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Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487541200
Pub Date: April 2022
This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices, relationships, and values that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.
Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487508968
Pub Date: March 2021
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487525286
Pub Date: February 2021
This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.
Dancing Queen
Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781487526795
Pub Date: November 2020
Dancing Queen takes up court ballet as a window into Marie de Médicis’s use of the performing arts as a vehicle for politically engaged queenship prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610.
Theatre of Anger
Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487507695
Pub Date: November 2020
Theatre of Anger examines contemporary transnational theatre in Berlin through the political scope of anger, and its trajectory from Aristotle all the way to Audre Lorde and bell hooks.
I Was Never Alone or Oporniki
An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487588403
Pub Date: October 2020
This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology, and to a conversation about the use of performance methodologies in anthropology and ethnographic research.
Italian Neorealism
A Cultural History
Price: $89.00
ISBN: 9781487507107
Pub Date: July 2020
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator
Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1600–1800
Price: $86.00
ISBN: 9781487505356
Pub Date: May 2019
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator describes the development of the modern theatre spectator, the modern playwright, and their complex relationship with sovereignty, power structures, and the emergent public sphere in the seventeenth through the eighteenth century.
Insecurity
Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781487501853
Pub Date: April 2019
Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real begins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case.
Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781487504052
Pub Date: March 2019
In this collection, leading scholars tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre in early modern Spain could be used to deploy scientific knowledge.
Wooden Os
Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781487522612
Pub Date: December 2017
By considering works including Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, the revised Spanish Tragedy, and The Tempest, Nardizzi demonstrates how the “trees” within them were used in imaginative ways to mediate England’s resource crisis.
Ambiguous Antidotes
Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain
Price: $98.00
ISBN: 9781487502133
Pub Date: November 2017
In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age.
The Heresy of Wu Han
His play 'Hai Jui's Dismissal' and its role in China's Cultural Revolution
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781487598136
Pub Date: October 2017
This volume presents the first translation of Wu Han's plays and helps to clarify the obscure origins of a national phenomenon that was at once intellectual, social, and political.
National Performance
Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781487521332
Pub Date: February 2017
Winner of the Northeast Modern Language Association's Book Prize, National Performance is sophisticated yet accessible, seeking to enlarge the parameters of what counts as 'Quebecois' performance, while providing a thorough introduction to changing discourses of nation-ness in Quebec.
In Defence of Theatre
Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781442630802
Pub Date: February 2016
Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can – and must – play in professional, community, and educational venues.
Unruly Women
Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487520267
Pub Date: December 2015
In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.

Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487541200
Pub Date: April 2022
This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices, relationships, and values that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.
Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487508968
Pub Date: March 2021
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487525286
Pub Date: February 2021
This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.
Dancing Queen
Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781487526795
Pub Date: November 2020
Theatre of Anger
Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487507695
Pub Date: November 2020
Theatre of Anger examines contemporary transnational theatre in Berlin through the political scope of anger, and its trajectory from Aristotle all the way to Audre Lorde and bell hooks.
I Was Never Alone or Oporniki
An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487588403
Pub Date: October 2020
This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology, and to a conversation about the use of performance methodologies in anthropology and ethnographic research.
Italian Neorealism
A Cultural History
Price: $89.00
ISBN: 9781487507107
Pub Date: July 2020
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator
Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1600–1800
Price: $86.00
ISBN: 9781487505356
Pub Date: May 2019
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator describes the development of the modern theatre spectator, the modern playwright, and their complex relationship with sovereignty, power structures, and the emergent public sphere in the seventeenth through the eighteenth century.
Insecurity
Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781487501853
Pub Date: April 2019
Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real begins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case.
Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781487504052
Pub Date: March 2019
In this collection, leading scholars tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre in early modern Spain could be used to deploy scientific knowledge.
Wooden Os
Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781487522612
Pub Date: December 2017
By considering works including Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, the revised Spanish Tragedy, and The Tempest, Nardizzi demonstrates how the “trees” within them were used in imaginative ways to mediate England’s resource crisis.
Ambiguous Antidotes
Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain
Price: $98.00
ISBN: 9781487502133
Pub Date: November 2017
In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age.
The Heresy of Wu Han
His play 'Hai Jui's Dismissal' and its role in China's Cultural Revolution
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781487598136
Pub Date: October 2017
National Performance
Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781487521332
Pub Date: February 2017
Winner of the Northeast Modern Language Association's Book Prize, National Performance is sophisticated yet accessible, seeking to enlarge the parameters of what counts as 'Quebecois' performance, while providing a thorough introduction to changing discourses of nation-ness in Quebec.
In Defence of Theatre
Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781442630802
Pub Date: February 2016
Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can – and must – play in professional, community, and educational venues.
Unruly Women
Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487520267
Pub Date: December 2015
In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.