Theatre studies Books
Penguin Putnam Inc As You Like It
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£7.72
Penguin Putnam Inc Much Ado About Nothing
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£7.56
Penguin Putnam Inc Julius Caesar
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£8.69
Penguin Putnam Inc Henry V
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£7.18
Penguin Putnam Inc King Lear
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£7.72
Penguin Putnam Inc Richard Iii
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£7.24
Penguin Putnam Inc Ten Plays
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£7.95
Penguin Putnam Inc The Tempest
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£7.24
Penguin Putnam Inc Antony and Cleopatra
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£7.25
Penguin Putnam Inc Four Great Tragedies
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£8.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Four Great Comedies
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£7.95
Penguin Random House Group Coriolanus
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£6.95
Penguin Random House Group Pericles Cymbeline And The Two Noble Kinsmen
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£999.99
University of Michigan Press KutiyattamSanskrit Theater Of India
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£88.02
The University of Michigan Press AvantGarde Performance and the Limits of
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£33.68
The University of Michigan Press HighbrowLowdown
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£31.31
The University of Michigan Press Long Suffering
Book SynopsisLinks avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Montano, and John Duncan, US-based artists whose performances involve extended periods of suffering.Trade Review“The author’s engagement with the actual performances through anintense immersion in archival material, primary sources, interviews withthe artists, and a broad and sustained engagement with the contextand historical circumstances of this work make this book particularlycompelling, and her attempt to counter the academic mistrust offundamentalism and embrace of secularism is laudable. Equallysignificant is her engagement with the relationship between ecstaticreligions, ethical actions, moral imperatives, and the history of religiousrevivalism and reform in the U.S.” - Jennie Klein, Ohio University
£35.02
The University of Michigan Press Acting Out
Book SynopsisFor more than two decades, feminist theatre troupes, playwrights, comedians, and performance artists have challenged convention, raised consciousness, and provoked controversy. Acting Out is the first collection of essays to critically examine the impact that these performers have had on Anglo-American culture.
£40.59
The University of Michigan Press Not the Other AvantGarde
Book SynopsisPresents essays that offer an appraisal of the avant-garde by placing it within a global context. This book questions the assumptions that underlie the accepted chronology and theory of the avant-garde, and offers a performance-based theory that moves beyond Eurocentric presup-positions.Trade ReviewJoins the growing field of critical and transnational theories on the arts... its grounding in live performance and its foregrounding of the performative human body presents a new theoretical paradigm that is pathbreaking. - Haiping Yan, University of California, Los Angeles
£39.72
The University of Michigan Press SuzanLori Parks
Book SynopsisSuzan Lori-Parks is one of America's most distinctive playwrights. Part of the ""Michigan Major Dramatists"" series, this book offers a guide to Parks' dramatic works. It traces the evolution of Parks' art from her earliest experimental pieces to the hugely popular ""Topdog/Underdog"" to her wide-ranging forays into fiction, music, and film.
£22.76
The University of Michigan Press Harold Pinter
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£61.69
The University of Michigan Press Theater Historiography
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£73.10
The University of Michigan Press Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
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£68.95
The University of Michigan Press The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan
Book SynopsisPlaywright and actor David Greenspan has been a leading figure in Manhattan's downtown performance scene for over twenty years. This brings together five of Greenspan's most important works, accompanied by a critical introduction and new interview with the playwright.
£76.95
The University of Michigan Press Page to Stage
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£68.95
The University of Michigan Press The AvantGarde and the Popular in Modern China
Book SynopsisExamines avant-garde performance as an important political force shaping popular culture in modern China, focusing on artist and activist Tian Han. This is the first book to analyse Han’s art and activism and to explore how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times.
£76.95
The University of Michigan Press The Captive Stage
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£68.95
The University of Michigan Press Evita Inevitably
Book SynopsisSheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country’s most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón. The book links the Evita legend to a broader pattern of female iconicity from the mid-19th century onward, reading Evita against the performances of other female icons.
£76.95
The University of Michigan Press Latin Numbers
Book SynopsisExamines the way in which Latino actors on the 20th century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Brian Eugenio Herrera looks at how these performances and performers contributed to American popular understanding of Latinos as a distinct racial and ethnic group.
