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.
Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume II: Interweaving Epistemologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Torsten Jost, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka
April 07, 2023
This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated. Epistemologies are dynamic formations of rules, tools and procedures not only for understanding ...
Trump Was a Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn’t
1st Edition
By Sophia A Mcclennen
March 24, 2023
Written by a scholar of satire and politics, Trump Was a Joke explains why satire is an exceptional foil for absurd political times and why it did a particularly good job of making sense of Trump. Covering a range of comedic interventions, Trump Was a Joke analyzes why political satire is ...
Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins
1st Edition
By James Moreno
January 21, 2023
Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins examines stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, José Limón (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994).Focusing on the period between 1945 to 1980, this book analyzes Limón and Hawkins’ work during a time...
Actor Training in Anglophone Countries: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
By Peter Zazzali
January 09, 2023
Actor Training in Anglophone Countries offers a firsthand account of the most significant acting programs in English-speaking countries throughout the world. The culmination of archival research and fieldwork spanning six years, it is the only work of its kind that studies the history of actor ...
Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures
1st Edition
By Jennifer Holl
January 09, 2023
This book argues that Shakespeare and various cultures of celebrity have enjoyed a ceaselessly adaptive, symbiotic relationship since the final decade of the sixteenth century, through which each entity has contributed to the vitality and adaptability of the other. In five chapters, Jennifer Holl...
Staging Detection: From Hawkshaw to Holmes
1st Edition
By Isabel Stowell-Kaplan
January 09, 2023
Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance across a range of Victorian plays, Staging Detection foregrounds the role of the stage detective in ...
The Motional Improvisation of Al Wunder
1st Edition
By H.R. Elliott
January 09, 2023
The Motional Improvisation of Al Wunder takes readers on a journey through the life history, creative genealogies and unique working processes of one of the master teachers of Euro-American postmodern movement-based improvisational performance who has, until now, received scant critical attention. ...
The Problems of Viewing Performance: Epistemology and Other Minds
1st Edition
By Michael Y. Bennett
January 09, 2023
The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience. Given that viewers come to ...
Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Małgorzata Sugiera, Torsten Jost, Holger Hartung, Omid Soltani
December 30, 2022
Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. "Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within ...
Hamlet’s Hereditary Queen: Performing Shakespeare's Silent Female Power
1st Edition
By Kerrie Roberts
December 30, 2022
This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet’s Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure in the play. It shows how traditional readings of this character, both performance-based and scholarly, have been guided and constrained by misogynistic perspectives on female power. ...
Lessons from Shakespeare’s Classroom: Empowering Learning Through Drama and Rhetoric
1st Edition
By Robin Lithgow
December 30, 2022
This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century. This study asks us what lessons we can learn today from Shakespeare’s Latin grammar school. What were the...
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, Kimberly A. Williams
December 30, 2022
This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative (re)telling of the life of English Renaissance poet ...