<P>Stanislavsky’s system of actor-training has revolutionised modern theatre practice, and he is widely recognised to be one of the great cultural innovators of the twentieth century.
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging
perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical,
and theatric...
The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance.
The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists – to provide an astonishingly compreh...
Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre.
From Commedia dell’Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre.
At the time of his death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be
‘his only student, who understands the System’.
The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre.
The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon.
The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives.
The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly i...
The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing, interdisciplinary field.
The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social ...
The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh.
<P><EM>The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance</EM> is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and d...
<P><EM>An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance</EM> chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day.
<P><EM>An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance</EM> chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day.
<P>Twenty-five years after the publication of <I>A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes</I>, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject...
<P>This dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed.
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today?s writers, critics, audiences, and theatr...
The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical?s evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments.
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first c...
The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Pra...
The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Pra...
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, and collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, ...
The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politic...
This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English histor...
The Routledge Pantomime Reader is the first anthology to document this entertainment genre?one of the most distinctive and ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Britain.
The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.
The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education is a comprehensive reference guide to this unique performance discipline, focusing on its process-oriented theatrical techniques, engagement of a broad sp...
This companion interrogates the relationship between theatre and youth from a global perspective, taking in performances and theatre made by, for, and about young people.
Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of ...
