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  • Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities

    Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights

    by Kanika Batra ...
    Series series Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures
    Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance.The book’s comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama

    Community, Kinship, and Citizenship

    by Kanika Batra ...
    Series 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 contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the model citizen and by suggesting alternative ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

    by Birgit Beumers, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of ... Read more

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  • Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage

    In History’s Wings

    by Alexander Feldman ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville

    by Anthony Slide ...
    The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Languages at Play in the Theatre

    by Marvin Carlson ...
    Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations. The use of multiple languages in the contemporary theatre is in part a reflection of a more globalized culture, but it also calls attention to how the mixing of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Tina Packer Builds A Theater

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein (30,000 words)Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began as a young actress from Nottingham, England who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s and, with Kristin Linklater and Dennis Krausnick, developed her own company in Edith Wharton’s abandoned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law

    Vindictive Justice

    by Derek Dunne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Taming of the Turk

    Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596-1896

    by Bent Holm ...
    Translated by Gaye Kynoch ...
    Series Book 2 - Ottomania
    For centuries the figure of 'the Turk' spread fascination and fear - in the theatre of war and on the theatrical stage. On the one hand, 'the Turk' represented a spectacular dimension, an imaginary world of pirates, sultans and odalisques; on the other hand, he stood for the actual Ottoman Empire, engaged in long-lasting confrontations and exchanges with Occidental powers. When confronted with ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Japanese Women’s Theatre and Visual Arts

    Performing Girls’ Aesthetics

    by Nobuko Anan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their manifestation in Japanese women's theatrical and dance performance and visual arts including manga, film, and installation arts. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Audience Book of Theater Quotations

    by Louis Phillips ...
    Now in its 3nd edition, we've expanded this book's size by a third with more great quotes! The Audience Book of Theater Quotations is a lifelong labor of love by Professor Phillips. If you have anything to do with the theater, buy this book. "I've been fortunate to spend many an afternoon with author Louis Phillips, sharing his insightful appreciation of movies, plays and poetry. Luck has come ... Read more

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  • The Women of Provincetown, 1915–1922

    by Cheryl Black ...
    An illuminating account of the roles a remarkable group of women played in one of the most influential theatre groups in America, demonstrating their influence on 20th-century dramaturgy and culture.In this fascinating work, Cheryl Black reveals that, in addition to its role in developing an American tradition of non-commercial theatre, Provincetown has another, largely unacknowledged claim to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD