A groundbreaking compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre. Each of the book’s parts comprises full reproductions of the plays that de

This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French and British

This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the conte

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of story

What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is, above all, spectacle. It is a