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  • Sex, Class, and the Theatrical Archive

    Erotic Economies

    by Alan Sikes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history. The book includes discussions of sodomitical closet dramas from the decades surrounding the English Glorious Revolution of 1688; the performances of 'Tribades and Amazons' ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34

    by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin, Megan E. Geigner, Heidi L. Nees, Sharon Marie Carnicke, Jonathan Chambers, Miriam Chirico, Jerry Dickey, Julia Fawcett, Iris Fischer, Brett D. Johnson, Emeline Jouve, Valerie Joyce, Keith Byron Kirk, Jenna L. Kubly, Martha S. LoMonaco, Scott Magelssen, Theresa J. May, Lance Mekeel, Beliza Torres Narváez, Tavia Nyong'o, Alexis Riley, Kristen Rogers, Cindy Rosenthal, Judith Sebesta, Teresa Stankiewicz, Harvey Young, Meredith Conti, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. ...
    Series Book 34 - Theatre History Studies
    Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion of the Abydos Passion Play. Sikes challenges the long-held interpretation of that ritualized ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

    Theatres of War

    by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Rosemarie K. Bank, Amanda Boyle, Shawna Mefford Carroll, Miriam Chirico, Francisco Costa, Chrystyna M. Dail, Tanya Dean, Daniel C. Dennis0, Rodney Donahue1, Anne Fletcher2, Sara Freeman3, Kristi Good4, Jennifer Goodlander5, Anselm Heinrich6, Jeanmarie Higgins7, Bethany D. Holmstrom8, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta9, David Jortner0, Keith Byron Kirk1, Haddy Kreie2, Franklin J. Lasik3, Felicia Hardison Londré4, Lewis Magruder5, William Palmer6, Gene A. Plunka7, George Potter8, Jane Purse-Wiedenhoeft9, Adam Sheaffer0, Alan Sikes1, Li-Wen (Joy) Wang2, Ariel Watson3, Peter A. Campbell4, DeAnna M. Toten Beard5 ...
    Series Book 33 - Theatre History Studies
    Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.War and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    La Vie et l'œuvre de Raymond Poisson comédien-poète du XVIIe siècle

    Edited by A. Ross Curtis ...
    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
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  • Filming and Performing Renaissance History

    Edited by M. Burnett, A. Streete ...
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  • Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time

    by Matthew Wagner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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  • Comic Performance in Pakistan

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  • The Transformative Power of Performance

    A New Aesthetics

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    Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War"

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