Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Johnson examines the spectator's role in the theatre, exploring pleasure, difficulty and spectacle, to consider the implications for visual experience in the theatre.

DOMINIC JOHNSON is Lecturer in Drama in the Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Series Editors' Preface
Foreword
Introduction
PART I: HISTORIES OF LOOKING
PART II: WORDLESS SPECTACLE
PART III: THE PLEASURES AND PAINS OF LOOKING
EPILOGUE: THE SHOCK OF THE NEW
Further Reading.