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Art and Theatre as a Community of Practice in Eighteenth-Century France
Mark Ledbury
A fresh study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eighteenth-century France, nourished by archival research and by histories of innovation, community and knowledge transfer in the Enlightenment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274213
May 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00A fresh study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eighteenth-century France, nourished by archival research and by histories of innovation, community and knowledge transfer in the Enlightenment.
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The Petersburg Noverre, Volume: 2
Marius Petipa in Russia
Edited by Roland John Wiley
The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990762
September 2024
Forthcoming
£250.00 / $250.00The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
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The Petersburg Noverre, Volume: 1
Marius Petipa in Russia
Edited by Roland John Wiley
The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984167
September 2024
Forthcoming
£250.00 / $250.00The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
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Finding the Way to ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill at Tao House
William Davies King
A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated.
Hardback
9781839992490
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated.
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Screen Performance and the Shakespeare Film Canon in the Spotlight of Archivision
Anthony R. Guneratne
Revolutions in post-digital archival practice and other forms of historical research necessitate an increasingly sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare studies, with Shakespeare-based films serving as an ideal model for the ongoing transformations of many disciplinary fields.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982699
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Revolutions in post-digital archival practice and other forms of historical research necessitate an increasingly sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare studies, with Shakespeare-based films serving as an ideal model for the ongoing transformations of many disciplinary fields.
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Dramatic Movement of African American Women
The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class
Yuvraj Nimbaji Herode
This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic movement of African American women who write plays to protest against racism, sexism, and classism. It challenges the oppressive ideology of white patriarchy and African American male dominance. Therefore, the book enables the audience in understanding the dramas and theatre movements of all the oppressed sections of society from across the globe.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988257
September 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic movement of African American women who write plays to protest against racism, sexism, and classism. It challenges the oppressive ideology of white patriarchy and African American male dominance. Therefore, the book enables the audience in understanding the dramas and theatre movements of all the oppressed sections of society from across the globe.
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Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance
created by Yip Siu Hing
Edited by Josh StenbergKunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”). This book consists of translated performer narrations that illuminate how one of the major Chinese theatrical forms has been taught and transmitted over the past century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278075
September 2022
Active
£195.00 / $195.00Kunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”). This book consists of translated performer narrations that illuminate how one of the major Chinese theatrical forms has been taught and transmitted over the past century.
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The Spectral West
Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film <correctly represents the book and is appropriate and accessible>.
Keith McDonald, Wayne Johnson
This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987922
August 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.
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The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)
The Paladins of France in America
Jo Ann Cavallo
This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987649
July 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
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The Theatre of Fake News
James Moran
This book examines the topic of ‘fake news’ through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983108
June 2022
Active
£19.99 / $19.99This book examines the topic of ‘fake news’ through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined.
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The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage
Laurence Senelick
It is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on the practice of acting.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983924
May 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00It is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on the practice of acting.
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The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography
Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction
Mark Franko
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278013
March 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.
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The World as It Goes
A Comedy
William D. Brewer
Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley’s works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contemporaneous reviews.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980480
November 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley’s works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contemporaneous reviews.
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A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema
David A. Cook
A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980121
September 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.
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Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater
S. E. Gontarski
Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of masculinities and the queering of theater, the struggle for a literate, literary theater, and the place of the theatrical experience in his contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785276873
July 2021
Active
£24.99 / $24.99Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of masculinities and the queering of theater, the struggle for a literate, literary theater, and the place of the theatrical experience in his contemporary culture.
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Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind”
Graley Herren
This book studies Bob Dylan’s album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278464
July 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book studies Bob Dylan’s album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre
Edited by Mala Renganathan, Arnab Bhattacharya
‘Rabindranath Tagore's Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273940
August 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00‘Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
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Antonio Pietrangeli, The Director of Women
Feminism and Film Theory in Postwar Italian Cinema
Emma Katherine Van Ness
This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject is noteworthy today, much less in the 1950s and 1960s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273179
April 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject is noteworthy today, much less in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s AbhijñānaŚākuntalam
Edited by Namrata Chaturvedi
‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273209
March 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.
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Dialogues on Beckett
Whatever Happened to God?
Antoni Libera, Janusz Pyda
translated by Agnieszka Kolakowska‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088942
February 2019
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text.
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Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White
Governing Culture
Denise Varney, Sandra D'Urso
‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays – ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ – by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088355
September 2018
Active
£79.95 / $79.95‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays – ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ – by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.
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Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography
Amanda Weldy Boyd
“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a developing genre in eighteenth-century England. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” copies, this text investigates the increasing emphasis on materiality which was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086665
December 2017
Active
£115.00 / $115.00“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a developing genre in eighteenth-century England. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” copies, this text investigates the increasing emphasis on materiality which was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority.
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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor
History and Holocaust in ‘Akropolis’ and ‘Dead Class’
Magda Romanska
foreword by Kathleen CioffiA historical and critical analysis of the post-traumatic theatre of Grotowski and Kantor, examining the ways they represent Auschwitz in their respective pivotal works ‘Akropolis’ and ‘Dead Class’.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285164
December 2012
Active
£115.00 / $115.00A historical and critical analysis of the post-traumatic theatre of Grotowski and Kantor, examining the ways they represent Auschwitz in their respective pivotal works ‘Akropolis’ and ‘Dead Class’.