Douglas S Harvey 
The Theatre of Empire [EPUB ebook] 
Frontier Performances in America, 1750 1860

The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos and creative potential where nothing is fixed or certain. Liminal performance is an emerging genre which has surfaced only in recent t …

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart »s works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard lite …

Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century. Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I Don »t Have Time to Wri …

This book argues that Old Comedy »s parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian a …

The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies brings together leading international dance scholars in this single collection to provide a vivid picture of the state of contemporary dance research. The bo …

Grzegorz Niziolek »s The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role …

The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilization of the middle classes. The theatre of the era re …

This book conceptualizes Mizrahi (Middle Eastern Jewish) theatre, unfolding its performances in the field of Israeli theatre with a critical gaze. It covers the conceptualization and typology, not al …

Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanities, Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innova …

 »The course of true love never did run smooth » – so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night »s Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an …