David Beard 
Harrison Birtwistle’s Operas and Music Theatre [PDF ebook] 

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity”s cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the pe …

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on ”European Shakespeares”, proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare”s literary craft was not just nativ …

This book argues that Old Comedy”s parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian a …

‘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 …

Performance and medicine are now converging in unprecedented ways. London”s theatres reveal an appetite for medical themes – John Boyega is subjected to medical experiments in Jack Thorne”s Woycek, …

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key …

Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical productions that enable …

Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster spectatorial critique and engagement? This open access book examines the forms and functions of pol …

From the proto-cinematic sequencing of animal motion in the nineteenth century to the ubiquity of animal videos online, the histories of animal life and the moving image are enigmatically interlocked …