Drama and theatre

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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI

Christopher Pelling | University of Oxford Up-to-date edition of the former of the two dramatic books of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Aimed principally at undergraduates and graduate student studying Ancient Greek. Published simultaneously with an edition of Book 7.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

370pp Jan. 2022 9781316630211 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2022 9781107176911 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316819067

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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII

Christopher Pelling | University of Oxford Up-to-date edition of the latter of the two dramatic books of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Aimed principally at undergraduates and graduate student studying Ancient Greek. Published simultaneously with an edition of Book 6.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

306pp Jan. 2022 9781316630228 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2022 9781107176928 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781316819081

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Sarah F. Derbew | Harvard University, Massachusetts Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals of blackness in ancient Greek literature and Art, while critiquing modern classical misappropriations which retroactively project contemporary theories of race and skin color onto archaic settings. This is a compelling contribution to better understanding of representations of blackness in antiquity.

270pp May. 2022 9781108495288 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108861816

American theatre

Performance and Modernity

Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage Julia A. Walker | Washington University, St Louis This book demonstrates how the experience of change in the modern period was first registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film and video-it finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived.

312pp Jan. 2022 9781108833066 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108966870

Staging Haiti in NineteenthCentury America

Revolution, Race and Popular Performance Peter Reed | University of Mississippi Peter P. Reed examines the meanings of Haiti in America’s nineteenth-century popular performance. Plays, social performances, and literary narratives of Haiti’s revolutionary slave revolts transformed racial revolution into popular entertainments and diversions, dramatizing themes of race, freedom, and power in ways that remain impactful today.

Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

231pp Oct. 2022 9781009100526 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009118972

British theatre

An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, Comedian and Late Patentee of the Theatre Royal

A Modernized Text David Roberts | Birmingham City University Transformative for students and scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre history, literature and life writing, this modernised text makes Cibber’s Apology more accessible than ever before. Including comprehensive footnotes and a scholarly introduction, this edition is invaluable for researchers and captivating for general readers.

460pp Jul. 2022 9781009098366 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009093019

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British Enlightenment Theatre

Dramatizing Difference Bridget Orr | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee The first study of popular eighteenth-century English theatre to engage with voices of radical dissent that argued for religious toleration, attacked imperial invasion and forced conversion of indigenous peoples and challenged social hierarchy. This book tells the story of freemasons who served as theatrical ‘shock troops of the Enlightenment’.

295pp 6 b/w illus. Jan. 2022 9781108731188 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2020 9781108499712 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108584494

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Shakespeare’s Double Plays

Dramatic Economy on the Early Modern Stage Brett Gamboa | DArtmouth College, New Hampshire Presenting the first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company, Brett Gamboa demonstrates how Shakespeare turned his limitations to creative advantage, and how doubling suited his unique sense of the dramatic.

301pp 10 b/w illus. 40 tables Jun. 2022 9781108405010 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May. 2018 9781108417433 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108277624

European theatre

A History of Polish Theatre

Katarzyna Fazan | Jagiellonian University, Krakow This volume offers the most ambitious Englishlanguage history of Polish theatre to date, ranging from the Enlightenment and Romanticism to the transformations of the 20th century. New historiographical light is shed on the emergence of canonical practitioners, actor training methods and development of dramaturgical forms and stage aesthetics.

444pp Jan. 2022 9781108476492 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781108619028

Chekhov in Context

Yuri Corrigan | Boston University Introducing readers to the broad socio-cultural contexts that shaped Chekhov’s works and legacy, this insightful guide is rich in value for students and scholars of theater, the short story and Russian and European literature, as well as for theater practitioners and general readers wishing to deepen their engagement with Chekhov.

Literature in Context

372pp Feb. 2023 9781108842358 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108900096

Molière in Context

Jan Clarke | University of Durham This definitive guide to Molière’s world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Equally thorough and wideranging, it is an exceptional tribute to the premier French dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his birth.

Literature in Context

350pp Sep. 2022 9781108493215 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108694933

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Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge

Hélène Lecossois | Université de Lille Offers new perspectives on Synge’s well-known plays by situating them in less familiar historical contexts. Exploring concepts of performance, modernity and progress, this book opens up Synge criticism to the insights of performance studies. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Irish studies, English drama, theatre and performance.

235pp 6 b/w illus. Nov. 2022 9781108738088 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Nov. 2020 9781108487795 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767996 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Rediscovering Stanislavsky

Maria Shevtsova | Goldsmiths, University of London Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863–1938) was one of the most prominent and innovative directors of modern theatre, and his system and related practices continue to be studied and used in universities and in theatres. This book explores the extraordinary political contexts in which he resisted authoritarian pressures and developed his life’s work.

304pp Aug. 2022 9781107607033 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2019 9781107023390 Hardback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781139151092

Theatre (general)

Maya Rao and Indian Feminist Theatre

Bishnupriya Dutt | Jawaharlal Nehru University This Element looks back at Maya Rao’s early career in the 1980s when she was creating agit prop theatre for the feminist movement and forward to her performance activism in the twenty-first century, with detailed attention to Rao’s acclaimed protest Walk, and her pArticipation in the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Elements in Women Theatre Makers

75pp Sep. 2022 9781009073172 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009071987

Visualising Lost Theatres

Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces Joanne Tompkins | University of Queensland UneArthing new discoveries for scholars, practitioners and undergraduates, this book chArts the socio-political history of five ‘lost’ venues and their contribution to the creation of performance. Encompassing cultural history, critical race studies, geography and urban planning, this is a landmark text for digital humanities and theatre studies.

Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

300pp Aug. 2022 9781108476751 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108583800

Xin Fengxia and the Transformation of China’s Ping Opera

Siyuan Liu | University of British Columbia, Vancouver This Element focuses on Xin Fengxia (1927–1998), a star of the regional xiqu form pingju, and her prominent role in transforming the genre from folk entertainment for the lower class to one of the most notable winners of the xiqu reform after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.

75pp Sep. 2022 9781009087650 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009083508

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