Throughout his career, Roland Barthes (1915-1980) had a complex and often uneasy relationship with theatre and performance. In Performance Degree Zero, Timothy Scheie argues that Barthes's body of work must be considered a lifelong engagement with theatre. Exploring his changing…
"While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern perf…
What did Bakhtin think about the theatre? That it was outdated? That it 'stopped being a serious genre' after Shakespeare? Could a thinker to whose work ideas of theatricality, visuality and embodied activity were so central really have nothing to say about theatrical practice? …
"This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the Handbook of Inaesthetics by inquiring into the status of a theatre that might be adequa…
That mysterious characteristic "It"--"the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people"--is the subject of Joseph R. Roach's engrossing new book. As he did in the prizewinning "Cities of the Dead", Roach crisscrosses centuries and contin…
