Theatre (17)

• Music
• Theatre

Performance Research Methods: Interdisciplinary Methods for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies

• Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
• Laura Karreman

'Performance Research Methods' is the first comprehensive guide to contemporary methodologies in performance studies, offering a clear and structured overview of the tools currently shaping research in theatre, dance, and performance. While many volumes focus on individual methods, this book uniquely surveys a range of approaches, presenting their historical background, analytical potential, practical application, and interdisciplinary relevance.

• Classics: Latin Textbooks
• Textbooks and Learning Guides
• Theatre

'Casina' by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation

• Catherine Tracy

This edition features the complete Latin text of the play, richly annotated with grammatical and vocabulary notes to support comprehension. A clear prose translation accompanies the original, offering accessible insight into the humor and intrigue of the play. The introduction provides historical and cultural context, situating the farce within ancient Athenian and Roman comedic traditions.

• History
• Politics and Sociology
• Theatre

When Katherine Brewed, a Play: Telling the Story of the Peasants’ Revolt and Today’s New Radical Theatre

• Mark O'Brien
• John Cresswell

In the sweltering heat of 1381, England's feudal foundations trembled as the Peasants' Revolt erupted—a rebellion that would forever echo through history. Triggered by an oppressive poll tax but fuelled by deeper injustices, this uprising saw land workers, artisans, and commoners rise to challenge the authority of landowners, church, and crown. 'When Katherine Brewed' brings this momentous event to life on stage, blending historical fidelity with a bold, radical perspective.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology
• Theatre
• Women and Gender Studies

Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work

• Marie Buscatto
• Sari Karttunen
• Mathilde Provansal

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the pervasive issue of gender-based violence (GBV) within the realms of art and cultural production. This collection of essays delves into both the overt and subtle forms of GBV. It spans sexual harassment, assault, and the everyday sexism ingrained in creative workplaces and art schools, in both professional and private dimensions. The book covers a wide array of artistic sectors—opera, visual arts, music, and theatre—across diverse global contexts, from Europe to Asia and North America.

• Philosophy
• Psychology and Psychoanalysis
• Theatre

Tragedy and the Witness: Shakespeare and Beyond

• Fred Parker

As he dies, Hamlet pleads with Horatio to ‘report me aright … tell my story’. This book deals with the task of bearing witness to anguish, atrocity, and madness, as these are staged in the tragic theatre. Focusing on the relationship between the protagonist and the onlooker or witness, it explores how the tragic figure, often and understandably viewed as alien or culpable or profoundly strange, struggles to be understood. Centred on Shakespeare, its wide-ranging approach also introduces works by (among others) the Greeks, Racine, Ibsen, Pirandello, Kafka, Beckett, and Kane.

• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Theatre

Active Speech: Critical Perspectives on Teresa Deevy

• Úna Kealy
• Kate McCarthy

'Active Speech' is a groundbreaking collection of scholarly essays and practitioner interviews focused on the work of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy. Acts of recovery in the 1980s and 1990s challenged Deevy’s exclusion from the literary canon, reclaiming her contributions as significant to Irish drama and theatre. The recent resurgence of scholarship and productions evidences that, as a deafened woman and Irish playwright, Deevy’s creative power continues to disrupt and tilt the canon of Irish drama, theatre, and performance.

• European Studies: French Studies
• Theatre

Nouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité

• Pauline Beaucé
• Jeffrey M. Leichman

Les théâtres du passé : des théâtres virtuels ? C’est une des questions passionnantes explorée dans ce livre par des chercheurs et chercheuses en littérature, musicologie, histoire, études théâtrales, histoire de l’art, architecture et sciences du numérique. Ces Nouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité proposent de relever un défi épistémologique autour de la notion de virtuel pour la recherche en histoire du théâtre en engageant différents formats de réflexion : entretiens, articles multimédia, brèves de méthodologie, exposition virtuelle.

