Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Dancehall In/Securities: Perspectives on Caribbean Expressive Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Noxolo, 'H' Patten, Sonjah Stanley Niaah
January 29, 2024
This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security. This collection draws together a multi-disciplinary range of key scholars in in/security and dancehall. Scholars from the University ...
Deburau: Pierrot, Mime, and Culture
1st Edition
By Edward Nye
January 29, 2024
This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre des Funambules in Paris in the context of Romantic art, literature and socio-political thought. Deburau and the Théâtre des Funambules are characteristic of Romantic art in that they are ...
Eugene O'Neill's Philosophy of Difficult Theatre: Pity, Fear, and Forgiveness
1st Edition
By Jeremy Killian
January 29, 2024
Through a close re-examination of Eugene O’Neill’s oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O’Neill’s vision of tragedy privileges a particular emotional response over a more “rational” one among his audience members. In addition to offering a new paradigm ...
Finland's National Theatre 1974–1991: The Two Decades of Generational Contests, Cultural Upheavals, and International Cold War Politics
1st Edition
By Pirkko Koski
January 29, 2024
This study analyses the Finnish National Theatre’s activities throughout the decades during which the post-war generation with its new societal and theatrical views was rising to power, and during which Europe, divided by the Iron Curtain, was maturing to break the boundaries dividing it. Pirkko ...
French Theatre, Orientalism, and the Representation of India, 1770-1865: India Lost and Regained
1st Edition
By David Hammerbeck
January 29, 2024
This book examines the French theatricalization of India from 1770 to 1865 and how a range of plays not only represented India to the French viewing public but also staged issues within French culture including colonialism, imperialism, race, gender, and national politics. Through examining these ...
Hauntological Dramaturgy: Affects, Archives, Ethics
1st Edition
By Glenn D’Cruz
January 29, 2024
This book is about some of the ways we remember the dead through performance. It examines the dramaturgical techniques and strategies that enable artists to respond to the imperative: ‘Remember Me’ – the command King Hamlet’s ghost gives to his son in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Hamlet. The book ...
Marginality Beyond Return: US Cuban Performances in the 1980s and 1990s
1st Edition
By Lillian Manzor
January 29, 2024
This study is an exploration of US Cuban theatrical performances written and staged primarily between 1980 and 2000. Lillian Manzor analyzes early plays by Magali Alabau, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, María Irene Fornés, Eduardo Machado, Manuel Martín Jr., and Carmelita Tropicana as well as these ...
Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire
1st Edition
By Vicky Angelaki
January 29, 2024
This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience. Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and ...
Mysticism in the Theater: What’s Needed Right Now
1st Edition
By Tom Block
January 29, 2024
Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production. Historical mysticism represents ideas developed by recognized spiritual thinkers in all religions and time periods: individuals who stilled ...
Old Norse Poetry in Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian McMahon, Annemari Ferreira
January 29, 2024
This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts across...
Performance at the Urban Periphery: Insights from South India
1st Edition
Edited
By Cathy Turner, Sharada Srinivasan, Jerri Daboo, Anindya Sinha
January 29, 2024
This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation, the effects of such changes on their cultural ...
Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art
1st Edition
By Sylwia Dobkowska
January 29, 2024
This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances. Reconsideration of ...