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Theatre studies
Paperback. Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Limelight
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879103866
- ISBN
- 9780879103866
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€ 25.99€ 24.93
€ 25.99
€ 24.93
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- The Dundurn Group Canada
- Edition
- 2 Sub
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889241442
- ISBN
- 9780889241442
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€ 15.99€ 15.18
€ 15.99
€ 15.18
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 745.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934223539
- ISBN
- 9780934223539
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€ 153.15
€ 153.15
Hardcover. Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001061
- ISBN
- 9781137001061
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€ 50.53€ 45.89
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Hardcover. How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; 3JM; AN; DSBH; DSG; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006295
- ISBN
- 9781137006295
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€ 50.53€ 45.29
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€ 45.29
Hardcover. Exploring the ways undergraduate theatre programs can play a significant role in accomplishing the aims and learning outcomes of a contemporary liberal education, Kindelan argues that theatre's signature pedagogy helps all undergraduates become actively engaged in developing critical and value-focused skills. Series: The Arts in Higher Education. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008503
- ISBN
- 9781137008503
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€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Hardcover. This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AN; ASZ; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137010124
- ISBN
- 9781137010124
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€ 123.02
€ 123.02
Paperback. This collection of essays by international scholars addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection, now in paperback, functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies. Editor(s): McKenzie, Jon; Roms, Heike; Wee, C. J. W.-L. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137011183
- ISBN
- 9781137011183
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€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardcover. Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPK; ACXJ; AFKP; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017376
- ISBN
- 9781137017376
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€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030047
- ISBN
- 9781137030047
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€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Hardcover. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270627
- ISBN
- 9781137270627
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€ 50.53€ 45.20
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Paperback. This innovative collection with essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars, now in paperback for the first time, reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274687
- ISBN
- 9781137274687
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€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Paperback. Friel is widely recognised as Ireland's leading playwright but through the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has also made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive in the National Library of Ireland to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274694
- ISBN
- 9781137274694
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€ 63.48
€ 63.48
Hardcover. This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre both brings the past alive and also fixes it, but through the performance process, allowing the past to be molded for future (not-yet-existent) audiences. Num Pages: 97 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 98
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275417
- ISBN
- 9781137275417
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€ 50.53€ 44.22
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€ 44.22
Hardcover. How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cognitive theory and ecological ontology, Paavolainen investigates how the interplay of actors and objects affords a degree of enjoyment and understanding, whether or not the viewer speaks the language. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 298 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277916
- ISBN
- 9781137277916
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€ 122.94
€ 122.94
Hardcover. As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; AN; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137291400
- ISBN
- 9781137291400
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€ 50.53€ 44.94
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Hardcover. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298980
- ISBN
- 9781137298980
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€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Hardcover. Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299567
- ISBN
- 9781137299567
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€ 50.53€ 45.05
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Hardcover. In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306104
- ISBN
- 9781137306104
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€ 50.53€ 44.77
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Hardcover. As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AMV; AN; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326867
- ISBN
- 9781137326867
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€ 50.53€ 46.37
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Hardcover. This edited volume situates its contemporary practice in the tradition which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance examines collective and devised theatre practices internationally and demonstrates the prevalence, breadth, and significance of modern collective creation. Editor(s): Proudfit, Scott. Num Pages: 250 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331267
- ISBN
- 9781137331267
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€ 50.53€ 45.62
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Hardcover. Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century. Editor(s): Proudfit, Scott. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331298
- ISBN
- 9781137331298
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€ 50.53€ 45.77
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Hardcover. Improvisation teachers have long known that the human mind could be trained to be effortlessly spontaneous and intuitive. Drinko explores what these improvisation teachers knew about improvisation's effects on consciousness and cognition and compares these theories to current findings in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Num Pages: 146 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANC; ANF; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137335289
- ISBN
- 9781137335289
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€ 82.70€ 69.35
€ 82.70
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Hardcover. Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346452
- ISBN
- 9781137346452
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Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40