One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' women's bodies and how audiences read them.

A provocative re-evaluation of the traditional role and methods of theatre designers, pointing towards a more holistic approach to making theatre.

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides a fascinating overview of naturalist theatre. Innes has selected three writers, Ibsen, Chekhov and Bernard Shaw to exemplify the movement. A must for all students studying naturalist theatre.

In this passionate and controversial work, Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a `Third World' perspective.

The first book to examine the practical techniques of Augusto Boal, Playing Boal illuminates and invigorates discussion about Boal's work and the transformative potential of theatre.

Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of 'monstrous' forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, 'cabinets of curiosity' and court entertainments - to contend that the 'monster' finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study's new readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama's contribution to debates about the 'extraordinary body'.

Every day in The Village is just like every other. There's the beach and the theatre, and the tennis court ... and the mysterious underground chamber where every move is watched. In this sinister wonderland for those who know too much ever to know freedom, the average day is just a trip to the grocer's, a conversation with a Number ... and a chance to escape....

This major study reconstructs the vast history of European Drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity.

This book deals with the theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially its postmodernist directors, women playwrights and theatre companies, and examines the effects of a return to civilian government from military rule.

The same year Spenser graduated as a sizar from Pembroke Hall, his translations of French poems were published in A Theatre for Worldlings. He would go on to become the author of one of the most famous poems of all time, The Faerie Queen. Read more about him in this edition from the popular English Men of Letters series.

DePaul argues that the ability to make sensitive judgements is vital to any philosophical inquiry into morality. Experiences with liter ature, film and theatre all influence our capacity make moral judgements and thus must be considered.