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Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero

By D. Lei

Performing Exile, Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film

By Y. Meerzon

On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre: Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster

By I. Eynat-Confino

Writing Dancing Together

By V. Briginshaw, Ramsay Burt

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter

By M. Bennett

Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre

By A. Sidiropoulou

Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger

By E. Godfrey

The Lear Diaries: The Story of the Royal National Theatre's Productions of Shakespeare's Richard III and King Lear

By Brian Cox

Shakespeare: A Life

By Park Honan (Emeritus Professor, School of English, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds)

David Mamet's Oleanna

By David K. Sauer

Stars and Spies: The story of Intelligence Operations...

By Christopher Andrew, Julius Green

Harold Pinter Plays 1: The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination

By Harold Pinter

The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Made Them

By Studs Terkel

Contemporary Greek Theatre: v. 2

By Pavlos Matesis

The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Kings of Cool

By Lawrence J. Quirk

Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews

By Professor Christopher Murray

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater

By Karin Barber

Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe

By Andrew Dickson

Candida

By Shaw, George Bernard

The Rough Guide to Shakespeare

By Andrew Dickson

Journey of the Tall Horse: A Story of African Theatre

By Mervyn Millar (Author)

Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture

By P. W. Galbraith, J. G. Karlin

Memory in Play: From Aeschylus to Sam Shepard

By A. Favorini

The Afterlife of Ophelia

By K. Peterson, Deanne Williams

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

By P. Stewart

Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

By A. Fletcher

Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre: 'The Best in this Kind'

By E. Sheen

Ibsen and the Irish Revival

By Kenneth A. Loparo

Shakespeare and the Shrew: Performing the Defiant Female Voice

By A. Kamaralli

Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics

By A. Roche