Derek B. Scott 
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900-1940 [PDF ebook] 

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on ”European Shakespeares”, proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare”s literary craft was not just nativ …

What do ”stage directions” do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label ”stage direction” helpful or misleading? Do the …

The theatre director is one of the most critical roles in a successful drama company, yet there are no formal qualifications required for entry into this profession. This practical guide for emerging …

‘A manual full of enabling, easing exercises – it will enable you to analyse any scene. The cry of the actor at sea `I don”t know what I”m doing” should, with this book, become a thing of the past …

In this first volume of notebooks, Edward Bond reveals himself to be one of the finest and most creative minds to have emerged in the twentieth century. Exploring the meeting point between politics a …

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 …

Tonight Neverland is fleshed out with plenty of plant life, certainly bettering 2011”s production of Jack and the Bean-Cactus. So, with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie …

Throughout her works, Mary Wollstonecraft interrogates and represents the connected network of theater, culture, and self-representation, in what Lisa Plummer Crafton argues is a conscious appropriat …

In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to ”fail better”. But what might it mean to be a …

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century …