Contents
List of Illustrations
In Memoriam: Vera Mowry Roberts (1913–2010) — Milly S. Barranger
Class Act(resses): How Depression-Era Stage Actresses Utilized Conflicting Gender Ideals to Benefit Their Community — Kelly Carolyn Gordon
Storytelling, Chiggers, and the Bible Belt: The Georgia Experiment as the Public Face of the Federal Theatre Project — Elizabeth Osborne
Shakespearean Celebrity in America: The Strange Performative Afterlife of George Frederick Cooke — Rick Bowers
Burns Mantle and the American Theatregoing Public — Dorothy Chansky
Weeki Wachee Girls and Buccaneer Boys: The Evolution of Mermaids, Gender, and “Man versus Nature” Tourism — Jennifer A. Kokai
Julia Marlowe’s Imogen: Modern Identity, Victorian Style — Patty S. Derrick
Heather S. Nathans, Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black — Reviewed by Rosemarie K. Bank
Kerry Powell, Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde — Reviewed by Karen C. Blansfield
David Savran, Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Makingof the New Middle Class — Reviewed by Dorothy Chansky
Irene G. Dash, Shakespeare and the Ameri can Musical — Reviewed by Tracey Elaine Chessum
Rakesh H. Solomon, Albee in Performance, and Anne Paolucci, Edward Albee (The Later Plays) — Reviewed by David A. Crespy
Judith Barlow, Women Writers of the Provincetown Players — Reviewed by Sherry Engle
Jin Jiang, Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth Century Shanghai — Reviewed by Kathy Foley
DeAnna M. Toten Beard, Sheldon Cheney’s “Theatre Arts Magazine”: Promoting a Modern Ameri can Theatre, 1916–1921 — Reviewed by Eileen Herrmann- Miller
Mark Cosdon, The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833–1931 — Reviewed by Susan Kattwinkel
Michael Ragussis, Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain — Reviewed by Heather S. Nathans
Pamela Cobrin, From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broad way: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage, 1880–1927 — Reviewed by Laura M. Nelson
Joseph Litvak, The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture — Reviewed by Brian Neve
John P. Harrington, ed., Irish Theatre in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora — Reviewed by Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Oscar Brockett, Margaret Mitchell, and Linda Hardberger, Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States — Reviewed by Van Santvoord
Mechele Leon, Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife — Reviewed by Michael Spingler
Marlis Schweitzer, When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture — Reviewed by Monica Stufft
Catherine A. Schuler, Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia — Reviewed by Ryan Tvedt
Scott L. Newstock and Ayanna Thompson, eds., Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance — Reviewed by Dan Venning
Paul Hammond, The Strangeness of Tragedy — Reviewed by Andrew W. White
Monica L. Miller, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity — Reviewed by James Wilson
Scott R. Irelan, Anne Fletcher, and Julie Felise Dubiner, The Processof Dramaturgy: A Handbook — Reviewed by Ronald J . Zank
Books Received
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