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Critical Approaches in Theatre and Performance Studies
Group A: Guides to Methodologies
- Auslander, Philip. Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
- Bennett, Susan. Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception. London: Routledge, 1990.
- Case, Sue-Ellen, ed. Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990.
- Chandler, David. Semiotics: The Basics. Second Ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.
- Constantinidas, Stratos E. Theatre Under Deconstruction: A Question of Approach. New York: Garland, 1993.
- Counsell, Colin. Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth Century Theatre. London: Routledge, 1996.
- Davis, Walter A. Get the Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
- Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1983.
- Elam, Keir. The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. London: Routledge, 1980.
- Fish, Stanley. Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
- Fortier, Mark. Theory/Theatre: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2002.
- Gainor, J. Ellen, ed. Imperialism and Theatre: Essays on World Theatre, Drama and Performance. London: Routledge, 1995.
- Gallagher, Catherine and Stephen Greenblatt. Practicing New Historicism. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000.
- Gilbert, Helen and Joanne Tompkins. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. London: Routledge, 1996.
- Goodman, Lizbeth and Jane de Gay. The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance. London: Routledge, 1998.
- Postelwait, Thomas and Bruce McConachie. Interpreting the Theatrical Past. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989.
- Reinelt, Janelle and Joseph R. Roach. Critical Theory and Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York: Methuen, 1987.
Group B: Single Authored Volumes on Theatre and Performance Studies Methodology
- Brockett, Oscar. Century of Innovation: A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since 1870. New York: Prentice Hall, 1973.
- Carlson, Marvin. Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present. Expanded Ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
- Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Third Ed. London: Penguin Books, 1980.
- Roach, Joseph R. The Players Passion. Fifth Ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2002.
Group C: Anthologies of Work on Theatre and Performance Studies Methodology
- Drain, Richard ed. Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 1995.
- Dukore, Bernard F., ed. Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski. New York: Hold, Rinehard and Winston, 1974.
- Gerould, Daniel, ed. Theatre/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel. New York: Applause, 2000.
Group D: Primary Texts in Theatre and Performance Studies Methdologies
- Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and its Double. London: Calder & Boyars, 1970.
- Aston, Elaine. An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre. London: Routledge, 1994.
- Barba, Eugenio. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer. London: Routledge, 1991.
- Baudrillard, Jean. The Mirror of Production. St. Louis: Telos, 1975.
- ----. Simulations. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983.
- Boal, Augusto. The Theatre of the Oppressed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1985.
- Brook, Peter. Open Door. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995.
- ----. The Empty Space. First Touchstone Ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
- Carlson, Marvin. Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
- ----. Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
- Case, Sue-Ellen. Feminism and Theatre. New York: Methuen, 1988.
- Dolan, Jill. Feminist Spectator as Critic. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
- Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. Queering the Renaissance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.
- Greenblatt, Stephen. Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
- Grotowski, Jerzi. Towards a Poor Theatre. Ed. Eugenio Barba. New York: Routledge, 2002.
- Landy, Robert J. Persona and Performance: The Meaning of Role in Drama, Therapy, and Everyday Life. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1993.
- Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
- Raynor, Alice. To Act, To Do, To Perform: Drama and the Phenomenology of Action. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
- Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon, 1978.
- ----. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.
- Schechner, Richard. Environmental Theatre. New and Expanded Ed. New York: Applause, 2000.
- Schechner, Richard. Performance Studies: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2003.
- Stanislavsky, Constantin. My Life in Art. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1948.
- Turner, Victor. From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play. Baltimore: PAJ, 1982.
- Wallace, Robert. Producing Marginality: Theatre and Criticism in Canada. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1990.
The authors of this website are members of or affiliated with the BGSU Department of Theatre and Film. They are: Kurt Edwards,
Travis Malone, Erin Miller, Molly Weisser, Christine Woodworth, Dr. Cynthia Baron, and Stefanie Hunker.
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