Drama & Theatre
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Drama & Theatre
Paperback. This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive critical examination of the intersections between contemporary ethical thought and post-1989 British playwriting. Its coverage of a large number of plays and playwrights, international range of contributors and original argumentation make it a key point of reference for students and researchers. Editor(s): Aragay, Mireia; Monforte, Enric. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349452149
- ISBN
- 9781349452149
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€ 126.76
€ 126.76
paperback. This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349452521
- ISBN
- 9781349452521
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€ 66.24
€ 66.24
paperback. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AP; DSBD; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349452545
- ISBN
- 9781349452545
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€ 65.76
€ 65.76
Paperback. A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 453.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349452569
- ISBN
- 9781349452569
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€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349452828
- ISBN
- 9781349452828
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€ 53.36€ 46.22
€ 53.36
€ 46.22
Paperback. Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts. Editor(s): Arrighi, Gillian; Emeljanow, Victor. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 260 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; JFC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454822
- ISBN
- 9781349454822
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€ 53.36€ 46.20
€ 53.36
€ 46.20
Paperback. Providing a unique collection of perspectives on the persistence of documentary as a vital and dynamic media form within a digital world, New Documentary Ecologies traces this form through new opportunities of creating media, new platforms of distribution and new ways for audiences to engage with the real. Editor(s): Nash, Dr. Kate; Summerhayes, Catherine. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; APF; APFR; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 344.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456666
- ISBN
- 9781349456666
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€ 148.93
€ 148.93
Paperback. Editor(s): McCutcheon, J. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457618
- ISBN
- 9781349457618
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€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSB; DSC. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458516
- ISBN
- 9781349458516
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€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, while recognizing that they have sometimes maintained the mechanisms of violence against blacks. Editor(s): Lemoine, Xavier; Rocchi, Jean-Paul. Num Pages: 289 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459155
- ISBN
- 9781349459155
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€ 63.07€ 53.87
€ 63.07
€ 53.87
Paperback. As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349460021
- ISBN
- 9781349460021
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€ 53.36€ 45.65
€ 53.36
€ 45.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349460809
- ISBN
- 9781349460809
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€ 65.45
€ 65.45
Paperback. This book reveals the genuity of Shaw's totalitarianism by looking at his material - articles, speeches, letters, etc but is especially concerned with analyzing the utopian desire that runs through so many of Shaw's plays; looking at his political and eugenic utopianism as expressed in his drama and comparing this to his political totalitarianism. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349460885
- ISBN
- 9781349460885
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€ 126.80
€ 126.80
Paperback. Editor(s): Proudfit, Scott. Num Pages: 250 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 373.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349461325
- ISBN
- 9781349461325
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€ 53.36€ 46.40
€ 53.36
€ 46.40
Paperback. Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century. Editor(s): Proudfit, Scott. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349461349
- ISBN
- 9781349461349
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€ 53.36€ 46.61
€ 53.36
€ 46.61
Paperback. This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike. Editor(s): Harpin, Anna; Foster, J. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; MMH; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463749
- ISBN
- 9781349463749
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Condition: New
€ 137.70
€ 137.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464586
- ISBN
- 9781349464586
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€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects personal embodied habits and large-scale cultural practices. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFC; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465927
- ISBN
- 9781349465927
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€ 65.54
€ 65.54
Paperback. In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien regime more broadly." Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465941
- ISBN
- 9781349465941
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€ 53.36€ 46.16
€ 53.36
€ 46.16
Paperback. Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer. Editor(s): Morin, E.; Luckhurst, Mary. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466313
- ISBN
- 9781349466313
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€ 71.37
€ 71.37
Paperback. The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performance, both for individuals and wider collectives. Series: Anthropology, Change and Development. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; GTF; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349468461
- ISBN
- 9781349468461
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€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Paperback. Examining twenty-five years of theatre history, this book covers the major plays that feature representations of the Industrial Workers of the World. American class movement and class divisions have long been reflected on the Broadway stage and here Michael Schwartz presents a fresh look at the conflict between labor and capital. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469505
- ISBN
- 9781349469505
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 45.77
€ 53.36
€ 45.77
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349470747
- ISBN
- 9781349470747
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Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471805
- ISBN
- 9781349471805
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Condition: New
€ 126.44
€ 126.44