Performing Arts History & Criticism

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

The Irish Dramatic Movement

By W. B. Yeats

Obedience, Struggle and Revolt

By David Hare

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

By Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, California)

Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

By Birgit Beumers, Mark Lipovetsky

The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

By Christopher Innes (York University, Toronto)

Political Theatre in Post-Thatcher Britain: New Writing, 1995-2005

By A. Kritzer

The Cambridge History of American Theatre

By Don B. Wilmeth (Brown University, Rhode Island), Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia)

Theatre East and West: Perspectives Towards a Total Theatre

By Leonard C. Pronko

The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill

By Michael Manheim (University of Toledo, Ohio)

DRAMA IN PERFORMANCE

By Raymond Williams

A Source Book in Theatrical History

By Alois M. Nagler

This Is My Body: Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages

By Michal Andrzej Kobialka

Theatre: The Search for Style

By John D. Mitchell

Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism

By T. Nellhaus

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

By Andrew Bozio (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Skidmore College, USA)

Rescripting Shakespeare: The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions

By Alan C. Dessen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture

Erotic Politics: The Dynamics of Desire in the Renaissance Theatre

By Susan Zimmerman

Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire

By Richard Foulkes (University of Leicester)

Brecht In Context

By John Willett

The Theatre and Its Double (Annotated Edition): contains extra documents relating to the work

By Antonin Artaud, Victor Corti

The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes

By Gyles Brandreth

Contemporary European Theatre Directors

By Maria M. Delgado (Queen Mary, University of London, UK), Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway University, London

Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801

By Dr. Julia H. Fawcett

Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics

By Augusto Boal

Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism

By Mady Schutzman, Jan Cohen-Cruz

The Triumph of Pierrot: The Commedia Dell'arte and the Modern Imagination

By Martin Burgess Green, John C. Swan

Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen

By Crowl, Samuel

Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor

By Bruce W. Wilshire