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Metaphorby Zoltan Kovecses
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 24.95Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on 'metaphors in discourse' and 'metaphor and emotion' --along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised student exercises, tables, and figures. more...
Sourcebook on African-American Performanceby Annemarie Bean
Routledge 1999; US$ 45.95The 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$ 44.95An 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$ 45.95This 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...
Yuri Lyubimov: Thirty Years at the Taganka Theatreby B. Beumers
Routledge 1997; US$ 67.95A study of Yury Lyubimov's tempestuous career and his style of theatre. This work traces the development of his ideas, from his arrival at the Taganka Theatre in 1964 through to his explusion in 1984, and his period of exile in the West until his return in 1989 to a much-changed Russia. 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$ 39.95A 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...