This new edition celebrates the play’s enduring legacy with introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.

In every case, Greenblatt brings a flash of illumination to the work, enabling us to experience these great plays again as if for the first time, and with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity ...

'The Theater and Its Double' is far and away the most important thing that has been written about the theater in the twentieth century. It should be read again and again. Artaud oozed magical desires.

The text, in clear and lively English, is supplemented by a wealth of photos and illustrations, many previously unpublished.

The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists. The Cambridge Guide To Asian Theatre explores some of the most vibrant and exciting theatrical traditions in Asia-Oceania today.

In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition.

In this book, Keir Elam shows how semiotics could provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance.

"Representing the Past is required reading for any serious scholar of theatre and performance historiography: original in its conception, global in its reach, thought-provoking and transformative in its effects.

This book surveys Broadway's biggest flops, highlighting almost 200 musicals created between 1950 and 1990. Framed around the notorious musical adaptation of Carrie, this book examines the reasons for their failure.

If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions.