Weisl-Shaw Andreea Weisl-Shaw & Archer Neil Archer 
Adaptation [PDF ebook] 
Studies in French and Francophone Culture

What do ”stage directions” do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label ”stage direction” helpful or misleading? Do the …

‘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 …

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

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 …

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart”s works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard lite …

The APPLIED THEATRE series is a major innovation in applied theatre scholarship: each book presents new ways of seeing and critically reflecting on this dynamic and vibrant field. Volumes offer a the …

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 …

“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 …

To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History …