Eugenio Barba & Nicola (University Romatre, Rome, Italy) Savarese 
A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology [PDF ebook] 
The Secret Art of the Performer

First published in 2005. A complete introduction to traditional Japanese dance, this text will delight readers with its lively descriptions and beautiful illustrations. Covering subjects including da …

This in-depth collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past four hundred years, during which time Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of p …

Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice brings together internationally renowned scholars and practitioners to explore the cultural, institutional, theoretical, methodolog …

The use of Italian culture in the Jacobean theatre was never an isolated gesture. In considering the ideological repercussions of references to Italy in prominent works by Shakespeare and his contemp …

As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatric …

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 …

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 …

Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain explores the efforts of the current government in southern Spain to establish flamenco music as a significant patrimonial symbol and marker of cultural i …

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 …

William Percy”s Mahomet and His Heaven (1601) is extraordinary. Not only is it the only early modern play purportedly based upon the Qur”an, but it is also the first to place the Prophet Muhammad o …