This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance.
The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as:
* decoding the sign
* the politics of performance
* the politics of gender and sexual identity
* performing ethnicity
* the performing body
* the space of performance
* audience and spectatorship
* the borders of performance.
Each reading is clearly introduced, making often complex critical texts...

Jonson's comic masterpiece whichh illustrates the manipulations and schemes people concoct out of greed.

A burlesque of knight errantry and a parody of Heywood's Four Prentice's of London from the English Elizabethan dramatist.

'Women Beware Women' is a major tragedy of the period, anatomising lust, hypocrisy and moral blindness. It is a play of people corrupted by greed for sex, wealth and position.