The Drama, Theatre and Performance Companion

Michael Mangan is Professor and Chair of Drama at Loughborough University, UK. He has taught English and Drama in Universities in the UK and the US, and has held chairs at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and De Montfort University. He is also a playwright and director, and has worked as a literary manager, a dramaturg and an actor. His books include Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: A Critical Study, A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies and Staging Masculinities: Gender, History, Performance.

Introduction: This book and how to use it
PART I: DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE: THE SUBJECT AND ITS STUDY
1. The Context of the Subject
2. Your Course and what to Expect from it
3. Study Skills for Drama, Theatre and Performance Students
PART II: CORE TOPICS IN DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
4. Developments and Directions
5. Working Practically 1: Acting
6. Working Practically 2: Devising
7. Working Practically 3: Directing
8. Theatre Histories
9. Analysing Texts
10. Questions of Theory
11. Theatre and Gender
12. Theatre and the World: Globalization, Interculturalism and Postcolonialism
13. The Uses of Drama: Applying Performance
14. Mediating Performance: From the Machine Age to the Digital Age
PART III: KEY CONCEPTS
PART IV: LANDMARKS: KEY PRACTITIONERS, THEORISTS AND PERFORMANCES
PART V: FRAMEWORKS FOR RESEARCH: KEY WRITINGS ON DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
PART VI: WHAT NEXT?
PART VII: RESOURCES FOR STUDYING DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
Bibliography
Index.