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Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosedby Michelle Morgan
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 14.57Following a number of sensationalist biographies of Marilyn Monroe in recent years, this comprehensive, meticulously researched volume brings an important fresh perspective on the many controversies in her life. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Marilyn Monroe and the Golden Age of Hollywood. This new edition of Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include an additional 60,000 words. It reveals a very different Marilyn from the celluloid invention. For the first volume, Michelle Morgan interviewed approximately 100 people who knew or were related to Marilyn in some way, including key figures in her life - family and friends, as well as work colleagues, and more casual acquaintances.... more...
Sourcebook on African-American Performanceby Annemarie Bean
Routledge 1999; US$ 46.95The first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s. more...
Certain Fragmentsby Tim Etchells; Peggy Phelan
Routledge 1999; US$ 45.95An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence. more...
Politics of Performanceby Baz Kershaw
Routledge 1992; US$ 38.95Addresses 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...
Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performanceby Carol Martin
Routledge 1996; US$ 46.95This outstanding collection includes key texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley. more...
Jacobean Public Theatreby Alexander Leggatt
Routledge 1992; US$ 135.00Recovers the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. Leggatt relates this drama to the popular culture of the day, concluding with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear . more...
Moscow Art Theatreby Nick Worrall
Routledge 1996; US$ 135.00Unprecedented in its comprehensiveness, The Moscow Art Theatre fills a large gap in our knowledge of Stanislavsky and his theatre. Worrall focuses in particular detail on four of The Moscow Art Theatre's best-known productions. more...
Theatre and the Worldby Rustom Bharucha
Routledge 1993; US$ 45.95In this passionate and controversial work, Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a `Third World' perspective. more...
Renaissance Drama in Actionby Martin White
Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95A fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging, which relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. Plays discussed include 'The Duchess of Malfi'. more...
Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century Franceby John McCormick
Routledge 1993; US$ 150.00Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century. more...









