W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as one of the most significant poets of the past century. And yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out his work in the theat

The ‘macabre’, as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre – and more broadly, performance – for thousands of years. In its embodied meditat

The author defines and analyzes the new type of theatricalperspective invented by Samuel Beckett. She begins with an overview of thechanges of the definition of

In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a divers

This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncann