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 and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Maaike Bleeker, Jon Foley Sherman, Eirini Nedelkopoulou
December 14, 2017
This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging 21st century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts ...
Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage: In History’s Wings
1st Edition
By Alexander Feldman
May 31, 2017
This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, ...
Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama
1st Edition
By Katrine Wong
May 24, 2017
This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or ...
The Unwritten Grotowski: Theory and Practice of the Encounter
1st Edition
By Kris Salata
May 24, 2017
This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theatre, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer. Salata posits Grotowski’s work as ...
Adapting Chekhov: The Text and its Mutations
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Douglas Clayton, Yana Meerzon
July 16, 2015
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist...
Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz
July 16, 2015
From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This...
Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance: Meetings with Remarkable Women
1st Edition
By Virginie Magnat
June 23, 2015
As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for ...
Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama: Acts of Seeing
1st Edition
By Amy Holzapfel
June 08, 2015
Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of modernism, a crude attempt to reproduce an exact copy of reality on stage. Art, Vision & Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama redefines realism as a complex and under-examined form of visual modernism, one that positioned theatre at the ...
The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama: The Bard on the Stage
1st Edition
By Arnab Bhattacharya, Mala Renganathan
December 19, 2014
This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore’s dramatic literature, visiting translations and adaptations of Tagore’s drama, and cross-cultural encounters in his works. As Asia’s first Nobel Laureate, Tagore’s highly original plays occupy a central position in the Indian ...
Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time
1st Edition
By Matthew Wagner
July 17, 2014
That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on ...
Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11: Patriotic Dissent
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenny Spencer
November 08, 2013
This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama’s election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments’ actions and policies during this time. The plays take up topics such as the ongoing wars ...
Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith
1st Edition
Edited
By Lance Gharavi
July 08, 2013
The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some of the world’s most pressing and momentous events are contested and played out. That this circumstance warrants continued, thoughtful, and imaginative ...