Forthcoming Drama Books

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21. The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies

    By Erika Fischer-Lichte

    Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to think about performance, through to the...

    To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
22. Caryl Churchill

    By Mary Luckhurst

    Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

    One of Europe's greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has been internationally celebrated for four decades. She has exploded the narrow definitions of political theatre to write consistently hard-edged and innovative work. Always unpredictable in her stage experiments, her plays have stretched the...

    To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
23. Mark Ravenhill

    By John F. Deeney

    Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

    Mark Ravenhill is the first book to provide a detailed analysis of the work of arguably the most important dramatist to have emerged from the British theatre over the past twenty years. Shopping and F***ing (1996), with its unrelenting representation of dysfunctional youth, dark humour and graphic...

    To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
24. Theatre and National Identity

    Re-Imagining Conceptions of Nation

    Edited by Nadine Holdsworth

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad...

    To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
25. Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama

    Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

    By Ariane M. Balizet

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This book argues that blood was the chief representational element of domestic life on the early modern English stage. From Desdemona’s strawberry-spotted handkerchief to Antonio’s ominous nosebleed in The Duchess of Malfi, early modern drama draws upon blood’s striking visual properties to explore...

    To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
26. Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive

    By Barbara Hodgdon

    To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge
27. Representing China on the Historical London Stage

    Identity, Memory, and Intercultural Performance

    By Dongshin Chang

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    This book explores a selection of dramatic works and theatrical productions from the historical London stage — the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century — that dramatized China. Examining the themes of racial representation, geo-political dynamics, cultural memory, and national identity,...

    To Be Published May 30th 2014 by Routledge
28. The Routledge Companion to Designers' Shakespeare

    Edited by John Russell Brown, Stephen Di Benedetto

    To Be Published June 14th 2014 by Routledge
29. The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy

    Edited by Magda Romanska

    To Be Published June 14th 2014 by Routledge