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31. Style For Actors 2nd Edition

    A Handbook for Moving Beyond Realism

    By Robert Barton

    "Style is a journey from tourist to native. It is living in the world of the play, not just visiting it." - from Chapter One Anyone who has ever struggled with capes, fans, swords, doublets and crinolines should make Style for Actors 2nd Edition their constant companion. Robert Barton has...

    Published September 3rd 2009 by Routledge
32. Tragic Seneca

    An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

    Edited by A. J. Boyle

    Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
33. AS Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel

    By Alan Perks, Jacqueline Porteous

    AS Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the new specification. The textbook covers all aspects of the AS year in depth, from exploring play texts to demonstrating skills in performance and theatre design. The detailed guidance...

    Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge
34. Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company

    Creativity and the Institution

    By Colin Chambers

    Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
35. Gothic Shakespeares

    Edited by John Drakakis, Dale Townshend

    Series: Accents on Shakespeare

    Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare’s plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers in the Gothic mode have...

    Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
36. Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation

    By Margaret Jane Kidnie

    'Kidnie's study presents original, sophisticated, and profoundly intelligent answers to important questions.' - Lukas Erne, University of Geneva 'This is a fine and productive book, one that will surely draw significant attention and commentary well beyond the precincts of Shakespeare studies.' -...

    Published November 23rd 2008 by Routledge
37. Bertolt Brecht

    By Meg Mumford

    Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners

    Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Bertolt Brecht is amongst the...

    Published November 20th 2008 by Routledge
38. Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage

    Collected Studies in Mediaeval, Tudor and Shakespearean Drama

    By Glynne Wickham

    Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage shows that the drama of Elizabethan and Jacobean England is deeply indebted to the religious drama of the Middle Ages and represents a climax, in secular guise, to mediaeval experiment and achievement rather than a new beginning. This is fully examined in terms of...

    Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
39. Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

    By Karen Newman

    First published in 1985. In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. His comic practice is firmly set within a...

    Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
40. Theatre Studies: The Basics

    By Robert Leach

    Series: The Basics

    This is an essential read for anyone setting out to study the thrilling world of theatre for the first time. Introducing you to all the aspects of drama, theatre and performance you will be studying in your course, from the theoretical to the practical, Theatre Studies: The Basics will...

    Published May 28th 2008 by Routledge