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Download this eBook Feminist Imagining in Polish and Ukrainian Theatres
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Feminist Imagining in Polish and Ukrainian Theatres


Ewa Bal , Kasia Lech


This Element explores how women theatre artists in Ukraine and Poland – separately and together – respond to their dynamically shifting socio-political realities after the early 2010s events: the pro-European Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the traditionalist,...

Publication date: 2025-09-11
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Download this eBook The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre
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The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre


Brad Kent , David Kornhaber


The first panoramic survey of its kind,The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre is a wide-ranging guide to modernism's myriad theatrical manifestations and permutations. Covering such diverse movements as naturalism, symbolism, expressionism, surrealism, dadaism,...

Publication date: 2025-09-11
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Download this eBook Performing Female Intimacy in Japan's Takarazuka Revue
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Performing Female Intimacy in Japan's Takarazuka Revue


Nobuko Anan


Japan's Takarazuka Revue is arguably the most commercially successful all-female theatre company in the world. Renowned for its glamour-laden staging of musicals and revues, the company's signature shows are heterosexual Western romances where women play both male and...

Publication date: 2025-08-31
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Download this eBook The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy
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The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy


Oliver Double


Stand-up comedy is one of the simplest theatre forms in existence. The comedian stands on a (usually) bare stage, talking straight to the audience in the hope of getting laughs. Yet it has never been more popular, with national scenes developing across every continent...

Publication date: 2025-08-31
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Journey's End


R. C. Sherriff


Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and...

Publication date: 2000-10-26
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Publisher: Penguin
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Download this eBook The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors


Maria M. Delgado , Simon Williams


With a broader range of entries than any other reference book on stage directors, this Encyclopedia showcases the extraordinary diversity of theatre as a national and international artistic medium. Since the mid nineteenth century, stage directors have been...

Publication date: 2025-06-30
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Download this eBook English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000–2022
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English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000–2022


Lucy Tyler


English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000–2022 is the first study of the institutionalising ofEnglish play development practices in the twenty-first century. It identifies the ways in which support for playwrights and text development increased beneficially...

Publication date: 2025-04-30
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Download this eBook Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand
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Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand


Kate Flaherty


While the life and career of Ellen Terry (1847–1928) have attracted decades of attention from theatre historians and feminist biographers, one chapter remains hidden: Terry's tour of her solo Shakespeare lectures to Australia and New Zealand in 1914. This bold venture,...

Publication date: 2025-04-03
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Download this eBook Staging Class Conflict in the UK
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Staging Class Conflict in the UK


Liz Tomlin


This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified...

Publication date: 2025-04-03
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Download this eBook The Theatre of Louise Lowe
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The Theatre of Louise Lowe


Miriam Haughton


Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer/director, working in Ireland and internationally. She is the Co-Artistic Director of ANU Productions, established with...

Publication date: 2025-03-27
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Download this eBook Cultural Policy Yearbook 2022-2023 Resilience in the Ecosystem of Theatre
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Cultural Policy Yearbook 2022-2023 Resilience in the Ecosystem of Theatre


Hatice Gokce Okandan , Wolfgang Schneider


The Cultural Policy Yearbook is an international, peer-reviewed publication, producing high-quality, original research published by Istanbul Bilgi University.The 2022–2023 edition is published in English, with a Turkish version available exclusively as an e-book,...

Publication date: 2025-03-13
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Download this eBook Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity
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Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity


James Kearney


Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity addresses forms of ethical experience on theShakespearean stage. Early modern theater traffics in the vicarious experience of ethics, often ethics in some extreme or impossible circumstance. It does so not by parading concepts across...

Publication date: 2025-03-05
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity


James Kearney


Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity addresses forms of ethical experience on theShakespearean stage. Early modern theater traffics in the vicarious experience of ethics, often ethics in some extreme or impossible circumstance. It does so not by parading concepts across...

Publication date: 2025-02-27
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Download this eBook The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre
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The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre


Randall Stevenson , Greg Walker


The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre tells the story of drama and performing in Scotland from the earliest traces of folk plays, performances, and royal ceremonies in the medieval period right up to the challenges of the present post-pandemic moment in the...

Publication date: 2025-02-17
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The Rebellious N.


Michèle Reich


After Les Lettres portugaises (1669), by Gabriel de Guilleragues, after La Religieuse (1780), by Denis Diderot, after Le Dialogue des carmélites (1948), by Georges Bernanos, here is The Rebellious N. by Michèle Reich, translated from french. This is the story of the...

Publication date: 2025-01-24
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Download this eBook The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre
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The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre


Randall Stevenson , Greg Walker


The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre tells the story of drama and performing in Scotland from the earliest traces of folk plays, performances, and royal ceremonies in the medieval period right up to the challenges of the present post-pandemic moment in the...

Publication date: 2025-01-20
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Download this eBook Contemporary Performance Translation
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Contemporary Performance Translation


Jean Graham-Jones


Radically rethinking translation for the contemporary international stage, Jean Graham-Jones interrogates standard linguistic and cultural categories and proposes an overhaul of the translation process itself, incorporating dramaturgical logic and staging, actor...

Publication date: 2024-12-12
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King Henry VIII; or All is True


William Shakespeare


'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.' Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Written in the wake of the...

Publication date: 2024-12-04
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Cymbeline


William Shakespeare


'I see a man's life is a tedious one.' Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline discovers his daughter's secret marriage, he banishes her...

Publication date: 2024-12-02
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Titus Andronicus


William Shakespeare


'Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.' In Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Roman general Titus incurs the wrath of the Queen of the Goths when he enslaves her and kills one of her sons. The shocking...

Publication date: 2024-11-28
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