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Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to build a new picture of the theatrical artistry of the Renaissance stage. She offers scholars, students and actors a new way to analyse and interpret early modern plays.
"Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in support of Mao's communist revolution. DeMare traces the development of Mao's 'cultural army' from its genesis in Red Army propagand…
Encompassing puppetry, mime, street theatre, farce, and melodrama, theatre is an enduring and varied popular art form. From its historical roots in Ancient Greece and Rome, through Medieval Japan and Europe, as well as America and beyond, Marvin Carlson considers how theatre and…
"This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present ... Each volume provides an overview of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variet…
"This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. It charts the movement of much of this work from the fringe to the mainstream of British theatre culture. Ea…
"This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display…
A groundbreaking new study focused on the vital role of the baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance"
"In Beau Monde on Empire's Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on thea…