The Politics of Irish Drama

Nicholas Grene

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works ... Lees meer

The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage

Philip Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• The Royal Court Theatre is one of the primary forums in the development of postwar drama. Under the title of the English Stage Company the theater pro... Lees meer

The Political Theatre of David Edgar

Janelle Reinelt, Gerald Hewitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• David Edgar's writings address the most basic questions of how humans organize and govern themselves in modern societies. This study brings together t... Lees meer

Chinese Theatre and the Actor in Performance

Jo Riley, Riley Jo

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• This work gives an "inside" view of Chinese theater and the actor in performance for the first time. It challenges Western theater artists such as Bre... Lees meer

Holocaust Drama

Gene A Plunka

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed i... Lees meer

The Performance of Nationalism

Jisha Menon

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism... Lees meer

Neil LaBute

Christopher Bigsby

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Neil LaBute is one of the most exciting new talents in theatre and film to have emerged in the 1990s. Influenced and inspired by such writers as David... Lees meer

Staging the Holocaust

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• This book describes and analyzes theater productions performed in Israel, America, Poland, France, Italy and Germany that deal with the Holocaust. The... Lees meer

Feminist Views on the English Stage

Elaine Aston

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Working through a generational mix of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic "bad girl" of the stage, to the "canonical" Caryl Churchill, Elaine A... Lees meer

Irony and the Modern Theatre

William Storm

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Irony and theater share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic, or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or ... Lees meer

A History of the Berliner Ensemble

David Barnett

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• The Berliner Ensemble was founded by Bertolt Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel in 1949. The company soon gained international prominence, and its prod... Lees meer

Strategies of Political Theatre

Michael Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Michael Patterson analyzes a group of twentieth century British playwrights' respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for radical re... Lees meer

The Globalization of Theatre 1870-1930

Christopher B Balme

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Between 1895 and 1922 the Anglo-American actor and manager, Maurice E. Bandmann (1872-1922) created a theatrical circuit that extended from Gibraltar ... Lees meer

The Political Theatre of David Edgar

Janelle Reinelt, Gerald Hewitt

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• David Edgar's writings address the most basic questions of how humans organize and govern themselves in modern societies. This study brings together t... Lees meer

The Globalization of Theatre 1870-1930

Christopher B Balme

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Between 1895 and 1922 the Anglo-American actor and manager, Maurice E. Bandmann (1872-1922) created a theatrical circuit that extended from Gibraltar ... Lees meer

Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North

Scott Boltwood, Boltwood Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• After nearly five decades as one of Ireland's most celebrated playwrights, Brian Friel has been the subject of ten books and dozens of articles. This ... Lees meer

Visualising Lost Theatres

Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• This pioneering study harnesses virtual reality to uncover the history of five venues that have been 'lost' to us: London's 1590s Rose Theatre; Bergen... Lees meer

Joan Littlewood's Theatre

Nadine Holdsworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Joan Littlewood was one of the most visionary and influential theatre directors of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival research and d... Lees meer

Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain

Gabriele Griffin

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Plays by writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, and Amrit Wilson, among others, are included in the first monograph to document plays by Black... Lees meer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre

David Barnett

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Using extensive and untapped archival material as well as a series of in-depth interviews with Fassbinder's main theatre associates, this book offers ... Lees meer

A History of the Berliner Ensemble

David Barnett

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• The Berliner Ensemble was founded by Bertolt Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel in 1949. The company soon gained international prominence, and its prod... Lees meer

Post-Imperial Brecht

Loren Kruger

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Challenging prevailing views of Brecht's theater and politics, Loren Kruger focuses much of her analysis on regions where Brecht has had special reson... Lees meer

The Russian Theatre After Stalin

Anatoly Smeliansky, A M Smelianskii

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• This is the first book to explore theater in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position ... Lees meer

Dramaturgy

Mary Luckhurst, Luckhurst Mary

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• In the first exhaustive history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers--people who act as advisers and play-doctors at today's theatres, M... Lees meer