John Hejduk, Theater masque, Berlin masque, Lancaster, Hanover masque, Devil's bridge

This chapter shows that, despite changes brought about by the Reformation, Shakespeare’s contemporaries understood the devil as a real presence in their world. It explores his role...

Beginning in October 1786, Charles Dibdin published a weekly newspaper called The Devil. The conceit is that the Editor is on the point of suicide when the Devil intervenes to diss...

Abstract Those privileged enough to attend performances of masques at court in the early seventeenth century invariably commented on the sumptuousness of the musi...

This chapter traces the arrival of four Old Order Amish families from the Path Valley in Pennsylvania to Lowville in Lewis County. More progressive than Swartzentruber and less pro...

This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around “post-truth” have been explored in the world of theater and performance. This ranges from the plays of Ca...

This is the most comprehensive and insightful reference available on Broadway theater as an American cultural phenomenon and an illuminator of American life. Broadway: An...

Despite constant hindrance from government interference and control, the Russian theater has produced many memorable playwrights, schools of thought, and plays, whose influence can...