates the influence of his drama on our
understanding of contemporary theatre. ISBN 978 0 415 41423 4
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AUGUST STRINDBERG
Edited by Michael Robinson
This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars
on different aspects of Strindberg’s highly colourful life and work.
Focusing mainly on his most frequently performed plays, the essays also
discuss his novels, including the vivid autobiographical work Inferno, his
much-publicized hostility to women, and his lifelong interest in science,
the occult, sexual politics and the visual arts. ISBN 978 0 521 60852 7
STRINDBERG AND MODERNIST. Post-Inferno Drama on Stage.
Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker
Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olaf
Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson,
and Ingmar Bergman in our day, this study explores the crucial impact
that this writer’s allusive (and elusive) method of playwriting has had
on the changing nature of theatrical experience. Each chapter ends
with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the
contemporary stage, ISBN 0 521 62377 4. HB
STRINDBERG IN AN HOUR. Carl R. Mueller. Introduction by
Robert Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and
actors to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3228 4
STRINDBERG ON DRAMA AND THEATRE Egil Törnqvist and
Birgitta Steene
Sweden’s August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognized
as one of the leading dramatists around the turn of the last century. A
restless Innovator of various drama forms, he has proved extremely
seminal to the development of modern drama. Strindberg frequently
commented on drama and theatre in general and on his own plays in
particular. This book presents the most important of these comments,
chronologically assembled and annotated, many of them for the first
time in an English translation. Strindberg on Drama and Theatre is an
invaluable resource for those interested in one of the most influential
among modern European Playwrights. ISBN 978 9 0536 6020 4
STRINDBERG’S SECRET CODES — Freddie Rokem
Strindberg’s works are enigmatic, taking the form of riddles that
constantly ask readers, directors, actors and spectators to find new and
creative solutions. Focusing on the plays, these original and searching
essays seek to uncover the hidden secrets of Strindberg’s codes as a
writer. ISBN 1 870041 55 0
SYNGE, J M
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO J M SYNGE Edited by P J
Mathews
John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival,
who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin’s Abbey
Theatre in 1904.This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction
to the whole range of Synge’s work. ISBN 978 0 521 12516 1
SUZUKI, TADASHI
THE THEATRE PRACTICE OF TADASHI SUZUKI A Critical
Study With DVD Examples Paul Allain
In this lively, critical study Paul Allain, who has practised the
Suzuki Method, re-evaluates Suzuki’s work, his development of an
international theatre aesthetic and his impact on performance all over
the world. This book explores Suzuki’s theatre practice in writing and
through a DVD that contains practical examples of the Suzuki method
of actor training. The DVD shows an actor training demonstration
(featuring both novices and an experienced Suzuki practitioner of over
ten years) accompanied by a background explanatory commentary.
HB ISBN 978 1 4081 1643 2
TERENCE
TERENCE AND THE LANGUAGE OF ROMAN COMEDY —
Evangelos Karakasis
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of
Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study
explores Terence’s use of language to differentiate his characters. (HB)
ISBN 0 521 84298 0
THOMPSON, SAM
‘THE REALITY OF HIS FICTIONS’ The Dramatic Achievement of
Sam Thompson
In this new critical biography, Maura Megahey, using many never
previously explored sources, painstakingly digs beneath the journalese
and the myths to uncover afresh both the man and his work. Honest
in acknowledging Thompson’s limitations, she also celebrates a
vibrant dramatic legacy, portraying anew the east Belfast Playwright’s
political, social and artistic daring. ISBN 978 1 904652 58 8
TREADWELL, SOPHIE
SUSAN GLASPELL AND SOPHIE TREADWELL Routledge
Modern and Contemporary Dramatists Barbara Ozieblo and Jerry
Dickey
Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell presents critical introductions to
two of the most significant American dramatists of the early twentieth
century. Glaspell and Treadwell led American Theatre from outdated
melodrama to the experimentation of great European playwrights like
Ibsen, Strindberg and Shaw. . ISBN 978 0 415 40484 6
TREMBLAY, MICHEL
TWELVE OPENING ACTS – Michel Tremblay
This is an account of Tremblay’s discovery of the theatre: from his first
breathtaking recognition of how the imagination is always a public
construct, while watching a performance of Babar the Elephant at the
of six; to his winning of the CBC drama competition with his first play,
Le Train. ISBN 0 88922 466 8
TYNAN, KENNETH
KENNETH TYNAN PROFILES. Selected and Edited by Kathleen
Tynan and Ernie Eban. Foreword by Simon Callow
‘We had thought to have seen the last of Tynan. Now, suddenly, a new
volume appears: a collection of fifty profiles of the famous … More than
a third of the pieces are new at least in book form which in itself is cause
enough for dancing … One does not have to like theatre to cherish these
pieces … It is a book to savour in small doses, the better to postpone the
sadness of reaching its end.’ ISBN 978 1 85459 943 8
KENNETH TYNAN THEATRE WRITINGS. Selected and Edited by
Dominic Shellard. Foreword by Tom Stoppard
Tynan won his reputation as a theatre critic, yet all his theatre criticism has
been out of print for many years. With a preface by his son and Foreword
by Tom Stoppard, a then unknown writer championed by Tynan in the
early days of the National, this new comprehensive selection (the first
since his death in 1980) is set fair to become the standard reference work
for Tynan’s writing for years to come. ISBN 978 1 85459 543 0
VAKHTANGOV, YEVGENY
THE VAKHTANGOV SOURCEBOOK Edited by Andrei Malaev-Babel
Yevgeny Vakhtangov was the creator of fantastic realism, credited
with reconciling Meyerhold’s bold experiments with Stanislavsky’s
naturalist technique. This sourcebook compiles new translations of his
key writings on the art of theatre, making it the primary source of firsthand material on this master of theatre in the English-speaking world.
ISBN 978 0 415 48257 8
YEVGENY VAKHTANGOV. A Critical Portrait. Andrei MalaevBabel
Yevgeny Vakhtangov was a pioneering theatre artist who married
Stanislavsky’s demands for inner truth with a singular imaginative
vision. Directly and indirectly, he is responsible for the making of our
contemporary theatre: that is Andrei Malaev-Babel’s argument in this,
the first English-language monograph to consider Vakhtangov’s life
and work as actor and director, teacher and theoretician. ISBN 978 0
4154 6587 8
VON KLEIST, HEINRICH
HEINRICH VON KLEIST. Selected Writings Edited and Translated
by David Constantine
Kleist was born and grew up in the Enlightenment and died in a suicide
pact in 1811, aged only thirty-four. He left behind him literary works
which among the few disturbing and amusing of any produced in
that revolutionary and romantic period. He is a modern writer: in the
characters and situations he created we recognize our own aspirations
and anxieties. Selected Writings introduces the man and his times and
makes the greater part of his work available in the English language.
WASSERSTEIN, WENDY
WENDY WASSERSTEIN. Dramatizing Women, Their Choices and
Their Boundaries. Gail Ciociola.
Through the use of a new critical viewpoint of textual or performance
drama that is guided by feminist disposition both thematically and
stylistically, the author provides a fresh reading of the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright. ISBN 0-7864-2317-X
READING THE PLAYS OF WENDY WASSERSTEIN Jan Balakian
Thoroughly researched, accessible and rich in detail, Reading the Plays
of Wendt Wasserstein will provide students, teachers, theatregoers and
other readers with a fresh perspective on the work of one of America’s
great contemporary playwrights. ISBN 978 1 55783 725 7
WEBSTER, JOHN
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI. A Critical Guide.
“This book will be invaluable to anyone teaching this extraordinary
play. The essays in the volume furnish detailed investigations of
historical contexts and illuminating readings of the play while guiding
the reader toward other relevant scholarship. I will certainly have it to
hand the next time I teach The Duchess.” Professor Elizabeth Hanson,
Department of English, Queen’s University, Canada.
THE WHITE DEVIL. A guide to the text and the play in performance.
Stephen Purcell
The White Devil is one of the great plays of the Jacobean era. In this
vibrant handbook, Stephen Purcell offers an in-depth, performancefocused exploration of John Webster’s thrilling, unsettling and darkly
comic tragedy. The handbook includes a scene-by-scene commentary
on the play as it unfolds on stage, an overview of the play’s cultural
context, excerpts from historical sources, case studies of four modern
productions, featuring interviews with directors annd an outline of key
critical writings on the play, from the seventeenth century through to
today. ISBN 978 00 2302 7976 6
WEDEKIND, FRANK
WEDEKIND IN AN HOUR. Carl R. Mueller. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3229 1
WESKER, ARNOLD
WESKER ON THEATRE Arnold Wesker
Wesker on Theatre is a collection of essays by one of Britain’s most
well known, prolific and controversial writers, which explores his
thoughts on drama and the theatre gained from a writing career that
spans fifty years. ISBN 978 1 84002 986 4
WILDE, OSCAR
SPARKNOTES.The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde
Featuring explanations of key Themes, Motifs and Symbols including:
The nature of marriage, the constraints of morality, the dandy, puns,
death and the double life.
Also detailed analysis of these important characters: Jack Worthing,
Algernon Moncrieff, and Gwendolen Fairfax. Created by Harvard for
students everywhere, SparkNotes give you what you need to succeed
in school. ISBN 1 4114 0250 2
OSCAR WILDE IN AMERICA The Interviews Edited by Matthew
Hofer & Gary Scharnhorst
“This stimulating work is an invaluable record of Wilde’s speech,
appearance and demeanor. An excitingly fresh study of interest both to
Wilde specialists and to general readers.” Donald Mead Chairman of
the Oscar Wilde Society and editor of The Wildean: A journal of Oscar
Wilde Studies
HB ISBN 978 0 252 03472
WILDE IN AN HOUR. Emily Esfahani Smith. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3230 7
WILDER, THORNTON
SPARKNOTES — Our Town. Thornton Wilder. ISBN 1 58663 483 6
COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE BLOOM’S
MAJOR DRAMATISTS.
These research and study guides are the perfect introduction to critical
analysis of the most poplar dramatists today. Each book covers three
to six plays, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the
important aspects of each work, Each volume also includes an editor’s
note and introduction by Harold Bloom, author’s biography, plot
summery, extracts of major critical essays, extensive bibliography,
index of themes and ideas. Thornton Wilder — Edited and With an
Introduction by Harold Bloom. ISBN 0 7910 7033 6. (HB)
WILDER IN AN HOUR. James Fisher. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3231 4
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE
BLOOMS GUIDES. Comprehensive Research and Study Guides.
Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Introduction by Harold
Bloom
Essential for any student of literature looking to enhance his or
her reading experience, Bloom’s Guides are highly useful for test
preparation, independent scholarship, or book group discussions. HB
ISBN 978 0 79109297 2
CRITICAL COMPANION TO TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. A Literary
Reference to His Life and Work. Alycia Smith-Howard & Greta
Heintzelman.
Tennessee Williams is one of the most captivating and popular
playwrights of the twentieth century. A major resource for scholars
and students, Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams is an essential
reference to everything one needs to know about Williams and his
work. ISBN 0-8160-6429-6
THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Tennesee Williams — York Notes
Advanced. Notes by Rebecca Warren. ISBN 0 582 77231 1
MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS. Edited and with an
Introduction by Harold Bloom
Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
A series of over 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the
most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western
world. Each volume opens with and introductory essay and editor’s
note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of
the author’s life and works, and notes on the contributors. ISBN 0
7910 7116 2
NOTEBOOKS. Tennessee Williams. Edited Margaret Bradham
Thornton.
Meticulously edited and annotated by Margaret Bradham Thornton, the
notebooks follow William’s growth as a writer from his undergraduate
days to the publication and production of his most famous plays,
from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary
accomplishments. HB ISBN 978 0 30011 682 3
SPARKNOTES.
SparkNotes are created by Harvard students for students everywhere,
SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each
SparkNote contains Complete Plot Summary and Analysis; Key
Facts about the Work; Author’s Historical Context; Analysis of Major
Characters, Suggested Essay Topics; Themes, Motifs, and Symbols;
25-Question Review Quiz; Explanation of Important Quotations.
A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams. ISBN 1 58663 449 6
The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams. ISBN 1 58663 435 6
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Updated Edition Edited and with an
Introduction by Harold Bloom
One of America’s greatest dramatists and an innovator of post-World
War II theater, Tennessee Williams looked for a mechanism for
portraying truth in theater, at a time when the traditional approaches
no longer worked. Bold with form as well as subject matter, Williams
confronted audiences with what had been taboo topics, sexuality,
societal constraints, alcoholism and brutality. Blanche Dubois’s
line about the kindness of strangers and Marlon Brando’s portrayal
of her nemesis Stanley Kowalski indelibly marked Americans and
transformed the theater experience. HB ISBN 978 0 7910 9430 3
UNDERSTANDING TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. Alice Griffin
An in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee
Williams as America’s greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the
first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters,
theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a
literary figure and as a stage innovator. ISBN 978 1 6111 7006 1
WILLIAMS IN AN HOUR. Michael Paller. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3232 1
WILLIAMSON, DAVID
DAVID WILLIAMSON’S JACK MANNING TRILOGY — DAVID
MOORE
This guide examines a trilogy of plays on Conferencing (the new
strategy adopted by schools, communities, government agencies and
commercial organisation for managing group conflict) by Australia’s
foremost playwright, David Williamson. The author explores the plays
from literary, theatrical and counselling perspective, covering plot
summaries; the theory and practice of Conferencing; interviews with
the playwright, directors, actors and audience members; and questions
for discussion. ISBN 0 86819 697 5
WILSON, AUGUST
A. WILSON IN AN HOUR. Joan Herrington. Introduction by Robert
Brustein. “The perfect supplement to provide to students and actors
to help them gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding in
classrooms and rehearsal. I highly recommend it!” - E. Frank Bluestein,
Disney Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. ISBN 978 1 9362 3233 8
AUGUST WILSON AND BLACK AESTHETICS. Edited by Dana A.
Williams and Sandra G. Shannon
Critical essays that address issues raised in Wilson’s provocative
1996 speech, “The Ground on Which I Stand,” that many regard as a
proclamation of his own governing aesthetics. Essays and interviews
range from examinations of the presence of Wilson’s politics in his
plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations
of black aesthetics. ISBN 978 0 2301 1301 5
AUGUST WILSON Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle Edited
by Alan Nadel
“In this carefully crafted volume, Alan Nadel pairs a variety of essays on
the plays of August Wilson’s century cycle. Among the many strengths
of this collection is that the selections are well connected thematically
without being repetitive and that the diverse interpretations are presented
in a language and style that are easily accessible, even for the general
reader…” Sandra Adell, author, Double-Consciousness/Double Blind:
Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
ISBN 978 1 58729 875 2
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AUGUST WILSON Edited
by Christopher Bigsby
This Companion considers Wilson’s life and career, and dedicates
individual chapters to each play in his ten play cycle, which are ordered
chronologically, demonstrating Wilson’s notion of an unfolding history
of the twentieth-century. ISBN 978 0 521 68506 1
CONVERSATIONS WITH AUGUST WILSON. Edited by Jackson R
Bryer and Mary C Hartig.
ISBN 1 57806 831 2
MODERN THEATRE GUIDES August Wilson’s Fences Ladrica
Menson-Furr
August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected
African American playwright. His cycle of plays spanning the decades
of the twentieth century have been profoundly influential in the
American theatre, and highly acclaimed. Fences represents the decade
of the 1950s, and when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer
Prize. Set during the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, it also
concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration
of the life of its protagonist, even though it takes place at his funeral.
ISBN 978 0 8264 9648 5
THE PAST AS PRESENT IN THE DRAMA OF AUGUST WILSON.
Harry J. Elam, JR.
Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam, Jr., examines Wilson’s plays
within the context of contemporary African American literature and in
relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race
and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson’s plays recaptures
narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the
past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings
of blackness. ISBN 0 472 03163 5
WILSON, ROBERT
ROBERT WILSON. Miguel Morey Carmen Pardo
HB ISBN 84 343 0987 4
ROBERT WILSON Routledge Performance Practitioners. Maria
Shevstova
Robert Wilson is an American-European director who is also a
performer, installation artist and much more besides — a crossover
polymath who dissolves both generic and geographical boundaries and
is a precursor of globalisation in the arts. ISBN 978 0 451 33881 3
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 the
twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance
YEATS, W. B.
THE YEATS READER— A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama
and Prose. Revised Edition Edited by Richard J. Finneran.
This book presents over 150 of Yeats’s best-known poems, plus eight
plays sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published
autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers
six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. ISBN 1 4039 0443 X
ZEAMI
Zeami (1363 - 1443), Japan’s most celebrated actor and playwright,
composed more than thirty of Noh drama’s finest plays. He also wrote
a variety of texts on theatre and performance that have, until now, been
largely unavailable in English. Zeami: Performance Notes presents the
full range of the artist’s critical thought on the subject, focusing on the
aesthetic values of Noh and its antecedents, as well as the techniques of
playwriting, the place of allusion, the training of actors, the importance
of patronage, and the relationship between performance and broader
intellectual and critical concerns. ISBN 978 0 2311 3959 5
GENERAL
THE ACTOR, IMAGE, AND ACTION. Acting and Cognitive
Neuroscience Rhonda Blair
The Actor, Image, and Action is a “new generation” approach to the
craft of acting; the first full length study of actor training using the
insights of cognitive neuroscience. In a brilliant reassessment of
both the practice and theory of acting, Rhonda Blair examines the
physiological relation ship between bodily action and emotional
experience. In doing so she provides the latest step in Stanislavski’s
attempts to help the actor ‘reach the unconscious by conscious means’.
HB ISBN978 0 415 77416 1
THE ACTOR’S WAY. A Journey of Self-Discovery in Letters.
Benjamin Lloyd
This is required reading for anyone passionate about the theatre,
acting and the teaching of the craft. The struggles of a young actor,
the actor/director relationship, the challenges of teaching art in
universities, ageism and techniques for teaching realistic acting are all
communicated through a fictional series of letters between Andy, an
anguished young New York actor and Alice, his Quaker grade-school
teacher. ISBN 1 58115 447 X
ACTORS SPEAKING. Edited by Lyn Haill Introduction by Peter Gill
In the late 1980s, Peter Gill, first director of the National Theatre
Studio, sent a group of young actors and directors to interview some of
the most respected actors of the time about speaking on stage. Those
conversations, with actors such as Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison and
Robert Stephens, are collected here for the first time. ISBN 978 1
84002 776 1
AFRICAN THEATRE IN PERFORMANCE — A Festschrift in the
honour of Martin Banham. Edited by Dele Layiwola HB
In this lively and varied tribute to Martin Banham, Dele Layliwola has
assembled critical commentaries and two plays which focus primarily
on Nigerian theatre— both traditional and contemporary. The texts
of two plays— When Criminals Turn Judges by Ola Rotimi, and
The Hand That Feeds the king, by Wale Ogunyemi — are followed
by Austin O. Asagba’s study of oral tradition and texts in plays by
Osofisan and Agbeyegbe, and by Frances Harding’s study on power,
language and imagery in Wole Soyinka’s plays.
AFTER DICKENS Reading, Adaptation and Performance. John
Glavin.
After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist
and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the
novels themselves. John Glavin conducts an historical inquiry into
Dickens’s relation to the theatre and the theatricality of his own time,
and uncovers a much more ambivalent, often hostile relationship than
has hitherto been noticed. ISBN 0 521 0 3237 7
THE ALCHEMY 0F THEATRE. The Divine Science. Essays on
Theatre and the Art of Collaboration. Edited by Robert Viagas.
