Baggy Pants Comedy

A Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses of the 1930s, looks at the role c... Lees meer

American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage

Maya Cantu

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Drawing upon Broadway musicals ranging from Irene (1919) to Gypsy (1959), Maya Cantu considers how Cinderella Broadway musicals from the 1920s through... Lees meer

Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway

R Wattenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not on... Lees meer

Staging Holocaust Resistance

Gene A Plunka

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a va... Lees meer

W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway

A Wertheim

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions whi... Lees meer

The Drama of Marriage

J Clum

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time ... Lees meer

Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry

Dyan Colclough

• Paperback | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• "The Victorian preoccupation with childhood fed a desire to see children perform. Quick to respond, theatrical entrepreneurs recruited thousands of gi... Lees meer

Performing Magic on the Western Stage

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as... Lees meer

The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture

Paul Maloney

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Focusing on Glasgow's earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city's most iconic... Lees meer

A Sustainable Theatre

B Witham

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its ... Lees meer

Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre

James F Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the tw... Lees meer

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Shannon L Walsh

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s-1920s... Lees meer

Memory in Play

A Favorini

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collec... Lees meer

W. C. Fields from Sound Film and Radio Comedy to Stardom

Arthur Frank Wertheim

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• This third volume in Wertheim's trilogy documents Fields's rise to iconic status during the counterculture 1960s, creating a legacy of his comedy for ... Lees meer

Theatre and Religion on Krishna's Stage

D Mason

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Theatre and Religion on Krishna s Stage examines the history and form of India's râs lila folk theatre, and discusses how this theatre functions as a ... Lees meer

Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing

W Arons

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene i... Lees meer

Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America

E Essin

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the ... Lees meer

Performance Reconstruction and Spanish Golden Age Drama

L Vidler

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity. This book problematizes and... Lees meer

Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917-2000

Kenneth A Loparo

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Moscow Theatres for Young People shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth, as exempli... Lees meer

Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions

Robert Hornback

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-E... Lees meer

Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher

Anthony P Pennino

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promu... Lees meer

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Shannon L Walsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s-1920s... Lees meer

Acts of Manhood

K Kippola

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularit... Lees meer

Audrey Wood and the Playwrights

M Barranger

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwright... Lees meer