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English comedy and Central European marionette drama (2014)
Book Chapter
Drabek, P. (2014). English comedy and Central European marionette drama. In R. Henke, & E. Nicholson (Eds.), Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Drama (131-155). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Baroque to romantic theatre (2012)
Book Chapter
Baugh, C. (2012). Baroque to romantic theatre. In D. Wiles, & C. Dymkowski (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History (33-54). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cco9781139019651.005

The history of the theatre from the late sixteenth to late in the nineteenth century is usually framed around dominant periods of national dramatic literatures: theatre of the Spanish golden age; Shakespeare and his contemporaries; the classic theatr... Read More about Baroque to romantic theatre.

Scenography with purpose: activism and intervention (2012)
Book Chapter
Baugh, C. L. (2012). Scenography with purpose: activism and intervention. In A. Aronson (Ed.), The disappearing stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. Arts and Theatre Institute/Prague Quadrennial

Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida) (2012)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida). Shakespeare: Troilus a Kressida (14 - 33). Národní divadlo

A critical essay on William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, written for the programme notes for David Radok's production at the National Theatre in Prague. The text discusses the play as as well as its sources and later adaptations, including sev... Read More about Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida).

Presence pattern and the original body in networked encounters (2011)
Book Chapter
Chatzichristodoulou, M. (2011). Presence pattern and the original body in networked encounters. In J. Sunden, & R. Hughes (Eds.), Second nature: origins and originality in art, science, and new media (99-122). Stockholm: Axl Books

Riding the waves: Uncovering biomechanics in Britain (2011)
Book Chapter
Skinner, A. (2011). Riding the waves: Uncovering biomechanics in Britain. In J. Pitches (Ed.), Russians in Britain : British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training (86-109). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203146590

Identifying the influence of the Russian director vsevolod emilevich Meyerhold on British theatre is a problematic process. Productions are called ‘Meyerholdian’ for any number of reasons, from a revisionist approach to the role of the text to a cons... Read More about Riding the waves: Uncovering biomechanics in Britain.

Kde se bere prevleková komedie (Where the comedy of disguise comes from) (2011)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2011). Kde se bere prevleková komedie (Where the comedy of disguise comes from). Jule Styne, Peter Stone, Bob Merrill: Sugar!: (Někdo to rád horké): šestá inscenace šedesáté šesté sezony 2010/2011 (56 - 70). Městské divadlo Brno

An essay on the history of the comedy of disguise in the theatre, written for the programme notes for a production of Jule Styne, Peter Stone, Bob Merrill's Sugar, directed by Stanislav Moša at the Municipal Theatre in Brno, Czech Republic.

A co když je to svetec?: Massingeruv Rímský herec jako krypto-Genesius (What if it's a saint?: Massinger's The Roman actor as a crypto-genesius) (2011)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2011). A co když je to svetec?: Massingeruv Rímský herec jako krypto-Genesius (What if it's a saint?: Massinger's The Roman actor as a crypto-genesius). Ad honorem Eva Stehlíková (81 - 86). Filosofický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (The Philosophy Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)

A study dedicated to the Baroque tragedy The Roman Actor (1626) by the Jacobean dramatist Philip Massinger, and its relations to Lope de Vega's play Lo fingido verdadero (1605).

Vecer tríkrálový aneb Cokoli chcete: Prazvláštní hra z prazvláštní doby o prazvláštních událostech na prazvláštním míste (Twelfth night, (2008)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2008). Vecer tríkrálový aneb Cokoli chcete: Prazvláštní hra z prazvláštní doby o prazvláštních událostech na prazvláštním míste (Twelfth night,. William Shakespeare: Večer tříkrálový, aneb, Cokoli chcete: inscenační verze MdB (81 - 95). Městské divadlo Brno

An essay on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in the theatre programme for the production of the Municipal Theatre in Brno. Play translated by Jirí Josek. Play and programme edited by Jirí Záviš.

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

Shakespeare's Gallatheas (2008)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2008). Shakespeare's Gallatheas. Shakespeare Between the Middle Ages and Modernism: from translator’s art to academic discourse (108 - 116). Charles University

On the influence of John Lyly's Gallathea on William Shakespeare's early plays, especially A Midsummer Night's Dream and Love's Labour's Lost. A chapter in the book dedicated to Professor Martin Hilský.

Shakespeare's Influence on Mucedorus (2008)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2008). Shakespeare's Influence on Mucedorus. Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries (45 - 53). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The anonymous Mucedorus (first printed in 1598) was one of the most popular Elizabethan plays. In 1610, the third, reworked edition was published after the play had been performed by Shakespeare's company, the King's Men. This article tries to recons... Read More about Shakespeare's Influence on Mucedorus.