Richard Preiss 
Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre [PDF ebook] 

"Mercadet: A Comedy in Three Acts" by using Honore de Balzac is a satirical exploration of monetary schemes, societal expectations, and the pursuit of wealth in nineteenth-century France. T …

This book offers a wealth of resources, critical overviews and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove”s internationally acclaimed work as the foremost director of theatre, opera and musicals in our time. …

“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla”s provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African …

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, …

”When directors understand the value of a movement director they remove any sense of hierarchy within the room and place movement directors firmly by their side for they are and should be their co-p …

Since the late 1990s, Rupert Goold has garnered a reputation as one of the UK”s most exciting and provocative theatre directors. His exhilarating, risk-taking productions of both classic texts and n …

Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize From The Pastoral Players” 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open …

Fresh perspectives on teaching and evaluating music performance in higher education are offered in this book. One-to-one pedagogy and Western art music, once default positions of instrumental teachin …

Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama. The book is significant in its scope and originality as it uses the innov …

Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading mo …