Theatre has been called the most collaborative art form. To succeed,
artists and craftspeople have to have enough drive and talent to
compete, and yet enough humility to merge their talents with others.
In a book with applications throughout modern life, The Alchemy of
Theatre lets the top talents in every theatrical field, from producing to
writing to publicity and make-up, share their hard-earned wisdom.
HB ISBN 978 1 55783 698 4
AMERICAN DRAMA. The Bastard Art. Susan Harris Smith
In American Drama: The Bastard Art, Susan Harris Smith looks
at the many often conflicting cultural and academic reasons for the
neglect and dismissal of American drama as a legitimate literary
form. Covering a wide range of topics theatrical performance, the
rise of nationalist feeling, the creation of academic disciplines and
the development of sociology, Smith’s study is a contentious and
revisionist historical inquiry into the troubled cultural and canonical
status of American drama, both as a literary genre and as a mirror of
American society. ISBN 9 780521 032421
AMERICAN MUSICAL AND THE PERFORMANCE OF
PERSONAL IDENTITY Raymond Knapp
By considering specific themes — fairy tales and fantasy, idealism
and inspiration, gender and sexuality and personal relationships —
Raymond Knapp explores how musicals enable us to perform alternative
versions of ourselves and thereby “try on” alternative identities. The
book also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite
different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie
musicals and operatic musicals. ISBN 978 0 691 14105 3
THE AMERICAN PLAY 1787-2000 Marc Robinson
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred
years of American drama and theatre in ambitiously interdisciplinary
context. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late
eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how
theatre has and has not changed and offers close readings of works by
O’Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller and Albee, as well as lesser known plays
by Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer and Djuna Barnes.
HB ISBN 978 0 300 11649 6
AND THEN, YOU ACT. Making Art in an Unpredictable World. Anne
Bogart
And Then, You Act contains eight new essays on art, theatre and the
collaborative creative process by award-winning theatre director, Anne
Bogart. Where her last book, A Director Prepares, detailed the process
of preparation for an artist, this book is about the importance of action
during times of difficulty, whether personal or political. Each chapter
contains advice and personal insights toward a more emboldened
form of art-making, considering the themes of context, articulation,
intention, attention, magnetism attitude, content, and time. ISBN 978
0 415 41142 4
APPLIED DRAMA. The Gift of Theatre. Helen Nicholson
Applied Drama offers an insight into theatre-making that takes place
in communities across the world. It celebrates the gift of practice that
takes place in different and sometimes unglamorous settings: prisons,
schools, hostels for the homeless, care homes for the elderly, and on
the street.. ISBN 1-4039-1646-2
THE APPLIED THEATRE READER Edited by Tim Prentki and
Sheila Preston
The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new
case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the
field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam
Chomsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal and Chantal Mouffe. This
book divides the field into key themes, inviting critical interrogation
of issues in Applied Theatre whilst also acknowledging the multidisciplinary nature of its subject. ISBN 978 0 415 42887 3
THE ARCHITECTURE OF DRAMA Plot, Character, Theme, Genre
and Style David Letwin & Joe and Robin Stockdale
Many of the world’s greatest dramas have sprung not only from the
creative impulses of their authors but also from the time-honoured
principles of structure and design that have forged those impulses into
coherent and powerful insights. An understanding of these principles
is essential to the craft of creating and interpreting works of drama for
the stage or screen. ISBN 978 0 8108 6129 9
THE ART OF TRANSLATION Ranjit Bolt
Ranjit Bolt takes what is essentially a practitioner’s view of the art
of translation. His observations are born of a quarter of a century’s
experience translating for a living, especially for the theatre. While
rooted in practice, however, this survey does not shy away from
theory, but is packed with allusion to great translation theorists such as
Walter Benjamin and John Dryden, as well as adumbrating Bolt’s own
theoretical stance. ISBN 978 1 84002 865 2
AT THE SHARP END Uncovering the Work of Five Leading
Dramatists. David Edgar, Tim Etchells, David Greig, Tanika Gupta,
Mark Ravenhill. By Peter Billingham.
What value does theatre have in Britain at the beginning of the twentyfirst century? How has theatre responded to the challenge of remaining
relevant in the media-saturated world of today? These are the Questions
that underpin this stimulating study of some of the leading dramatists
of contemporary British theatre. ISBN 978 0 7136 8507 7
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Deirdre Heddon
What is the relationship between past and present in performance,
when the body is present in the here and now? What is the relationship
between performance and truth? What is the place of autobiographical
performance in these “confessional” times? Deirdre Heddon offers a
comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance
and uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use
of the personal in performance. ISBN 978 0 230 53753 8
AVANT-GARDE PERFORMANCE AND THE LIMITS OF
CRITICISM. Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus,
and the Black Arts Movement. Mike Sell
“A provocative exploration of relations between the historical avantgarde and Cold War vanguard art and theatre. Sell’s compelling
historical and cultural narrative shows how the connections between
the two exist at a very deep level of radical politics and aesthetics—an
amazing concoction of rigorous scholarship, interdisciplinary learning,
and progressive theorizing” Michael Vanden Heuvel, University of
Wisconsin, Madison HB ISBN 0 472 11495 6
AVANT-GARDE PERFORMANCE AND MATERIAL EXCHANGE
Vectors of the Radical Edited by Mike Sell Performance Interventions
General Editors: Elaine Aston & Bryan Reynolds
Mapping the Movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances,
and other material entities around the world, these essays provide
unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture
of the avant-garde, confirming that the avant-garde was and is a
significant presence in our world. HB ISBN 978 0 230 24134 3
THE BEST PLAYS OF 2000-2001 — Edited by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
The New York Season reviewed by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and Mel
Gussow
Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway programs and statistics
Casts, credits of new plays form around the country
A Season of Al Hirschfeld drawings
Photographs of the year’s highlights.
Featuring essays on the Year’s 10 best plays. ISBN 0 87910 968 8.
HB
THE BEST PLAYS 2001-2002 — Edited by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
ISBN 0 87910 983 1 HB
THE BEST PLAYS 2002-2003 — Edited by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
ISBN 0 87910 303 5 HB
BLOKES: The Bad Boys of English Literature David Castronovo
This book is the story, told in a series of profiles, of New Britannia.
The cast of characters includes playwrights John Osborne and Arnold
Wesker, novelist Kingsley Amis, critic Kenneth Tynan, poet Philip
Larkin, and fiction writer Alan Sillitoe. Also included — John Braine,
David Storey, Stan Barstow and Keith Waterhouse — up to more
contemporary writers like Martin Amis and Nick Hornby. Blokes: The
Bad Boys of British Literature is an entertaining and insightful survey
of a group of disparate writers who had a profound and enduring
impact upon British literary culture. HB ISBN 978 0 8264 2832 5
BOBBY BAKER Redeeming Features of Daily Life Edited by Michèle
Barrett/ Bobby Baker
Bobby Baker is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular
performance artists working today. This fully illustrated book brings
together for the first time an account of Baker’s career as an artist
with critical commentary by reviewers and academic practitioners.
Under the guiding editorial hand of distinguished cultural theorist
Michéle Barrett, this volume is a hugely absorbing and accessible
account of Baker’s work, and an essential text for students interested
in performance, gender and visual culture. 978 0 415 44411 8
BODIES IN DISSENT. Spectacular Performances of Race and
Freedom, 1850-1910. Daphne A Brooks
In Bodies in Dissent, Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the midnineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists,
actors, singers and other entertainers frequently transformed the
alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes
of self-actualization through performance. ISBN 0 8223 3722 3
BRITISH PANTOMIME PERFORMANCE By Millie Taylor
British pantomime draws audiences into the story, an engagement
with the hero, and an emphatic attachment to the success of the quest.
Attention is held by the familiarity of the event and the comedians
draw the audience into a relationship of complicity as they unite to
create the unique experience of the live interactive performance. At
other times the audience is diverted by the artifice of dance, the illusion
of transformation and the surreal playfulness of physical and verbal
comedy. The trick of pantomime is to maintain an effective balance
between the intellectual appreciation of artifice, the chaotic complicity
of interactivity, and the emotional engagement of story-telling. ISBN
978 1 84150 174 1
BUZZ BUZZ! Playwrights, Actors and Directors at the National
Theatre Interviewed by Jonathon Croall
How did Simon Russell Beale and Anne-Marie Duff get inside the
minds of Hamlet and Saint Joan? Why did Tom Stoppard create three
plays for The Coast of Utopia instead of one? What lay behind Katie
Mitchell’s controversial re-working of Strindberg? How did Harold
Pinter go about adapting Proust for stage? For the answers to these and
scores of other key questions, Buzz Buzz! is the perfect guide. ISBN
978 1 408 10520 7
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE ACTRESS. Edited by
Maggie B Gale and John Stokes
This is a unique collection of original essays on the cultural role of
performing women on stage and on screen, throughout history and across
continents — from Nell Gwyn to Lily Langtry, from Sarah Bernhardt
to Peggy Ashcroft, from Joyce Grenfell to Vanessa Redgrave, from
Ellen Terry to Halle Berry. Topics covered include cross-dressing, solo
performance, racial constraints, recent Shakespeare, and the actress in
early photography and on film. ISBN 978 0 521 60854 1
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Edited by Tracy C Davis
Presenting a clear overview of the diverse approaches to performance
studies, this Companion provides a complete guide for students and
scholars seeking a perspective on current trends. Bridging live art
practices with technological media and social sciences with humanities,
it reflects the hybrid and experimental nature of this vibrant discipline.
ISBN 978 0 521 69626 5
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO SCENOGRAPHY Joslin
Mckinney and Philip Butterworth
This book introduces the reader to the purpose, identity and scope of
scenography and its theories and concepts. Settings and structures,
light, projected images, sound, costumes and props are considered in
relation to performing bodies, text, space and the role of the audience.
ISBN 978 0 521 61232 6
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO TRAGEDY Jennifer
Wallace
Tragedy is the art-form created to confront the most difficult experiences
we face: death, loss, injustice, thwarted passion, despair. From the
ancient Greek theatre up to the most recent plays, playwrights have
found, in tragic drama, a means to seek explanation for disaster. But
tragedy is also a word we continually encounter in the media, to denote
an event which is simply devastating in its emotional power.
ISBN 978 0 521 67149 1
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE STUDIES
Christopher B Balme
Providing thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in
studying historical and cotemporary theatre, this introduction examines
the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic discipline.
Covers all main theatrical genres, drama, opera and dance providing
a comparative and integrated perspective. Emphasizes questions of
methodology, research techniques and approaches. ISBN 978 0521
67223 8
THE
CAMBRIDGE
INTRODUCTION
TO
THEATRE
HISTORIOGRAPHY Thomas Postlewait
Designed for teachers and students alike, this Introduction provides a
detailed guide for historical research in the performing arts. The book
examines procedures and problems in both documentary scholarship
and cultural history. A practical guide, this study demonstrates how
to construct historical events — large and small — and place them in
relation to the political, social and economic conditions, the artistic
traditions, audience responses and values and historical periods. ISBN
978 0 521 49917 0
CAST OUT. Queer Lives in Theater. Edited by Robin Bernstein.
Foreword by Jill Dolan
Cast Out is a collection of memoirs and interviews by twenty-two
leading performers, playwrights, technicians, producers, critics’
educators and passionate spectators.
“Robin Bernstein’s Cast Out is my latest must have, an important new
mapping of the intersection of gender and performance studies.” Holly
Hughes ISBN 0 472 06933 0
CENSORING TRANSLATION. Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics
of Translation. Michelle Woods
“An insightful, provocative, and often amusing investigation of
the translation of Vaclav Havel’s plays into English. Woods reveals
economic censorship to be often more severe and distorting than the
traditional political variety and especially effective in framing and
silencing the voices of “minor” nations and of female translators. This
book will fundamentally change the way you think about censorship and
translation.” Brian James Baer, Professor of Russian and Translation
Studies, Kent State University. ISBN 978 1 4411 0057 3
THE CHARISMATIC CHAMELEON The Actor as Creative Artist
Leslie O’Dell
The Charismatic Chameleon is essential reading for working actors,
for students of acting and for teachers and directors who seek a more
finely-nuanced understanding of the source of acting excellence and
how best to optimize creativity through collaborative and individual
praxis. ISBN 978 1 84519 412 3
A COMPANION TO GREEK TRAGEDY. Edited by Justina Gregory
A Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental
grounding in Greek tragedy and also introduces them to the various
methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the
study of Greek tragedy today. ISBN 978 1 4051 7549 4
CHILDREN AND THEATRE IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN “All Work,
No Play” Anne Varty
The cult of the child performer was a significant emergence of the
Victorian age. Nurtured by growing mass media, the commodification
of these children extended beyond the stage itself into merchandising
and celebrity. Victorian theatre children found themselves not
merely baubles in a spectacle, but essential ingredients of Victorian
entertainment. This centre-staging was echoed in the political
realm: Lewis Carroll, Augustus Harris and Millicent Fawcett stood
at the forefront of a fierce public debate between a Victorian public
impassioned by juvenile display and social reformers determined to
stamp out exploitation. HB ISBN 978 0 230 55155 8
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS. Christopher
Bigsby
In this study, the author, explores the works of ten contemporary
American playwrights: John Guare, Tina Howe, Tony Kushner, Emily
Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David RBA, Paula Vogel,
Wendy Wasserstein and Landlord Wilson.
CONTEMPORARY THEATRES IN EUROPE. A Critical Companion.
Edited by Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout.
This book offers the student, the scholar and the theatre-goer an
informed and vivid critical introduction to contemporary theatre in
Europe and an open invitation to the reader to extend their theatrical
imaginations. ISBN 0 415 32940 X
CONTESTING PERFORMANCE. Global Sites of Research. Edited
by Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms and C.J. W-L. Wee
A landmark collection of essays by international scholars that addresses
the global development of performance research in the late twentieth
and early twenty-first centuries. Aimed at students and researchers
around the world, the collection functions as a critical reader on diverse,
localised approaches to studying performance, while also revealing
networks of practical and theoretical concerns that contest dominant
paradigms of performance studies. ISBN 978 1 1370 1118 3
CONTINUUM MODERN THEATRE GUIDES Series Editors: Steve
Barfield, Graham Saunders, Aleks Sierz, Janelle Reinelt
These guides provide students with a comprehensive critical
introduction to the play including its structure, style and characters,
performance history and key production issues and choices.
Patrick Marber’s Closer Graham Saunders ISBN 978 0 8264 9248 7
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman Peter L Hayes with Kent
Nicholson ISBN 978 0 8264 9554 9
John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger Aleks Sierz ISBN 978 0 8264
9201 2
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls Alicia Tycer ISBN 978 0 8624 9556 3
CRITICAL THEORY AND PERFORMANCE. Revised and Enlarged
Edition. Edited by Janelle G Reinelt and Joseph R Roach
As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory’s rich and
diverse contributions to the study of drama, theatre and performance,
this book has been highly influential for more than a decade in
providing fertile ground for academic investigations in the lively field
of performance studies. This updated and expanded edition presents
nineteen new essays by the field’s leading scholars as well as new
critical introductions by editors Janelle G Reinelt and Joseph R Roach.
ISBN 978 0 472 06886 9
THE DEATH OF CHARACTER Perspectives on Theater after
Modernism Elinor Fuchs
In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds
of theater after modernism. She begins with the decline of character,
once the central link between the artist and the spectator. Postmodern
theater no longer greets the demotion of character with anxiety, despair
or satisfaction as in Pirandello, Beckett or Brecht but puts in its stead a
multiple subject, a protean spectator and a dispersed field of attention.
While The Death of Character engages contemporary cultural and
aesthetic theory, Elinor Fuchs always speaks as an active theater critic.
ISBN 978 0 253 21008 1
DEATHTRAPS. The Postmodern Comedy Thriller
The phenomenal success of such plays as Ira Levin’s Deathtrap
and Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth heralded the advent of a new form of
detective play — the comedy thriller. Carlson examines all the elements
of the thriller — openings, settings, characters, plot lines, the role of
the audience, and endings — and shows how they work to overturn
the conventions of realism in detective drama. Deathtraps will prove a
feast for all lovers of the comedy thriller. ISBN 978 0 2532 0826 2
DESIRE AND DRAMATIC FORM IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Judith Haber
This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic
desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to
what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change or
undermine the structures in which they are embedded. Through close
readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, Ford
and Cavendish. HB ISBN 978 0 521 51867 3
THE DEVIL AND THE SACRED IN ENGLISH DRAMA, 13501642 John D Cox
John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest
appearance in English plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare (1 and
2 Henry VI), Jonson, Middleton and Davenant. ISBN 0 521 03118 4
DEVISING PERFORMANCE. A Critical History. Deirdre Heddon
and Jane Milling
“With “devising “ as the linchpin, the authors bring into dialogue
an extraordinary array of aesthetic theories and practices, political
ideologies and popular forms of entertainment, historical movements
and critical thought. A must read for performance studies enthusiasts,
scholars and practitioners alike, whether seeking a history or a guide
book.” Mady Schutzman, Calarts (California Institute of the Arts)
ISBN 1-4039-0663-7
DIGGING UP STORIES. Applied Theatre, Performance and War.
James Thompson
Digging up stories is compelling reading for anyone interested in
applied or social theatre, theatre practice and performance studies.
An invaluable commentary on the interface between practice and its
context,the book will be of interest to theatre students and practitioners.
ISBN 0-7190-7315-4
DIFFERENT EVERY NIGHT. Freeing the Actor. Mike Alfreds
Mike Alfreds dares to do what very few directors other than Stanislavsky
have done: he takes us into the rehearsal room and describes an
immensely detailed methodology for the actor to bring the text to life,
and, crucially to keep it alive right up to the final performance.
ISBN 978 1 85499 967 4
DIRECTORS/DIRECTING Conversations on Theatre Maria
Shevtsova and Christopher Innes
Insightful, in-depth and evocative, this is a collection of conversations
with nine of the most innovative theatre directors of our time in
Europe and North America. The book reveals the complex world of
directors and their creative relationships with actors, in rehearsal and
performance and with playwrights. ISBN 978 0 521 73166 9
DRAMA AS THERAPY Theory Practice and Research Second Edition
Phil Jones
“In this exciting new edition, Jones’s “core processes of drama
therapy” have been tested in practice by a range of therapists, whose
experiences have now been ploughed back to produce a book which
is systematic but sensitive, comprehensive and focused, alive with the
real presence of healing-in-drama.” Roger Grainger, Department of
Psychology and Health Studies, Roehampton University
ISBN 978 0 41556 9
THE DRAMA 100 A Ranking of the Greatest Plays of All Time Daniel
S Burt
Which plays are truly great and why? This reference profiles 100 of the
“greatest” plays drawn from all cultures and periods of literature. Each
entry provides a plot summary and assessment, with an emphasis on
details about the play’s creation, critical reception and contribution to
literary and theatrical history. Additional features include a chronology,
a list of honorable mentions (“ A Second Hundred”), and an index.
HB ISBN 978 0 8160 6073 3
DRAMA/THEATRE/PERFORMANCE. Simon Shepherd and Mick
Wallis. The New Critical Idiom, Series Editor, John Drakakis
What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as
‘drama’, ‘theatre’, or ‘performance’? Each term identifies a different
tradition of thought and offers different possibilities to the student
or practitioner. This book examines the history and use of the terms
and investigates the different philosophies, politics, languages and
institutions with which they are associated. ISBN 978 0 415 23494 8
DRAMA, THEATRE, AND IDENTITY IN THE AMERICAN NEW
REPUBLIC. Jeffrey H. Richards.
