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Whilst we endeavour to ensure that prices, publication dates and other details in this catalogue are correct on going to press, they are subject to change without further notice. Bloomsbury Academic is a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Registered in England No. 01984336. www.bloomsbury.com • New Delhi, India • +91 11 4057 4954/7 • [email protected] 1 Reader in Comedy Theatre Criticism An Anthology of Theory and Criticism Changing Landscapes TUDIES Edited by Magda Romanska, Emerson College, Edited by Duška Radosavljevic, Lecturer in S Boston, USA & Alan Ackerman, University of Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Kent, Toronto, Canada UK This unique anthology presents the most important In this collection of essays, academics and critics historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity trace the history of theatre criticism from its to the present, divided into historical periods and early beginnings in the 19th-century and the arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of growth of the newspaper industry to its position in our present-day heatre comic theory, highlighting the relationships between comedy, politics, internet-dominated world. The recent rise in self-appointed theatre T economics, philosophy, religion, and other arts and genres. Students critics and bloggers is challenging the conservative profile of the of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and professional critic and changing the focus of discussion around live accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to the performance. While often received with suspicion from mainstream 21st century. newspaper critics, this new generation of bloggers is providing interesting intellectual and ideological perspectives on a well- UK November 2016 • US December 2016 • 392 pages established field. PB 9781474247887 • £28.99 • HB 9781474247894 • £95.00 Individual eBook 9781474247900 • £94.99 Library eBook 9781474247917 UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 352 pages Bloomsbury Methuen Drama PB 9781472577092 • £21.99 • HB 9781472578648 • £65.00 World English Individual eBook 9781472577115 • £64.99 Library eBook 9781472577108 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen The Story of Drama You Have to be There Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Shaun May, University of Kent, UK Greeks to the Present Drawing on the philosophy