The Field of Drama - How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen
Martin Esslin
Used Copy
$18.99
Theatre Theory books - Theatre Theory and Criticism books
Dear Mr Shakespeare
Simon Reade
Oberon
Dear Mr Shakespeare, Thank you for submitting your script. We loved it! However What if Shakespeare was writing today? What if Shakespeare had to deal with the prejudices of today's producers? What if...
$14.99
Devised and Collaborative Theatre - A Practical Guide
Tina Bicat & Chris Baldwin foreword Clive Barker
Crowood Press
This text is written for all companies, student and professional, who are interested in non-text-based theatre and aims to shine a practical light on the passionate business of the devising process Suggesti...
$29.99
Bentley on Brecht
Eric Bentley
Applause Books
Just as Brecht in his great works reshaped the modern theatre, Bentley in his writings on Brecht dictated the playwright and poet's literary fate for the U.S. and beyond This all-inclusive volume contains...
$18.99
The Shakespeare Folios - Henry V - The Life of Henry the Fifth
William Shakespeare ed Nick de Somogyi
Nick Hern Books
A brand new way of presenting Shakespeare - the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form The First Folio of 1623 is the definitive edition of Shakespeare's plays. It is the c...
$19.99
Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Luis M. Garcia Mainar
Boydell & Brewer
A critical study of one of the great directors of the 20th Century - 2 b/w illustrations - 267 pages
$34.95
Disjecta & Miscellanous Writings & A Dramatic Fragment
Samuel Beckett edited Ruby Cohn
John Calder Publications
The first reprint of an important volume of Samuel Beckett's miscellaneous writings on art, literature and related matters Includes the unfinished play Human Wishes as well as the famous Duthuit Dialogues
$17.99
Genesis of an American Playwright
Horton Foote edited Marion Castleberry - HARDBACK
Baylor University Press
One of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century, reflects upon his journey from his childhood in Wharton, Texas, through his early experiences as an actor in the theater, to his mature voca...
$29.99
The Other American Drama
Marc Robinson
John Hopkins University
The first book to discuss Stein, Fornes, Kennedy, and Foreman as essential members of modern American theater rather than as curious fringe figures -- with an afterword on new directions in the work of sever...
$25.99
Shakespeare - The Poet and His Plays
Stanley Wells
Methuen
The definitive single-volume work on Shakespeare's life and plays by the editor of the Oxford ShakespeareWhy do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? ...
$27.99
Political Theatre during the Spanish Civil War
Jim McCarthy
University of Wales
Jim McCarthy's ground-breaking study rediscovers the forgotten political theatre of the Spanish Civil War Teatro de urgencia is an aspect of Spanish cultural history that virtually disappeared with the de...
$69.99
Freedom's Pioneer - John McGrath's Work in Theatre & Film & Television
David Bradbury & Susanne Capon
University of Exeter
John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many University and Further Education departments and yet despite recognition of the central impo...
$29.99
The Poetics of Aristotle
translation & Commentary Stephen Halliwell
Duckworth
This new translation, which incorporates the results of the best modern work on the Poetics, is aimed at those (especially students) who want a reliable version of Aristotle's ideas together with concise and...
$23.99
Pinter in the Theatre
Ian Smith
Nick Hern Books
Published to mark his 75th year, this is the first book to focus on Pinter's work in the theatre Eight actors and directors who have worked with Pinter in the theatre talk candidly about what it's like t...
$12.99
Shakespeare - To Teach or Not to Teach
Cass Foster & Lynn G. Johnson
sms
This is an excellent resource for teaching or directing Shakespeare This book is filled with great ideas for different teaching methodologies and plenty of across-the-curriculum activities You and your stu...
$26.99
Portable Theater - American Literature & the Nineteenth Century Stage
Alan L Ackerman Jr
John Hopkins University
"Alan Ackerman examines selected writers of the second half of the nineteenth century for their relationship as poets and fiction writers to the evolving theater of Edwin Forrest at one end and the new dra...
$25.99
Art Matters - Reflecting on Culture
John Tusa
Methuen
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 art d...
$27.99
A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare's Characters
Robert Thomas Fallon
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 plays - an asto...
$29.99
Politics Prudery and Perversions
Nicholas de Jongh
Methuen
The Censoring of the English Stage 1901-1968 The secret legacy of the Lord Chamberlain's office uncovered for the first time. This book was the winner of the Theatre Book Prize awarded by the Society of Th...
$29.95 , $22.46 (25% off)
Meyerhold - A Revolution in Theatre
Edward Braun - PAPERBACK
Methuen
Vsevolod Meyerhold began his career in theatre as an actor with the Moscow Art Theatre, and after a spell in the remote provinces, he returned to Moscow at Stanislavski's invitation and founded a new, exp...
$27.99