David Scott Kastan & Peter Stallybrass 
Staging The Renaissance [EPUB ebook] 
Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

First published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character following his first appearance on the European stage in the early seventeenth cent …

In the Studio with Joyce Piven takes you directly inside the creative process of the renowned Piven Workshop led by Joyce and Byrne Piven. The Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago has nurtured theatre a …

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams” most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear an …

Are Shakespeare”s plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first play …

Since its emergence in the 1920s, Iraqi-Kurdish theatre was used as a tool of national identity building and modernisation. It promoted literacy, education and women”s rights and became one of the m …

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 …

Dramaturgy is at the heart of any musical theatre score, proving that song and music combined can collectively act as drama. The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration of …

Now in its third edition, The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre, Film, and TV walks readers through techniques used in historical and contemporary prop making and demonstrates how to apply them to …

Robert Greene, contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe and member of the group of six known as the ‘University Wits, ‘ is the subject of this essay collection, the first to be dedicated solely to his …