• Asian Studies
• Classics
• Theatre

The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater

• Roberto Morales-Harley

This volume presents a sophisticated and intricate examination of the parallels between Sanskrit and Greco-Roman literature. By means of a philological and literary analysis, Morales-Harley hypothesizes that Greco-Roman literature was known, understood, and recreated in India. Moreover, it is argued that the techniques for adapting epic into theater could have been Greco-Roman influences in India, and that some of the elements adapted within the literary motifs (specifically the motifs of the embassy, the ambush, and the ogre) could have been Greco-Roman borrowings by Sanskrit authors.

• History
• Politics and Sociology
• Theatre

After the Miners’ Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain: Volume 1

• Paul Farmer
• Rebecca Hillman
• Mark Kilburn

In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change.

• Philosophy
• Theatre

Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring

• Brian Rappert

In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself.

• Classics
• Classics: Latin Textbooks
• Theatre

Epidicus by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation

• Catherine Tracy

Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master’s illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master’s son, but a comedy of mistaken identities and competing interests ensues. Amid the mayhem, Epidicus aims to win his freedom whilst risking some of the grislier punishments the Romans inflicted on their unfortunate slaves.

• Theatre

Chronicles from Kashmir: An Annotated, Multimedia Script

• Nandita Dinesh

Chronicles from Kashmir explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemble Kashmir Theatre Akademi and Nandita Dinesh, the play uses a durational, promenade format to immerse its audience within a multitude of perspectives on life in Kashmir. From a wedding celebration that is interrupted by curfew, to schoolboys divided by policing strategies, and soldiers struggling with a toxic mixture of boredom and trauma, Chronicles from Kashmir uses performance, installation and collaborative creation to grapple with Kashmir’s conflicts through the lenses of outsiders, insiders, and everyone in between.

• Politics and Sociology
• Theatre

Theatre and War: Notes from the Field

• Nandita Dinesh

Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s "six honest serving-men" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important book weaves together Dinesh’s personal narrative with the public story of modern conflict, illustrating as it does, the importance of theatre as a force for ethical deliberation and social justice.

• Asian Studies
• Folklore and Ethnology
• Music
• Other languages
• Theatre

Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India

• Francesca Orsini
• Katherine Butler Schofield

Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region.

• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Literature
• Theatre

The Theatre of Shelley

• Jacqueline Mulhallen

In the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance, Mulhallen provides a meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his ‘closet dramas’ as performable pieces of theatre. As well as discussing Shelley’s stagecraft and analysing performances of his plays from the 1800s to today, the book also offers a detailed account of the theatrical scene of Shelley’s time, including details of the productions Shelley himself saw. Mulhallen reveals Shelley as an extraordinarily talented playwright, whose fascination with contemporary theatrical theory and practice challenges the notion that he was a reluctant dramatist.

• Archaeology and Religion
• Literature
• Literature: Comparative Literature
• Theatre
• Visual Arts
• Women and Gender Studies

The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines

• Kevin R. Brine
• Elena Ciletti
• Henrike Lähnemann

The Book of Judith has fascinated artists and authors for centuries, and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. This book is the first multidisciplinary collection to discuss representations of Judith through the centuries. Bringing together scholars from around the world, it transforms our understanding of Judith’s enduring story across a wide range of disciplines. The book includes sections on Judith in Christian, Jewish and secular textual traditions, and representations of Judith in art, music and theatre. It also includes new archival source studies, and translations of unpublished manuscripts and texts previously unavailable in English.

• Environmental Studies
• Literature
• Theatre

Microscopic Life in Early-Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

• Liliane Campos
• Sarah Bouttier
• François-Joseph Lapointe
• Sarah Montin

FORTHCOMING

This volume provides a groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection exploring how literature and performance engage with life at microscopic scales. Responding to an era dominated by planetary thinking, the volume turns attention to the invisible biological dimensions that shape our imagination of life, community, and ecology. Drawing from North American and European case studies, the volume’s essays and creative works examine how fiction, poetry, theatre, dance, installation art and museum practices render microbial and cellular processes perceptible, to enable new ethical and political relationships across species and scales.