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  • I Am What I Amby John Barrowman; Carole E. Barrowman

    Michael O'Mara 2010; US$ 9.99

    Intimately exploring aspects of John?s current life, this personal memoir is full of exclusive anecdotes from recent and ongoing projects, all told with John?s trademark charm and humor. Full of juicy tidbits from behind the scenes of Doctor Who and Torchwood , this memoir also offers heartwarming family anecdotes and personal revelations, including... more...

  • Playing to the Crowdby Frederick Burwick

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00

    The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities. more...

  • Notes From An Odin Actressby Julia Varley

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 33.95

    ?As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats. As an actress, I am both myself and the character I am playing. I exist in the concreteness of the performance and, at the same time, I need to be alive in the minds and senses of the spectators. How can I speak of this double reality??... more...

  • Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Ageby Dr Richard Schoch

    Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 116.00

    A fresh and intimate portrait of Queen Victoria 'at the play'. Through Victoria's diary, artwork and correspondence we see her as enraptured spectator, bountiful patron and tyrannical director of private theatricals. At times she appears formidable. More frequently she is impudent, high-spirited and unruly; a woman who delights in gory melodramas and... more...

  • Politics of Performanceby Baz Kershaw

    Routledge 1992; US$ 38.95

    Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation of post-war alternative and community theatre. A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice. more...

  • Jacobean Public Theatreby Alexander Leggatt

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00

    Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear , which emerge in an unexpected light as the products of popular tradition. more...

  • The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern Englandby Jean E. Howard

    Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 45.95

    The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England is a ground-breaking study of a controversial period of English literary, cultural, and political history. In language that is both lucid and theoretically sophisticated, Jean Howard examines the social and cultural facets of early modern theatre. She looks at the ways in which some theatrical... more...

  • Skilled Workers' Solidarityby Antoine Joseph

    Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 151.00

    Skilled Workers' Solidarity is a comparative historical analysis of capitalist democracy, focusing on development in the United States and offering comparisons with other western nations. more...

  • Inside the Royal Shakespeare Companyby Colin Chambers

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95

    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 British society's inability to sustain that vision.... more...

  • Mr. Strangeloveby Ed Sikov

    Hyperion 2003; US$ 11.95

    Peter Sellers's explosive talent made him a beloved figure in world cinema and continues to attract new audiences. With his darkly comic performances in Dr. Strangelove and Lolita and his outrageously funny appearances as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films, he became one of the most popular movie stars of his time. Sellers himself identified... more...