Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors

"With a broader range of entries than any other reference book on stage directors, this Encyclopaedia showcases the extraordinary diversity of theatre as a national and international artistic medium. It covers both individual directors and a range of directorial modes and styles across different global traditions in contemporary theatre"-- Provided by publisher.

List of contents

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; A-Z director entries; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Vice Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She has published widely in Spanish- and Catalan-language theatre and film, and historical memory, film, and performance. Her three monographs and fourteen edited collections include Federico García Lorca (Routledge, 2008), 'Otro' teatro español: supresión e inscripción en la escena española de los siglos XX y XXI (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017), and the co-edited A History of Theatre in Spain (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Staging Difficult Pasts: Transnational Memory, Theatres, and Museums (Routledge, 2024). Her work has been published in eight languages.Simon Williams is Emeritus Professor of Theater Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published widely in the fields of acting history, Shakespeare in performance, and opera, with previous books including German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Greenwood, 1985) and Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1990). He also co-edited A History of German Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and edited the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Maria M. (Royal Central School of Speech Delgado
• Assisted by: Delgado Maria M. (Editor), Simon Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781107190597
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19059-7
• No. of pages: 804
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; DRAMA / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Choreography & Dance Notation, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Theatre Studies, Choreography, Individual actors and performers, Encyclopaedias and reference works, Theatre: technical and background skills, Theatre direction and production