2020 was a year unlike any other, and we’ve brought together a selection of top content reflecting the year in Theatre and Performance. Have a browse below, or head over to the individual imprint page for more. If you’re interested in writing for us, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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A selection of 2020's highlighted research
Books
Book Chapters
Free to access until 31 March 2021, while open access chapters are freely available online on a permanent basis.
Speech at the First International Shaw Conference, Dublin
from Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland
Authors: President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins
Praxis: The Drama Spiral
from Staging the Personal
Authors: Clark Baim
Part 2.3 Mountain Site-Related Performance
from Performing Mountains
Authors: Jonathan Pitches
Claiming Their Voice: Foreign Memories on the Post-Brexit Stage
from Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture
Authors: Kasia Lech
Theatre of Black Women
from Black British Women's Theatre
Authors: Nicola Abram
‘Anti-Northern Prejudice’: Representing the Northern Subaltern
from English Theatre and Social Abjection
Authors: Nadine Holdsworth
Top new books in 2020
Insights from the Editorial Team
Felicity Plester, Editorial Director - Humanities, Palgrave Macmillan
Our Theatre and Performance portfolio boasts the very best in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research from immersive theatre to contemporary playwrights to devising performance and theatre history. Despite 2020 being a challenging year, we’ve continued to publish a diverse and high-quality programme including:
- Topical and thought-provoking titles such as Staging the Personal, Performing Welfare, Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank, Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture and Ecodramaturgies to name but a few.
- Three titles to mark the launch of our new Performing Landscapes series.
- The first in the Shakespeare in Practice series recently acquired from Red Globe Press.
- Prize-winning titles such as Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times.
- Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland which included a contribution from the President of Ireland
We hope you enjoy browsing our top content from 2020 and if you would like to find out more about publishing with us then don’t hesitate to get in touch with one of our editors to discuss your idea. Our experienced team will work closely with you on a plan tailored to suit your work and we offer our authors the choice to publish across a range of formats and lengths.
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