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American 'Unculture' in French Drama: Homo Americanus and the Post-1960 French Resistance

By Les Essif

Theatre, Youth, and Culture: A Critical and Historical Exploration

By Manon Van de Water

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 3: Africa

By Ousmane Diakhate, Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh, Don Rubin

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

By Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, California)

Obedience, Struggle and Revolt

By David Hare

The Irish Dramatic Movement

By W. B. Yeats

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the productions, the life

By Andrew Dickson

Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women's Re-Visions in Literature and Performance

By NA NA

Performance Theory

By Richard Schechner

The Crucible

By Arthur Miller, Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University, USA), Susan Abbotson

Year of the Fat Knight: The Falstaff Diaries

By Antony Sher

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent

By Judi Dench

Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater

By Larry Stempel (Fordham University)

The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian

By Andrew McConnell Stott

The Theatre Workshop Story

By Howard Goorney

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 1: Europe

By Peter Nagy, Philippe Rouyer

SNOWDON ON STAGE

Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China

By S. Liu

Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground

By V. Angelaki

Romance on the Early Modern Stage: English Expansion Before and After Shakespeare

By Cyrus Mulready

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

By J. Frick

Women's Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century: Sarah Ruhl and Her Contemporaries

By L. Durham

Kurdish Nationalism on Stage: Performance, Politics and Resistance in Iraq

By Dr Mari R. Rostami

Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide

By Hunter, Jim

Aristophanes: "Clouds", "Acharnians", "Lysistrata" - A Companion to the Penguin Translation of A.H.Sommerstein

By Sir Kenneth J. Dover, Simon Tremewan

Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty

By Anthony James Kubiak

Celebrations: The Cult of Anniversaries in Europe and the United States Today

By William M. Johnston

Popular Film and Television Comedy

By Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale (University of Exeter, UK)

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage: From Shakespeare to Webster

By R. West