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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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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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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 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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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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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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Globalization, History, Historiography
The Making of a Modern Indian Theatre
Rakesh H. Solomon
'Globalization, History, Historiography: The Making of a Modern Indian Theatre' examines how global economic, cultural, and political forces created a new 'Modern Indian theatre' during the two sequences of globalization that occured between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries.
Anthem Press
E-Book (Missing)
9780857289209
January 2015
Forthcoming
£99.00 / $99.00‘Globalization, History, Historiography: The Making of a Modern Indian Theatre’ examines how global economic, cultural, and political forces created a new ‘Modern Indian theatre’ during the two sequences of globalization that occured between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries.
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Sites of Performance
Of Time and Memory
Clark Lunberry
‘Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory’ focuses on the impact of time and memory as they intersect and constitute the varied spaces of theatre, performance and installation art.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082872
October 2014
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory’ focuses on the impact of time and memory as they intersect and constitute the varied spaces of theatre, performance and installation art.
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Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’
The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India
Edited and translated by Rakesh H. Solomon
This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082650
July 2014
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.
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Modern European Tragedy
Exploring Crucial Plays
Annamaria Cascetta
The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783081530
May 2014
Active
£115.00 / $115.00The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.
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On Beckett
Essays and Criticism
Edited by S. E. Gontarski
“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
Anthem Press
E-Book (EPUB)
9781783081585
January 2014
Active
£32.00 / $32.00“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
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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’.
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On Beckett
Essays and Criticism
Edited by S. E. Gontarski
introduction by S. E. Gontarski“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857286635
December 2012
Active
£115.00 / $115.00“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
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Molière on Stage
What’s So Funny?
Robert W. Goldsby
‘Molière on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Molière’s plays, and analyzes the performance of his works in both his own time and ours.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284426
April 2012
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘Molière on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Molière’s plays, and analyzes the performance of his works in both his own time and ours.
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World Cinema and the Visual Arts
Edited by David Gallagher
‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284389
February 2012
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
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Stages of Life
Indian Theatre Autobiographies
Kathryn Hansen
Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857286604
October 2011
Active
£115.00 / $115.00Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.