Drama, Theatre,and Identity in the American New Republic investigates
the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity
in post-Revolutionary American culture. Richards examines a variety
of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary
political plays, British drama on American boards, American authored
stage plays and poetry and fiction by early republican writers. HB
ISBN 0 521 84746 X
DRAMA AND DRAMATISTS A Collection of Critical Essays Harold
Bloom
Now available for the first time in paperback, this volume collects the
best of Bloom’s introductions on the world’s greatest dramatists, from
Shakespeare to Arthur Miller an August Wilson. Bloom’s brilliant
insights and lively prose serve not only to illuminate, but also to
inspire readers to turn again to some of the finest works of literature
ever written. ISBN 978 0 7910 9726 7
DRAMATISTS AND DRAMAS Blooms Literary Criticism 20th
Anniversary Collection
“I have been more fully educated by this quest for comprehensiveness,
which taught me how to write for a larger audience. Literary criticism
is both an individual and communal mode… Over a lifetime in
reading and teaching one learns so much from so many that no one
can be certain of her or his intellectual debts. Hundreds of those I have
reprinted I never will meet, but they have enlightened me, insofar as
I have been capable of learning from a host of other minds.” Harold
Bloom from the Preface
ISBN 978 0 7910 8365 9
DRAMA ESSENTIALS: An Anthology of Plays Matthew Roudane
Drama Essentials traces the evolution of theatre and allows students
to gain a critical appreciation for the art of dramatic writing. This
compact anthology of plays offers a balanced mix of popular plays
along with those not found in other brief anthologies. Some of the
plays included are Sophocles, Antigone, Edward Albee, Zoo Story,
Harold Pinter, Dumb Waiter. ISBN 978 0 618 47477 6
DRAMATURGY: A REVOLUTION IN THEATRE. Mary Luckhurst
Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is the first substantial history
of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. This study is the
first to position Brecht’s model of dramaturgy to the world-wide
revolution in theatre-making practices, and is also the first work to
make a substantial argument for Granville Barker’s and Tynan’s
contributions to the development of literary management today. HB
ISBN 0-521-84963-2
DRAMATURGY OF THE REAL ON THE WORLD STAGE. Edited
by Carol Martin
The theoretical performance texts included here give the reader entry
to ideas about aesthetics, truth and reality in Poland, Argentina, South
Africa, Lebanon, the USA, Holland and Germany. Location remains
defining although not in the sense of a nationalist politics or fixed
cultural representation. Works from distinct destinations travel to
different destinations to present versions of global cosmopolitanism.
The production of place — the places presented in these texts —
happens through an act of narration. This collection of essays reflects
local discourses about the real and the ways these discourses continue
in the context of the global, and features eight playtexts, some of which
are published here for the very first time. ISBN 978 1 137 01694 2
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA. A Critical Companion.
Garret A Sullivan, JR. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield
Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion presents twentyseven analytical essays on individual plays from the early modern
period. Each essay is written by a leading scholar and examines a
play in terms of a cultural or literary topic, from London to the law,
servants to sovereigns, and geography to religion. Incorporating
current perspectives in critical studies, the essays address issues of
race, class, gender, sexuality, and colonialism, as well as key aspects
of intellectual and social history, including humanism, science, the law
and theology. ISBN 0-19-515386-3
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CHARACTERS. A Guide to the Literature
of the Age Elaine M McGirr
Eighteenth-Century Characters offers a concise introduction to the
eighteenth century, using characters as it’s starting point. Elaine M
McGirr presents contextualised readings of stock characters from
canonical and popular literature, such as: The Rake and the Fop, The
Country Gentleman, The Good Woman, The Coquette and the Prude,
The Country Maid and the Town Lady, The Catholic, the Protestant
and the British Other. ISBN 978 1 4039 8558 3
ELIZABETHAN DRAMA — Introduction by Harold Bloom
The Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in English history produced
a legacy of great dramatists, most notably William Shakespeare,
John Webster, Thomas Kyd, John Marston and Thomas Dekker. The
selections in this volume provide an overview of the major genres and
themes in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, with close examinations
of specific works that defined the period. ISBN 0 7910 7988 0
THE EMBODIED SELF. Movement and Psychoanalysis. Katya
Bloom Foreword by Anne Alvarez.
The Embodied Self aims to provide a practical and experiential working
model for developing therapists’ embodied attentiveness, which will
enhance their recognition of the sensori-affective manifestations
of transference and counter-transference. It will inform the work of
psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, dance movement therapists,
and psychotherapists, as well as those involved in psychoanalytic
observational studies. It will also be of great value to anyone interested
in exploring the interrelationships between the psyche and the body.
ISBN 978 185575394 4
THE COLUMBIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN DRAMA.
Edited by Gabrielle H Cody and Evert Sprinchorn.Volumes 1 and 2.
HB 978 0 231 14422 3
ENGAGED WITH THE ARTS Writings from the Frontline. John Tusa
John Tusa has been Managing Director of London’s Barbican Centre for
more than a decade. In that time he has been a notable controversialist,
speaking up for the need of the arts, defending their achievements
and arguing for more funding. This selection of John Tusa’s cogently
argued, candid and challenging essays on the arts in Britain today is
informed by a lifetime’s experience of the arts and a current position at
the centre of the British arts scene. HB ISBN 978 1 84511 424 4
ENGAGING PERFORMANCE Theatre as Call and Response Jan
Cohen-Cruz
Author Jan Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking research
and work within the fields of political, applied and community theatre
to explore t6he impact of how differing genres of theatre respond to
social “calls.” ISBN 978 0 415 47214 2
ENGAGING AUDIENCES. A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in
the Theatre. Bruce McConachie
Engaging Audiences provides an insightful introduction to spectatorship
from the perspective of cognitive studies. Using performances of several
plays and a wide array of scientific evidence, Bruce McConachie
examines the dynamics of conscious attention, mental concepts, empathy,
emotion, and culture in theatre-going. This ground-breaking study
challenges many of the current theories used to understand spectators
and is a valuable resource for artists and scholars interested in how and
why audiences enjoy performance. ISBN 978 0 2301 1673 3
ENGLISH DRAMATIC INTERLUDES 1300-1580. A Reference
Guide. Darryll Grantley
Darryll Grantley has created a comprehensive guide to the interlude:
the extant non-cycle drama in English from the late fourteenth century
up to the period in which the London commercial theatre began. As
precursors of seventeenth century drama not only do these interludes
shed important light on the technical and literary development of
Shakespearean theatre, but many are also works of considerable
theatrical or cultural interest in themselves. An up-to-date bibliography
is included for each play, along with a general bibliography, indexes of
characters and songs and appendices. HB ISBN 0 521 82078 2
FEMALE PERFORMANCE PRACTICE ON THE FIN-DE-SIECLE
POPULAR STAGES OF LONDON AND PARIS Experiment and
Advertisement Catherine Hindson
This study focuses on seven women who used the fin-de-siecle’s
popular stage as a space to develop their experimental performance
practices: acts that won them international fame and critical acclaim.
The diverse entertainment careers of Maud Allen (1873-1956), Jane
Avril (1868-1943), Loie Fuller (1868-1958), Sylvia Grey (1866-1958),
Yvette Guilbert (1867-1944), Letty Lind (1862-1923) and Cissie
(Cecilia) Loftus (1876-1943) encompassed song, dance, impersonation
and acting. HB ISBN 978 0 7190 7485 1
ENTERTAINMENT, PROPAGANDA, EDUCATION Regional
Theatre in Germany and Britain Between 1918 and 1945 Anselm
Heinrich
This study seeks to locate the histories of individual theatres within
their social, political and economic contexts. It places particular
emphasis on regional repertoires within the context of national cultural
landscapes and considers how particular repertoires mirrored social,
cultural and political developments. In successfully challenging
dominant views regarding the supposed differences between British
and German theatre, Dr Heinrich’s findings mean that, to an extent, a
key chapter in European theatre history must be rewritten. ISBN 978
1 902806 75 4
FACING IT Reflections on Images of Older Women Harriet Walter
‘This is an inspiring book, that celebrates the beauty of older women,
while also exploring the old age of some famously beautiful women.’
Jane Miller. ISBN 978 0 9566497 1 3
THE ENTERTAINMENT SOURCEBOOK 2009
The Association of Theatrical Artists and Craftspeople
EROTICISM AND DEATH IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
Edited by Karoline Gritzner
Eros and Death are the two central drives and compulsions of the human
psyche and their dynamic interconnectedness has been pervasive in the
formation of Western thought and culture. The essays brought together
in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in
a wide selections of dramatic texts, theatrical practices and cultural
performance. ISBN 978 1 902806 92 1
ESSAYS Wallace Shawn
In these bold essays — Wallace Shawn takes us on a revelatory
journey through high art, war, culture, politics and privilege. With his
distinctive humour and insight, Shawn invites us to look at the world
with new eyes, the better to understand…and change it. ISBN 978
1608460 96 0
ESSAYS ON GERMAN THEATER. Edited by Margaret HerzfeldSander Foreword by Martin Esslin. The German Library: Volume 83
Volkmar Sander, General Editor.
In his foreword Martin Esslin remarks: “It is against this background
of the theater’s high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the
literary arts, as the place where all the arts can coalesce in a Wagnerian
Gesamtkunstwerk or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in
Brechtian epic “alienation,” of the drama as a method of thought, of
concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and
theoretical writings about drama and theatre that the German speaking
world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be
seen and appreciated.” ISBN 978 0 8264 0297 4
ETHEREGE AND WYCHERLEY — B. A. Kachur
This is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading
comic dramatists of the early restoration period. B. A. Kachur explores
the major plays within the cultural, social and political changes that
marked the reign of Charles II, and addresses issues such as marriage,
manners, heroism, sovereignty and anxieties over class hierarchies which
preoccupied late seventeenth-century England. ISBN 0 333 57541 5
EX MACHINA Patrick Caux Bernard Gilbert Translated by Neil
Kroetsch
In 1993 Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific
identity and image be found for his next working group. He imposed
one condition — the word “theatre” was not to be part of the name of
the new company. ISBN 978 0 88922 617 3
FEMINIST AND QUEER PERFORMANCE Critical Strategies SueEllen Case
Feminist and Queer Performance traces a rich personal, political
and theatrical history. Mapping the central theoretical strategies of
interpretation in feminist and queer studies, and examining the leading
performance artists in the field, each chapter responds to and is situated
in the lively and compelling debates of the moment. ISBN 978 0 230
53755 2
FEMINIST FUTURES? Theatre, Performance, Theory Edited by
Elaine Aston & Geraldine Harris Part of Performance Interventions
General Editors: Elaine Aston & Bryan Reynolds
Feminist Futures? Sets out to ask if and in what ways feminism remains
relevant to theatre and performance practice of the twenty-first century.
Responding to this question is an excellent cross-generational mix of
theatre scholars and practitioners whose essays engage in lively, cutting
edge critical debates on issues such as citizenship, autobiography,
cultural heritage, political agency and body/technology, as circulating in
contemporary feminism and performance today. A timely contribution
to feminism and theatre debates and essential reading for theatre,
performance and women’s studies. ISBN 978 1 4039 4533 4
A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON RENAISSANCE DRAMA Alison
Findlay
This book uses the writings of sixteenth and seventeenth century
woman to construct a feminist perspective on drama by Shakespeare,
Marlowe, Middleton and their contemporaries. Chapters are arranged
thematically on key issues or genres.
FEMINIST VIEWS ON THE ENGLISH STAGE —Women
Playwrights, 1990—2000. Elaine Aston
An exciting and insightful study of contemporary drama from a
feminist perspective, one that challenges an idea of the 1990s as a
“post-feminist” decade and pays attention to women’s playwriting
marginalized by a “renaissance” of angry young men. Working through
a generational mix of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic “bad
girl” of the stage, to the “canonical” Caryl Churchill, Elaine Aston
charts the significant political and aesthetic changes in women’s
playwriting at the century’s end. Aston also explores new writing for
the 1990s in theatre by Sarah Daniels, Byrony Lavery, Phyllis Nagy,
Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, Judy Upton and Timberlake
Wertenbaker. ISBN 0 521 80003 X (HB
FICTIONAL THINKING A Poetics and Rhetoric of Fictional
Creativity in Theatre Eli Rozik
The focus throughout is on theatre fictional worlds which by their
nature exhibit the most complex fictional thoughts that the human brain
can generate. The theoretical insights gained for theatre assumedly
apply to descriptions of such worlds in any language or medium. The
volume has been purposefully designed to address undergraduates and
postgraduate student needs to provide a fundamental competence of
theatre studies. ISBN 978 1 84519 327 0
FIFTY KEY — Theatre Directors. Edited by Shomit Mitter and Maria
Shevtsova
Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have
shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre and performance.
The authors provide clear and insightful overviews of the approaches
and impact of fifty of the most influential directors of the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries from around the world. The include: Anne
Bogart, Peter Brook, Lev Dodin, Declan Donnellan, Jerzy Grotowski,
Elizabeth LeCompte, Joan Littlewood, Ariane Mnouchkine. ISBN 0
415 18732 X
FOUND IN TRANSLATION Greek Drama in English. J. Michael
Walton
In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek
plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation
also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre
from a source into a target language. The history of translating
classical tragedy and comedy, here fully investigated for the first
time, demonstrates how through the ages translators have wittingly
or unwittingly, appropriated Greek plays and made them reflect sociopolitical concerns of their own era. ISBN 978 0 521 10289 6
THE FRANTIC ASSEMBLY BOOK OF DEVISING THEATRE
Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett
Acclaimed by audiences and critics for their highly innovative and
adventurous theatre, Frantic Assembly have created playful, intelligent
and dynamic productions for over 14 years. This intimate and
personal account offers an accessible, educational and indispensable
introduction to the evolution and success of Frantic Assembly. It is
also accompanied by a companion website featuring clips of rehearsals
and performances. ISBN 978 0 415 46760 5
THE FRONT PAGE — From Theatre To Reality. George W. Hilton.
Highly detailed, historically correct annotations by George Woodman
Hilton accompany the original text of The Front Page. Character and
text analyses, historical and production photos, a chronology of the
play’s productions, and an extensive index are also included. This
book will provide students, directors, producers, theaterphiles, and
historians an unprecedented understanding of this landmark American
Classic. ISBN 1 57525 310 0
GHOSTS. Death’s Double and the Phenomena of Theatre. Alice Rayner.
If ghosts hover where secrets—secrets of the past, secrets from oneself,
secrets of life and death—are kept, then according to Rayner, “theatre
is where ghosts best make their appearances and let communities and
individuals know that we live amid secrets hiding in plain sight.”
ISBN 0 8166 4545 0
DOCTOR FAUSTUS A CRITICAL GUIDE Edited by Sara Munson
Deats
‘This wide-ranging book provides food for thought for readers of all
levels: it helps orientate the beginner with useful surveys of the critical
territory and it caters to more advanced readers with stimulating
scholarly essays on topics such as postcolonialism, print culture and
the occult. There are extensive (and helpfully annotated) reading lists
to guide all readers through the critical maze. Every chapter is full of
useful information and observations. This is a valuable addition to the
library of every school or university — and to the bookcase of every
student.’ Laurie Maguire, Professor of English, Oxford University
ISBN 978 1 84706 138 6
GET REAL: Documentary Theatre Past and Present. Edited by Alison
Forsyth and Chris Megson
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have
turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront
new socio-political realities. This has led too an astonishing range of
performance styles, ways of working and modes of intervention in
varied sites of theatrical production. The essays in this collection place
this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples
of documentary and “verbatim” theatre, and applying a range of
critical perspectives that elaborate its impact and significance today.
ISBN 978 0230336896
THE GIRLS IN THE BIG PICTURE — Gender in Contemporary
Ulster Theatre. Imelda Foley
In this revealing new study, Imelda Foley presents a penetrating
analysis of the work of the all-women Charabanc theatre company,
and of the plays of Jones, Reid, Devlin and McGuinness and argues
that, with much less fuss and fanfare, they have effectively achieved
many of the stated ambitious of both the Ulster Literary Theatre and
Field Day. ISBN 0 85640 715 1
THEATRE AND GLOBALIZATION Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger
Era Patrick Lonergan
Globalization is transforming theatre everywhere. As writers seek
to exploit new opportunities to produce their work internationally,
audiences are seeing the world — and the stage differently. And, as
national borders become more fluid, the barriers between economics
and culture are also becoming weaker. Placing these developments in
the context of Ireland — the ‘most globalized country in the world’
— since the early 1990s. This study sheds new light on the culture
of Celtic Tiger Ireland, focusing on such writers as Brian Friel, Sean
O’Casey Marie Jones, Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson. In
doing so, it shows how `globalization poses difficult questions for
authors and audiences and reveals how we can begin to come to terms
with these new developments. ISBN 978 0 230 24191 6
THE GOLDEN BUDDHA CHANGING MASKS An Opening to
Transformative Theatre Mark Olsen
“In this ground-breaking and stimulating book, the author reminds us
of the spiritual languages that gave rise to the craft of acting in the
distant past; he skilfully details how the spiritual path to awakening
parallels, in important aspects, the path of the actor as he prepares his
body, voice, intellect and spirit for the practice of his craft …” Ruby
Allen, PH. D. Director of Voice and Speech Training, the Florida State
University Asola Conservatory of Professional Actor Training ISBN
978 0 89556 083 4
A GUIDE TO ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA — Ian C Storey and
Arlene Allan
This guide provides a broad –ranging introduction to ancient Greek
drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth to third
century BC. All three genres of Greek drama are discussed – tragedy,
comedy and satyr play – as well as the five surviving playwrights —
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophones and Menander together
with brief entries on lost playwrights. ISBN 1 4051 0215 2
GREEK TRAGEDY Suffering Under the Sun Edith Hall
Edith Hall offers an introduction to Greek tragedy which argues that the
essential feature of the genre is that it depicts terrible human suffering
and death, but in a way that invites philosophical enquiry into their
causes and effects. Played out in the bright sunlight of open-air theatre
becoming a key marker of the boundary between living and the dead.
HB ISBN 978 0 19 923351 2
HARLEQUIN EMPIRE David Worral From the Enlightenment World
Series Editors: Michael T Davies, Jack Fruchtmann, Jr, Iain McCalman
and Paul Pickering
Harlequin Empire explores the presentation of foreign cultures and
ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1740 to 1840. Under the
1737 Licensing Act Covent Garden, Drury Lane and regional Theatres
Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. Excluded from polite
dramatic discourse, non-patent theatres produced harlequinades,
melodrama, pantomimes and spectacles. Worrall argues that this
illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.
HB 978 1 85196 851 0
HEART OF PRACTICE Within the Workcentre of Jerzy Grotowski
and Thomas Richards by Thomas Richards
Heart of Practice is a unique and invaluable insight into the workings of
a true theatrical pioneer, presented by one of his closest collaborators.
