Through thirteen essays, Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of...

"...Through thirteen essays, Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of.... Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of colleges and universities of the United States and, to a lesser extent, Great Britain. Thirteen essays are arranged to lead the reader from an overview of changing theories of theater education through the te..."

An examination of American history and culture through the lens of theatre and performance

"...An examination of American history and culture through the lens of theatre and performance. Interrogating America looks at American culture and politics from the lens of American theatre and drama, drawing from specialists in the field of theatre to reflect upon the role of theatre in the creation of the American cultural and political milieu. The essays confront such iconic concepts as the American Dream and the American Melting Pot, addressing issues such as American enfranchisement and histo..."

Clifford Odets. Arthur Miller. Paddy Chayefsky. Neil Simon. Jules Feiffer. Wendy Wasserstein. Tony Kushner. These leading American playwrights do not just...

A popular and influential play from its first performance in 1611 until the early eighteenth century, A King and No King helped establish tragicomedy as the...

In Renaissance Drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. One only has to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realize the challenge...

Edward IV (1599) was printed no less than six times up to 1626, and was one of the best loved plays of the early modern period, but this edition is the first...

The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists...

This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare’s Richard II. This edition, which...

This groundbreaking book shows how female performers have used autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and...

Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, Treading the Bawds analyzes the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and...

This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It...

"...This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It.... This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It explores the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity. By focusing on site-specific dance, the mutual construction of bodies and spaces, body-space interfaces a..."

This book, now available in paperback, unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging...

This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on theatrical events and practices in avant-garde and mainstream...