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Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected t …

Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic …

This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of …

Frustrating, nerve-wracking, job-winning or job-losing, flawed yet necessary — auditioning is a maddening business for everyone involved. The people behind the audition desk are looking for a killer …

George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces , The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux» Stratagem, are still regularly …

Shakespeare»s women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare»s works often find themselves »playing dead.» But what do …

Across two volumes, Mike Vanden Heuvel and a strong roster of contributors present the history, processes, and achievements of American theatre companies renowned for their use of collective and/or e …

Flop Musicals of the Twenty-First Century offers a provocative and revealing historical narrative of a group of musicals that cost millions and had spectacular potential … but bombed anyway. Stephe …

Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group …

Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practi …