This book charts the development of a crucial phase of Grotowski’s
performing arts research through a decade of conversations with
his apprentice, Thomas Richards. Tuscany’s Workcentre of Jerzy
Grotowski and Thomas Richards’ is in the enduring legacy of a master
teacher, director and theorist and home to much of Grotowski’s most
significant work. Interviewed by leading scholars and offering his own
intimate accounts, Richards gives a vivid and detailed view of the
Workcentre’s evolution. ISBN 978 0 415 44148 3
HERACLES AND EURIPIDEAN TRAGEDY Thalia Papadopoulou
Euripides’ Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity,
exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of
the eponymous hero. This book offers a comprehensive reading of
Heracles examining it in the contexts of Euripidean dramaturgy, Greek
drama and Fifth century Athenian society. It shows that the play, which
raises profound questions on divinity and human values, deserves to
have a prominent place in every discussion about Euripides and Greek
tragedy. HB ISBN 0 521 85126 2
HERE WE STAND Politics, Performers and Performance
Robeson, Duncan, Chaplin. Colin Chambers
In Here We Stand, Colin Chambers looks at Robeson’s career and the
extent to which his work as an artist was compromised or reinforced
by his dogged adherence to what he believed was right. By way of
comparison Chambers also looks at the life and work of Isadora
Duncan, whose Soviet sympathies provoked hostility in her native
America, and Charlie Chaplin, whose anti-establishment stance led to
his expulsion from the US. HB ISBN 1 85459 920 8
HOLOCAUST DRAMA The Theatre of Atrocity Gene A Plunka
The Holocaust — the systematic attempted destruction of European
Jewry and other “threats” to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 has
been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs and poetry; however there
has been a lack of information about the theatre of the Holocaust.
The immediacy of theatre affects us emotionally, subliminally and
intellectually, in a direct way that few other art forms can duplicate.
Including through critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book
explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the
United States, Europe and Israel. HB ISBN 978 0 521 49425 0
HOW PLAYS WORK David Edgar
In How Plays Work distinguished playwright David Edgar examines
the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages
have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning.
Written for playwrights and playgoers alike, Edgar’s analysis starts
with the building blocks of whole plays — plot, character-creation,
genre and structure — and moves on to scenes and devices. He shows
how plays share a common architecture without which the uniqueness
of their authors’ vision would be invisible. How Plays Work is both a
masterclass for playwrights and playmakers and a fascinating guide to
the anatomy of drama. ISBN 978 1 85459 371 9
HOW PLAYS WORK Reading and Performance Martin Meisel
Cultivated in tone and jargon free, How Plays Work is illuminated
by dozens of judiciously chosen examples from western drama.
From classical Greek dramatists to contemporary playwrights, both
canonical and relatively obscure. It will appeal as much to the serious
student of the theatre as to the playgoer who likes to read a play before
seeing it performed. HB ISBN 978 0 9215 49 2
ILLEGITIMATE POWER Bastards in Renaissance Drama Alison
Findlay
In Renaissance drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and
disruptive figure. We have only to think of Caliban or of Edmund to
realize the challenge presented by the illegitimate child. Drawing on
a wide range of play texts, Alison Findlay shows hoe illegitimacy
encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of
patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of
crises in early modern England, reading them in relation to witchcraft,
spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. ISBN 978
0 7190 8085 2
INTERCLTURALISM & PERFORMANCE Writings from PAJ
Edited by: Bonnie Marranca & Gautam Dasgupta
Contributors from several continents provide commentary on artists as
diverse as Peter Brook, Robert Wilson, Wim Wenders, Hanif Kureshi
and Jean Genet. This far-ranging study of interculturalism explores the
nuances of performance, culture and history in the cultural activities
of Asian, Yaqui, Islamic, Hispanic, Samek, African and European
communities. HB ISBN 9781 55554057 9
INTERPRETING THE PLAYSCRIPT. Contemplation and Analysis.
Anne Fliotsos
The starting point for virtually all theatre is studying the play script, but
what does this involve? Interpreting the Play Script: Contemplation
and Analysis argues that one type of analysis cannot fit every play, nor
does one method suit every theatre artist or collaborative team. The
first text to combine traditional and non-traditional models, it gives
students a range of tools with which to approach different kinds of
performance. ISBN 978 0 2302 9004 4
AN INTRODUCTION TO GREEK TRAGEDY. Ruth Scodel
This book provides a brief and accessible introduction to Greek tragedy
for students and general readers alike. Whether readers are studying
Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in
reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy
this challenging and rewarding genre. ISBN 978 0 5217 0560 8
INVITATION TO THE PARTY Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture
and Community Donna Walker-Kuhne
“Donna is an outstanding builder of bridges with new audiences within
the museum field and throughout the arts industry. Her understanding
and forward thinking has led to many innovative changes that have
made a difference in reaching the public and causing institutions to
re-evaluate their perception of inclusion. Her meticulous research
and execution will always be valued and a sought-after asset to
organizations and corporations everywhere.” Donna Sutton, Audience
Development Specialist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 1
55936 230 8
JACOBEAN DRAMA A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism
Pascale Aebischer
The plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries are increasingly popular
thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses
that set Shakespeare’s plays in context. This reader’s guide introduces
students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of
playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker and Webster.
ISBN 978 0 230 00816 8
JANA SANSKRITI Forum Theatre and Democracy in India Sanjoy
Ganguly
This book is a unique first-hand account — by the group’s artistic
director Sanjoy Ganguly — of Jana Sanskriti’s growth since its
founding in 1985, which has resulted in a national Forum Theatre
network throughout India. ISBN 978 0 415 57752 6
JOHN SIMON ON THEATRE CRITICISM, 1974-2003 John Simon,
Introduction by Jack O’Brien
This provocative book is part of a major publishing event that brings
together the critical writing of the well known New York cultural critic
John Simon. Covering a span of more than three decades, it includes
previously published work from NewYork the Hudson Review, National
Review, Opera News, the New Leader, and other notable publications.
HB ISBN 1 55783 505 5
KEY CONCEPTS IN DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE Second
Edition Kenneth Pickering
Covering all major terms and concepts, the book makes complex
terminology cleae. Entries are arranged under key themes such as
‘Performance Concepts’, “Staging Concepts’ and ‘Critical Concepts’
for ease of use throughout.
ISBN 978 0 230 24147 3
THE LABAN SOURCEBOOK by Dick McCaw
Rudolf Laban was a pioneer in dance and movement, who found
an extraordinary range of application for his ideas; from industry to
drama, education and therapy. Laban believed that you can understand
about human beings by observing how they move, and devised
two complimentary methods of notating the shape and quality of
movements. The Laban Sourcebook offers a comprehensive account
of Laban’s writings. It includes extracts from his five books in English
and from his four works in German, written in the 1920s and translated
here for the first time. ISBN 978 0 4155 4332 3
LANGUAGE AND STAGE IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE
ENGLAND Janette Dillon
This study explores the staging of medieval and Renaissance English
drama. Janette Dillon analyses the relationship between English and
other languages, which combined to create new and important kinds of
performance in this period. Dillon examines why, from 1400 to 1600,
other languages increasingly invade English plays and illuminates their
significance by attention to developments in church and state within
the context of the advancing Reformation and expanding English
nationalism. Dillon focuses on drama as performance, employing a
wide range of works, from the mystery cycles and morality plays,
through early Tudor drama, to the plays of Shakespeare and many of
his lesser-known contemporaries. ISBN 0 521 03215 6
LAW AND REPRESENTATION IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA
Subha Mukherji
This examination of the relationship between law and drama in
Renaissance England establishes the diversity of their dialogue,
encompassing critique and complicity, comment and analogy, but
argues that the way in which drama addresses legal problems and
dilemmas is nevertheless distinctive. As the resemblance between law
and theatre concerns their formal structures rather than their methods
and aims, an interdisciplinary approach must be as alive to distinctions
as to affinities. HB ISBN 0 521 85035 5
LETTERS TO A YOUNG ACTOR Robert Brustein
In Letters to a Young Actor, Robert Brustein not only seeks to inspire
the multitudes of struggling dramatists out of pounding the pavement,
but also to reinvigorate the very state of the art of acting itself. From
why method acting is a limited technique, to the critical importance
of a good education and classical training, Brustein’s advice is clear,
persuasive and inspiring. ISBN 978 0 465 00814 8
LIBERATION OF THE THEATRE. Rudolf Steiner Theatre Critic,
Berlin 1897 - 1900. Edited by Peter Bridgmont based on a translation
by Margot Hanemann.
A selection of his reviews including the Influence of English Touring
Companies on German Theatre. ISBN 978 1 4709 5053 8
LIVENESS: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. Second Edition
Philip Auslander
Since its first appearance, Philip Auslanders book has helped to
reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific instances of live
performance such as theatre, rock music, sport and courtroom testimony.
In this new edition, the author thoroughly updates his provocative
argument to take into account new digital and media technologies and
cultural, social and legal developments. In tackling some of the last
great shibboleths surrounding the high cultural status of the live event,
this book will continue to shape opinion and to provoke lively debate
on a crucial artistic dilemma: what is live performance and what can it
mean to us now? ISBN 978 0 415 77353 9
LOOKING AT LYSISTRATA Eight Essays and a New Version of
Aristophanes’ Provocative Comedy Edited by David Stuttard
This collection of essays by eight leading academics sets the play
firmly in its historical and social context, while exploring Aristophanes’
purpose in writing it and considering the responses of modern audiences
and directors. ISBN 978 1853997365
LOVE AND CONFLICT IN MEDIEVAL DRAMA The Plays and
Their Legacy. Lynette R Muir
This book provides a detailed survey of the hundreds of non-biblical
serious plays which survive from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries.
The performers vary from civic groups and literary societies to courts
and convents; they were mainly amateurs, but they left a legacy of
stories that were drawn upon by the writers for the professional theatre
companies of Elizabethan England, Golden Age Spain and the rich
Baroque theatre of France, including Shakespeare and Lope de Vega.
In each section of the book, the plays are later included in their earlier
versions, arranged chronologically. Staging and language vary, but as
the study demonstrates, the story itself is substantially unchanged. HB
ISBN 0 521 82756 6
LOVING BIG BROTHER Performance, Privacy and Surveillance
Space John E Magrath
Surveillance Space John E McGrath
Constant scrutiny by surveillance cameras is usually seen as, at best, a
necessary invasion of privacy and, at worst, an infringement of human
rights. But in this radical new account of the uses of surveillance in art,
performance and popular culture, John E McGrath sets out a surprising
alternative: a world where we have much to gain from the experience
of being watched.
In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims
of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues
that if we can understand why this is we may transform the effect it has
on our lives. ISBN 978 0 415 27538 5
MAKERS OF MODERN THEATRE. An introduction. Robert Leach
The key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century are
Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and
Antonin Artaud. Robert Leach’s Makers of Modern Theatre is the first
detailed introduction to the work of these practitioners. In it, Leach
focuses on the major issues which relate to their dominance of theatre
history. ISBN 0 415 31241 8
MAKING A PERFORMANCE: Devising Histories and Contemporary
Practices. Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson and Katie Normington.
This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised
performance explores how performance-makers have built on the
experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as
diverse as Australia’s Legs on the Wall, Britain’s Forced Entertainment
and the USA-based Goat Island to show how contemporary practitioners
challenge orthodoxies to develop new theatrical languages. ISBN 978
0 515 28653 4
THE MAKING OF THEATRICAL REPUTATIONS Studies from the
Modern London Theatre Yael Zarhy-Levo
Today’s successful plays and playwrights achieve their prominence
not simply because of their intrinsic merit but because of the work of
mediators, who influence the whole trajectory of a playwright’s or a
theatre company’s career. Critics and academic writers are primarily
considered the makers of reputations, but funding organizations
and various media agents as well as artistic directors, producers and
directors also pursue separate agendas in shaping the reputations of
theatrical works. In The Making of Theatrical Reputations Yael ZarhyLevo demonstrates the processes through which these mediatory
practices by key authority figures situate theatrical companies and
playwrights within cultural and historical memory. HB ISBN 978 1
58729 626 0
MAKING PLAYS — Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatics
and Directors. Introduced, interviewed and edited by Duncan Wu
This book is a collection of ten interviews with some of the greatest
dramatists of our time and the directors with whom they have worked:
Howard Brenton and Max Stafford-Clark, Alan Bennett and Nicholas
Hytner, David Edgar and Michael Attenborough, David Hare and
Richard Eyre, and Michael Frayn and Michael Blakemore.
MAKING THEATRE IN NORTHERN IRELAND. Through and
Beyond the Troubles. Tom Maguire
This is the first study of the theatre of Northern Ireland in the
second half of the twentieth century to provide a distinctively Irish
perspective. Largely playtext-based, the book will engage and inform
a student readership. It contains useful contextualising material such
as a chronological list of Northern Ireland’s plays in the modern
period, a full bibliography, and a concise chronology. Tom Maguire
provides a unique insight into the theatre of Northern Ireland, from
within Northern Ireland. ISBN 0 85989 739 7
MASK AND PERFORMANCE IN GREEK TRAGEDY From Ancient
Festival to Modern Experimentation David Wiles
Why did actors in the age of Sophocles always wear masks? David
Wiles provides the first book-length study of this question. He surveys
the evidence of vases and other monuments, arguing that they portray
masks as part of a process of transformation and that masks were
never seen in the fifth century as autonomous objects. Wile goes on to
examine experiments with the mask in twentieth century theatre, tracing
a tension between the use of masks for possession and for alienation,
and he identifies a preference among modern classical scholars for
alienation. Wiles declines to distinguish the political aims of Greek
tragedy from its religious aims, and concludes that an understanding of
the mask allows us to see how Greek acting was simultaneously textcentred and body-centred. This book challenges orthodox views about
how theatre relates to ritual and provides insight into the creative work
of the actor. HB ISBN 978 0 521 86522 7
MEMORY AND FORGETTING IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
DRAMA. Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster. Garrett A. Sullivan, JR.
Focusing on works such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Dr.Faustus, and The
Duchess of Malfi, Sullivan reveals memory and forgetting to be
dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of
embodiment, selfhood, and social practice. HB 0 521 84842 3
MESSIAHS AND MACHIAVELLIANS Depicting Evil in the Modern
Theatre Paul Corey
Paul Corey examines how theatre, which expressed a key political
dynamic both in the Renaissance and the twentieth century, lays open
the impulses that instigated modernity and ultimately unparalleled
levels of violence and destruction. Starting with Albert Camus’s
Caligula and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, then turning to
Machiavelli’s Mandragola and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure,
Corey traces the emergence of two dominant, intertwining features of
modern evil: an unrestrained pursuit of power and the utopian desire
for perfection. ISBN 978 0 268 02295 2
THE METHUEN DRAMA GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY
IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS Edited by Martin Middeke and Peter Paul
Schnierer
With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were
written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to
Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its coverage of recent
work and writers. ISBN 978 1 4081 1346 2
MILLENNIAL STAGES. Essays and Reviews 2001-2005 Robert
Brustein
Brustein examines crucial issues relating to theater in the post 9/11
years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and established performers
and theatrical production throughout the world. Brustein relates our
theater to our society in a manner that reminds us why the performing
arts matter. HB ISBN 0 300 11577 6
MODERN BRITISH PLAYWRITING. The 1950s. Voices, Documents,
New Interpretations. David Pattie. In a period of national uncertainty,
with Britain’s place in the world order weakening, cracks appearing
between the generations and its cultural life threatened by stagnation
and conservatism, what place did theatre have in the shifting reality?
In this major reassessment of playwriting from the period, David
Pattie interrogates the conventional narrative of the decade’s theatre,
and examines the origins, significance and legacy of the work created.
ISBN 978 1 4081 2927 2
MODERN BRITISH PLAYWRITING. The 1960s. Voices, Documents,
New Interpretations. Steve Nicholson
Reflecting its decade’s seismic social and political shifts, British theatre
of the 1960s was a place of exciting and at times revolutionary change.
New ideas about what theatre was, where it might take place and how it
could be made encouraged challenges to cultural orthodoxy, assaults on
national icons - including theatrical censorship itself - and the breaking
of public taboos. In this major reassessment of playwriting from the
period, Steve Nicholson explores how theatre-makers responded to the
changes in osciety, how their legacy endures today and how critical
consensus has changed over time. ISBN 978 1 4081 2957 9
MODERN BRITISH PLAYWRITING. The 1980s. Voices, Documents,
New Interpretations. Jane Milling
In the newly-dereulated market economy of the 1980s, theatre was
subjected to an array of political and economic pressures that radically
altered its ecology. Jane Milling traces the wide-ranging impact of the
changes on theatre institutions and funding, considers the diversity of
new writing and playwrights, and examines how plays written during
the decade engaged with the issues of the day. ISBN 978 1 4081 2959
3
MODERN BRITISH WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS — The Cambridge
Companion. Edited by Ealine Aston and Janelle Reinelt
This Companion addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain
throughout the twentieth century. The chapters explore the historical,
political and theatrical contexts in which women have written for the
theatre and examine the work of individual playwrights
MODERN DRAMA IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 2— Symbolism,
Surrealism and the Absurd. J. L. Styan
This volume takes symbolism as its theme, with its offshoots surrealism
and the absurd. The theories of Wagner and Nietzsche are seen as
providing the basic principals, disseminated by the work of Adolphe
Appta and Gordon Craig, and rapidly affecting the theatre in Ibsen’s
later plays, Materlinck and Jugne-Poe’s Théâtre de l’Oeuvre
MODERN DRAMATISTS — A casebook of Major British, Irish, and
American Playwrights. Edited by Kimball King
In this book, Kimball King has assembled a comprehensive collection
of insightful literacy overviews of the foremost British, Irish, and
American playwrights and plays of the late twentieth century, providing
a valuable critical tool for informed readers of dramatic literature.
Taken together, the twenty-six essays, written by leading figures in
drama and theatre studies, reveal the tremendous range and vitality of
modern theatre in England, Ireland, and the United States.
MODERN THEATRE GUIDES: TONY KUSHNER’S ANGELS IN
AMERICA Ken Nielsen
With the scope of characters’ sexual, class and religious affiliations in
the play, Angels in America offers a unique possibility to discuss the
construction of American identity in the late 1980s and 1990s. This
guide provides students with a comprehensive critical introduction to
the play, including its structure, style, characters and key production
issues and choices. It also offers an overview of the performance
history of Millennium Approaches and Perestroika including the 2003
HBO adaptation. ISBN 978 0 8264 9504 4
MODERNISM. Edited by Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane
Apart from the texts themselves, this book examines the ideas, the
groupings and the social tensions out of which Modernism emerged.
It identifies those elements of shock and crisis crucial to stylistic
development, and provides biographies of its leading exponents
together with extensive bibliographical material.
MODERNISM AND PERFORMANCE: Jarry to Brecht
Olga Taxidou
The concept of performance as a distinct artistic practice emerges
within the discourses of Modernism and modernity. Tracing this
concept from Alfred Jarry’s first public rehearsal of Ubu Roi in 1898
to Bertolt Brecht’s adaptation of Antigone in 1947, this guide to
Modernism and performance focuses on moments of interaction and
overlap between literary Modernism and the historical avant-garde.
Olga Taxidou introduces key developments and debates of the period,
such as the rise of the director, new theories of acting, new modes of
production and complex relationships with tradition. ISBN 978 1 4039
4101 5
MODERNISM, DRAMA, AND THE AUDIENCE FOR IRISH
SPECTACLE. Paige Reynolds
Employing previously unexamined archival material. Paige Reynolds
reconstructs five large-scale public events staged in early twentiethcentury Ireland: the riotous premiere of J M Synge’s The Playboy
of the Western World in 1907; the events of Dublin Suffrage Week,
including the Irish premiere of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm, in 1913; the
funeral processions of the orators, biographers, historians) to the
abundant theatrical anecdotes that can be read as a body of “popular
performance theory”.
MODES OF SPECTATING By Alison Oddey & Christine White
The notion of spectatorship has become of increasing interest as artists
develop experimental works and manufacturers seek to produce the
means for viewing such works. Modes of Spectating explores the
visual landscapes which spectators encounter, and how they perceive
what they view. Themes explored include aesthetics, the body and
mind and digital entertainment environments, looked at through the
lenses of gaming art, photography, sculpture and performance, making
it a useful text for scholars of all disciplines of media and art. ISBN
978 1 84150 239 7
NATIONAL ABJECTION: The Asian American Body Onstage. Karen
Shimakawa.
