Theatre history studies. Volume 63 / edited by Sara Freeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freeman, Sara, editor.

Series:

Theatre History Studies

Theatre History Studies ; Volume 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--History--Periodicals.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Illinois] : The Mid-America Theater Conference : University of Alabama Press, 2017.

Summary:

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference.Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction / Sara Freeman

Part I. Studies in Theatre History

Resisting Arlecchino's Mask: The Case of Marcello Moretti / Gabrielle Houle

Making Space for Performance: Theatrical-Architectural Nationalism in Postindependence Ghana / David Afriyie Donkor

Preparing Boys for War: J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan Enlists in World War I's "Great Adventure" / Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer

Not Just Rock 'n' Roll: Chicago Theatre, 1984-1990 / Julie Jackson

Part II. Histories of New Writing for Theatre

New Writing and Theatre History: Introduction to the Special Section / Sara Freeman

New Plays in New Tongues: Bilingualism and Immigration at the New Italian Theatre in France / Matthew McMahan

The Waterloo Summer of the Prince of Wales's Theatre: New Writing, Old Friends, and Early Realism in the Victorian Theatre / Shannon Epplett

Chekhov's Three Sisters: A Proto-Poststructuralist Experiment / Sarah Wyman

Historicizing Shakesfear and Translating Shakespeare Anew / Lezlie C. Cross

A New Noble Kinsmen: The Play On! Project and Making New Plays Out of Old / Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Alex N. Vermillion

Making New Theatre Together: The First Writers' Group at the Royal Court Theatre and Its Legacy within the Young Writers' Programme / Nicholas Holden

New Writing in a Populist Context: A Play, a Pie and a Pint / Deana Nichols

American Playwriting and the Now New / Todd London

Part III. Essay from the Conference

The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay - Black Folks's Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campus / La Donna L. Forsgren

Part IV. Book Reviews

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett / Reviewed by Vivian Appler.

L. Dawn Larsen and Richard L. Poole, American Traveling Tent Theatre, 1900-1940: Rural and Small Town Tent Show Plays Performed in the Midwest (Including Scripts of Popular Tent Theatricals) / Reviewed by Steven Dedalus Burch

Fred Miller Robinson, Rooms in Dramatic Realism / Reviewed by Dorothy Chansky

Peg Guilfoyle, Offstage Voices: Life in Twin Cities Theater / Reviewed by Eric J. Colleary

Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, eds., Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor / Reviewed by Stacey Connelly

Dyan Colclough, Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry, 1875-1914 / Reviewed by Eileen Curley

Hiram Pérez, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire / Reviewed by Darin Kerr

Dorothy Chansky, Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre / Reviewed by Karin Maresh

Henry Bial, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage / Reviewed by L. Bailey McDaniel

Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly, and Maeva Veerapen, eds., Performance and Temporalisation: Time Happens / Reviewed by Julia Moriarty

Victoria Duckett, Seeing Sarah Bernhardt: Performance and Silent Film / Reviewed by Laura M. Nelson

Daniel J. Watermeier, American Tragedian: The Life of Edwin Booth / Reviewed by Michael A. Rothmayer

Michael Anderegg, Lincoln and Shakespeare, and Terry Alford, Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth / Reviewed by Richard Sautter

Shauna Vey, Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors / Reviewed by Jeff Turner

Darlene Farabee, Mark Netzloff, and Bradley D. Ryner, Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter / Reviewed by Dan Venning

Laura Monrós-Gaspar, Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology / Reviewed by Elizabeth Wellman.

Books Received

Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8173-9169-X

OCLC:

1013828496