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  • Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

    Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Wrestling School produces theatre of such a striking quality ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Postdramatic Theatre and Form

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments in contemporary European and North American performance, this collection redirects ongoing debates about postdramatic theatre, turning attention to the overlooked issue on which they hinge: form.Contributors draw on ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett

    The Falsetto of Reason

    by Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Diaries, Letters and Essays
    Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original, playful and intriguing series of approaches to Beckett's drama, fiction and poetry.Beginning with ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Theatres of Contagion

    Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the anxieties of our current political and cultural climate by exploring theatre's status as a contagious cultural force, questioning its role in the spread or control of medical, psychological and emotional conditions and phenomena. Observing a diverse ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Beat Drama

    Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as other less well-known Beat figures, also wrote plays-and these, together with their countercultural ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller

    All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass

    by Prof. Alan Ackerman, Prof. Alan Ackerman, Susan C. W. Abbotson, Stephen Marino, Prof. Toby Zinman, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship

    Provocations for Change

    by Liz Tomlin, Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers' provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential theories of Jacques Rancière to propose a new framework of analysis through which contemporary political ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Mediatized Dramaturgy

    The Evolution of Plays in the Media Age

    by Seda Ilter, Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and cognitive conditions of a mediatized age, and how they, in form and content, respond to this environment and open up new critical possibilities in text and performance. The study combines theatre and media theory through the innovative concept of 'mediatized dramaturgy' and offers conceptual ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines

    Woman's Work

    by Jessica Silsby Brater, Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist.Tracing Maleczech's background, training, and influences, the volume contextualizes her work and the founding of ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance

    The Initiation of History

    by Maurya Wickstrom, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical processionism and the future, are inaugurated. Wickstrom is guided by three temporal concepts: the new ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Social Housing in Performance

    The English Council Estate on and off Stage

    by Dr Katie Beswick, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the council estate. Depictions of the council estate are brought into dialogue with global ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD