• Theme 1: Textual dramaturgy and Shakespearean performance studies converge textual analyses, bibliographic study, and stage interpretation across folios, apocrypha, and soliloquies to reveal performance as cultural practice in early modern drama [6], [10], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16].

• Theme 2: Historical-dance and theatre-history treat performance as cultural form, linking medieval/renaissance theatre research with historical dance and national theatre formation [5], [12], [18].

• Theme 3: Practice-based performance theory and pedagogy spans improvisation, motivation, and cognitive aspects, foregrounding practice-knowledge, social differences, and embodied skill in actor management and musical performance [3], [4], [7], [19], [20].

• Theme 4: Humor, narrative, and performance aesthetics treated as core phenomena, with the comic's meaning, narrative practice, and disguise as stage strategies across dramatic texts [11], [13], [16].

• Theme 5: Science–environment interfaces link performance studies with environmental science and linguistic-physical phenomena, treating chemistry/environmental reports and radiative/phonetic contexts as performance considerations [2], [9], [17].