Stein Thomas Stein 
Nel nome del gran Torquato [PDF ebook] 
"Gerusalemme Liberata" e Drammaturgia secentesca

The volume reveals an astonishing richness in the theatrical approaches to Ibsen across the world: it considers political theatre, institutional ”high art”, theatre for development, queer and trans …

Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it …

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 …

An extensive history of The Royal Shakespeare Company”s studio theatre, Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place also includes a biography of its founder and first artist …

The creation of the new Globe Theatre in London has heightened interest in Shakespeare performance studies in recent years. The essays in this volume testify to this burgeoning research into issues s …

An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England. It focuses …

Are Shakespeare”s plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first play …

The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation”s hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a …

There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause …

Nicholas Dromgoole has been a prominent and respected drama and dance critic for most of his adult life. Who better therefore to take the reader through the role of this often misunderstood animal? T …