http://www.palgrave.com/home/ Theatre & Performance News from Palgrave Macmillan. Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-gb http://www.palgrave.com/assets/i/palgrave_rss.gif http://www.palgrave.com/home/ http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=400886 This is a literary exploration of the alcoholic perception as expressed in the poems and stories of some of America's finest contemporary writers Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=397888 With essays from Mailer's wife and editor, this scholarly volume establishes the writer's literary maturity and dissects the modes of cultural critique employed in his later novels. Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=394508 Examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=274932 A guide to the variety of approaches and debates in the developing field of adaptation studies. Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=348455 This series of close readings relates architecture, politics, and literary form to shed new light on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, offering new insights. Mon, 28 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=354807 Examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England. Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=390930 The first book to consider the significance of Blake's concept of "self-annihilation" as it pertains to language and communication. Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=400891 This study explores Henry James' work by considering his theme in the context of nineteenth-century thought on consciousness, perception, and cognition. Tue, 18 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=408273 Looking at modes of forms of theatre in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, this book places performance in the social and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century society. Mon, 17 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=400464 This book analyzes Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Mon, 14 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=383545 This book explores how writing for children redirects the way in which genres, texts and new technologies interact creatively with childhood and youth culture. Fri, 07 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279779 This timely collection gather together writings from various fields, showing how performance is central to an understanding of the sheer multiplicity of urban living. Wed, 26 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=397887 Employs a close reading of Marcellus' works and offers a compelling new interpretation of the relationship between philhellenism and Orientalism Fri, 21 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=294275 This collection asks pressing questions about how and why we study performances of Renaissance drama, challenging prevailing views and suggesting new methodologies for the field. Mon, 17 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=367656 This book contains a collection of essential essays from some of the most influential and exciting practitioners of Theatre of the Oppressed with youth from around the world. Thu, 13 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280792 This book provides a critical and theoretical framework for the study of Applied Theatre in various co-communities, exploring how they appropriate theatre for their own needs. Fri, 07 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279485 This book is the first to trace the involvement of John Ruskin with the theatre of his time, and explore the influence of Ruskin's thought on popular theatre and its practitioners. Tue, 04 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=391794 This book examines the symbolic migration of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth in American culture, from its onstage origins to the White House. Fri, 26 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280264 This text traces the history of modern drama from 17th century Dutch colonial practices to the emergence of a national theatre in postcolonial Jakarta. Fri, 19 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=308115 A provocative international collection of essays and texts by leading scholars and artists about theatre that engages the real. Fri, 08 January 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=348445 The first book on clowning technique, offering a step-by-step process for actors and other theatrical enthusiasts to discover their 'inner clown'. Fri, 08 January 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=295060 A critical engagement with the ways in which audiences look at actors onstage, offering new insights into the theatrical roles of identity, dress and fashion. Mon, 30 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280441 The first book to provide an overview of how sound is used to create meaning and atmosphere in the theatre, drawing on a unique collection of newly commissioned and rare readings. Fri, 27 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276431 A collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance studies in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Fri, 20 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=348446 The first book on clowning technique, offering a step-by-step process for actors and other theatrical enthusiasts to discover their 'inner clown' Fri, 06 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=366783 An examination of American history and culture through the lens of theatre and performance. Fri, 30 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=355888 Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama. Tue, 27 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=328144 Investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space, and identity. Fri, 23 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=360690 Constructions of space and subjectivity are explored in close readings of radically innovative contemporary dances informed by current critical theory Tue, 20 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278596 An innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming, featuring close readings of a range of well-studied performers and theatre companies Fri, 16 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=310602 The first essay collection to explicitly engage the diverse fields of Performance Studies and Irish Studies. Wed, 14 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=359576 This text analyses plays set in and dramatising the history of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land, seeking to locate theatre within the wider culture. Mon, 12 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=306063 The hard facts about the acting profession: how it's run, how to break into it, how to succeed at it. Wed, 07 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=311782 This groundbreaking integrated book and DVD presents advanced creative/scholarly multimedia materials that help define this fast-emerging field of research. Tue, 06 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=375054 This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Fri, 02 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=348446 The first book on clowning technique, offering a step-by-step process for actors and other theatrical enthusiasts to discover their 'inner clown'. Thu, 01 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000