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Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors Censored and Modern
Virginia Woolf and Bernard Shaw may be the odd couple of Twentieth Century modernism. Despite their difference in age (Shaw was twenty-six years...
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Coward the Dramatist Morals and Manners
Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography. The more analytical...
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Bernard Shaw, Automata, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence
This project is the first to explore how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Shaw was...
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James Graham State of the Nation Playwright
James Grahamis one of the UK’s leading dramatists, a multi-award-winning writer who for almost 20 years has analysed and articulated concepts of...
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Bernard Shaw Reimagining Women and Ireland, 1892–1914
Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly...
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Representations of Policing in Northern Irish Theatre 1921 – 2021
This monograph provides the first sustained, chronological account of Northern Irish police officers’ representation in theatre. Importantly, its...
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Brian Friel's Models of Influence
The Brian Friel Papers at the National Library of Ireland are a record of a life’s work in progress. They represent a way of working and of making...
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Performance in the Field Interdisciplinary Practice-as-Research
This book makes a compelling case for ‘performance fieldwork’ as a vital new approach to interdisciplinary collaboration. Refocussing the histories...
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Asylum and Belonging through Collective Playwriting "How much home does a person need?"
This book explores the notion of home in the wake of the so-called refugee crisis, and asks how home and belonging can be rethought through the act...
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Dance Practices as Research Approaches to the Safeguarding and Transmission of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Dance
This book contributes to the growing scientific literature on ‘intangible cultural heritage’ – determined by UNESCO to be particularly worthy of...
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Engaging with Brecht Making Theatre in the Twenty-first Century
This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht’s continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing...
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Actor-Network Dramaturgies The Argentines of Paris
This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers’ perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman...
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Doing Dramaturgy Thinking Through Practice
This book explores how doing dramaturgy is informed by today’s highly diverse field of theatre, dance and performance. It does so in dialogue with...
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Auseinandersetzung mit Brecht Theater machen im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert
Dieses Buch ist ein Plädoyer für Bertolt Brechts anhaltende Bedeutung in einer Zeit, in der die Ereignisse des 21. Jahrhunderts nach einer studierten...
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Performance Arts: Research in the Age of Digital Revolution
This volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts. Bringing together distinguished scholars from all over...
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Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe
Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in...
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Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment
This edited book documents practices of learning-oriented language assessment through practitioner research and research syntheses. Learning-oriented...
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Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion Shavian Sisters
This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalionthat have received little attention from critics: language and...
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Bernard Shaw on the American Stage A Chronicle of Premieres and Notable Revivals
Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw’s plays in America. During his lifetime...
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Dance, Place, and Poetics Site-specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing
This book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance. The book is situated within arts-based research,...