Playwrights Books

New and Published Books

1. Global Ibsen

   Performing Multiple Modernities

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Barbara Gronau, Christel Weiler

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy,...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Adapting Chekhov

   The Text and its Mutations

   Edited by J. Douglas Clayton, Yana Meerzon

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist...

   Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Maria Irene Fornes

   By Scott T. Cummings

   Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

   Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist of the 20th century. That is the argument of this important new study, the first to assess Fornes's complete body of work. Scott T. Cummings considers comic sketches, opera libretti and unpublished pieces, as well as her...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished...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
5. New Playwriting Strategies

   Language and Media in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition

   By Paul Castagno

   New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

   Edited by John Russell Brown

   The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays. The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft, their...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
7. 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
8. J.B. Priestley

   By Maggie B. Gale

   Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

   J. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre. Priestley was often criticised for being either too populist or too experimental and this...

   Published March 9th 2008 by Routledge
9. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell

   By Barbara Ozieblo, Jerry Dickey

   Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

   Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell presents critical introductions to two of the most significant American dramatists of the early twentieth century. Glaspell and Treadwell led American Theatre from outdated melodrama to the experimentation of great European playwrights like Ibsen, Strindberg and...

   Published January 29th 2008 by Routledge
10. Joan Littlewood

    By Nadine Holdsworth

    Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners

    The only book currently available on Joan Littlewood and her company, 'Theatre Workshop', this book explores the background to, and the work of a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Part of the successful Routledge Performance Practitioners series, this book uses...

    Published May 16th 2006 by Routledge