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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context

    Edited by Jack DeRochi, Daniel Ennis ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager has generated a number of recent biographies, it is Sheridan’s works—not just plays but also poetry ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ in order to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the ... Read more

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  • Not Since Carrie

    40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops

    by Ken Mandelbaum ...
    The "essential and hilarious" book that highlights almost 200 musicals and examines how they became Broadway's biggest fails ( The New Yorker ).Ken Mandelbaum offers the behind-the-scenes story of the development of almost two hundred musical flops that played Broadway between 1950 and 1990, along with a reevaluative and often revisionist study of their quality.Here they all are, from such ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Broadway North

    The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre

    by Mel Atkey ...
    Did you know that the idea behind the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes was first tried out in Toronto? That Canada produced the world’s longest-running annual revue? Few people realize the Canadian influences that are at the heart of American and British culture.Author Mel Atkey’s research for Broadway North included interviews with Norman and Elaine Campbell and Don Harron, creators of Anne of ... Read more

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  • Brecht in Practice

    Theatre, Theory and Performance

    by Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance David Barnett, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The book analyses how Brecht's ideas can come alive in rehearsal and performance, and reveals just how carefully Brecht realized his vision of a politicized, interventionist theatre.What emerges is a nuanced ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • British Theatre Companies: 1980-1994

    Joint Stock, Gay Sweatshop, Complicite, Forced Entertainment, Women's Theatre Group, Talawa

    by Graham Saunders, Graham Saunders, Prof. John Bull ...
    Series series British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream
    This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from the period, and detailed case studies of six of the major companies.Volume Two, 1980–1994, covers ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Tina Packer Builds A Theater

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein (30,000 words)Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began as a young actress from Nottingham, England who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s and, with Kristin Linklater and Dennis Krausnick, developed her own company in Edith Wharton’s abandoned ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • In Defence of Theatre

    Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions

    Edited by Kathleen Gallagher, Barry Freeman ...
    Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Performance, Politics and Activism

    Edited by P. Lichtenfels, J. Rouse ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 and liberal government and power. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Working in the Wings

    New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor

    by Chrystyna Dail, Sara Freeman, Rosemarie K. Bank, Jonathan L Chambers, Dorothy Chansky, Tracey Elaine Chessum, Jerry Dickey, Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Melissa Rynn Porterfield, Tom Robson, AnnMarie T. Saunders, Max Shulman ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theatre, and history.Essays consider a range of historic moments and geographic locations—from African ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law

    Vindictive Justice

    by Derek Dunne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Taming of the Turk

    Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596-1896

    by Bent Holm ...
    Translated by Gaye Kynoch ...
    Series Book 2 - Ottomania
    For centuries the figure of 'the Turk' spread fascination and fear - in the theatre of war and on the theatrical stage. On the one hand, 'the Turk' represented a spectacular dimension, an imaginary world of pirates, sultans and odalisques; on the other hand, he stood for the actual Ottoman Empire, engaged in long-lasting confrontations and exchanges with Occidental powers. When confronted with ... Read more

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