National Abjection explores the vexed relationship between “Asian
Americanness” and “Americanness” through a focus on drama and
performance art. ISBN 978 0 8223 2823 0
NAVIGATING THE UNKNOWN. The Creative Process in
Contemporary Performing Arts. Edited by Christopher Bannerman,
Joshua Sofaer, Jane Watt
This book offers a fascinating insight into the different kinds of
processes that practitioners in the performing arts undertake in their
creative work and considers the implications these processes have in
the wider world. Based on a five year research programme conducted
by ResCen, Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts,
this publication brings together internationally renowned performance
makers in the fields of dance, performance, live art and music to share
their creative processes. ISBN 1 904750 55 9
THE NECESSITY OF THEATER The Art of Watching and Being
Watched Paul Woodruff
“He takes such care to edify, that it seems ungrateful not to lap up every
word…. If this book succeeds in any measure as a dense of theater, it
will also have succeeded at something much larger.” New York Times
Book Review ISBN 978 0 19 539480 1
NOT HAMLET. Meditations on the Frail Position of Women in
Drama. Janet Suzman
Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, La Pucelle, Ophelia, Shaw’s St Joan and
Ibsen’s Hedda — a handful of “seminal” roles for women in the
classical canon. Janet Suzman has played them all and directed some.
Here she examines their complexity and explores why only Cleopatra
has an independence that allows her to speak to modern women. ISBN
978 1 8494 3201 6
NOT THE OTHER AVANT-GARDE. The Transnational Foundation s
of Avant-Garde Performance. Edited by James M. Harding and John
Rouse.
These ten original essays, especially commissioned for Not the Other
Avant-Garde, forge a radically new conception of the avant-garde
by demonstrating the many ways in which the first and second-wave
avant-gardes were always already a transnational phenomenon, an
amalgam of often contradictory performance traditions and practices
developed in various cultural locations around the world, including
Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India and Japan. ISBN 0
472 06931
ON DIRECTING Interviews with Directors — Edited Gabriella
Giannachi and Mary Luckhurst
This book takes off from Peter Brook’s inspirational foreword and
considers the position of the director in theatre and performance in
Britain today. The full diversity of today’s approaches to directing are
explored through a series of interviews with leading contemporary
practitioners: Peter Brooks. Annie castledine. Peter Cheeseman.
Jonathan Miller. Garry Hines. Etc.
ON ILLUSTRATION Andrzej Klimowski
Drawing is perhaps the mosst immediate medium through which an
idea can be articulated. Illustration takes drawing into the narrative
realm. The illustrations that we see as children stay with us forever;
they play a seminal role in the development of our imagination. On
Illustration argues that this unssuming artistic discipline can enrich a
person’s experience of cultural life provided the illustrator’s talent is
matched by the courage and intelligence of the client. The book is an
insight into Andrzej Klimowski’s practice, and will help define the role
and status of the illustrator in today’s creative industries. HB ISBN
978 1 8494 3112 5
ON THE ART OF THE THEATRE Edward Gordon Craig Edited by
Franc Chamberlain
On the Art of the Theatre was first published in 1911 and remains one
of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice. Actor, director,
designer and pioneering theorist Edward Gordon Craig was one of
twentieth-century theatre’s great modernizers. Here, he is eloquent
and entertaining in expounding his views on the theatre; a crucial and
prescient contribution that retains its relevance almost a century later.
This reissue boasts extensive notes from editor Franc Chamberlain,
alongside Craig’s own idiosyncratic asides, complete with full citations
and proper names, guiding the reader through the rich and varied
theatrical world that the author inhabited. ISBN 978 0 415 45034 8
THE ORIGINS OF THEATER IN ANCIENT GREECE AND
BEYOND From Ritual to Drama Edited by Eric Csapo and Margaret
Miller
This volume is the most thorough examination on the origins of Greek
drama to date. It brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars
in a variety of fields, including classical archaeology, iconography,
cultural history, theatre history, philosophy and religion. Though it
primarily focuses on ancient Greece, the volume includes comparative
studies of ritual drama from ancient Egypt, Japan, and medieval
Europe. Collectively, the essays show how the relationship of drama
to ritual is one of the most controversial, complex and multi-faceted
questions of modern times. ISBN 978 0 521 74833 9
OUTSIDER John Rockwell On the Arts, 1967-2006
These writings epitomize Rockwell’s unique vision of the arts scene,
with commentary on classical music (including the full breadth of
contemporary composition), rock, dance, art, film, theater, books
general art topics and reports from abroad. Any literate reader, any
lover of culture in its full range and scope, from genre to genre, from
high to low, from the West to the whole world, will relish Rockwell’s
trenchant, witty, frank analysis. ISBN 978 0 87910 367 5
PAGE TO STAGE SERIES
A guide to the play from page to stage for students, actors and directors.
After a concise introduction and the historical background of the
play, there are discussions of the themes and playwriting techniques.
Then in the main body of thebook, we are conducted scene by scene
through the action of the play, analysing moment by moment what is
actually said and done, and how the staging of these moments affects
our understanding of them.
Titles In This Series:
Chekhov’s Three Sisters by Michael Pennington ISBN 978 1 85459 899 8
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Stephen Unwin ISBN 978 1 85459 872 1
PERFORMANCE AND THE CONTEMPORARY CITY An
Interdisciplinary Reader Edited by Nicolas Whybrow
Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations,
have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely
collection draws together various urban writings from a range of
relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology,
visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus however, is
performance. ISBN 978 0 230 52720 1
PERFORMANCE AND COSMOPOLITICS: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia Helen Gilbert & Jacqueline Lo Studies in International Performance: Series Editors: Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton
While this study is grounded in a specific regional history and politics,
it also serves as a paradigmatic study of cross-cultural transactions. By
focusing on theatre’s particular traditions of corporeality and presence,
Performance and Cosmopolitics challenges some of the foundational
principles of cosmopolitanism and asserts that its claim to a ‘disinterested’ global citizenship falters when confronted with the realpolitk of
bodily praxis.
ISBN 978 0 230 23402 4
PERFORMANCE AND IDENTITY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD.
Anne Duncan
Numerous sources reveal an uneasy fascination with actors and acting,
from the writings of elite intellectuals (philosophers, orators, biographers,
historians) to the abundant theatrical anecdotes that can be read as a
body of “popular performance theory”. Performance and Identity in the
Classical World examines these sources, along with dramatic texts, and
addresses the issue of impersonation from the late fifth century BC to the
early Roman Empire. HB ISBN 0 521 85282 X
PERFORMANCE AND PLACE. Edited by Leslie Hill and Helen
Paris
Featuring a mix of both practitioners and scholars, this much needed
volume explores the sites of contemporary performance, and the notion
of place. Addressing critical issues including the relationships between
site, memory, longing, identity and creativity, this volume provides
Performance Studies with a core text on notions of ‘place’ and will be
useful to students, scholars and practitioners in Performance Studies,
Visual Performance/Theatre, Live Art, Directing and Performance and
Technology, amongst others. ISBN 1 4039 4504 7
A PERFORMANCE COSMOLOGY Testimony from the Future,
Evidence of the Past Judie Christie, Richard Gough, Daniel Watt
A Performance Cosmology is an adventurous departure for the
field of theatre and performance studies. The book explores the
future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and
fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from
leading international theatre practitioners and academics. ISBN 978
0 415 37258 9
PERFORMANCE DEGREE ZERO. Roland Barthes and Theatre.
Timothy Scheie
‘The key issues of Scheie’s Performance Degree Zero are “liveness”
and “presence” as they are explored in the work of Roland Barthes.
Scheie takes seriously, investigates, and demonstrates the surprising
accuracy and resonance of Barthes’s own claim that “ at the crossroads
of the entire oeuvre is the Theatre”. The book is a major contribution
to both Barthes studies and theatre/performance studies. Ric Knowles,
School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph; Editor,
Canadian Theatre Review. ISBN 0 8020 9387 6
PERFORMANCE HISTORIES Bonnie Marranca
From the Preface: “This is a book focused on the idea of performance
history as well as on the history of performance… It is history as storia
or histoire, a form of narration, as well as a description of events, that
tells us about who we are and where we might go, through instances
that show us the way that we have come.” — Claire Macdonald,
Director of the International Centre for Fine art Research, University
of the Arts London and a founding editor of Performance Research
ISBN978 155554077 7
PERFORMANCE IN THE BORDERLANDS Edited by Ramón H
Rivera and Harvey Young Performance Interventions General Editors:
Elaine Aston & Bryan Reynolds
Comprised of thirteen essays and a transcribed conversation involving
the majority of this collection’s contributors, this book places a
spotlight on both the material and imagined lines of division that
exist within North America, including the Caribbean, and divide both
geographical regions and the people who inhabit them. HB ISBN 978
0 230 57460 1
PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVES. A Critical Introduction. Edited
by Jonathan Pitches and Sita Popat
Combining the voices of academics, artists, cultural critics and
teachers, Performance Perspectives provides a critical introduction to
performance studies. Presenting an accessible way into key terminology
and context, it offers a new model for analysing contemporary
performance based on six frames or perspectives: body, space, time,
technology, interactivity and organization. ISBN 978 0 2302 4346 0
PERFORMANCE PRACTICE AND PROCESS: Contemporary
(Women) Practitioners
Elaine Aston & Geraldine Harris
Drawing on “hands-on” experience from workshops and interviews,
Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women)
Practitioners explores the work of eight “gender aware” theatre and
performance artists and companies; Bobby Baker, Curious, SuAndi,
Sarah Daniels, Split Britches, Rebecca Pritchard, Vaiyu Nadu and
Jenny Eclair. In this innovative book, Elaine Aston and Geraldine
Harris offer rare insights into the processes as well as the practice of
these internationally renowned artists and employ an “inside”, practical
approach to understanding their ground-breaking and politically
radical theatre and performance work. ISBN 978 0 230 00155 8
PERFORMANCE STYLE AND GESTURE IN WESTERN
THEATRE. By Nicholas Dromgoole.
In this wide-ranging, illustrated survey, Nicholas Dromgoole traces
the origins and evolution of this lost ‘language of gesture’ from
ancient Greece to the contemporary stage, and asks what would it
have actually been like to watch the great plays and the great actors of
western theatre in their own day. HB ISBN 978 1 84002 592 1
PERFORMANCE, TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Johannes Birringer
Introducing a new field of study, this fascinating volume explores
interactive performance, installations and internet art in theatre,
dance and visual arts as well as in the worlds of fashion, games,
architecture, robotics and artificial intelligence. The work of numerous
internationally renowned artists, theatres and dance companies
demonstrates how techno-cultural shifts have transformed the digital
into a mainstream phenomenon on a global scale, articulating startling
views of the contemporary body. ISBN 867 1 5554 079 1
PERFORMANCE THEATRE AND THE POETICS OF FAILURE
Forced Entertainment, Goat Island, Elevator Service Sara Jane
Bailles
“A crucial intervention into the politics of contemporary performance.
It combines theoretical sophistication with a richly detailed engagement
with the experience of performance
Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary, University of London ISBN 978 0 415
58565 1
PERFORMATIVITY James Loxley
For students trying to make sense of performativity and related concepts
such as the speech act “ordinary language” and iterability, and for
those seeking to understand the place of these ideas in contemporary
performance theory, this clear guide will prove indispensable.
Performativity offers not only a path through challenging critical
terrain, but a new understanding of just what is at stake in the
exploration of this field. ISBN 978 0 415 32926 2
PERFORMING CONSUMERS Global Capital and Its Theatrical
Seductions. Maurya Wickstrom
Performing Consumers is a searching exploration of the way in which
brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who
encounter them at branded superstores. Looking at our performative
desire to “try on”
ISBN 978 0 415 33945 2
PERFORMING HERITAGE. Research, practice and innovation in
museum theatre and live interpretation. Edited by Anthony Jackson
and Jenny Kidd
The increasing use of performance in museums and at heritage sites
has been the subject of much comment and comment and controversy
within popular, professional and academic circles. Performing Heritage
addresses these debates directly, and is the first book to bring together
the range of voices, debates and practices that now constitute the fields
of museum theatre and live interpretation. ISBN 978 0 7190 8905 3
PERFORMING NEW LIVES Prison Theatre Jonathon Shailer
Foreword by Evelyn Ploumis-Devick
Theatrical performance in prison settings can be a powerful vehicle
for reflection, transformation and rehabilitation. In this original and
thought-provoking book, leading practitioners describe and reflect
upon the prison theatre experience, and offer valuable insights into its
role, function and implementation. ISBN 978 1 84905 823 0
PERFORMING SCIENCE AND THE VIRTUAL Sue-Ellen Case
In this daring and wide-ranging book we encounter Faust, glimpse
Edison in his laboratory, enter the soundscape of John Cage and raid
tombs with Lara Croft. Case looks at the intersection of science and
performance in a way that unsettles our assumptions across these
disciplines. ISBN 978 0 415 41439 5
PERFORMING REMAINS Art and War in Times of Theatrical
Reenactment Rebecca Schneider
Performing Remains is a dazzling new study exploring the role of the
fake, the false and the faux in contemporary performance. Rebecca
Schneider argues passionately that performance can be engaged as
what remains, rather than what disappears. ISBN 978 0 415 40442 6
PHYSICAL THEATRES: A Critical Introduction. Simon Murray and
John Keefe.
Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction is the first account to provide a
comprehensive overview of non-text-based theatre, from experimental
dance to traditional mime. This book synthesises the history, theory
and practice of physical theatre for students and performers, in what is
a core area of study and a dynamic and innovative aspect of theatrical
practice. This book can be used as a stand-alone text, or together with
its companion volume, Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader, to provide
an invaluable introduction to the physical in theatre and performance.
ISBN 978 0 415 36250 4
PHYSICAL THEATRES: A Critical Reader. Edited bySimon Murray
and John Keefe
In exploring the histories, cross-overs and intersections of physical
theatres, this critical reader provides six new specially written essays,
covering each of the book’s main themes, from technical traditions to
contemporary practices. Discussion of issues such as the foregrounding
of the body, training and performance processes and the origins of
theatre in both play and human cognition. A focus on the relationship
and tensions between the verbal and the physical theatre. Contributions
from Augusto Boal, Stephen Berkoff, Etienne Decroux, Bertolt Brecht
and Aristotle. ISBN 978 0 415 36252 8
PLAYING SPACES IN EARLY WOMEN’S DRAMA. Alison Findlay.
This is the first study to examine the playing spaces for early modern
women’s drama and how women played with space in scripts and
performances. Using selected texts from 1376 to 1705, Findlay shows
how their drama operated in five key sites: homes, gardens, courts,
convents and cities. This book sketches theatre histories onto what is
often a blank space, investigating the rich inter-textuality of spatial
practices to provide a richer understanding of how early women’s
drama works. HB 0 521 83956 4
POCKET GUIDE TO ISBEN, CHEKHOV, STRINDBERG —
Michael Pennington and Stephen Unwin
This essential, concise and readable guide to the plays of Ibsen,
Chekhov and Strindberg gives you: an introduction to each playwright;
historical and theatrical contexts to their plays; a synopsis for the
analysis of each of the major plays; details of productions around the
world; a chronology of plays during the period. ISBN 0 571 21475 4
PLAY BY PLAY — Theater Essays and Reviews, 1993-2002. Jonathan
Kalb
For more than 15 years Jonathan Kalb has been a singularly perceptive
commentator on American and European theatre. This collection
begins with a brave and piercing appraisal of the state of current
theater criticism, in a section Kalb characteristically calls “Critical
Mess.” He goes on to revisit the work of Samuel Beckett, as performed
in well-meaning efforts to bring it to a new, wider (TV) audience; to
consider today’s political theatre, particularly in the flourishing form
of one-person shows; to explore the theatrical landscape of a reunited
Germany, where the Berliner Ensemble in no longer a showcase for
the East, and finally to cover what’s going on back home in New York
— everything from The Lion King and Dame Edna to plays of David
Mamet and Arthur Miller (new and old) and to the latest trends in the
Broadway musical. ISBN 0 87910 994 X
PLAYING THE OTHER. Dramatizing Personal Narratives in Playback
Theatre. Nick Rowe
With more than ten years’ experience as an actor with Playback Theatre
York, Nick Rowe introduces the reader to the basics of playback theatre
within a historical and theoretical context. He traces the history and
development of the form from its conception in the late 1970s to its
subsequent growth world-wide, and discusses its relationship to the
psychodrama tradition from which it has evolved. Playing the Other
is essential reading for drama students, drama-therapists and all those
interested in the history and use of the theatre. ISBN 978 1 84310 421
PLAYWRIGHTS ON PLAYWRITING. From Ibsen to Ionesco. Edited
by Toby Cole. Introduction by John Gassner
“In all respects, Playwrights on Playwriting is a unique theatre
document. More than that, it shall have a practical value to playwrights
in our time and its foreseeable future.” — John Gassner, from his
introduction. ISBN 0 8154 1141 3
THE PLAYWRIGHTS VOICE. American Dramatists on Memory,
Writing and the Politics of Culture. David Savran.
The fifteen playwrights interviewed in this volume have breathed new
life into the American theatre by incorporating the innovations of the
experimental theatre of the sixties and seventies and moving forward
in original and sometimes startling ways. ISBN1-55936-163-8
THE POLITICS OF IRISH DRAMA ­— Plays in Context from
Boucicault to Friel. Nicholas Grene
In this book the author explores the political contexts for some of the
outstanding Irish plays from the nineteenth century to the contemporary
period, including The playboy of the Western World and The plough
and the stars, with the famous riots they provoked.
THE POLITICS OF THE STUART COURT MASQUE. Edited by
David Bevington and Peter Holbrook.
This book takes a look at the courtly masque in early seventeenthcentury England. The masque has been a favourite topic of New
Historicism, because it has been seen as part of the process by which
artistic works interact with politics, both shaping and reflecting the
political life of a nation. These exciting essays move importantly
beyond a monolithic view of culture and power in the production of
masques, to one in which rival factions at the courts of James I and
of Charles I represent their clash of viewpoints through dancing and
spectacle. ISBN 0 521 03120 6
POSTDRAMATIC THEATRE. Hans-Thies Lehmann. Translated by
Karen Jurs-Munby
Hans –Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre
forms that have developed since the late1960s has become a key
reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.
PostdramaticTheatre refers to theatre after drama. Despite their
diversity, the new forms and aesthetics that have evolved have one
essential quality in common: they no longer focus on the dramatic text.
This excellent translation is newly adapted for the Anglophone reader,
including an introduction by Karen Jurs-Munby which provides useful
theoretical and artistic contexts for the book. ISBN 0 4152 6813 3
PRINT AND THE POETICS OF MODERN DRAMA. W B Worthen
“This book is a profound meditation on the over-determined relation
between drama and performance. Equally at home in literary studies and
theatre studies, Worthen puts the old debate about the status of dramatic
literature on a new theoretical foundation. His book will be required
reading for students of dramatic literature and theatre goers alike.”
