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World Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 4: The Arab World
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 400.00One of the first internationally published overviews of theatrical activity across the Arab World. Includes 160,000 words and over 125 photographs from 22 different Arab countries from Africa to the Middle East. more...
A - F
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 531.00This supplement to the Deutsches Theater-Lexikon [German Lexicon of Theater], which was completed in 2011, amplifies and extends Volumes I-IV (A-T), which first appeared between 1953 and 1998. Articles have been re-edited and expanded with an emphasis on the 20th century, and personalities from the world of German-language theater who were not previously... more...
On Bathos
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 110.00While the sublime has garnered a great deal of critical attention over the past twenty years, its counterpart, bathos, has yet to receive any extended treatment. Generally understood as an inadvertent descent to the low, vulgar, and ludicrous in writing or art, the term “bathos” was popularised by Pope, who used it to satirise his contemporaries.... more...
Advances in Chemical Physics
Wiley 2009; US$ 188.00Part of an open-ended series which helps readers obtain information on a wide variety of topics in chemical physics. Volume LVII features papers by outstanding specialists in such areas as the local mode picture, multimode molecular dynamics, Jahn-Teller trajectories, and the structure, dynamics, and dissipation in hard core molecular liquids. more...
Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 250.00International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre.... more...
Key Concepts in Drama and Performance
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2005; US$ 30.00This book is intended for undergraduates on courses in drama, theatre or performing arts, providing an informative and accessible guide to the subject. more...
The Dramatic Imagination
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 32.95Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theatre - that inspires theatre students. more...
Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 22.95Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre is a lively and accessible biographical guide to the key figures in contemporary drama. All who enjoy the theatre will find their pleasure enhanced and their knowledge extended by this fascinating work of reference. Its distinctive blend of information, analysis and anecdote makes for entertaining and enlightening... more...
Stylistics
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 24.95Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines: * the terminology of literary form * how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth... more...
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 45.95Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners - directors, playwrights, performers and designers, from Jarry to Grotowski and Craig. These key texts span the twentieth... more...
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