Book Series in Theatre & Performance Studies
Gender in Performance
New & Published Titles:
Strip Show
Performances of Gender and Desire
This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows. It particularly focuses on the contradictory sex… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17381-0 (Routledge)
The Changing Room
Sex, Drag and Theatre
The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room , which traces the origins and… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15986-9 (Routledge)
West End Women
Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962
Maggie Gale's West End Women uncovers groundbreaking material about women playwrights and the staging of their performances between the years 1918 and 1962.It… read more
1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-08496-3 (Routledge)
Women In Russian Theatre
The Actress in the Silver Age
1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14397-4 (Routledge)
Feminist Theatres in the USA
Staging Women's Experience
Feminist Theaters in the USA is a fresh, informative portrait of a key era in feminist and theater history It is vital reading for feminist… read more1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-09805-2 (Routledge)
Getting Into the Act
Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829
Getting Into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth… read more1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-08250-1 (Routledge)
As She Likes It
Shakespeare's Unruly Women
As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre… read more1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-09696-6 (Routledge)
Contemporary Feminist Theatres
To Each Her Own
Contemporary Feminist Theatres is a major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides a provocative and interdisciplinary… read more1993 | Paperback: 978-0-415-07306-6 (Routledge)
Actresses as Working Women
Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and… read more1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-05652-6 (Routledge)