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

Look Back in Anger is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known…

This book engages the issue of anger as a viable instrument of expressing discontent, disillusionment and disenchantment with self, government and institutions. It represents a radical view of anger, not…

This revised edition preserves the structure and approach of the original, including its emphasis on the early dramas of Hauptmann, while taking full account of subsequent scholarship, which provides the…

Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, this book conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.

Gloria Manson returns home from London to find her mother has become a penitent recluse. While working in the village pub and flirting with old school mates Gloria tries to…

Integrates the evidence for ninth-century Rome derived from standing remains and their decorations, objects in museum and library collections, contemporaneous documents, and recent archaeology in order to create an interdisciplinary…

During the late nineteenth century a remarkable combination of circumstances and individual talents permitted the Court theatre of a small German state to become the theatrical sensation of its age…