Routledge Companions
The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Hunter, Cathy Turner
December 17, 2024
This collection comprises a comprehensive overview of key themes, arguments, and practices central to the study and understanding of site-specific performance. Its collected essays, case studies, and practitioner accounts represent a must-have resource that engages with established and emergent ...
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
3rd Edition
By Paul Allain, Jen Harvie
October 09, 2024
What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers ...
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance: Volume One: 1900–1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson, Trish Reid
October 08, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers, and audiences that emerged over this formative 100-year period. This first volume covers the first half...
The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura MacDonald, Ryan Donovan
October 04, 2024
Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship. ...
The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage
1st Edition
Edited
By Krista Cowman
July 31, 2024
The suffrage movement remains the largest autonomous political movement of women in British history. The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art contemporary scholarship on this movement. Arranged across four thematic sections, this volume...
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People
1st Edition
Edited
By Selina Busby, Kelly Freebody, Charlene Rajendran
May 27, 2024
This companion interrogates the relationship between theatre and youth from a global perspective, taking in performances and theatre made by, for, and about young people. These different but interrelated forms of theatre are addressed through four critical themes that underpin the ways in which ...
The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Pitches, Stefan Aquilina
May 27, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It presents a detailed picture of the Russian director’s work from when it first emerged on the modern stage to its multifarious present-day manifestations. ...
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann McGrath, Lynette Russell
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research. Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics...
The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiel van den Akker
May 31, 2023
This Companion provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. The book offers both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance. Structured in three...
The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Harrop, Steve Roud
January 09, 2023
This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different ...
The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners
1st Edition
Edited
By Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney
August 31, 2022
The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure...
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Alice Lagaay
August 29, 2022
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field. Firstly, the collection offers new...