Theatre & Performance Studies Paperbacks

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31. Performance and Cognition

    Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn

    Edited by Bruce McConachie, F. Elizabeth Hart

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work,...

    Published February 1st 2010 by Routledge
32. The Politics of New Media Theatre

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    By Gabriella Giannachi

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre....

    Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
33. Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture

    From Simulation to Embeddedness

    By Matthew Causey

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems. The book examines the...

    Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
34. Ritual and Event

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Franko

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster.The methodologies...

    Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
35. Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting

    By Jonathan Pitches

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on...

    Published September 29th 2009 by Routledge
36. City/Stage/Globe

    Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London

    By D.J. Hopkins

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space – the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic – this volume considers the role of performance in the production and operation of these...

    Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge
37. Tragic Seneca

    An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

    Edited by A. J. Boyle

    Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
38. Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644

    By Grant Guangren Shen

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia

    Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre performances were an integral part of formal gatherings, various rituals and ceremonies. Based on an exploration of original historical records,...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
39. Elizabethan Popular Theatre

    Plays in Performance

    By Michael Hattaway

    Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. The book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas: The Spanish Tragedy,...

    Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
40. 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