£68.95
The University of Michigan Press After Live
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£72.95
The University of Michigan Press Long Suffering
Book SynopsisLinks avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Montano, and John Duncan, US-based artists whose performances involve extended periods of suffering.Trade Review“The author’s engagement with the actual performances through anintense immersion in archival material, primary sources, interviews withthe artists, and a broad and sustained engagement with the contextand historical circumstances of this work make this book particularlycompelling, and her attempt to counter the academic mistrust offundamentalism and embrace of secularism is laudable. Equallysignificant is her engagement with the relationship between ecstaticreligions, ethical actions, moral imperatives, and the history of religiousrevivalism and reform in the U.S.” - Jennie Klein, Ohio University
£76.95
The University of Michigan Press Charles Ludlam Lives
Book SynopsisPlaywright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive. Sean F. Edgecomb focuses on neo-Ridiculous artists to trace the connections between Ludlam's legacy and their performances.Trade ReviewSean Edgecomb thinks beyond pre- and post-Stonewall definitions of camp (without neglecting their significance) to argue that camp not only persists but remains a relevant tactic of transformational queer performance. Charles Ludlam Lives! is a smart, beautifully written book that will make a lasting contribution to gay and lesbian performance history."" - Shane Vogel, Indiana University ""Charles Ludlam would be thrilled—just as he toyed with and overturned the conventions of popular theatre, this book playfully and brilliantly queers performance scholarship in its exploration of Ridiculous legacies. Edgecomb’s research is adventurous, and the writing is lively and compelling. Most importantly, the central figures, Charles Ludlam, Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, and Taylor Mac, receive the full diva treatment they deserve."" - James Wilson, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
£64.95
The University of Michigan Press Performing the Intercultural City
Book SynopsisIn 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto - a representative global city in this multicultural country - stages diversity through its many intercultural theatre companies and troupes.Trade ReviewReaches beyond the particular context of Toronto to engage the issues of cosmopolitan cultural formations in the 21st century. Artists will be engaged by the case studies that explore unique dramaturgies and aesthetics, and academics by this in-depth study in the performativity of culture and identity formation. The book extends a model for studying intercultural dynamics in new ways."" - Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Miami University of Ohio""Challenges us to develop a holistic methodology that honors the full complexity of the intercultural. [The book’s] deft integration of contemporary critical approaches with indigenous ontologies and participatory ethnography is a magnificent achievement, one that will impact our field deeply."" - Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara
£68.95
The University of Michigan Press Wendy Wasserstein
Book SynopsisPlaywright Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006) wrote topical, humorous plays addressing relationships among women and their families, taking the temperature of social moments from the 1960s onwards. This volume provides a critical introduction and a feminist reappraisal of the significant plays of one of the most famous contemporary American women playwrights.Trade ReviewSkillfully weaves together historical, dramaturgical, literary, and practical methodologies to attend to everything from Wasserstein's complicated place in the canon to how the plays were initially staged and received . . . Not simply a play-by-play exploration of Wasserstein's work, this book is also a rigorous examination of the gender and race politics of commercial theatre (specifically Broadway)."" - Charlotte M. Canning, University of Texas
£64.95
The University of Michigan Press Affect Animals and Autists
Book SynopsisMaps connections across performances that question the borders of the human whose neurodiverse experiences have been shaped by the diagnostic label of autism, and animal-human performance relationships that dispute and blur anthropocentric edges. The book treats a diverse selection of live performance and archival video and analyzes the ways in which they affect their audiences.Trade ReviewProvocative, timely, and well-written, Affect, Animals, and Autists raises challenging questions that will be of interest to affect theorists as well as a broad complement of interdisciplinary scholars working in disability, performance, theatre, and/or animal studies."" -Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia""A timely, exciting and important book that is evidently the manifestation of years of in-depth research and reflection. The evaluation of performances is admirably measured, whilst not underestimating the risks of perpetuating conventional paradigms of animals or autism by influential ‘hits’ like War Horse or Curious Incident."" - Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, University of Surrey
£68.95
The University of Michigan Press Freak Performances
Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of experimental theater, dance theater, performance art, and gallery-based installation art across eight countries, Analola Santana explores the theoretical issues shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different bodies in the current Latin American landscape.Trade ReviewSantana cleverly locates her study in defining and re-defining abject bodies within the heavy weight of colonization that Latin America has suffered from the time of the conquest to today . . . [She] finds how these ‘freak' bodies have encountered, resisted, and hoped for a better present and future."" - Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin""An important contribution to the scholarly debates around colonialism, coloniality, and neoliberalism through the prism of aesthetics, performance, embodiment, abjection, race, gender, sexuality, and ableisms . . . a theoretically sophisticated and eminently readable analysis of how the ‘freak' comes to embody a broad range of deviant and non-normative positions: the queer, the colonial, the abject, the criminal, the neoliberal."" - Diana Taylor, New York University
£68.95
The University of Michigan Press Performing Democracy
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£76.90
The University of Michigan Press Agitated States
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£80.95
The University of Michigan Press Memories of the Revolution
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£76.95
The University of Michigan Press Cast Out
Book SynopsisPresents a collection by leading theater performers, practitioners, critics, and passionate spectators. This book offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past years.
£72.95
The University of Michigan Press SuzanLori Parks
Book SynopsisSuzan Lori-Parks is one of America's most distinctive playwrights. This book traces the evolution of Parks' art from her earliest experimental pieces to the hugely popular ""Topdog/Underdog"" to her wide-ranging forays into fiction, music, and film.
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press ONeills Shakespeare
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship of William Shakespeare and Eugene O’Neill through detailed, often surprising, intertextual readings of the two great playwrights’ work. This is the exploration of an ‘essential, basic, even natural’ connection, in which Shakespeare is shown to have fundamentally shaped O’Neill’s creative imagination.
£68.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Aesthetics of Disturbance
Book SynopsisExplores interconnections among early 20th-century visual, literary, and performance art
£65.50
The University of Michigan Press Theater in Israel
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£76.95
The University of Michigan Press Acting Like Men
Book SynopsisExamines the concept of gender in relation to Greek drama
£80.95
The University of Michigan Press Rooms with a View
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£64.95
The University of Michigan Press Infinity Stage
Book SynopsisA moving and genre-defying text, written after a great loss, that blurs the boundaries between writing and performance
£73.10
The University of Michigan Press Trevor Griffiths
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£72.95
