This exciting collection of classic writings explores a wide range of types of performance and theatre from all over Africa. It is essential reading for all those interested in performance in rural and urban Africa.

The contributors address issues of territory and asylum, home and exile, locality and migration - as they effect both artists themselves and the forms evident in contemporary performance.

This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.

Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. It will be indispensable to students, teachers and theatre practitioners interested not only in Chekhov but in the history of the modern stage.

Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers an overdue assessment of the relationship between the dramatic efforts of the universities and early modern male identity. Taking into account the near single-sex constitution of early modern universities.

This title concerns biological processes which can be disrupted by a major surgical procedure. Using the concept of homeostasis as a framework, the authors look at issues common to all surgical procedures such as the influence of anaesthesia on the nervous system or perioperative pain management.

Examines various paradigms for reading Hollywood and its cinema. This volume also explores a range of topics from cinephilia and auteurs - Nicholas Ray, Sam Fuller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, among others - to melodrama, digital cinema, and even time-travel films.