Spectacular Performances

Spectacular PerformancesWhy did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concept of costume as high fashion and as self fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help make the author readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the word, be

Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response

but as a narrative structure

Drawing on extensive cross-national research

The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009

The last Yugoslav Generation charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia

Lucía Puenzo's The German Doctor and Damián Szifron's Wild Tales

Including almost 50 contributing artists and scholars

life-cycle and geography

The influence of Taiwan on contemporary design is strong and growing

serving didactic

this book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women

enjoy and help save the earth’s wild places