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81. 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
82. Playing on the Periphery

    Sport, Identity and Memory

    By Tara Brabazon

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New...

    Published September 14th 2008 by Routledge
83. Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

    By Haiping Yan

    Series: Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society

    Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist...

    Published April 30th 2008 by Routledge
84. Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre

    By P.A. Skantze

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form of artistic creation, philosophical investigation, a way of representing and manipulating ideas about gender and a way of...

    Published December 29th 2007 by Routledge
85. Shakespeares Last Plays

    By Frances Yates

    Published March 30th 2007 by Routledge
86. Theatre and Postcolonial Desires

    By Awam Amkpa

    This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The author examines the work of prominent Nigerian and British playwrights who came of age after the passing of the British Empire....

    Published January 7th 2007 by Routledge
87. Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts

    Translating Traditions

    Edited by Hae-kyung Um

    In an age of globalization, performance is increasingly drawn from intercultural creativity and located in multicultural settings. This volume is the first to focus on the performing arts of Asian diasporas in the context of modernity and multiculturalism. The essays locate the contemporary...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
88. Japonisme in Britain

    Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan

    By Ayako Ono

    Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
89. Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory

    Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism

    By Yuko Kikuchi

    Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Sôetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei connoisseurs and collectors, Mingei shops and Mingei restaurants. The theory, at its core and its adaptation by Bernard Leach, has long...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge