"Shakespeare's company coped with an enormous mnemonic load, performing up to six different plays a week. How did they do it? Cognition in the Globe addresses this question through the lens of distributed cognition. This is a dynamic model that attends to the art of 'playing' at…
"Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, conne…
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.
"In recent years, classicists have begun aggressively to explore the impact of performance on the ways in which Greek and Roman plays are constructed and appreciated, both in their original performance context and in reperformances down to the present day. While never losing sig…
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…
