Forthcoming Drama by Period - 20th Century to Present Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Lovesick

   Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1925

   Edited by Laurence Senelick

   This volume makes available an international collection of plays, from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, providing an essential and fascinating resource for anyone interested in the theatre culture of this period. Lovesick brings together six plays, each with individual introductions,...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Conspiracy of Feelings and The Little Theatre of the Green Goose

   Edited by Daniel Gerould

   Two outstanding examples of socialist-themed plays are combined in this remarkable volume. The Conspiracy of Feelings by Yurii Olesha (1899-1960) is based on his highly respected short novel Envy about the struggle between the old and new in Soviet society. The play, called The Conspiracy of...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. A Dream

   By Felicja Kruszewska

   Edited by Jadwiga Kosicka

   The translation of Felicja Kruszewska's A Dream introduces a major play by a twentieth-century female playwright to the English-speaking world. On March 7, 1927 A Dream - a large-scale expressionistic drama by an unknown poet - burst on the Polish theatrical scene in a dazzling debut production by...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Leading Creators of Twentieth-Century Czech Theatre

   By Jarka M. Burian

   In this invaluable and detailed presentation of the leading creative figures in a richly innovative and dynamic period of Czech theatre, Professor Jarka M. Burian provides us with insightful portraits of the directors K. H. Hilar, E. F. Burian, Alfred Radok, and Otomar Krejca: of the famous...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. Theatre of Conscience 1939-53

   A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres

   Edited by Peter Billingham

   Theatres of Conscience offers an invaluable and essential insight into four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to post-war British theatre have largely gone unnoticed. Combining a rigorous scholarly evaluation of their work and their broadly ideological and ethical...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Adelphi Players

   The Theatre of Persons

   By Dr Cecil Davies

   Edited by Peter Billingham

   Cecil Davies' The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth-century, post-war period. This book will interest everyone - whether student, academic or general reader - who wants to know...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
7. Revolutionary Theatre

   By Robert Leach, Robert Leach Nfa

   Revolutionary Theatre is the first full-length study of the dynamic theatre created in Russia in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. Fired by social and political as well as artistic zeal, a group of directors, playwrights, actors and organisers collected around the charismatic Vsevolod...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Twentieth Century Performance Reader

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Teresa Brayshaw, Noel Witts

   The Twentieth Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and liver art form an essential sourcebook for students,...

   To Be Published October 27th 2013 by Routledge
9. Suzan-Lori Parks in Person

   Interviews, Addresses, Commentaries

   Edited by Philip Kolin, Harvey Young

   This collection of interviews and addresses with and by Parks offers unprecedented insight into her work, method and dramaturgy, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theatre and playwriting, from jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory. Material from a wide range of...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture

    Immersions and Revisitations

    Edited by Nadine Boehm-Schnitker, Susanne Gruss

    Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

    The Neo-Victorian in Contemporary Culture provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture...

    To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge