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Drama & Theatre
Paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349334483
- ISBN
- 9781349334483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.46
€ 137.46
Hardback. Examining theatre economics, rhetorical acting, cross-dressing, the staging of 'self', and the alignment of motherhood and work, this book reveals how actresses drew on changing models of gender to achieve phenomenal levels of success over the eighteenth-century. By doing so it sheds new light on the cultural significance of female performance. Num Pages: 201 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298330
- ISBN
- 9780230298330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343041
- ISBN
- 9781349343041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.16
€ 53.36
€ 47.16
Hardcover. Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340459
- ISBN
- 9780230340459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.19
€ 53.36
€ 47.19
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415198943
- ISBN
- 9780415198943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
Paperback. Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance within the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. Capacious in its ramifications for contemporary life, the term 'performance' here unlocks Adorno's dialectical thought process, which aimed at overcoming the stultifying uniformity of instrumental reason. Editor(s): Daddario, Will; Gritzner, Karoline. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349491957
- ISBN
- 9781349491957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance within the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. Capacious in its ramifications for contemporary life, the term 'performance' here unlocks Adorno's dialectical thought process, which aimed at overcoming the stultifying uniformity of instrumental reason. Editor(s): Daddario, Will; Gritzner, Karoline. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429872
- ISBN
- 9781137429872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: AS; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816636037
- ISBN
- 9780816636037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Paperback. A host of leading actors offer tips and advice learned from their many combined years of experience working in the performing arts. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 124 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848423589
- ISBN
- 9781848423589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.49
€ 13.99
€ 13.49
Hardcover. Aeschylus (ca 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. This third volume collects the major fragments of lost Aeschylean plays. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Translator(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 173 x 118 x 32. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996274
- ISBN
- 9780674996274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.94
€ 33.99
€ 28.94
Hardcover. Aeschylus (ca 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. This third volume collects the major fragments of lost Aeschylean plays. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Translator(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DD; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 114 x 17. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996298
- ISBN
- 9780674996298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.96
€ 33.99
€ 32.96
paperback. "What David Slavitt does, as the early Roman poets did, is to take a poem as his 'model' and make it his own by creating in late twentieth-century English an appropriate equivalent of the ancient poem. His Oresteia is the most lively and readable version known to me."-Gordon Williams Series: Penn Greek Drama Series. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780812216271
- ISBN
- 9780812216271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. A volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus which relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt. Editor(s): Slavitt, David; Bovie, Palmer. Series: Penn Greek Drama Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216714
- ISBN
- 9780812216714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark; Most, Glenn W. Series Editor(s): Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Complete Greek Tragedies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 212 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226311449
- ISBN
- 9780226311449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.45
€ 18.45
Paperback. Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark; Most, Glenn W. Series Editor(s): Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Complete Greek Tragedies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226311470
- ISBN
- 9780226311470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.45
€ 18.45
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908343789
- ISBN
- 9781908343789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.70€ 124.93
€ 128.70
€ 124.93
Paperback. Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre. Editor(s): Banham, Martin. Series: African Theatre. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254. Festivals. Series: African Theatre. 172 pages. Editor(s): Banham, Martin. Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1H; AN. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 11. Weight: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010575
- ISBN
- 9781847010575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Paperback. A key volume for Shakespeare, African theatre and postcolonial cultural scholars, promoting debate on the role of Western cultural icons in contemporary postcolonial cultures. Editor(s): Banham, Martin. Series: African Theatre. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8, 7 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings, 7 black and white, 1 lin. BIC Classification: 1HF; 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010803
- ISBN
- 9781847010803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Paperback. Looks at the lives, challenges and contributions of African women from across the continent to making and participating in theatre in the 21st century. Editor(s): Banham, Martin; Gibbs, James; Osofisan, Femi. Series: African Theatre. Num Pages: 156 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011312
- ISBN
- 9781847011312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Hardback. Extends the study of China's "soft power" into theatre studies and looks more widely at syncretic traditions evolving in other long-term historic exchanges between Asia and Africa. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1H; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011466
- ISBN
- 9781847011466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.47
€ 98.47
Paperback. For the first time, a distinctive collection of plays by African women published in English Editor(s): Perkins, Kathy A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: 1H; DD; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075735
- ISBN
- 9780252075735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Jean Rhys was obsessed with Jane Eyre - and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs Rochester and the "madwoman in the attic". Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean's alter ego, this dramatization of Rhys' life gives full vent to this obsession. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 144 x 5. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854597458
- ISBN
- 9781854597458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.58
€ 17.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. Series: Plays. Num Pages: 88 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868195377
- ISBN
- 9780868195377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.86
€ 20.99
€ 15.86
Paperback. First seen in 1939 but then largely ignored until a 1994 BBC production, After the Dance is regarded as one of the great, lost plays of the 20th century. As interest in Rattigan has revived so too has the play's reputation and it is now considered by many to be one of the great works of a master dramatist. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854592170
- ISBN
- 9781854592170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.19
€ 18.99
€ 15.19