This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on exa

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on September 1 1997, prompted public demonstrations of grief on an almost unprecented global scale. But, while global med

This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present. Inspired by the gend

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives throug

Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead i