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Musicology: The Key Concepts

By David Beard, Kenneth Gloag

Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31692-7 (Routledge)

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Installation Art

By Claire Bishop

Installation is one of the most popular and widespread forms of contemporary art. Installation Art provides the first clear account of the rise of installation…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97412-7 (Routledge)

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Fifty Key Theatre Directors

Edited by Shomit Mitter, Maria Shevtsova

Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre and performance. The authors provide clear…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18732-9 (Routledge)

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Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre

By Erika Fischer-Lichte

In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27676-4 (Routledge)

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Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644

By Grant Guangren Shen

Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34326-8 (Routledge)

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Play-Acting

A Guide to Theatre Workshops

By Luke Dixon

Play-Acting is an inspired book of theatrical beginnings-jumping-off points for actors, teachers, and directors. Drawing upon his thirty years of designing and leading theater workshops,…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-87830-189-8 (Theatre Arts Book)

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Talking to the Audience

Shakespeare, Performance, Self

By Bridget Escolme

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33223-1 (Routledge)

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Letters from Linda M. Montano

By Linda M. Montano

Letters from Linda M. Montano is an anthology of writings by one of the seminal performance artists of the last century. It provides an autobiographical…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33943-8 (Routledge)

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Labanotation

The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement

By Ann Hutchinson Guest

A definitive book for students of dance and movement studies, Labanotation is now available in a fourth edition, the first complete revision of the text…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96562-0 (Theatre Arts Book)

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Labanotation

The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement

By Ann Hutchinson Guest

A definitive book for students of dance and movement studies, Labanotation is now available in a fourth edition, the first complete revision of the text…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96561-3 (Theatre Arts Book)

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