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Ric Knowles | University of Guelph, Ontario International theatre and live-Arts festivals too often come under the exclusive purview of tourism and city branding. Exploring their potential to foster communication across cultural difference, this book demonstrates how they might better serve one of the most urgent processes of our times: intercultural negotiation and exchange. • Offers a resolution to the confusions that currently beset festival scholarship, proposing a new system for classifying festivals into easily identifiable types • Outlines a radical alternative to festival scholarship’s ethnocentric focus on ancient Athens and 20th-century Edinburgh, establishing a new paradigm based on Indigenous models • Takes an interdisciplinary approach, building on findings across the
Arts, humanities, social sciences and business
Theatre and Performance Theory
280pp 12. 2021 9781316517246 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009043632
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus
Gillian Arrighi | University of Newcastle, New South Wales An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus Arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings. • Provides accessible texts to readers looking to understand the histories and performances of the modern circus • Introduces the research methods and trans-disciplinary trends that are contributing to the development of Circus Studies • Specialised reading and video lists are provided in every chapter
Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
320pp 7. 2021 9781108485166 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 7. 2021 9781108719223 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108750127
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The Faust Legend
From Marlowe and Goethe to Contemporary Drama and Film Sara Munson Deats | University of South Florida Explores dramatic and filmic adaptations of the Faust legend from Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Goethe’s Faust to lesser known works. With detailed comparison and analysis tracing the development of the Faust topos, it will appeal to students of early modern drama, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, and film studies. • Explores dramatic and filmic adaptations of the Faust legend, from seminal dramatic works on the subject, to lesser known plays and films • Compares Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s adaptation of the Faust legend • Provides an analysis of the ways in which the Faust legend has been adapted to reflect topical questions of the period in which they were written
276pp 7 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781108469173 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2019 9781108475853 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614290 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Globalization of Theatre 1870–1930
The Theatrical Networks of Maurice E. Bandmann Christopher B. Balme | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen Actor and manager, Maurice E. Bandmann (1872–1922) toured theatre throughout the British Empire and beyond. His career represents a significant shift towards the globalization of theatre in the twentieth century. This book explores Bandmann’s impact on global theatre history and provides a new approach to the theatrical study of this era. • Reveals a significant globalizing tendency in early twentieth-century theatre, as exemplified by one of the key entrepreneurs involved • Discusses the concepts of global and transnational history as they relate to theatre history • Demonstrates the methodological usefulness of both actor-networktheory and historical network analysis to theatre history • Re-evaluates musical comedy as a global genre in the early twentieth century
Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
290pp 40 b/w illus. 7 tables 9. 2021 9781108738200 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2019 9781108487894 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108768252
The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual Sonja Mejcher-Atassi | American University of Beirut The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous is the first book in English to provide a clear sense of the complexities of Wannous’ life and work, offering new perspectives on his significance as a playwright and public intellectual in both the Arab world and in world theatre. • Introduces Sa’dallah Wannous to a global readership • Situates Arab theatre and cultural production in world theatre and literature • Contributes to a better understanding of the Arab world through a focus on cultural production and theatre
Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
290pp 5. 2021 9781108838566 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108973182
Music
Eighteenth-century Music
Dr. Charles Burney and the Organ
Pierre Dubois No better introduction to the aesthetic ethos of the eighteenth-century English organ can be found than in Charles Burney’s remarks disseminated in his various writings. This Element traces the evolution of the English organ back to the Restoration and setting Burney’s remarks on the instrument in their historical context.
Elements in Music and Musicians 1750–1850
75pp 3. 2021 9781108972864 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108973212
