This book examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The book is aimed at a student readership: it is largely play-text-based, and it contains useful contextualising material.

Paperback    £20.00
9780859897396 | Published: 2006

Hardback    £75.00
9780859897389 | Published: 2006

PDF    £20.00
9780859899307 | Published: 2015

This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. It is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations.

Paperback    £15.00
9780859893732 | Published: 1991

PDF    £15.00
9780859899314 | Published: 2015

This is the first critical edition of Les Marguerites, poèmes héroïque, a volume originally published in Bordeaux in 1676. Written in alexandrines, divided into five cantos (chants), Les Marguerities offers a fascinating example of playful contemporary poetic taste where epic heroism is transformed into gallantry.

Paperback    £20.00
9780859896429 | Published: 1999

The principal aim of this edition is to provide a reliable version of the text of Le Mariage forcé which can be used by students and scholars of 17th-century theatre. The book includes all the texts which existed in Molière’s lifetime.

Paperback    £20.00
9780859896436 | Published: 2000

A critical edition of Alexandre Hardy's Mariamne, a tragedy drawing on the story of the wife of Herod the Great. First published in 1989 by University of Exeter Press, it is part of the Textes Litteraires series.

Paperback    £20.00
9780859893039 | Published: 1989

The first study of its kind. The book explores the rich, complex maritime inheritance of Cornwall on a national and international scale, considering the importance of the different historical periods from the medieval to the twentieth century.

Hardback    £70.00
9780859898508 | Published: 2014

PDF    £70.00
9780859899604 | Published: 2015

EPUB    £70.00
9780859899826 | Published: 2015

Written in 1908 by Michael Oppenheim, for the Victorian History of Devonshire, this account has not been previously published as the volume for which it was intended was never completed. Based mainly on the national archives with which Oppenheim had an intimate acquaintance, this account emphasises the place of the county of Devon in naval history.

Hardback    £35.00
9780859897143 | Published: 1999

In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern lecture to the fairground and variety theatre.

Hardback    £75.00
9780859898010 | Published: 2009

PDF    £75.00
9780859899321 | Published: 2015

This book charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city – Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local topographical and social contexts, and in relation to a specific architecture and polity.

Paperback    £22.50
9780859898768 | Published: 2013

Hardback    £75.00
9780859898751 | Published: 2013

EPUB    £22.50
9780859899864 | Published: 2015

PDF    £75.00
9780859899710 | Published: 2015

La Matronne Chinoise is a new critical edition of a two-act comedy by Pierre-René Lemonnier. The edition is accompanied by a full introduction setting out the play’s historical and thematic context, along with an analysis of its versification, and by an appendix reproducing earlier versions of the tale from Petronius to Voltaire.

Paperback    £20.00
9780859897327 | Published: 2003