How have theatre and performance research methods and methodologies engaged the expanding diversity of performing arts practices? How can students best combine performance/theatre research approaches in their projects? This book's 29 contributors provide hands-on answers to such questions. Challenging and debating received research wisdom and exploring innovative procedures for rigorous enquiry via archives, technology, practice-as-research, scenography,...

With a revised Introduction and with all chapters revised to bring them completely up-to-date, this new edition remains the leading guide to research methods for final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs, students of 19th- and 20th- century literary studies.

The first volume centred on the navigation and interpretation of digital material as research methods in the Humanities.