Books in the Routledge Companions series

The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400¿1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field.

The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early 'drama' as a mixed mode entertainment be

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently reevaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its twenty-eight essays aim to advance the study of the puppet not only as a theatrical object, but also as a vibrant artistic and scholarly discipline.

Brings together essays from some of the leading international scholars on major areas in Translation Studies. This guide offers fresh perspectives on linguistics, context, culture, politics and ethics and contains a range of contributions on the areas such as cognitive theories, technology, interpreting and audiovisual translation.

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of this global art form.

The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies.Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson brings together a uniquely valuable anthology of texts especially commissioned from across the discipline of theatre and performance studies.Establishing a stable terminology for a deeply contested term for the first time, this volume looks at scenography as the totality of all the visual, spatial, and sensory aspects of performance. Tracing a line from Aristotle's Poetics down to Brecht and Artaud and into contemporary immersive theatre and digital media, The Routledge Companion to Scenography is a vital addition to every theatre library.

This Companion brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists - to provide an astonishingly comprehensive assessment of his life, work and legacy. This volume aims to connect East and West; theatre theory and practice. It reconsiders the history of Chekhov¿s acting method, directing and pedagogy, using the archival documents found across the globe: in Russia, England, America, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland. It presents Chekhov¿s legacy and ideas in the framework of interdisciplinary theatre practices and theories.

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond.

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History.

The dictionary entries cover the major individuals and issues essential to an understanding both of feminism's roots and of the trends that are shaping its future.

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance.

What is Einstein's theory of relativity? The big bang theory? This authoritative guide to the cosmos offers answers to these and other questions, it features cross-referenced background chapters which provide readers with an introduction to the state of cosmological knowledge.

Introducing students to the history of the great European empires and the cultural legacies created in their wake, this book covers topics such as: the colonial histories of Britain, France, Spain and Portugal; and the diverse postcolonial and diasporic cultural endeavours from Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Europe, and South and East Asia.

The second edition of The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity offers readers a broad overview of scholarly exploration of the ways that humans have organized themselves (and have been organized) according to racial and ethnic divisions.

The second edition of The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity offers readers a broad overview of scholarly exploration of the ways that humans have organized themselves (and have been organized) according to racial and ethnic divisions.

This book introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches to disability and gender, race, class, sexuality and ethnicity. Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre, this is an important resource for those interested in exploring the field of literature and disability studies

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field.

This approachable and authoritative guide to the cosmos includes topics such as Black Hole; Doppler Effect; Heat Death of the Universe; Life in the Universe; Quantum Field Theory; Supernova; and much more.

Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship.

Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship.

3rd edition. Includes 19 detailed essays on major themes and topics, and an A-Z of key terms and concepts.

This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, the Companion contains 19 detailed essays on major themes and topics along with an A-Z of key terms and concepts. As well as revised essays on philosophy, politics, literature, and more, the first section now contains brand new essays on critical theory, business, gender and the performing arts. The concepts section, too, has been enhanced with new topics ranging from hypermedia to global warming. Students interested in any aspect of postmodernism will continue to find this an indispensable resource.