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African Theatre for Development
Intellect 1998; US$ 10.00This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The book provides an opportunity to discover contemporary material from experts,... more...
Laughing Mad
Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 17.00Prior to the civil rights movement, comedians performed for audiences that were clearly delineated by race. Black comedians performed (primarily) for black audiences and white comedians performed for whites. Yet during the past forty-five years, black comics have become progressively more central to mainstream culture. In Laughing Mad, Bambi Haggins... more...
Ariane Mnouchkine
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 31.95Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. One of the most important directors of her generation, and one of the only women ever to have attained... more...
Stanislavsky in Focus
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 30.95Examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavsky's 'System', separating myth from fact with forensic skill. This study shows how the 'System' was gradually transformed into the Method, popularised in the 1950s by Lee Strasberg and the Actor's Studio. more...
The Performing Century
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 31.95This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be. more...
Men at Play
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 70.00How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations... more...
Theatreland
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 39.95Covering the five centuries from Shakespeare’s Bankside playhouses to today’s West End, Paul Ibell’s Theatreland explores the history and current state of the London stage, taking the reader through the streets and alleyways of the theatre capital of the world. . London’s theatre district is quite literally built on the... more...
Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power. more...
La Traduction spécialisée
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2011; US$ 24.99Cet ouvrage présente les fondements théoriques et les principes méthodologiques de la traduction spécialisée en général, et plus particulièrement de la traduction spécialisée de l'anglais vers le français. Il s'ouvre sur une description des particularités des langues de spécialité portant sur une typologie des textes et une classification des genres... more...
Life Is Not a Stage
Center Street 2011; US$ 9.99For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television. Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco... more...









