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A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
Edited by Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, USA Covering the period from 500 BCE to 1000 AD, this volume examines tragedy in antiquity, from its misty origins in Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 232 pages • 36 bw illus HB 9781474287890 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350154889 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350154872 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
Edited by Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland, USA, John T. Sebastian, Loyola Marymount University, USA & Carol Symes, University of Illinois, USA Spanning the period from 1000 to 1400, the 8 essays in this volume offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 240 pages • 19 bw illus HB 9781474287906 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350154940 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350154957 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Naomi Conn Liebler, Montclair State University, USA Covering the period between 1400 and 1650, this volume includes eight lively, original essays which trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the Early Modern period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 224 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781474287968 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350155008 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350155015 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University, USA Covering the period between 1650 and 1800, this volume is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. This volume examines the way in which tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period of enormous political, social and economic changes, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 248 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781474288057 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350155084 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350155091 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy Covering the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume traces the metamorphoses of tragedy in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly defined by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its narrative focuses on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 216 pages • 33 bw illus HB 9781474288071 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350155060 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350155077 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age
Edited by Jennifer Wallace, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, UK Covering the period from 1920 to the present, this volume considers the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the tragic tradition still spoke to 20th- and 21st-century challenges. While theater remains the primary focus, the essays also cover tragic representation in film, art and installation, photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary reporting, political theory and activism. It also reflects increasing globalization, including intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and postcolonial tragic representations.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 232 pages • 39 bw illus HB 9781474288095 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350155114 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350155107 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 1
Antoine, Stanislavski, Saint-Denis
Edited by Peta Tait, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia This volume assesses the contributions of André Antoine, Konstantin Stanislavski and Michel Saint-Denis, whose work has influenced theatre and training for over a century. These directors pioneered Naturalism and refined Realism as they experimented with theatrical form including non-Realism. Antoine and Stanislavski’s theatre direction proved foundational to the creation of the director’s role and artistic vision, and their influential ideas progressively developed through the stylized theatre of Saint-Denis to the innovative contemporary theatre direction of Max Stafford-Clark, Declan Donnellan and Katie Mitchell.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 240 pages • 19 bw illus HB 9781474253871 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9781474259880 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Great Stage Directors • Methuen Drama
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3
Copeau, Komisarjevsky, Guthrie
Edited by Jonathan Pitches, University of Leeds, UK This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors’ key productions, including Copeau’s staging of Molière’s The Tricks of Scapin, Komisarjevsky’s signature season of Chekhov plays at the Barnes Theatre and Guthrie’s pioneering direction of Shakespeare’s plays in North America. This study argues that their work exemplifies the complexity and novelty of the role of theatre directing in the first three-quarters of the 20th century.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 216 pages • 21 bw illus HB 9781474253963 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9781474259903 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Great Stage Directors • Methuen Drama
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 5
Grotowski, Brook, Barba
Edited by Paul Allain, University of Kent, UK This volume provides a fresh assessment of theatre directors Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba, whose work has challenged ideas about what theatre is and does. Contributors demonstrate how each was instrumental in reinventing theatre’s possibilities: where it takes place and who the audience might then be, as well as how actors train and perform, highlighting the importance of the group and collaboration. The volume examines their role in establishing intercultural dialogues and practices. Consideration is also given to each director’s documentation of their practice in print and film and the influence this has had on 21stcentury performance.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 264 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781474253987 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9781474259934 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Great Stage Directors • Methuen Drama
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2
Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht
Edited by David Barnett, University of York, UK This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exemplify the range of ways that directors address dramatic material, theatrical space and their audiences. Their directorial work marks an unmistakeable interest in developing the political potential of theatre in the early 20th century, although each director offered more to their actors, collaborators and spectators than simply the staging of politics and the political.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781474253949 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9781474259897 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Great Stage Directors • Methuen Drama
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 4
Reinhardt, Jessner, Barker
Edited by Michael Patterson, De Montfort University, UK In this volume leading scholars assess the contributions of Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner and Harley Granville Barker to European theatre. Their work represents the cultural shift from traditional theatre practices of the 19th century to the rise of Modernism and its means of establishing theatre as an art form in its own right. Uncovering the theories and visions of theatre held by Reinhardt, Jessner and Barker, this volume establishes the contribution and importance of these directors in the development of modern theatre and their significance alongside the better-known names of Stanislavski and Brecht.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781474253970 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9781474259910 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Great Stage Directors • Methuen Drama
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6
Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon
Edited by Clare Finburgh Delijani, Goldsmiths University, UK & Peter M. Boenisch, Aarhus University, Denmark This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politicallyengaged ‘directors’ theatre’. It argues that, in creating their major productions in the ‘glorious decades’ following the Second World War, they represent a first ‘European’ generation of theatre directors. Revisiting works from the classical dramatic canon by drawing on popular theatre traditions, and reaching out to spectators beyond the educated middle-class elite, they put theatre in the service of uniting a traumatized continent.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 248 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781474253994 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9781474259941 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Great Stage Directors • Methuen Drama
