books by subject
Performing Arts History & Criticism

Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture

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

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater

Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe

Candida

The Rough Guide to Shakespeare

Journey of the Tall Horse: A Story of African Theatre

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

Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare's Theatre

Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics

Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance

Toward a General Theory of Acting: Cognitive Science and Performance

Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway: Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts

Interpreting the Play Script: Contemplation and Analysis

The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb

Memory in Play: From Aeschylus to Sam Shepard

Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies

Community Theatre and AIDS

Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero

Performing Exile, Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film

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

Writing Dancing Together

Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show

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

Shakespeare and the Shrew: Performing the Defiant Female Voice

Ibsen and the Irish Revival

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

The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Kings of Cool

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work
