This volume addresses disability in theatre, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theatre. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, Night Mother and Wit, as well as an original play by James McDonald.

The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, the original contributions discuss work including Harold Pinter's screenplays for The Handmaid's Tale and The Trial, Theatrical Prison Projects and Marat/Sade. Kimball King, Thomas Fahy, Rena Fraden, Tiffany Ana Lopez, Fiona Mills, Harold Pinter, Ann C. Hall, Christopher C. Hudgins, Pamela Cooper, Robert F. Gross, Claudia Barnett, Lois Gordon

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies. It is the ideal reference for the classroom, for independent research, and for a general overview of the field.

This book offers a variety of critical perspectives, looking closely at Beckett's dramatic canon. From Deleuzean rhizomatics to new historicism to the question of gender, each reading repositions Beckett's plays and suggests that the reader rethinks the standard interpretation of the drama.

A collection of original essays 16 analyzing plays about the movie industry from the 1920s to the present. They concentrate however on such contemporary playwrights as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, and Adrienne Kennedy, highlighting their deconstruction of Hollywood myths to reveal painful s

Woody Allen, who first became famous as a stand up comedian and a writer of comedy routines, has also had a distinguished career as a playwright and screenwriter/director. Allen owes his celebrity status primarily to his critically acclaimed films, such as Manhattan, Hannah and her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.