Peter Brook is regarded as one of the most important and influential directors today. Albert Hunt and Geoffrey Reeves chronicle Brook’s development beginning with his earliest productions and concluding with…

In this volume, distinguished director Peter Brook provides candid answers to questions on his work and philosophy. Topics covered range from his innovative, award-winning production of Marat/Sade to his film…

In The Shifting Point, his first book since The Empty Space, Brook assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his brilliant debut at Stratford and the West End in…

The threats of the Cold War were supplanted by a national security environment characterized by unpredictable, motivated, capable adversaries posing multiple threats. This work reminds Americans that the world continues…

This book throws new light on the impact of informal ‘old boy’ networks on British decolonisation. He was also a key figure in the Harold Macmillan’s ‘Winds of Change’ policy…

One of the world’s most revered theatre directors reflects on the world’s most revered playwright.

This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at…

Presents the story of the year - 1875 to 1876 - when the young novelist Henry James moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of…