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Theatre History Studies 2008, Vol. 28

Theatre History Studies 2008, Vol. 28

Theatre History Studies

Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy

by Theatre History Studies

Contributions by Scott R. Irelan, Jackson R. Bryer, John C. Hall, William W. Demastes, Noreen Barnes-Mclain, Judith E Barlow, Anne Fletcher, Heather S. Nathans, Aaron D Anderson, Rosemarie K. Bank, David A. Crespy, Stephen Harrick, Anne Fliotsos, Lou Bellamy, Elin Diamond, Antonis Glytzouris, Margaret Knapp, Landis K. Magnuson, Francesca Marini, Tavia Nyong'o, Margaret Thornton, Phil Groeschel, Mark Cosdon, Weldon B Durham, Barbara Ozieblo, Tyler Smith, Don B Wilmeth, Kenneth Schlesinger and Rebecca Kastleman

240 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.70 in, 17

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  • 9780817355029
  • Published: September 2008

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Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Keynote Speech from the Twenty-eighth Mid-America Theatre Conference, Changing Theatrical Landscapes: Mapping New Directions in History, Pedagogy, and Practice in the Twenty-first Century
Between the Lines: Editing the Notebooks of Tennessee Williams
Research and Performance: A Roundtable on the Future of the Archive
Performance in the Archives
Performing Arts Archives: Dynamic Entities Complementing and Supporting Scholarship and Creativity
eBay, Wikipedia, and the Future of the Footnote
Period Rush: Affective Transfers in Recent Queer Art and Performance
Goon, Warrior, Communitarian, and Mythos: The Lincoln Legend of Dramatic Literature and Live Performance
Ole Olson and Companions as Others: Swedish-Dialect Characters and the Question of Scandinavian Acculturation
Games with Ghosts in Müller’s Explosion of a Memory: A Study of Pre-ideology in the Müller-Wilson Collaboration
On the Emergence of European Avant-Garde Theatre
Felicia Hardison Londré, The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatre, 1870–1930
Jonathan L. Chambers, Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923–1937
Weldon B. Durham, Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917–1919
Arthur Frank Wertheim, Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers
Kristina Hinz-Bode, Susan Glaspell and the Anxiety of Expression
Daphne A. Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910
Judith L. Stephens, ed., The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement
Philip Auslander, Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music
Tennessee Williams, Notebooks, ed. Margaret Bradham Thornton
Andrew B. Harris, The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of William and Jean Eckart
Paul Kassel, Acting: An Introduction to the Art and Craft of Playing
Scott L. Newstok, ed., Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare
Barbara Ozieblo and María Dolores Narbona-Carrión, eds., Codifying the National Self: Spectators, Actors, and the American Dramatic Text
Joseph Donohue, Fantasies of Empire: The Empire of Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894
David Krasner, ed., A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama
Phillip B. Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Theatre Histories: An Introduction
Martha C. Carpentier, ed., Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry, and Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo, eds, Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell
Kim Marra, Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914
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Rhona Justice-Malloy is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Mississippi.

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