Drama Paperbacks

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. Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama

   Community, Kinship, and Citizenship

   By Kanika Batra

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company

   Creativity and the Institution

   By Colin Chambers

   This is the inside story of the Royal Shakespeare Company - a running historical critique of a major national institution and its location within British culture, as related by a writer who is uniquely placed to tell the tale. It describes what happened to a radical theatrical vision and explores...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Brecht and Critical Theory

   Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics

   By Sean Carney

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Arguing that Brecht’s aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht’s aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished...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
6. Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction

   Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen

   By Emily Hodgson Anderson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
7. Ecology and Environment in European Drama

   By Downing Cless

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force....

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Requiem and an Epilogue

   Edited by Glynne Wickham

   This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660....

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Tragic Seneca

   An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

   Edited by A. J. Boyle

   Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
10. 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