Martin Puchner, Columbia University. HB ISBN 0-521-84184-4
PRIVACY, PLAYREADING, AND WOMEN’S CLOSET DRAMA,
1550—1700. Marta Straznicky
Marta Straznicky offers a detailed historical analysis of early modern
women’s closet plays: plays explicitly written for reading, rather
than public performance. She reveals that such works were part of
an alternative dramatic tradition, an elite and private literary culture,
which was understood as intellectually superior to and politically more
radical than commercial drama. HB ISBN 0 521 84124 0
THE PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS AND THE CULTURE OF
MODERNITY. Brenda Murphy
The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in
Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism
was being conceived and developed. This study considers the group’s
vital role, and its wider significance in twentieth-century American
culture. Describing the varied and often contentious response to
modernity among the Players, Murphy reveals the central contribution
of the group of poets around Alfred Kreymborg’s Others magazine,
including William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Djuna
Barnes, and such modernist artists as Marguerite and William Zorach,
Charles Demuth, and Bror Nordfeltd, to the Players developing
modernist aesthetics. HB ISBN 0 521 83852 5
PROCESS An Improviser’s Journey Mary Scruggs and Michael J
Gellman Foreword by Anne Libera.
Modelled after the timeless An Actor Prepares by Konstantin
Stanislavsky, Process introduces readers to Geoff, a fictional young
actor taking a class based on author Michael J Gellman’s real-life
workshops. Geoff, who has just moved to Chicago to pursue an acting
career, undergoes the standard trials of audition and rejection before
he takes the advice of a fellow actor and turns to improv classes at The
Second City. At first Geoff thinks improvisation is all about laughs and
loosening up, but he soon learns that it is a powerful tool for traditional
actors as well as a craft in and of itself. Through Geoff’s experience,
readers discover key tenets of improvisation: concentration,
visualization, focus, object, work, being in the crucial moment, and
the crucial “yes, and.” ISBN 978 0 8101 2472 1
THE PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS The First Fifty Years 1917-1967 A
Dramatic Reflection of American Life Paul A Firestone
The first fifty years of the Pulitzer Prize, 1917 to 1967, were among
the most momentous in American history; it was a time full of radical
change and growth. The forty-two winning plays of this period frame
these shifts and society’s complex responses to them. Though varied in
style from satirical to tragic, from realistic to fantastic they possess a
common power and accomplish the same feat, they masterfully reflect
universal themes and explore the most important, ongoing, colossal
human questions. ISBN 978 0 87910 355 2
THE PURPOSE OF PLAYING. Modern Acting Theories in
Perspective. Robert Gordon
The Purpose of Playing provides the first in-depth introduction to
modern critical acting, enabling students, teachers and professionals
to comprehend the different aesthetic possibilities available to today’s
actors. Author Robert Gordon explores six categories of acting:
realistic approaches to characterization (Stanislavski, Vakhantangov,
Strasberg, Chekhov); the actor as a scenographic instrument (Appia,
Craig, Meyerhold); improvisation and games (Copeau, Saint-Denis,
Laban, Lecoq); political theatre (Brecht, Boal); exploration of the
self and other (Artaud, Grotowski); and performance as a cultural
exchange (Brook, Barba). The synthesis of these principal theories
of dramatic performance in a single text offers practitioners the
knowledge they need to contextualize their own practice within the
wider field of performance, while encouraging theorists and scholars
to be more sensitive to the material realities of artistic practice. ISBN
0 472 06887 3
RAINBOW JEWS: Jewish and Gay Identity in the Performing Arts.
Jonathan C Friedman
Jonathan Friedman evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes
that have been employed to construct, critique and reflect the social
reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the
United States and Israel. He also explores ways in which gay Jewish
playwrights and filmmakers have assisted the re-evaluation of sexual
norms within Judaism over the past three decades, inspiring and
reinforcing measures across the spectrum of belief geared toward
integrating Jewish members of the GLBT community into the overall
Jewish historical narrative. ISBN 978 7391 1448 3
RANTS AND RAVES: Opinions, Tributes, and Elegies. Robert
Brustein.
Critic-practitioner has been personally involved not just with most of
the major issues, but also with most of the major artists of the theatre
world. Beginning with his groundbreaking debate with August Wilson
on the subject of black separatism, Brustein goes on to offer insights
about Shakespeare, Stoppard, Beckett, O’Neill and other important
playwrights. Not just a collection of personal opinions, Rants and
Raves is an enduring testimony to the strength of the theatre and the
people who practice it. ISBN 978 1 5752 5777 8
REBEL WOMEN. Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today. Edited by
John Dillon and S.E. Wilmer
Rebel Women brings together essays by leading writers from across
different disciplines examining the representation of ancient Greek
heroines in their original contexts and on today’s stage. The articles
explore how such characters as Iphigenia, Medea, Antigone and
Clytemnestra have been portrayed in recent times and the challenges
and provocation they offer both to contemporary audiences and
dramatists alike. HB ISBN 0-413-77550-X
RE-FRAMING THE THEATRICAL. Interdisciplinary Landscapes
for Performance. Alison Oddey
‘Alison Oddey, a highly regarded performance scholar, broke new
ground with her first book on devising for theatre. In this latest
intervention, Re-Framing the Theatrical, she makes some radical claims
about performance, discussing spirituality, silence in performance, and
the emergence of the spectator as performer-protagonist: key themes
in contemporary practice and emerging theory.’ Professor Lizbeth
Goodman, SMARTlab, University of East London.
HB ISBN 978 0 230 52465 1
REMEMBERING AND IMAGINING THE HOLOCAUST. The
Chain of Memory. Christopher Bigsby
This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has
operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining
event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama
have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination.
The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction,
truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question — who owns the
Holocaust — those who died, those who survived to bear witness,
those who responded to it as a metaphor, those who appropriated its
victims to shape their own necessities? HB ISBN 0 521 96934 X
RENAISSANCE DRAMA — Andrew McRae
This book considers Renaissance plays in the context of crucial
contemporary issues and debates, on matters such as identity, sexuality,
social order, religion, state power, and colonialism. It provides an
introduction to the work of writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe,
Jonson, Dekker, Webster, Middleton and Ford. ISBN 0 340 76347 7
RENAISSANCE DRAMA AND A MODERN AUDIENCE —
Michael Scott
The author examines seven plays by Shakespeare and his
contemporaries, stressing their appropriateness to the twentiethcentury, and summarizes the different styles used in major recent
revivals. The plays considered are The Comedy of Errors, Doctor
Faustus, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Volpone, Measure for Measure, The
Changling and ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore.
RENAISSANCE DRAMA AND THE POLITICS OF PUBLICATION
— Readings in the English Book Trade. Zachary Lesser
Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance
to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the
drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries.
Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication reimagines the
reception and meaning of plays by reading them through the eyes of
their earliest publishers. ISBN 0 521 84252 2 (HB)
RESEARCH METHODS IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE.
Edited by Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson
Designed to serve postgraduate students and academics teaching
research methods, this series provides discipline-specific volumes which
explore the possibilities and limitations of a range of research methods
applicable to the subject in question. ISBN 978 0 7486 4157 4
RESTAGING THE SIXTIES. Radical Theaters and Their Legacies.
Edited by James M Harding and Cindy Rosenthal.
“A useful introduction to an eclectic period of experimental theater,
providing portraits of the major political theaters and engaging with
new vigor many of the era’s familiar aesthetic and ideological concerns.
The writers offer a provocative history of theater’s attraction to (and
occasional anxiety over) activism. ISBN 13 978 0 472 06954 5
RESTORATION DRAMA AND “THE CIRCLE OF COMMERCE”
Tragicomedy, Politics and Trade in the Seventeenth Century. Richard
Kroll
Beginning with John Dryden’s valuation of the importance of
Beaumont and Fletcher for restoration playwrights like himself, this
book traces the genealogy of Restoration drama back to the beginning
of the seventeenth century. . HB ISBN 978 0 521 82837 6
REVENGE TRAGEDIES OF THE RENAISSANCE. Janet Clare
In this study of revenge tragedies, notably by Thomas Kyd, William
Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster Janet
Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and remade every time a new play is performed. ISBN 0 7463 0918 X
REPRESENTING THE PAST Essays in Performance Historiography
Edited by Charlotte M Manning & Thomas Postlewait
The fifteen challenging essays in Representing the Past: Essays in
Performance Historiography are unified by their investigations into
how best to understand and then represent the past. ISBN 978 1 58729
905 6
ROARING BOYS — Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and
Jacobean England. Judith Cook. Foreword by Gregory Doran
“The first Elizabethan playwrights filled a yawning vacuum in London
life. Judith Cook’s vigorous and entertaining book charts the uneasy
development of professional theatre from its grimy beginnings through
to the hiatus if the commonwealth. A fascinating account.” Timothy
West (HB) 0 7509 3368 2
THE ROLE OF THE CRITIC Nicholas Dromgoole
Here Nicholas Dromgoole draws on his considerable experience to
consider the role that critics have played in the arts since the days of
Aristotle.
ISBN 978 1 84002 973 4
ROMAN THEATRE. Greece & Rome: Texts and Contexts. Timothy
J. Moore
Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts provides students with direct
access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts
from the key texts of its literature, history and civilization, and by
setting them in teir historical, social and cultural contexts. ISBN 978
0 5211 3818 5
ROMAN TRAGEDY. Theatre to Theatricality. Mario Erasmo
In this pioneering book Mario Erasmo draws on all the available
evidence to trace the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest
tragdians to the dramatist Seneca and to explore the role played by
Roman culture in shaping the perception of theatricality on and off the
stage. ISBN 978 0 2927 2220 0
ROMANTIC DRAMA Acting and Reacting Frederic Burwick
Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting
theatre performance, acting and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and
expanded to accommodate larger audiences and consequently acting
styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the
new audiences. HB ISBN 978 0 521 88967 4
ROMANTICISM AND IMPROVISATION, 1750-1850 Angela
Esterhammer
During the Romantic era, especially in Italy, performers known as
improvvisatori and improvvisatrici extemporised poetry in public
in response to subjects requested by their audiences. This type of
performance fascinated grand tourists from northern Europe, who
reported on poetic improvisers in hundreds of travel accounts, journals,
letters and periodical articles. . HB ISBN 978 0 521 89709 9
RUDOLF LABAN Karen K Bradley Routledge Performance
Practitioners Series Editor: Franc Chamberlain
Rudolf Laban was one of the leading dance theorists of the twentiethcentury. His work on dance analysis and notation raised the status
of dance as both an art form and a scholarly discipline. As a first
step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration
before going on to further primary research, Routledge Performance
Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.
ISBN 978 0 415 37525 2
SACRED THEATRE Part of the Theatre & Consciousness Series
Edited by Ralph Yarrow
Sacred Theatre examines both theatrical and more multi-disciplinary
approaches to the sacred, offering stimulation for discussion within
performance and theatre teaching. The notion of the sacred has long
informed the work of dramatists such as Harold Pinter and Tom
Stoppard. Ralph Yarrow’s Sacred Theatre is the first book to look
at the role of the sacred in the practice, process and performance of
drama. ISBN 978 1 84150 153 6
SCHOOL FOR CITIZENS. Theatre and Civil Society in Imperial
Russia. Murray Frame.
This book offers a new perspective on the history of theatre in Imperial
Russia, focusing on the rise and regulation of the industry and the
development of the idea of theatre. Murray Frame analyses for the first
time the impact of Russia’s drama on society and politics from the end
of the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. HB ISBN 0
300 11101 0
SCIENCE ON STAGE. From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. Kirsten
Shepherd – Barr.
Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of
“science plays” theatrical events that weave scientific content into the
plot lines of drama. The book investigates the tradition of science on
the stage from the Renaissance to the present, focusing in particular on
the current wave of science playwriting. HB ISBN 0 691 12150 8
SCRIPT ANALYSIS FOR ACTORS, DIRECTORS AND DESIGNERS Fourth Edition James Thomas
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors and Designers continues to serve
both the practical and creative experiences of theatrical production.
Now in its fourth edition the book includes increased attention to the
designer and in-depth analysis of Non-Realistic plays. These plays
present unique analytical challenges that the author explores. Plays
should be objects of study in and of themselves, and this book continues to teach an established system of classifications that examine the
written part of each play. ISBN 978 0 240 81049 2
THE SECRET LIFE OF PLAYS Steve Waters
The Secret Life of Plays is for playwrights at any stage of their career,
and will inspire and inform drama students as well as working actors
and directors. Most of all it is for anyone who has ever laughed or cried
in the theatre and wants to know why.
ISBN 978 1 84842 000 7
THE SENSES IN PERFORMANCE. Edited by Sally Banes and
Andre Lepecki
The Senses in Performance is the first anthology dedicated to
assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance.
This ground-breaking anthology shows how the creative uses of taste,
touch, smell, hearing, balance and vision, in Western and non-Western
traditions, remain one of the most generative operations for critical and
performative inventions and interventions. ISBN 978 0 415 28186 7
SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE Mike Pearson
Site-specific performance — acts of theatre and performative events at
landscape locations, in village streets, in urban situations. In houses,
chapels, barns, disused factories, railway stations; on hillsides, in forest
clearings, under water. At the scale of civil engineering; as intimate
as a guided walk. Site-Specific Performance encourages practical
initiatives in the conception, devising and staging performances, while
also recommending effective models for its critical appreciation.
ISBN 978 0 230 57671 1
SLAVERY AND SENTIMENT ON THE AMERICAN STAGE 17871861 Lifting the Veil of Black
Using plays, poetry, performances, popular novels and political cartoons,
Slavery and Sentiment blends American history, theatre history and literary history to question how theatre and performance lifted the “veil
of black” on American racism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the role AfricanAmerican characters and performers in American cultural history, and
offers scholars in a range of fields a new perspective on a complicated
moment in the nation’s theatrical past. HB 978 0 521 87011 5
SMALL ACTS OF REPAIR: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island.
Edited by Stephen Bottoms and Matthew Goulish.
Chicago-based performance ensemble Goat Island is acclaimed
internationally for its intimate, low-tech, intensely physical
performances. Its work alludes to pressing social and political concerns,
via a unique hybrid of strategies and techniques drawn from live art,
experimental theatre and postmodern dance. Small Acts of Repair is
the first book to document and critique the performances and processes
of this extraordinary company. ISBN 978 0 415 36515 4
THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE ARTS An Intellectual History Eleonora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett
The Social Impact of the Arts, in paperback for the first time, offers an
intellectual history of claims made over time for the value, function
and impact of the arts in Western societies. ISBN 978 0 230 27351 1
SOCIAL WORKS Performing Art, Supporting Publics Shannon Jackson
Shannon Jackson uses a range of case studies and contemporary methodologies to mediate between the fields of visual and performance
studies. ISBN 978 0 415 48601 9
SOME TRACE OF HER A Record of the Multimedia work inspired
by The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and devised by Katie Mitchell
and the Company
Following the extraordinary 2006 National Theatre production Waves,
Katie Mitchell and her collaborators applied the same multimedia
technique to The Idiot, a classic novel of obsessive love. Visually inspired by the poised monochrome portraits of nineteenth-century photography and with actors simultaneously creating and recording the
action on stage and on screen, … some trace of her presents a dreamlike distillation of Dostoevsky’s sprawling narrative centred on four
characters locked in a deadly embrace. ISBN 978 1 84002 882 9
SOUND A Reader in Theatre Practice Ross Brown
This unique collection of writings on sound design explores how sound
is used to create meaning and atmosphere in the theatre. Sound draws
on a wide-ranging compilation of newly commissioned work as well
as rare readings and interviews, held together by a fascinating and provocative narrative. Covering aspects of the discipline such as changing
hearing cultures, semiotics and the phenomenology of theatre sound,
this diverse selection of readings takes the reader beyond the basics of
sound effects and into the fascinating space and time of theatre aurality. ISBN 978 0 230 55188 6
A SOURCEBOOK ON NATURALIST THEATRE —ED. Christopher
Innes
This book provides essential primary sources that document one of
the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected
three writers to exemplify the movement, and six plays in particular:
— Henrik Ibsen — A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler; Anton Chekhov
—The sea Gull and The Cherry Orchard; — George Bernard Shaw —
Mrs Warren’s Profession and Heartbreak House. Innes’ illuminating
introduction provides a fascinating overview of naturalist theatre. Key
themes include, the representation of woman; significant contemporary
issues; the links between theory, playwriting and stage practice; the
use of ideas as the basis for action and character.
SOURCES OF DRAMATIC THEORY 1 Plato to Congreve Edited by
Michael J Sidnell Paperback Re-issue
This volume includes major theoretical writings on drama from the
Greeks through the Renaissance and up to the late seventeenth century;
it is intended for the use of drama and theatre. There are substantial
extracts from thirty writers including Plato, Aristotle, Horace,
Robortello, Scaliger, Castelvetro, Guarini, Sydney, Jonson, Corneille,
Racine, Dryden and Congreve. These selections present detailed
arguments about issues that are still relevant to our understanding of
drama and theatre. ISBN 978 0 521 08943 2
SPANISH CLASSICAL DRAMA. A Classified Survey and Study of
1000 Plays
With over 2000 plays, Spain’s seventtenth-century Golden Age has
the richest theatrical heritage of Europe, though only a tiny fraction of
it has been performed in modern times. Throughout his forty years of
reading, David Castillejo has discovered many unknown and buried
masterpieces. To help actors, directors and researchers cope with such
vast material he has classified 1000 of these plays as Good, Minor
or Mediocre, giving a brief summary of the plots and the number of
characters in each play. ISBN 978 1 8494 3001 2
THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE IN ENGLISH. Perspectives on
Performance. Edited by Catherine Boyle and David Johnston with
Janet Morris
In 2004 the Royal Shakespeare Company produced a groundbreaking
season of Spanish Golden Age plays in English which pioneered a new
approach to translating these works for the modern stage. As well as a
director and translator, each play was assigned an academic advisor in
the belief that the quality and success of these productions would rely
in part on balancing the vitality of contemporary theatre practice with a
respect for the original plays. The eight essays and three interviews in
this book, contributed by a mixture of leading academics and renowned
practitioners, explore some of the many issues that emerged from this
experience, unique in British theatre history. They provide a new
perspective on what it means to perform Spanish Golden Age theatre
on today’s English-speaking stage. HB ISBN 978 1 84002 815 7
SPARKNOTES.
SparkNotes are created by Harvard students for students everywhere,
SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each
SparkNote contains Complete Plot Summary and Analysis; Key
Facts about the Work; Author’s Historical Context; Analysis of Major
Characters, Suggested Essay Topics; Themes, Motifs, and Symbols;
25-Question Review Quiz; Explanation of Important Quotations.
The Oedipus Plays. Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonus.
ISBN 1 58663 402 X
SPEAKING IN TONGUES. Languages at Play in the Theatre.Marvin
Carlson
Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has
been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication
but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and
political operations. The use of multiple languages in the contemporary
theatre is in part a reflection of a more globalized culture, but it also
calls attention to how mixing of language has always been an important
part of the functioning of theatre. HB ISBN 0 472 11547 2
SPECTACULAR FLIRTATIONS Viewing the Actress in British Art
and Theatre 1768-1820 Gill Perry
During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of
seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers.
Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual
arts at this time, this beautiful and stimulating book explores popular
ideas of the actress as coquette, “whore”, celebrity and muse and
creative agent, charting her important symbolic role in contemporary
attempts to professionalise both the theatre and the practice of fine art.
HB ISBN978 0 300 13544 2
THE SPECTATOR AND THE SPECTACLE Audiences in Modernity
and Postmodernity Dennis Kennedy
Spectators and audiences are everywhere in contemporary culture.
