Theatre, Music and Performance

A research area within The School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Theatre, Music and Performance research

Our research

Research in the area of theatre, music and performance is undertaken by a number of scholars across the cultures represented in the School.

Work on drama includes studies of Chinese theatre and the Beijing opera; north African theatre; the sociology of Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies; contemporary Austrian drama, and the stage and screenplays of Peter Turrini; Golden Age drama in contemporary Spain; Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy, in antiquity and its modern reception; the theory of audiovisual and theatre translation, and the reception of subtitled performances. Our work on music includes studies in Spanish popular music and its role in multiculturalism.

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Language at Leeds

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