Drama & Theatre
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Drama & Theatre
Hardcover. This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time. Based on original archival research, this book offers a fresh look at the aesthetic and social theories of Ruskin and his direct and indirect influence on the commercial theatre of the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524996
- ISBN
- 9780230524996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardcover. This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSBD; DSG; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535831
- ISBN
- 9780230535831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.48
€ 63.48
Hardcover. Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones. The book reveals patterns linking the colonial to the postcolonial eras that often conflict with the historical narratives of Indonesian nationalism. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AN; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230546882
- ISBN
- 9780230546882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.34
€ 64.34
Hardcover. The cult of the child performer was a significant emergence of the Victorian age. Fierce public debate and lasting legislation grew out of the conflict between a desire for juvenile display and a determination to stop exploitation. This study explores the social and artistic context of their lives and their developing professionalism as actors. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ANB; DSBF; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230551558
- ISBN
- 9780230551558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.66
€ 64.66
Hardcover. This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and analyses other approaches, including those offered by research into neuroesthetics. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANS; HPN; JFD; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553132
- ISBN
- 9780230553132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardcover. Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its own needs, which are often at odds with those of the powerful sponsoring organisations. This fresh approach to the topic provides the reader with an innovative, critical way of studying community theatre. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230555198
- ISBN
- 9780230555198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardcover. This title unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the innovative theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a radical critique of performance studies. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 339 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572614
- ISBN
- 9780230572614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.85
€ 122.85
Paperback. Featuring original essays by leading scholars, this book, now available in paperback for the first time, explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century and engages with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights to re-evaluate familiar traditions. Editor(s): Sihra, Melissa. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577916
- ISBN
- 9780230577916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSBH; DSC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604711
- ISBN
- 9780230604711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Hardcover. Reed explores the impact of early American theatre's portrayals of outlaw characters and the troubling force of the low in theatrical imagination. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 249 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 529.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230607927
- ISBN
- 9780230607927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 45.64
€ 50.82
€ 45.64
Hardcover. The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608214
- ISBN
- 9780230608214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.38
€ 63.38
Hardcover. This book looks at Cuban and Argentine theater of the late 1960s and early 1970s to see how the idea of spectacle as violence was used to comment on and question the social and political violence that was unfolding offstage. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLSA; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613140
- ISBN
- 9780230613140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.85
€ 63.85
Hardcover. This book is an examination of the intersection between theature and spirituality in India and sheds light on the popular form of theatre, ras lila. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615298
- ISBN
- 9780230615298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 44.71
€ 50.82
€ 44.71
Hardcover. Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama from the 1890s to 1930. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615854
- ISBN
- 9780230615854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 45.44
€ 50.82
€ 45.44
Paperback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSGS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616424
- ISBN
- 9780230616424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.27
€ 69.27
Hardcover. Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616578
- ISBN
- 9780230616578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 44.92
€ 50.82
€ 44.92
Teaching Theatre Today: Pedagogical Views of Theatre in Higher Educati...
Fliotsos, Anne, Medford, Gail
Paperback. Through thirteen essays, Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of colleges and universities of the United States and Great Britain. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619005
- ISBN
- 9780230619005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 45.12
€ 50.82
€ 45.12
Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance
Fischer, Iris Smith. Ed(S): Demastes, William...
Paperback. This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history. Editor(s): Demastes, William W. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482. 320 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Demastes, William W. This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AN. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619012
- ISBN
- 9780230619012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 45.32
€ 50.82
€ 45.32
Paperback. This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294. Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. 200 pages. This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619661
- ISBN
- 9780230619661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 43.91
€ 50.82
€ 43.91
Paperback. Presents five post-war Japanese plays as an introduction to a genre which is gradually supplanting the more exotic Japanese theaters of No, Kabuki, and Bunraku. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231046855
- ISBN
- 9780231046855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.91
€ 53.91
Paperback. 350 pages. One of the earliest ethnic theatres in America was the Norwegian Theater of Marcus Thrane, established in Chicago in September 1866. This book includes seven translated plays written by Thrane between 1866 and 1884, and covers the entire period of his active professional life in America. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1D; DD; GTB. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 11. Weight: 400. Translator(s): Leiren, Terje I.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Univ of Washington Pr
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987989
- ISBN
- 9780295987989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.03
€ 42.03
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: ANC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306449499
- ISBN
- 9780306449499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Paperback. "The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theater. Producing plays that reflected topical issues of the decade and giving a creative chance to actors, di" Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306801860
- ISBN
- 9780306801860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.57
€ 20.99
€ 18.57
Hardback. BIC Classification: AN. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312214180
- ISBN
- 9780312214180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.65€ 85.03
€ 101.65
€ 85.03