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.
Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage
1st Edition
By Eero Laine
June 30, 2021
Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage examines professional wrestling as a century-old, theatrical form that spans from its local places of performance to circulate as a popular, global product.Professional wrestling has all the trappings of sport, but is, at its core, a theatrical event....
Mummers' Plays Revisited
1st Edition
By Peter Harrop
March 31, 2021
Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers’ plays, which have long been regarded as a form of ‘folk’ or ‘traditional’ drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre. This fresh view of folk and tradition explores how mummers’ plays emerged in an 18th century theatrical environment...
Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious: A psychoanalytic perspective on unconscious processes of identification in the theatre
1st Edition
By Maria Turri
December 18, 2020
From Aristotle’s theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. This question has, directly or indirectly, often been extended to the investigation of acting. Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious approaches the ...
Adapting Translation for the Stage
1st Edition
By Geraldine Brodie, Emma Cole
December 18, 2020
Translating for performance is a difficult – and hotly contested – activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those working across these boundaries, exploring common themes and issues encountered when writing, staging...
Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Burroughs
December 18, 2020
Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and ...
Cross-Gender China: Across Yin-Yang, Across Cultures, and Beyond Jingju
1st Edition
By Huai Bao
December 18, 2020
Cross-Gender China, the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research, deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-gender performance in today's China.The recent revival in male-to-female cross-gender nandan performance in Chinese theatre raises a multitude of ...
Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre
1st Edition
By Timothy Youker
December 18, 2020
Practitioners and critics alike often attribute great authenticity to documentary theatre, casting it as a salutary alternative not only to corporate news outlets and official histories but also to the supposed "self-indulgence" and "elitism" of avant-garde theatre. Documentary Vanguards in Modern ...
Eroding the Language of Freedom: Identity Predicament in Selected Works of Harold Pinter
1st Edition
By Farah Ali
December 18, 2020
Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter’s plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities. Eroding the Language of Freedom re-examines how identity is shaped in these plays, arguing that the characters’ ...
Food and Theatre on the World Stage
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorothy Chansky, Ann Folino White
December 18, 2020
Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic, and literary making of meaning. Through case studies, literary analyses, and performance critiques, contributors examine theatrical ...
Global Insights on Theatre Censorship
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine O'Leary, Diego Sánchez, Michael Thompson
December 18, 2020
Theatre has always been subject to a wide range of social, political, moral, and doctrinal controls, with authorities and social groups imposing constraints on scripts, venues, staging, acting, and reception. Focusing on a range of countries and political regimes, this book examines the many forms ...
Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronda Arab, Michelle Dowd, Adam Zucker
December 18, 2020
This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affect in the early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated early modern theater studies in recent years, the historically ...
Incapacity and Theatricality: Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities
1st Edition
By Tony McCaffrey
December 18, 2020
Incapacity and Theatricality acknowledges the distinctive contribution to contemporary theatrical performance made by actors with intellectual disabilities. It presents a close examination of certain key theatrical performances across a variety of different media, including John Cassavetes’ 1963 ...