Theatre & Performance Studies

This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage of the concepts of translation and adaptation in terms of theatre and film...

The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater, placing Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatrical contexts of western and central Europe, as well as the Indian sub-continent. Contributors examine the movement of theatrical ..

This review of modern literature includes fiction by Han Ong and Ida Fink, and a selection of reportage including Scott L. Malcolmson's article on white Christian militia in Oklahoma, Bodo Morshauser on neo-nazi street life in Berlin and the "Venue" critics on Hong Kong and literary debates...

This revised edition of the classic text of the period provides both the student and the specialist with an informative account of post-Roman English society...

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. This timely collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing..

Taking a fresh look at the interconnections between medieval theater, images, texts, and practices of viewing, reading and listening, this volume explores various manifestations of performance and meanings of performativity in the Middle Ages. The contributors-from their various perspectives as sch..

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Voice-Overs is an insider's guide to voicing radio and television commercials. Bernard Graham Shaw draws upon his nearly 20 years of voice-work experience to teach valuable studio skills and offers practical advice on how to build a voice-over career...

This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the interrelationships between oral communication and the written word. Part 1 concerns public life in the states of northern, central, and southern Italy...

Vsevolod Meyerhold considers the life and work of the extraordinary twentieth-century director and theatre-maker...

Vsevolod Meyerhold considers the life and work of the extraordinary twentieth-century director and theatre-maker...

In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge. He argues that understanding technique as both training and research has much to offer current debates over the role of practice in the university, including the debates around "pract..