History of Drama Books

New and Published Books

1. Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre

   Illustrations of the Original Productions

   Edited by and translated by Vera Gottlieb

   The Moscow Art Theatre is still recognized as having more impact on modern theatre than any company in the world. This lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced facsimile edition of a Russian journal from 1914 documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

   By Anna McMullan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Tragic Seneca

   An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

   Edited by A. J. Boyle

   Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Shakespeares Last Plays

   By Frances Yates

   Published March 30th 2007 by Routledge
6. History of European Drama and Theatre

   By Erika Fischer-Lichte

   This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual...

   Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge
7. The Drama of South Africa

   Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910

   By Loren Kruger

   The Drama of South Africa comprehensively chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from 1910, when the country came into official existence, to the advent of post-apartheid. Eminent theatre historian Loren Kruger discusses well-known figures, as well as lesser-known performers...

   Published June 23rd 1999 by Routledge
8. Black South African Women

   An Anthology of Plays

   Edited by Kathy Perkins

   This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. This collection represents the work of both female and male writers, including national and international award-winning playwrights. The collection includes six full-length and four one-act plays, as well as...

   Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge
9. The Trap

   By Tadeusz Rosewicz

   First published in 1998...

   Published February 8th 1998 by Routledge
10. The Arab in Israeli Drama and Theatre

    By Dan Urian

    What is Israeli theatre? Is it only a Hebrew theatre staged in Israel? Are performances by Arab Israelis working in an Arabic theatre framework not part of the repertoire of Israeli theatre? Do they perhaps belong to the Palestinian theatre? What are the "borders" of Palestinian theatre? Are not...

    Published January 28th 1998 by Routledge