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... She Also Wrote Plays - A Comprehensive Guide to Women Playwrights and their Work
Looking for plays by women to produce, perform or read? Teaching drama, literature or gender studies and needing new material ? This Guide provides 400 entries from Hrotswitha to Wertenbaker, giving biographical…
A Guide To The Plays Of Brecht
A guide to all of Brecht’s key plays that sets them in their historical, dramaturgical and political contexts Stephen Unwin provides a clear and readable guide to Brecht’s plays that will prove…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - A User’s Guide
A scene-by-scene guide to Shakespeare’s best loved comedy, from the author of the User’s Guides to Hamlet and Twelfth Night, published to coincide with the RSC’s production of the play…
A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama
Are you searching for an overview of the most significant modern plays? If so, this pocket Guide is for you since it offers a short intro to the dramatic century, historical and theatrical context for…
A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays
A pocket guide to all 36 of Shakespeare’s plays. Included are cast lists, synopses, descriptions of main characters, and an short essay on each play
A Theatergoer’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Characters
Designed to enhance the playgoer’s enjoyment of a performance, this also makes for enlightening reading after the show More than eight hundred characters appear in Shakespeare’s thirty-eight…
Acting (Re)considered - A Theoretical and Practical Guide
Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance This second edition includes five new…
Actor’s Alchemy - Finding the Gold in the Script
An actor's script is both a gold mine, and the map to discovering it If properly read, a script will reveal its riches to you Unfortunately, most actors never learn to efficiently read the map, or master…
Antonin Artaud - Blows and Bombs
Antonin Artaud is one of the great cultural legends of the 20th century. His Theatre of Cruelty altered the course of modern theatre and his experiments with the Surrealist movement have proved inspirational…
Antonin Artaud - Selected Writings
A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film…
Antonin Artaud - The Man and His Work
Martin Esslin is one of the most respected and knowledgeable writers on serious drama and literature of the 20th century. His “Theatre of the Absurd” is a modern classic among his many other…
Antonin Artaud - The Theatre and Its Double
The most radical text on performance in print today from the legendary French playwright, poet and director He redefines the nature and purpose of drama, what the theatrical reaction of audiences should…
Art Matters - Reflecting on Culture
A personal and critical look at British art and culture by one of Britain’s most distinguished broadcasters and art administrators In Art Matters John Tusa investigates the many imperatives of why…
