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ISBN: 9781849431354 - Dramatic Critic: Selected Reviews (1922-1939) Dramatic Critic: Selected Reviews (1922-1939)
Charles Morgan, Roger Morgan Roger Morgan (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)

ISBN10: 1849431353  ISBN13: 9781849431354
Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 May 2013
ISBN: 9780230551657 - The Drama, Theatre and Performance Companion The Drama, Theatre and Performance Companion
Michael Mangan

ISBN10: 0230551653  ISBN13: 9780230551657
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Offering essential guidance to students throughout their undergraduate studies, this companion explores the development of a discipline that is still in flux, offers practical advice about how to study it and where this study might lead... More
ISBN: 9780199987962 - Passing Strange Passing Strange
Ayanna Thompson

ISBN10: 0199987963  ISBN13: 9780199987962
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
Passing Strange attempts to bring contemporary race studies and contemporary Shakespeare studies into an honest and sustained dialogue, demonstrating both how and why instability is the nature of the relationship between Shakespeare and race in... More
ISBN: 9780230297906 - Performing European Memories Performing European Memories
Milija Gluhovic

ISBN10: 0230297900  ISBN13: 9780230297906
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Apr 2013
Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and... More
ISBN: 9781137308511 - Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature
Emelyne Godfrey

ISBN10: 1137308516  ISBN13: 9781137308511
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 Apr 2013
This book, now in paperback, considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armor to the adoption of exotic martial arts through... More
ISBN: 9781848422612 - The Quality of Mercy The Quality of Mercy
Peter Brook

ISBN10: 184842261X  ISBN13: 9781848422612
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Apr 2013
One of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. More
ISBN: 9780230278561 - Performance, Politics and Activism Performance, Politics and Activism
Peter Lichtenfels, John Rouse

ISBN10: 0230278566  ISBN13: 9780230278561
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11 Apr 2013
Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal... More
ISBN: 9781137320810 - Theatre Under Louis XIV Theatre Under Louis XIV
Julia Prest

ISBN10: 1137320818  ISBN13: 9781137320810
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Apr 2013
Cross-gender casting was an ongoing phenomenon in the French theatre during the reign of Louis XIV. This book explores the trend and related gender issues in different performance contexts and fills an important gap in the history of French... More
ISBN: 9780719083723 - Acts and Apparitions Acts and Apparitions
Liz Tomlin

ISBN10: 0719083729  ISBN13: 9780719083723
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2013
Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority. Acts and apparitions... More
ISBN: 9780719061981 - Playing for Time Playing for Time
Geraldine Cousin

ISBN10: 0719061989  ISBN13: 9780719061981
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Mar 2013
Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and... More