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141. The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England

     By Jean E. Howard

     The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England is a ground-breaking study of a controversial period of English literary, cultural, and political history. In language that is both lucid and theoretically sophisticated, Jean Howard examines the social and cultural facets of early modern...

     Published December 1st 1993 by Routledge
142. Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre

     By Susan Bassnett, Jennifer Lorch

     First published in 1993...

     Published September 9th 1993 by Routledge
143. Avant Garde Theatre

     1892–1992, 2nd Edition

     By Christopher Innes

     Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and...

     Published May 19th 1993 by Routledge
144. Jacobean Public Theatre

     By Alexander Leggatt

     Series: Theatre Production Studies

     Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear, which emerge in an...

     Published October 21st 1992 by Routledge
145. The Process of Drama

     Negotiating Art and Meaning

     By John O'Toole

     The Process of Drama provides an original and invaluable model of the elements of drama in context, and defines how these are negotiated to produce dramatic art. John O'Toole takes the reader through a lively, fascinating account of the relationships between the playwright, the elements of dramatic...

     Published October 21st 1992 by Routledge
146. Shakespeare's Theatre

     2nd Edition

     By Peter Thomson

     Series: Theatre Production Studies

     Reviews of the First Edition `...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.' Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of Shakespeare's company, then a study of three...

     Published April 22nd 1992 by Routledge
147. Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance

     By Linda P. Austern

     Series: Musicology

     Published December 31st 1991 by Routledge
148. The Death of the Actor

     Shakespeare on Page and Stage

     By Martin Buzacott

     In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare. Because actors are absent from the site of Shakespearean...

     Published December 11th 1991 by Routledge
149. Suffocating Mothers

     Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest

     By Janet Adelman

     An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall....

     Published December 5th 1991 by Routledge
150. Television Drama

     Agency, Audience and Myth

     By John Tulloch

     Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

     Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series....

     Published September 26th 1990 by Routledge