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          Theatre History Studies 2009, Vol. 29

          Theatre History Studies 2009, Vol. 29

          Theatre History Studies

          Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy

          Contributions by Christin Essin, Carolyn D. Roark, Meredith Lowe, Valleri J. Hohman, Fonzie D. Geary II, Robert B. Shimko, Elizabeth Osborne, Paul Cornwell, Harry J. Elam Jr., Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh, Marc Martinez, Joseph C. Bromfield, Cynthia L. Allan, Anne Beck, Henry Bial, Jocelyn L. Buckner, Matthew Causey, Larry D. Clark, Meredith Conti, Patricia Downey, Hephzibah D. Dutt, Kurt Eisen, Harry J. Elam, Fonzie D. Geary, Scott R. Irelan, Odai Johnson, Cary Leiter, Felicia Hardison Londré, Maria Isabel Seguro, Jeanne Willcoxon, Kirk Woodward and Patricia Ybarra

          by Theatre History Studies

          296 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.70 in, 7

          • Paperback
          • 9780817355548
          • Published: August 2009

          $34.95

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          • 9780817382988
          • Published: January 2011

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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 purpose of MATC is to unite people and organizations in their region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

          Contents
          List of Illustrations
          An Uncommon Woman: An Interview with Wendy Wasserstein
          Thresholds of Pain in Performance: Tormentingt he Actor and Audience
          Designing American Modernity: David Belasco’s The Governor’s Lady and Robert Edmond Jones’s The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife
          A Historiography of Informed Imagination: A (Hi)Story Drawn fromthe Correspondence of Annie Russell and Faith Baldwin
          The Miseries of History: Shakespearian Extremity as Cautionary Tale on the Restoration Stage
          The Final Straw: Producing James Purdy at the Trinity Square Rep
          Disappearing Frontiers and the National Stage: Placing the Portland Federal Theatre Project
          “Can’t Someone Find Him a Stimulant?” The Treatment of Prohibitionon the American Stage, 1920–1933
          The Tricks of Lun: Mimesis and Mimicry in John Rich’s Performance and Conception of Pantomimes
          Sensational with the Greeks and Daring with Shakespeare but Not So Sure about Shaw: Performance of George Bernard Shaw at Terence Gray’s Festival Theatre, Cambridge, England, 1926–1935
          Robert A. Schanke, ed., Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy
          Barbara Ozieblo and Jerry Dickey, Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell
          David Krasner, ed., Theatre in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology
          Hazel Waters, Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representations of Slavery and the Black Character
          Romeo Castellucci, Joe Kelleher, Nicholas Ridout, Claudia Castellucci, and Chiara Guidi, The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
          Tice L. Miller, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
          Paige Reynolds, Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle
          Rhonda Garelick, Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism
          Paul Fortunato, Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde
          Zander Brietzke, American Drama in the Age of Film
          William W. Demastes and Iris Smith Fischer, eds., Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance
          John Patrick Diggins, Eugene O’Neill’s America: Desire under Democracy
          Harriet Hyman Alonso, Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War
          Jason Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity inthe Colonial and Revolutionary American Theatre
          Benjamin Harshav; Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav, trans.,The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution
          Laurence Senelick, Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater
          Esther Kim Lee, A History of Asian American Theatre
          Judith Curtis, “Divine Thalie”: The Career of Jeanne Quinault
          Philip C. Kolin, ed., Contemporary African American Women Playwrights
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          Contributors

          Rhona Justice-Malloy is Chair of and a Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Mississippi.

          Contributors: Joseph Bromfield / Jackson R. Bryer / Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh / Larry D. Clark / Paul Cornwell / Christin Essin / Valleri J. Hohman / Marc Martinez / Elizabeth Osborne / Carolyn D. Roark / Robert Shimko

          “This established annual is a major contribution to the scholarly analysis and historical documentation of international drama. Refereed, immaculately printed and illustrated . . . the subject coverage ranges from the London season of 1883 to the influence of David Belasco on Eugene O’Neill.”

          —Choice

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