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31. Stage Presence

    By Jane Goodall

    Focusing on examples of live performance in drama, dance, opera and light entertainment, Jane Goodall explores a characteristic as compelling and enigmatic as the performers who demonstrate it. The mysterious quality of ‘presence’ in a performer has strong resonances with the uncanny. It is...

    Published April 17th 2008 by Routledge
32. King Lear

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Jeffrey Kahan

    Series: Shakespeare Criticism

    Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations?...

    Published April 16th 2008 by Routledge
33. Music and Drama: Mini-set N Today & Tomorrow 1 vol

    Today and Tomorrow

    By Various

    Originally published between 1925 and 1929 the volumes in this mini-set examine the history and future of the theatre, the theory of music, and a survey of opera. Authors included are E J Dent, Bonamy Dobree, Hubert Griffith, Dyneley Hussey and W J Turner. ...

    Published February 29th 2008 by Routledge
34. My Life in Art

    By Konstantin Stanislavski

    Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist theatre and his unprecedented approach to teaching acting. He lived through extraordinary times and his unique contribution to the arts still endures in the twenty-first...

    Published February 6th 2008 by Routledge
35. Performing Cures

    By Natsu Hattori

    Published May 31st 2007 by Focal Press
36. Ariane Mnouchkine

    By Judith G. Miller

    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. One of the most important directors of her...

    Published March 8th 2007 by Routledge
37. Robert Wilson

    By Maria Shevtsova

    Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners

    This book is a comprehensive study of the theatre work of Robert Wilson with some reference to his installations and design. The focus is Einstein on the Beach which marked the turning point in his career and from which began his reputation as a major international figure. He is as an...

    Published March 8th 2007 by Routledge
38. Arts of Perception

    The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720

    By Jeremy Robbins

    Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracián, Quevedo, Calderón, Saavedra Fajardo, López de Vega, and Sor Juana. Reading these figures in the context of European...

    Published November 12th 2006 by Routledge
39. A Performance Cosmology

    Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past

    Edited by Judie Christie, Richard Gough, Daniel Peter Watt

    Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from leading international theatre practitioners and...

    Published October 25th 2006 by Routledge
40. The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain

    A Bibliography of Criticism and Documentation

    Edited by Philip B. Thomason, Ceri Byrne

    Previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain is the second in a series of research bibliographies on the Theatre in Spain. Representing ten years of searches and compilation by its specialist authors, this volume draws...

    Published September 26th 2006 by Routledge