Routledge Companions
The Routledge Companion to Scenography
1st Edition
Edited
By Arnold Aronson
March 23, 2020
The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies. Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson ...
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathy Perkins, Sandra Richards, Renée Alexander Craft, Thomas DeFrantz
March 04, 2020
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. ...
The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Stefano, Peter Davis
December 12, 2019
This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses ...
The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Evans, Rick Kemp
August 14, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers, specialists and practitioners, it draws together writings and ...
The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Forrest, Matthias Middell
July 27, 2018
The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution...
The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky
1st Edition
Edited
By R. Andrew White
June 01, 2018
Stanislavsky’s system of actor-training has revolutionised modern theatre practice, and he is widely recognised to be one of the great cultural innovators of the twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky is an essential book for students and scholars alike, providing the first ...
The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov
1st Edition
Edited
By MARIE-CHRISTINE AUTANT-MATHIEU, Yana Meerzon
June 16, 2017
The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists – to provide an astonishingly comprehensive assessment of his life, work and legacy. This volume aims to connect East and West; ...
The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Maxwell
February 08, 2017
Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry’s high-tech trash. ...
The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Chaffee, Oliver Crick
February 02, 2017
From Commedia dell’Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes de ...
The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy
1st Edition
Edited
By Magda Romanska
July 24, 2015
Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent years...
The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
2nd Edition
Edited
By Paul Wake, Simon Malpas
August 13, 2013
Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and ...
The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare
1st Edition
Edited
By John Russell Brown
August 08, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays. The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft, their ...