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The Fourth Seamus Heaney Lectures

First Published in 1996. This text looks at the cinema from the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. Presented by country and date orde …

Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England”s significant and sustained intere …

The creation of the new Globe Theatre in London has heightened interest in Shakespeare performance studies in recent years. The essays in this volume testify to this burgeoning research into issues s …

First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatr …

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 …

Peter Hall (1930–2017) is one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare”s plays in the modern age. Under his direction, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre rediscovered Sha …

“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla”s provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African …

On the 20th anniversary of artistic director Thomas Ostermeier”s time at Berlin”s Schaubühne Theatre, this important study reflects on the contribution the theatre has made to contemporary theatre, …

Classical Rhetoric, the art of persuasion, formed the sum and substance of Shakespeare”s education and was the basis of his understanding of the power of language and how it worked to move, delight …

This practical handbook is invaluable for anyone performing, teaching, studying or simply wanting a new way to enjoy Shakespeare. It provides an outline of Meisner”s work and legacy, a discussion of …