Alessandro Schiesaro 
Passions in Play [PDF ebook] 
Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama

’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 …

P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and it …

This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target co …

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 …

Every artist has a ’dream project’ – an enterprise that he or she has continuously taken up but never completed. Via archived notes and drafts, a retrospective reconstitution of such projects can ser …

What value does theatre have in Britain at the beginning of the twenty-first century? How has theatre responded to the challenge of remaining relevant in the media-saturated world of today? These are …

British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, present …

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 …

Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the constructi …