However, even in conventional performance, whether in the theatre, in
film or television, or at a sporting event, it is difficult to discuss spectators with any authority, since each of us experiences and understands
the display in different ways and all methods of analysing spectators
are flawed and unreliable. This book provides instead a series of investigations into specific types of performance activity and how they
relate to their audiences. ISBN 9780 521 89976 5
STAGE PRESENCE Jane Goodall
The quality of ‘presence’ in a performer has strong resonances of
the uncanny. It is associated with primal, animal qualities in human
individuals, but also has connotations of divinity and the supernatural;
it is defined in relation to figures of evil as well as heroism. Stage
Presence traces these associations through modern theatrical history.
This challenging study also highlights the blend of science and
spirituality that accompanies the appreciation of human power.
ISBN 978 0 415 39596 0
STAGES OF CONFLICT: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theatre and Performance Diana Taylor and Sarah J Townsend, Editors
Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theatre
and Performance is the first collection to trace the intersection of theatre and social and political life in the Americas over the past five centuries. Selections range from a sixteenth-century Native dance-drama
and a nineteenth-century comedy about slavery to an avant-garde drama from the thirties that reflects the rise of fascism, while more recent
plays by writers such as Griselda Gambaro, Enrique Buenaventura and
Denise Stoklos address situations involving dictatorship, torture and
struggles for social justice. ISBN 978 0 472 05027 7
STAGING DOMESTICITY. Household Work and English Identity in
Early Modern Drama. Wendy Wall
“Beautifully written and forcefully argued. Wendy Wall’s Staging
Domesticity challenges readings of the household as repressive and
abject. Wall articulates a notion of fantasy that makes us re-examine
our assumptions about patriarchal paradigms and the marital dyad, and
situates a body of under-read materials in provocative new contexts
by showing how “household stuff” informs ideas of Englishness and
nation.” Karen Newman, Brown University. ISBN 0 521 03003 X
THE SENSES IN PERFORMANCE. Edited by Sally Banes and
Andre Lepecki
The Senses in Performance is the first anthology dedicated to
assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance.
This ground-breaking anthology shows how the creative uses of taste,
touch, smell, hearing, balance and vision, in Western and non-Western
traditions, remain one of the most generative operations for critical and
performative inventions and interventions. ISBN 978 0 415 28186 7
STAGED PROPERTIES IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA.
Edited by Gil Harris and Natasha Korda.
This collection of essays studies the material, economic and dramatic
roles played by stage properties in early modern English drama. The
received wisdom about the commercial stage in Shakespeare’s time
is that it was a bare one, uncluttered by objects. Staged Properties
offers a critique of this view. In a series of provocative essays, the
volume’s contributors offer valuable evidence and insight into the
modes of production, circulation and exchange that brought such
diverse properties as sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned
objects and even false beards onto the stage. ISBN 0 521 03209 1
STAGES OF STRUGGLE Modern Playwrights and Their
Psychological Inspirations John Louis DiGaetani
Luigi Pirandello, tormented by the schizophrenia of his wife and other
family members, repeatedly explored the problems caused by different
visions of reality. Noël Coward’s self-obsessed characters reflect his
own narcissism. Alcoholism is a recurrent theme in the works of many
playwrights, including Eugene O’Neill, Edward Albee And Brian
Friel.Through their exploration of these issues and more, the 20 great
playwrights studied herein have turned suffering into art. ISBN 978 0
7864 3157 1
STAGES OF TERROR. Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as Theatre
History. Anthony Kubiak
Using Aristotle’s Poetics as a point of departure, Anthony Kubiak
traces the form of “stages” of terror as a cultural and performative
principle through English Renaissance and Restoration plays, through
the modern and postmodern, to contemporary terrorist “theatres.”
ISBN 978 0 2532 0663 3
STAGING INTERNATIONAL FEMINISMS Edited by Elaine
Aston & Sue-Ellen Case, From the Series: Studies in International
Performance Series Editors: Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton
Bringing together wide-ranging, accessible and lively contributions
from feminist critics, writers and practitioners of international repute,
Staging International Feminisms argues the necessity and urgency
for feminism to be at work internationally. It is essential reading for
all those with an interest in theatre, performance, cultural studies and
women’s studies. HB ISBN 978 1 4039 8701 3
STAGING AND PERFORMING TRANSLATION Text and Theatre
Practice Edited by Roger Baines, Cristina Marinetti and Manuela
Perteghella
Staging and Performing Translation: Text and Theatre Practice explores
the territory between translation theory and practice in contemporary
theatre. Including an interview with playwright-translator-adaptor
Christopher Hampton, this collection attempts to delineate a new space
for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international,
critical and scholarly. HB ISBN 978 0 230 22819 1
STAGING THE UK. Jen Harvie
Staging the UK examines some of the most important performance in
Britain and Northern Ireland from the mid 1980’s into the twenty-first
century. Its timely critical approach considers UK theatre in relation to
national and supranational identities. Concepts such as globalisation
and diaspora, and contexts such as New Labour’s election, devolution
and European unification. ISBN 0-7190-6213-6
STAGING WHITENESS. Mary F Brewer.
In Staging Whiteness, Mary Brewer offers close textual readings of
plays by American and British twentieth-century playwrights — some
canonical and some who fall outside the mainstream — looking at how
Whiteness as an identity is created on stage, and how this has changed
historically. ISBN 0 8195 6770 1
STELLA ADLER ON IBSEN, STRINDBERG AND CHEKHOV.
Edited by Barry Paris
The classic lectures collected here, delivered over a period of forty
years, bring to life the plays of the three fathers of modern drama:
Henrick Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Anton Chekhov. With passionate
conviction and shrewd insight, Adler explains how their plays forever
changed the world of dramaturgy while offering enduring insights on
society, class, culture, and the role of the actor. ISBN 0 679 74698 6
STELLA ADLER ON AMERICA’S MASTER PLAYWRIGHTS
Stella Adler’s new book brings together her most important lectures on
America’s plays and playwrights, the giants of the twentieth century,
men she knew, loved and worked with. Adler considers, among them,
Eugene O’Neill, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller,
Edward Albee et al. ISBN 978 0 6794 2443 7
STORYTELLING AND THEATRE. Contemporary Storytellers and
Their Art. Michael Wilson with a foreword by Jack Zipes
Michael Wilson addresses the recent rise of storytelling as a professional
performance art by not only surveying current practice, but also
offering a critical framework for those debates taking place at present,
and those debates which will undoubtedly emerge in the future. The
text features interviews with key contemporary practitioners about
their work and contains helpful resources for the student reader. ISBN
1-4039-0665-3
THE STUART COURT MASQUE AND POLITICAL CULTURE
Martin Butler
Court masques were multi-media entertainments, with song, dance,
theatre and changeable scenery, staged annually at the English court
to celebrate the Stuart dynasty. They have typically been regarded as
frivolous and expensive events. This book dispels this notion, emphasizing instead that they were embedded in the politics of the moment,
and spoke in complex ways to the different audiences who viewed
them. Covering the whole period from Queen Anne’s first masque at
Winchester in 1603 to Salmacida Spolia in 1640, Butler looks in depth
at the political functions of state festivity. Butler presents the masque
as a vehicle through which we can read the early Stuart court’s political aspirations and the changing functions of royal culture in a period
of often radical instability. HB ISBN 978 0 521 88354 2
STUDYING PLAYS — Mick Wallis & Simon Shepherd
How does the play we read relate to the play we watch? What is a
character — as distinct from a person? And what is the difference
between an action and an event? An introduction to the methods and
terminology used in the analysis of dramatic texts.
STYLE FOR ACTORS: A Handbook for Moving Beyond Realism
2nd Edition Robert Barton
The past is a foreign country, and this outstanding book is concerned
with exploring it from the actor’s point of view. Specific guides range
from Greek, Elizabethan, Restoration and Georgian theatre to more
contemporary stylings, including futurism, surrealism and postmodernism. ISBN 978 0 415 48573 9
SUSPECT CULTURES. Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s
New Drama
This major study sets out to examine the ways by which six of the most
important new playwrights of the 1990s — Conor McPherson, mark
Ravenhill, Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane, Marina Carr, David Greig
— pose key questions of social and theatrical convention, identity and
representation, rendering suspect the West’s prevailing cultural conditions. ISBN 978 8 0730 8124 9
SUSPENDING DISBELIEF Theatre as Context for Sharing Roger
Grainger
This is a book about the central principle of drama and theatre — how
we join up with one another in order to enjoy a play. This is the principle defined by Coleridge when he described poetry as involving ‘the
willing suspension of disbelief’. Roger Grainger is both a psychologist
and an actor and is thus uniquely placed to investigate this shared territory, not only from an academic viewpoint but also professionally, in
‘hands-on’ ways. ISBN 978 1 85419 398 0
SYSTEMS OF REHEARSAL — Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski and
Brook. by Shomit Mitter
A systematic appraisal of theatre workshop techniques which
successfully bridges the gap between theory and practice. The book
elucidates the three principal paradigms in which most theatre work
is conducted today — those developed by Stanislavsky, Brecht and
Grotowski
TAKING STAGE — Woman Directors On Directing. Helen Manful
THEATRE & AUDIENCE Helen Freshwater Foreword by Lois Weaver
Theatre & Audience provides a provocative overview of the questions
raised by theatrical performers and audiences. Focusing on European
and North American theatre and its audiences in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, it explores belief in theatre’s potential to influence, impact and transform. Illustrated by examples of performance
which have sought to generate active audience involvement — from
Brecht’s epic theatre to the Blue Man Group — it seeks to unsettle any
simple equation between audience participation and empowerment.
ISBN 978 0 230 21028 8
THEATRE AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Writing and Performing
Lives in Theory and Practice. Edited by Sherrill Grace and Jerry
Wasserman.
That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of
unprecedented importance over the past thirty years is now obvious.
Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and
students of AutoBiography, a research subject now viewed as
respectable in academic circles, have recently mapped the contours
and shifting parameters of the autobiographical and the biographical
processes, thereby contributing to the profile and stature of both. ISBN
0 88922 540 0
THEATRE & EDUCATION Helen Nicholson Foreword by Edward
Bond
Theatre & Education provides an insight into the energy, passion
and values that have inspired the most inventive theatre-makers who
work with young people in educational settings. It charts early debates
that motivated twentieth-century radical theatre-makers to work with
young people and offers an analysis of contemporary practices. It argues that the aesthetic principles and educational ideals that inform
theatre and education drive at the heart of why theatre matters. ISBN
978 0 230 21857 4
THEATRE & ETHICS Nicholas Ridout
Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice
through which we experiment with ethical action. Drawing on vivid
examples from Sophocles through Shakespeare, to Brecht and the contemporary theatre of Goat Island, the book highlights key moments
in the history of theatre as an ethical practice and raises fundamental
questions about what theatre is for and how audiences interact with it.
ISBN 978 0 230 21027 1
THEATRE & FEELING Erin Hurley Foreword by Anne Bogart
Theatre & Feeling explores the idea that, for many people theatre
is a passion. Erin Hurley provides an intellectual framework for the
range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, establishing
a baseline for further thinking and practice in this rich and emergent
area of enquiry. ISBN 978 0 230 21846 8
THEATRE & GLOBALIZATION Dan Rebellato Foreword by Mark
Ravenhill
This original and provocative book explores the contribution theatre
has made to our slowly evolving consciousness of our world as a
whole. Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to The Lion King, Chekhov to Complicite, tragedy to advertising, the book argues for theatre’s
importance as a site of resistance to the ruthless spread of the global
market. ISBN 978 0 230 21830 7
THEATRE & HUMAN RIGHTS Paul Rae Foreword by Rabih Mroué
With its impassioned plays, inspired activism and outspoken artists, the
theatre has long provided a venue for promoting and practising human
rights; but is this always to the good? Today the relationship between
theatre and human rights is not only vital, but complex and contested.
Drawing on an international range of examples, this short, sharp and
timely book outlines the key features of the debate and offers a critical
take on where it should go next. ISBN 978 0 230 20525 6
THEATRE & INTERCULTURALISM Ric Knowles
Interculturalism is an increasingly urgent topic in the twenty-first century. As human traffic between nations increases, it becomes imperative to critically re-examine the way cultural exchange is performed.
ISBN 978 0 230 57548 6
THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE Antonin Artaud Translated by
Victor Corti
Containing the famous manifestos of the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, the collection analyses the underlying impulses of performance, provides
some suggestions on a physical-training method for actors and actresses, and features a long appreciation of the expressive values of Eastern
dance drama. ISBN 978 1 84749 078 0
THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN EASTERN EUROPE The
Changing Scene Edited by: Dennis Barnett and Arthur Skelton
The fall of communism throughout Eastern Europe toward the end of
the twentieth century caused major socio-political changes. In Theatre
and Performance in Eastern Europe: The Changing Scene, Dennis
Barnett and Arthur Skelton explore the effects these transformations
had on theatre in Russia, the former Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia, while drawing clear
parallels with theatre globally. This fascinating collection of articles
describes the various factors contributing to the shifts in theatrical
performance, including the important move from government control,
to a capitalist, market-driven environment. The idea of art as a business
and a consumer product versus art as a social prerogative or means for
national dialogue is a common thread throughout the articles, many of
which also look at the role of censorship during the communist era.
ISBN 978 0 8108 6023 0
THEATRE & PERFORMANCE PRACTICES.General Editors:Graham
Ley and Jane Milling.
DRAMATURGY AND PERFORMANCE Cathy Turner and Synne K
Behrndt
In this book the definitions and practices of dramaturgy are explored
with reference to the work of Lessing and Brecht, looking at both
composition and context. Turner and Behrndt discuss the ways in
which dramaturgies have been shaped by political motivations, offer
analysis of contemporary dramaturgies and comment on new writing
and site-specific practices.
Highly accessible in style this invaluable resource provides a
comprehensive overview of the concept of dramaturgy and the practice
of the dramaturg for both undergraduate students and practitioners.
ISBN 978 1 4039 9656 5
THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES. General Editors:
Graham Ley and Jane Milling. STAGING THE SCREEN: The Use of
Film and Video in Theatre. Greg Giesekam
Greg Giesekam raises critical and theoretical questions about the use of
multimedia and intermedia, examining how the aesthetic strategies of
key practitioners and changing approaches to cultural production have
radically challenged dominant theatre practice. Extensively illustrated,
this clear and accessible text provides detailed and evocative case
studies of individual productions from a wide range of contemporary
theatre companies. An invaluable resource for students wishing to
navigate their way through an expanding and exciting area of theatre
practice. ISBN 978 1 4039 1699 0
THEATRE & POLITICS Joe Kelleher
Theatre & Politics explores the complex relationship between theatre
and politics, questioning some of the assumptions that often arise when
they are brought together. Challenging ideas about “entertainment’
and ‘communication’, the book draws on a broad range of key writing
from Plato to Rancière, and theatrical examples from Shakespeare and
his adaptors through Peter Handke to Debbie Tucker Green. ISBN 978
0 230 20523 9
THEATRE AND SEXUALITY Jill Dolan Foreword by Tim Miller
Theatre & Sexuality introduces critical methods and artistic practices
that link drama, theatre and performance with minority sexualities in
both the USA and the UK. It narrates a select history of LGBTQ theatre from the early twentieth century to the present. ISBN 978 0 230
22064 5
THEATRE & THE BODY Colette Conroy Foreword by Marina
Abramovic
Theatre & the Body is a provocative starting point for understanding
the surprisingly complex relationship between theatre and the body.
Concise and clear, this book explores the revealing tensions between
the body, bodies, language, representation and movement in the theatre. ISBN 978 0 230 20543 7
THEATRE & THE CITY Jen Harvie Foreword by Tim Etchells
Theatre & the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and
people’s sense of identity. The book evaluates both material conditions (such as architecture) and performative practices (such as urban
activism) to argue that both these categories contribute to the complex
economies and ecologies of theatre and performance in an increasingly
urbanized world. ISBN 978 0 230 20522 2
THEATRE AND THE MIND Mick Gordon
In this collection of essays Mick Gordon overturns the usual question
“How can theatre serve us?” by asking instead, “How can we best
serve theatre?” Drawing on recent research developments, he suggests
that an improved understanding of the workings of the mind can encourage better theatre and, in so doing, has the power to inspire ethical
change. HB ISBN 978 1 84002 876 8
THEATRE AS HUMAN ACTION. An Introduction to Theatre Arts.
Thomas S Hischak
An Introduction to Theatre Arts focuses on four well known plays:
the tragedy Macbeth, the American classic Our town, the landmark
African American drama A Raisin in the Sun, and the contemporary
rock musical Rent.
By using these four models, Thomas Hischak informs readers about
theatre arts, stimulates interest in the art form, promotes critical
thinking about theatre, and engenders more informed and critical
theatregoers. Structured into seven chapters, each looking at a major
theatrical element, and concluding with the audience and readers
themselves, this unique approach to theatre thoroughly addresses all
of the major topics to be found in an introduction to theatre textbook.
ISBN 0 8108 5686 7
THEATRE, BODY AND PLEASURE. Simon Shepherd
Simon Shepherd explores the interplay of bodily value, the art of bodies
and the physical responses to that art. He explains first how the body
makes meaning and carries value, and then describes the relationship
between time, space and body. From here he looks at bodies that
go beyond their apparent limits, becoming excessive, tangling with
objects, dissolving into their surroundings. ISBN 0-415-25375-6
THEATRE ECOLOGY. Environments and Performance Events Baz
Kershaw
What are the challenges to theatre and the purposes of performance
in an ecologically threatened world? Is there a future for theatre as
an ethically and politically alert art through environmental action?
Theatre Ecology gets to grips to such questions by investigating an
eclectic cosmopolitan sample of environments and performance
events, in theatres and beyond. It proposes that performance is a
peculiarly twenty-first century addiction at the root of global warming.
Encountering this prospect head-on, it searches for pathological hope in
historical theatre at the end of its tether and rumbles the contemporary
paradigm of performance for signs of eco-sanity. Recognising the
future is always before its time, Theatre Ecology is a paradoxical tract
for survival past the final ecological era, ISBN 978 0 521 12074 6
THEATRE, EDUCATION AND THE MAKING OF MEANINGS Art
or Instrument Anthony Jackson
The historical roots and precedents of educational and applied and interventionist theatre have tended to be ignored in recent years, and the
loss of that broader perspective has sometimes resulted in overly narrow concepts of theatre’s social function. One of the aims of this study
therefore has been to develop an argument about how we might better
understand and value these kinds of theatre, historically, philosophically and pragmatically. ISBN 978 0 7190 6543 9
THEATRE FOR DEVELOPMENT. An Introduction to Context,
Applications and Training.Kees Epskamp with a Foreword by Tim
Prentki
Written by a leading authority on the subject, this book provides
students with an introduction to the theory and practice of Theatre for
Development. Since the 1970s, TfD has established itself as a process
through which communities can address their self-development
through participation in theatre practice. From its beginnings in subSaharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Latin America, TfD has
now spread across the globe as an effective development strategy. The
book is illustrated with case studies taken from around the world, and
from many different development sectors, including health, literacy
and voter education. ISBN 1 84277 733 5
THEATRE IN THEORY 1900-2000 An Anthology Edited by David
Krasner
Theatre in Theory is a wide-ranging anthology documenting
twentieth-century dramatic and performance theory. Bringing together
the most influential theoretical and critical work in the field, this
comprehensive volume encourages readers to think critically about the
nature of theatre. The selections offer a rich variety of perspectives on
theatrical aesthetics, dramatic criticism and performance theory from
the century’s most prominent playwrights, directors, scholars and
philosophers. Each section is accompanied by a brief introduction and
includes concise supporting commentary and historical information.
