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In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed …

Described by the distinguished theatre director Peter Brook as »a very powerful form of theatre», the Ta»ziyeh is the Islamic drama of Iran. This work examines the evolution of the Ta»ziyeh, whic …

Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it …

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 …

This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowsk …

In this book, Susan Mandala offers a series of in-depth investigations into how the dialogue of four modern plays »works» with respect to the pragmatic and discoursal norms postulated for ordinary …

An extensive history of The Royal Shakespeare Company»s studio theatre, Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place also includes a biography of its founder and first artist …

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 …

With the publication of Brian Gibbons»s Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their »official status as a Renaissan …

An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England. It focuses …