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Captive Audience
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 110.00This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. more...
Sense of an Interior
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.00The Sense of an Interior is a fascinating exploration of domestic space and of the ways it determines how writers work. The book looks at four famous figures - Emily Dickinson, Sigmund Freud, Helen Keller, and Marcel Proust, and examines the relationship between their work and the spaces where they wrote. more...
Judenrollen
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00Collected volume of studies on the stage representation of Jews in European theatre between 1830 and 1940. The way in which Jews are represented on the stage stretches between the poles of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism on the one side and Jewish renaissance and Zionism on the other. The individual studies all consider the boundary conditions given... more...
A Cup of Comfort for Writers
F+W Media 2007; US$ 9.95As every writer knows, keeping the faith isn't always easy. On those days when you find yourself literally at a loss for words, you may long for a little writer's TLC. In A Cup of Comfort for Writers , you'll meet more than fifty writers who, just like you, have faced down that empty page and won! From a woman who enters an elite writing program... more...
What is Scenography?
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95"Pamela Howard?s ground-breaking What is Scenography? was the first book to set out the bold new approaches to designing and directing for theatre which had dazzled audiences in Europe during the previous decades. It did us all a service by enriching the scope of how we understand the aesthetics of the stage. The lavish new materials (drawings,... more...
Nat Love
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 36.00Born in a log cabin in Tennessee in June 1854, Nat Love was the slave of Robert Love. He was about six when the Civil War began, and after the slaves were freed following the war, Love was ready to start living a new life out West, where he could find work as a cowhand. It wasn't long before he started showing his talents as a cowboy, roping and... more...
Ecology and Environment in European Drama
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 133.00Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force. Though theater predominantly explores human and cultural... more...
An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 25.00This book provides an introduction to post-colonial theatre by concentrating on the work of major dramatists from the third world and subordinated cultures in the first world. more...
Stages of Evil
The University Press of Kentucky 2005; US$ 55.00"The evil that men do" has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. In Stages of Evil, Robert Lima explores the sociohistorical implications of Christian and pagan representations of evil and the theatrical creativity... more...
To Have or Have Not
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 55.00In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the text moves from Marx's theories to Wall... more...