Documents are situated in their appropriate contexts to provide the
reader with a comprehensive understanding of how and why theatre
theory has changed over time. It is the most complete collection of its
kind to date. ISBN 978 1 4051 4044 7
THEATRE, INTIMACY & ENGAGEMENT The Last Human Venue
Alan Read Studies in International Performance Series Editors: Janelle
Reinelt and Brian Singleton
The last human venue marks the location and moment of human beings’ of their own eventual extinction. Taking this sober end as an affirmative starting point Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement explores ways
in which performance operates as an exciter of sentience, kick-starting
our sense of being alive, acting as a pleasurable lengthening device to
extend our inevitable fate. ISBN 978 0230 23524 3
THEATRE MATERIALS Edited by Eleanor Margolies
You are invited to enter the Bar of Ideas for a draught of ‘Doubt’,
‘Inspiration’ or “revelation’. And to join contemporary artists, writers
and practitioners in a conversation about the stuff of theatre. ISBN 978
0 9539501 5 7
THE THEATRE OF SOCIETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO. Claudia
Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, Chiara Guidi, Joe Kelleher, Nicholas
Ridout.
The Theatre of Societas Raffaello Sanzio chronicles four years in the
life of an extraordinary Italian theatre company whose work is widely
recognised as some of the most exciting theatre currently being made
in Europe.
At the centre of the book is a detailed exploration of the company’s
eleven episode cycle of tragic theatre, Tragedia Endogonidia (2002-4)
Including production notes and extensive correspondence giving insights
into the creative process; essays by and conversations with company
members alongside critical responses by their two co-authors; seventy
two photographs of the company’s work. ISBN 978 0 415 35431 8
THE THEATRE OF THE BAUHAUS The Modern and Postmodern
Stage of Oskar Schlemmer by Melissa Trimingham HB ISBN 978 0
441540398 6
THEATRE, PERFORMANCE AND MEMORY POLITICS IN
ARGENTINA Brenda Werth
Argentine theatre spanning from the democratic transition to the
early twenty-first century reveals transformative engagement of
performance with memory politics and human rights over the course
of the postdictatorial period. This book examines the intervention
of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding
Argentina’s return to democracy and in the context of the growing
influence of global economic, legal and cultural systems in the nineties
onward. HB ISBN 978 0 230 10434 1
THEATRE: THE REDISCOVERY OF STYLE AND OTHER WRITINGS Michel Saint-Denis Edited by Jane Baldwin
Michel Saint-Denis was one of twentieth- century theatre’s most influential directors and theorists. This book combines his seminal Theatre:
The Rediscovery of Style with material from Training for the Theatre,
newly edited to create a work that moves seamlessly from theory to
practice. Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style and Other Writings benefits from Jane Baldwin’s new biographical introduction and annotations, that put Saint-Denis into context for a contemporary audience.
It brings a wealth of inspirational material to both the rehearsal space
and the classroom. ISBN 978 0 415 45048 5
THEATRE STUDIES Kenneth Pickering and Mark Woolgar
A uniquely interactive text, covering the requirements of undergraduate and diploma courses in theatre, drama and performing arts, which
incorporates both theoretical and practical work in a single volume.
ISBN 978 0 230 21141 4
THEATRE STUFF: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre.
Ed by Eamonn Jordon
In this comprehensive collection of essays, playwrights, directors,
journalists, theatre practitioners, critics and academics, from many
different countries and backgrounds, give their perceptive points
of view. Each contributor takes on approach which is passionate,
idiosyncratic, astute, provocative and refreshing. ISBN 0 9534 2571 1
THEATRE THEORY THEATRE — The Major Critical Texts from
Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Haval. Edited by Daniel Gerould
From Aristotle’s Poetics to Vaclav Haval, the debate about the nature
and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel
Gerould’s landmark work, Theatre/ Theory/Theatre, collects history’s
most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists — poets,
playwrights, directors, and philosophers — whose ideas about theatre
continue to shape its future. Each of Gerould’s introductory essays
shows fascinating insight into both the life and the theory of the author.
From Horace to Soyinka, Corneille to Brecht, this is and indispensable
compendium of the greatest dramatic theory ever written. ISBN 1
55783 527 6
This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern
performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.
ISBN 978 07156 3826 2
THEATRE VOICES Conversations on the Stage. Steve Carpa
Edward Albee. Alan Ayckbourn. Nicholas Barter. Robert Brustein.
Joseph Chaikin. Quentin Crisp. Stephen Daldry. Vjachelslav
Dolgachev. Oskar Eustis. Karen Finley. Richard Foreman. Spalding
Gray. Uta Hagen. Peter Hall. Julie Harrix. Eddie Izzard. John Lahr.
Zerka Moreno. Sheridan Morley. Adrian Noble. Harold Prince. Andre
Serban. Martin Sherman. Michael Shurtleff. Fred Silver. Ellen Stewart.
Hilary Strong
In this collection of interviews, twenty-seven theatre professionals
(including actors, playwrights, directors, critics, and teachers) explore
theatre theory and practice. ISBN 0 8108 5047 8
TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER’S OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD An
Authoritative Guide to the play from page to stage for Students, actors
and Directors
‘Modern classic’ was the fitting accolade bestowed on Timberlake
Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good soon after its premiere in 1988
at the Royal Court Theatre, London. The Play tells how a company of
convicts staged George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer in the early
days of the Australian penal colony. ISBN 978 1 84842 043 4
A THEATER WITHOUT THEATER: The Place of the Subject
“We begin with a double negation: A Theater without Theater is neither a history of the theater nor a show of those artists who’ve designed
stage sets. On the contrary, this exhibition examines the way in which
the theatrical has altered our perception of the nature of the work of art
and its position in the division of the visible. It is, in short, a reflection
on how subjectivities and the place of the subject are shaped in the network of discourses and ideologies.” From the introduction by Manuel
J Borja-Villel Director of the Museu d’Art Contenporani de Barcelona
ISBN 978 8489 771 150 5
THEATRE WORKSHOP . Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern
British Theatre. Robert Leach
Theatre Workshop has become a vital component in the study of the
interface between politics and theatre. As both a theatre scholar and a
practising theatre director, Robert Leach here provides a full account
of Theatre Workshop, with in-depth examination of the plays of Ewan
MacColl and the methods of Joan Littlewood, its director from 1945 to
1965. Writing with the needs of theatre studies students in mind, Leach
sets the Company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and
theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success
so important. ISBN 0 85989 760 5
THE THEORY AND PRACTCE OF VOCAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
Songs of the Self Diane Austin
Combining theory with practice, this book explains the foundations of
vocal psychotherapy and goes on to explore its usage in clinical practice and the various techniques involved. The book integrates important concepts from depth psychology such as regression, re-enactment
and working with transference and counter-transference with the practice of vocal music therapy. Drawing on over twenty years of research,
the author uses case studies to illustrate specific vocal interventions,
including improvisation techniques such as vocal holding, free associative singing and psychodramatic singing. The Theory and Practice
of Vocal Psychotherapy highlights the value of voice work as an integral part of the psychotherapeutic process and provides a model of
advanced clinical work that will be essential reading for music and creative arts therapists and psychotherapists. ISBN 978 1 84310 878 8
THE THEORY OF THE MODERN STAGE Edited by Eric Bentley
In The Theory of the Modern Stage (1968) Eric Bentley brings together
landmark writings by dramatists, directors and thinkers who have had
a profound effect on the theatre since the nineteenth century. Here,
Antonin Artaud sets out a manifesto for a Theatre of Cruelty, Bertolcht
Brecht discusses the tension between entertainment and instruction in
experimental drama and Bernard Shaw defends himself as a realist
while W B Yeats describes the creation of a People’s Theatre. The
ideas of theatre’s great makers are revealed by their best expositors,
as Eric Bentley writes about Stanislavsky’s belief in the importance of
emotional memory when creating a dramatic role and Arthur Symons
considers Richard Wagner and the relationship between genius, art and
nature. ISBN 978 0 141 18918 5
THEORISING PERFORMANCE Greek Drama, Cultural History and
Critical Practice Edited by Edith Hall and Stephe Harrop
THE TOTAL WORK OF ART From Bayreuth to Cyberspace Matthew
Wilson Smith
The tradition of the Total Work of Art has been studied primarily
as a branch of the history of opera. This wide-ranging study,
however, stresses the connection between the Total Work of Art and
developments in mass culture. Comparing Bayreuth and Disneyland,
the Crystal Palace and the Bauhaus Totaltheater, Brecht’s Epic Theatre
and Reifenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, Matthew Smith finds that the
Total Work of Art has as much to do with mass media as high art, with
commercial spectacle as with music drama.
The Total Work of Art will be of interest to students and scholars
across a broad range of disciplines, including theatre and performance
studies, history of art, music history, cultural studies and comparative
modernism. ISBN 978 0 415 97796 8
TRAGEDY: A SHORT INTRODUCTION Rebecca Bushnell
Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who
are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces
too distant from their own language and world. Each chapter focuses
on selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of
tragedy. The book reviews the history of tragic performance and the
qualities of the classic tragic hero, clarifies the role of plot defining
tragedy, and analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe
and a mere unhappy ending. Tragedy: A Short Introduction connects
classic tragic dramas to the social, political and cultural worlds that
produced them, and that they were to challenge. ISBN 978 1 4051
3021 9
TRAGEDY OFFSTAGE. Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens.
Rachel Hall Sternberg
Rachel Hall Sternberg draws on evidence from Greek oratory and
historiography of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to study the moral
universe of the ancient Athenians: how citizens may have treated one
another in times of adversity, when and how they were expected to
help. She develops case studies in five spheres of everyday life: home
nursing, the ransom of captives, intervention in street crimes, the longdistance transport of sick and wounded soldiers, and slave torture.
ISBN 978 0 2927 2238 5
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF PERFORMANCE: A New
Aesthetics Erika Fischer-Lichte Translated by Saskya Iris Jain
In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as an art event in its own right. In setting performance art on an
equal footing with traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.
The peculiar mode of experience that a performance evokes, blurring
distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life,
is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts, and through them even wider social and cultural
processes. ISBN 978 0 415 45856 6
TRANS(per)FORMING NINA ARSENAULT. An Unreasonable
Body of Work. Edited by Judith Rudakoff
Judith Rudakoff brings together texts by artists, scholars, and Arsenault herself that vary widely in perspective, experience, and form,
to offer a cross-disciplinary set of investigative and critical approaches
to beauty, image, and the notion of queerness through the filter of Arsenault’s performance art, and her commitment to embodying a hyperfeminized Western ideal.
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE Jill O’Hare This invaluable and informative anthology chronologically sets out social, historical and cultural backgrounds of the chosen play texts and covers the
dramatic heritage historical duologues representing twenty-three eras
from the classical Greeks to the present day. ISBN 978 1 85756 751 9
UNCLOSETING DRAMA American Modernism and Queer Performance Nick Salvato
“Salvato’s queer readings of the closet drama of Pound, Zukofsky,
Stein and Barnes provide fascinating and original insights into a whole
range of current concerns, among them theatricality and performativity, sexuality, nationhood and modernism.”
Marvin Carlson The Graduate Center, City University of New York
ISBN 978 0 300 15539 6
UNFRIENDLY WITNESSES: Gender, Theatre and Film in the McCarthy era Milly S Barranger
Unfriendly Witness examines the experiences of seven prominent
women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by
the McCarthy-era “witchhunts” for Communists and Communist sympathisers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere,
Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians
and Kim Hunter. Author Milly S Barranger looks at the gender issues
inherent in the investigations and identifies the enduring strains of McCarthyism in postmillennial America. ISBN 978 0 8093 2876 5
UPSTAGED. Making Theatre in the Media Age. Anne Nicholson Weber
How can theatre thrive in a culture dominated by film and television?
Anne Nicholson Weber has sought answers from an extraordinary cast
of leading actors, playwrights, directors, producers, critics, agents, and
marketers. ISBN 0-87830-186-0
UTOPIA IN PERFORMANCE. Finding Hope At The Theater. Jill Dolan
In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan evokes the visceral, emotional,
and social connections that allow us to experience, even fleetingly what
a better world might feel like. Dolan demonstrates her faith that these
hopeful, galvanising moments in the theater can motivate us toward
social change. ISBN 0-472-06907-1
VERBAL VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY DRAMA. Jeanette R.
Malkin
In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of postwar
plays in which characters are created, coerced, and destroyed by
language. The playwrights examined are diverse and include Handke,
Pinter, Bond, Albee, Mamet, and Shepard, as well as Vaclav Havel
and two of his plays: The Garden Party and The Memorandum.
These playwrights portray language’s power over our political,
social, and interpersonal worlds. The violence that language does, the
“tyranny of words,” grabs center stage in these plays. Characters are
manipulated and defined through language; their actions and identity
limited by verbal options. Writing in a variety of idioms and styles,
the playwrights all adduce, and reveal, the link between language and
power. 0 521 03271 7
VERBATIM VERBATIM Contemporary Documentary Theatre Edited
by Will Hammond and Dan Steward
In these wide-ranging essays and interviews, six leading dramatists
describe their varying approaches to verbatim, examine the strengths
and weaknesses of its techniques and explore the reasons for its current
popularity. They discuss frankly the unique opportunities and ethical dilemmas that arise when portraying real people on stage, and consider
some of the criticisms levelled at this controversial documentary form.
Contributors: Writer/Director Alecky Blythe; Writer David Hare; Director Nicolas Kent; Writer/Journalist Richard Norton-Taylor; Writer/Actor
Robin Soans; Director Max Stafford-Clark ISBN 978 1 84002 697 9
VIOLENCE PERFORMED Local Roots and Global Routes 0f Conflict Edited by Patrick Anderson & Jisha Menon with an afterwword
by Peggy Phelan Studies in International Performance Series Editors:
Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton
‘Violence Performed’ is an important contribution to studies of violence in political contexts worldwide,
Lynette Hunter, Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance,
UC Davis USA
ISBN 978 0 230 29839 2
VISUALITY IN THE THEATRE The Locus of Looking Maaike
Bleeker Performance Interventions General Editors: Elaine Aston &
Bryan Reynolds
‘The books major contribution is to use theories of vision to track the
mid-twentieth century shift from the avant-garde sublation of art and
the everyday to a postmodern, deconstructive method … a step towards addressing a curious oversight in theatre and performance studies: the absence of a convincing account of what we do when we look
at events in the theatre.’ — Dominic Johnson, Queen Mary University
of London, UK, in Theatre Research International. ISBN 978 0 230
30084 2
THE WELL READ PLAY Stephen Unwin
The Well Read Play deepens our appreciation and enjoyment of drama.
Absorbing and informative, whether for purposes of study, staging or
simply leisure, it is the ideal guide for students, directors, teachers and
anyone who loves theatre. ISBN 978 1 94002 770 9
WHO KEEPS THE SCORE ON THE LONDON STAGES? Kalina
Stefanavo HB
How does one become a theatre critic in London? What do the theatre
critics think of their profession? How are they judged by the critiqued?
What do both critics and theatre-makers think of their mutual object
of desire ­— the British Theatre? This book sets out to find the answer
to all these questions and many more in comprehensive interviews
with more than fifty major London theatre critics and theatre-makers,
including Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Berkoff, Micheal Billington,
Micheal Coveney, Nicholas de Jongh, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Peter
Hall, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Adrian Noble, Trevor Nunn and Irving
Wardle. The author has gathered together a lively discussion about the
contemporary state of British theatre, drawing a picture of its strengths,
weaknesses, and the problems it faces today.
WOMEN IN BRITISH ROMANTIC THEATRE. Drama, Performance
and Society, 1790-1840. Edited by Catherine Burroughs
Eleven specially commissioned essays by a distinguished team of
scholars explore the role of numerous theatrical women including the
eminent actress Sarah Siddons and two of the period’s most prolific
playwrights, Elizabeth Inchbald and Joanna Baillie. The book strikes
a balance between literary and theatrical approaches, showing how the
period’s preoccupation with categories such as text and performance,
closet drama and stage provides a key to “uncloseting” an important
group of female theatre artists. ISBN 9 780521 032438
WOMEN IN IRISH DRAMA A Century of Authorship and Representation Edited by Melissa Sihra Foreword by Marina Carr Performance
Interventions General Editors: Elaine Aston & Bryan Reynolds
This volume of essays explores the fascinating legacy of Irish women
playwrights throughout the twentieth century and opens up dialogue
on the politics of authorship, representation and the ‘canon’ of Irish
theatre. Ideological, historical and cultural issues are discussed in relation to the performance of woman, gender, sexuality and the body
on the Irish stage in plays by women and to a lesser extent, by men.
Women in Irish Drama opens a space for forgotten or silenced voices
and marks a new beginning for the way in which Irish theatre is considered in the 21st Century. ISBN 978 0 230 57791
WOMEN, MODERNISM, AND PERFORMANCE. Penny Farfan
Women, Modernism and Performance is an interdisciplinary study that
looks at a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify
the position of women within and in relation to modern theatre history.
HB ISBN 0 521 83780 4
WOMEN ON STAGE IN STUART DRAMA. Sophie Tomlinson.
Women on Stage in Stuart Drama provides a ‘prehistory” of the
actress, filling an important gap in established accounts of how women
came to perform in the Restoration theatre. The material explored
by Tomlinson illustrates a fresh vision of theatrical femininity and
encompasses an unusually sympathetic interest in questions of female
liberty and selfhood. HB 0-521-81111-2
WOMEN, SOCIABILITY AND THEATRE IN GEORGIAN
LONDON. Gillian Russell
Mid-eighteenth-century London witnessed a major expansion in public
culture as a result of a rapidly commercializing society. Of the many
new sites of entertainment, the most celebrated (and often notorious)
were the Carlisle House club, the Pantheon, and the Ladies Club or
Coterie. In this major study of these institutions and the fashionable
sociability they epitomised, Gillian Russell examines how they
tranformed metropolitan cultural life. ISBN 978 0 5211 4774 3
WOMEN, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE: Auto/biography and
Identity Edited by Maggie B Gale and Viv Gardner
This groundbreaking book shows how female performers — one of the
first groups of professional women — used and still use autobiography
and performance as both a means of expression and control of their
private and public selves, the ‘face and the mask’. In eleven essays
it looks at how a range of women in the theatre — actors, managers,
writers and live artists — have done this on the page and on the stage
from the late eighteenth century to the present day; from Emme Robinson to Tilly Wedekind and from Lena Ashwell to Tracy Emin, testing the boundaries between gender, theatre and autobiographical form.
ISBN 978 0 7190 6333 6
THE WONDERFUL AND SURPRISING HISTORY OF SWEENEY
TODD The Life and Times of an Urban Legend Robert L Mack
Each successive generation has found a compelling fascination
in Sweeney Todd’s themes of avarice, ambition, desire, appetite,
retribution, justice and cannibalism. Following in the footsteps of the
myth, this fascinating book takes the reader on a journey from the
roots of the story in the alleyways and pie-shops of Victorian London
to its modern incarnation on stage, screen and in popular culture. HB
ISBN 978 0 8264 9791 8
THE WOOSTER GROUP WORK BOOK. Andrew Quick
This book’s intricate layering of journal extracts, actors notes, stage
designs, drawings, performance texts, rehearsal transcriptions, stage
managers’ logs and stunning photographs traces a unique documentary
path across the practice of the Wooster Group, one that will be an
indispensable resource for all those with an interest in contemporary
performance and its impact on contemporary culture. Described by
Ben Brantley in The New York Times as “America’s most inspired
company.” The Wooster Group has consistently challenged audiences
and critics alike with their extraordinary performance works, many of
which are now recognized as classics of the contemporary stage. ISBN
978 0 415 35334 2