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‘Though this be method, yet there is madness in’t’: Cutting Ovid’s tongue in recent stage and film performances of Titus Andronicus (2016)
Book Chapter
Billing, C. M. (2016). ‘Though this be method, yet there is madness in’t’: Cutting Ovid’s tongue in recent stage and film performances of Titus Andronicus. In P. Holland (Ed.), Shakespeare and Rome (58-78). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/sso9781316670408.006

"Here is my space": Josef Svoboda's Shakespearean imagination (2016)
Book Chapter
Billing, C. M. (2016). "Here is my space": Josef Svoboda's Shakespearean imagination. In J. R. Brown, & S. Di Benedetto (Eds.), Designers' Shakespeare (12-37). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Czech puppet theatre in global contexts: roots, theories and encounters (2015)
Journal Article
Billing, C. M., & Drábek, P. (2015). Czech puppet theatre in global contexts: roots, theories and encounters. Theatralia, 5-31. https://doi.org/10.5817/ty2015-2-1

This article is both an introduction to this volume as well as to the rich and enchanting world of Czech puppet theatre, with its unique combination of transnational and geographically and cultural distinctive features. Pavel Drábek's essay, incorpor... Read More about Czech puppet theatre in global contexts: roots, theories and encounters.

Historiography, Rehearsal Processes, and Performance as Translation; or, How to Stage Early Modern English Drama Today? (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Billing, C. (2015). Historiography, Rehearsal Processes, and Performance as Translation; or, How to Stage Early Modern English Drama Today?.

Responsibilities to the past; duties to the present: considerations on translating, editing and (re)presenting the Czech structuralist canon for modern international audiences (2014)
Journal Article
Billing, C. M. (2014). Responsibilities to the past; duties to the present: considerations on translating, editing and (re)presenting the Czech structuralist canon for modern international audiences. Theatralia, 17(2), 13-23

Forms of fashion: Material fabrics, national characteristics and the dramaturgy of difference on the early modern English stage (2014)
Book Chapter
Billing, C. (2014). Forms of fashion: Material fabrics, national characteristics and the dramaturgy of difference on the early modern English stage. In R. Henke, & E. Nicholson (Eds.), Transnational mobilities in early modern theater (131-156). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Rehearsing Shakespeare : embodiment, collaboration, risk and play (2012)
Journal Article
Billing, C. M. (2012). Rehearsing Shakespeare : embodiment, collaboration, risk and play. Shakespeare bulletin, 30(4), 383-410. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2012.0072

Rehearsing Shakespeare: Alternative strategies in process and performance - Edited and introduction (2012)
Journal Article
Billing, C. (2012). Rehearsing Shakespeare: Alternative strategies in process and performance - Edited and introduction. Shakespeare bulletin, 30(4), 383 - 410. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2012.0072

Czech stage art and stage design (2011)
Book
Drábek, P., Billing, C., & Drabek, P. (2011). Czech stage art and stage design. Masarykova univerzita

A special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Theatralia/Yorick on Czech scenography, stage design and historical periods of Czech stage art. Co-edited and introduction co-written with Christian M. Billing.

The Roman Tragedies (2010)
Journal Article
Billing, C. (2010). The Roman Tragedies. Shakespeare quarterly, 61(3), 415 - 439. https://doi.org/10.1353/shq.2010.0006

This article is a critical account of the multi-media performance of Shakespeare's: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra by Toneelgroep (Amsterdam), directed by Ivo Van Hove and Designed by Jan Versweyveld.

Masculinity, corporality and the English stage 1580–1635 (2008)
Book
Billing, C. M. (2008). Masculinity, corporality and the English stage 1580–1635. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594194

The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic. Filling this gap, Christian Billing questions conventional wisdom regarding the one-sex anatomical model and uses a range of... Read More about Masculinity, corporality and the English stage 1580–1635.

Representations of Greek tragedy in ancient pottery : a theatrical perspective (2008)
Journal Article
Billing, C. M. (2008). Representations of Greek tragedy in ancient pottery : a theatrical perspective. New Theatre Quarterly, 24(3), 229-245. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X08000298

In this article, Christian M. Billing considers the relationship between representations of mythic narratives found on ancient pottery (primarily found at sites relating to the Greek colonies of south Italy in the fourth century BC, but also to certa... Read More about Representations of Greek tragedy in ancient pottery : a theatrical perspective.

Barrie Rutter (2008)
Book Chapter
Billing, C. (2008). Barrie Rutter. The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare (389 - 406). Routledge

The Dutch diaspora in English comedy: 1598 to 1618
Book Chapter
Billing, C. The Dutch diaspora in English comedy: 1598 to 1618. . The University of Hull

Book chapter