For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity. Emerging in the context of new capitalistic modes of production, the birth of the nation state and the...

A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework von Esslin, Martin

Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright. Death and the King's Horseman: 'A transfixing work of modern world drama' - Independent Madmen and Specialists: 'A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes...

But you can't do this to us - my partner is about to have a baby and we need to eat and pay rent - and we need to eat - how is this legal! In the run-up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation. A...