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.
Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine
1st Edition
By Meredith Conti
December 18, 2020
Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian-era society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness. The prevalence of illness narratives within late nineteenth-century popular culture was made manifest on the period’s British and American stages, ...
Representing China on the Historical London Stage: From Orientalism to Intercultural Performance
1st Edition
By Dongshin Chang
December 18, 2020
This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century—which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last monarchy. The examples show that during this ...
Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World
1st Edition
Edited
By Diego Santos Sánchez
December 18, 2020
Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing dictatorial regimes across Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. These are divided into three different approaches to theatre itself - as cultural ...
Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn
1st Edition
By James Frieze
December 18, 2020
Contemporary theatre, like so much of contemporary life, is obsessed with the ways in which information is detected, packaged and circulated. Running through forms as diverse as neo-naturalistic playwriting, intimately immersive theatre, verbatim drama, intermedial performance, and musical theatre,...
Transformative Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz
December 18, 2020
Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these theories’ mutual concern with the transformation of those involved. From artists to spectators, readers, listeners, or audiences, the idea of ...
History Dances: Chronicling the History of Traditional Mandinka Dance
1st Edition
By Ofosuwa M. Abiola
September 30, 2020
The field of history is founded on the interrogation of written documents from the past. However, culture is the center of life in Africa. As a result, in the past – and to a degree in the present – the process for documenting events in Africa was not written, it was performed. History Dances: ...
Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Reason, Anja Mølle Lindelof
June 30, 2020
This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has become contested: perceived as variously as a ...
Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play
1st Edition
By Michael Y. Bennett
March 04, 2020
Theatrical characters’ dual existence on stage and in text presents a unique, challenging case for the analytical philosopher. Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play re-examines the ontological status of theatre and its fictional objects through the "possible worlds" thesis, arguing that ...
Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation: Displayed & Performed
1st Edition
By Georgina Guy
March 04, 2019
Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as re-enactment in gallery contexts, Guy's book ...
Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance
1st Edition
By Amanda Rogers
August 23, 2018
This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses ...
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain
August 23, 2018
This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are ...
The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players
1st Edition
By Sarah Gorman
August 23, 2018
The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and has...