Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British Performance
暫譯: 前戲劇劇場：早期英國表演的激進主義

《前戲劇劇場》提供了一個新穎且創新的觀點，探討在專業劇院建設之前的戲劇，並以現代戲劇及後戲劇理論的視角來解讀。該書旨在吸引表演研究和文學研究的學者與學生，並跨越前現代與當代表演的領域，利用漢斯-提斯·萊曼（Hans-Thies Lehmann）所創造的挑釁性概念「後戲劇劇場」，來暗示早期戲劇核心的激進實踐，並重新思考這些戲劇的概念及教學方式。

Eleanor Rycroft is Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at the University of Bristol, UK, and author of Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity (2019). Her work centres on embodiment and gender in premodern performance. She has written articles for journals such as Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, and English Literary Renaissance, and is currently writing a British Academy-funded monograph on the early modern staging of walking. Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published widely in the fields of late medieval and early-modern literature and theatre history. He has also been involved, with Thomas Betteridge and Eleanor Rycroft, in performance-as-research productions of Heywood's Play of the Weather (Hampton Court Palace), Lyndsay's Satire of the Three Estates (Linlithgow Palace and Stirling Castle) and Jonson's Masque of Augurs (Banqueting House, Westminster).

Eleanor Rycroft 是英國布里斯托大學早期現代表演的副教授，並且是 Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity（2019）的作者。她的研究重點在於前現代表演中的身體性和性別。她曾為多本期刊撰寫文章，如 Shakespeare、Shakespeare Bulletin 和 English Literary Renaissance，目前正在撰寫一部由英國學院資助的專著，探討早期現代的步行舞台表現。Greg Walker 是英國愛丁堡大學的修辭學與英國文學的皇家教授。他在晚期中世紀和早期現代文學及劇場歷史領域發表了大量著作。他還與 Thomas Betteridge 和 Eleanor Rycroft 一起參與了以表演為研究的製作，包括 Heywood 的 Play of the Weather（漢普頓宮）、Lyndsay 的 Satire of the Three Estates（林利斯戈宮和斯特靈城堡）以及 Jonson 的 Masque of Augurs（西敏宮宴會廳）。