Simon Smith & Emma Whipday 
Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England [PDF ebook] 
Actor, Audience and Performance

One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go ”into the field” to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 – contemporaneously …

First Published in 1994. This is volume 3 of a 16-volume series providing comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theatre in the United States of America. The work in this volume re …

New York City was the site of a remarkable cultural and artistic renaissance during the 1950s and ”60s. In the first monograph to treat all five major poets of the New York School-John Ashbery, Barb …

‘A comprehensive, wide-ranging and historically well-informed account.’ – Charles Saumarez Smith, Royal Academy of Arts It is estimated that there are over 300, 000 companies involved in the world”s …

Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their beloved blockbuster documentaries are staged? Can pe …

Non-representational Theory explores a range of ideas which have recently engaged geographers and have led to the development of an alternative approach to the conception, practice, and production of …

Conservators and other museum professionals face a large number of issues involving the mechanical behavior of materials, including questions on craquelure, restoring physically damaged objects, art …

Today”s many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasures in fifteen thema …

This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. The varied approaches in the volume to theories of hybridity reflect the inc …

Performance Studies: The Basics offers an overview of the multiple, often overlapping definitions of performance, from performance art, performance as everyday life, and rituals, to the performative …