List Of Illustrations
Introduction by Sara Freeman
Part I Studies in Theatre History
Resisting Arlecchino’s Mask: The Case Of Marcello Moretti by Gabrielle Houle
Making Space for Performance: Theatrical-Architectural Nationalism in Postindependence Ghana by David Afriyie Donkor
Preparing Boys for War: J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan Enlists in World War I’s “Great Adventure” by Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer
Not Just Rock ’N’ Roll: Chicago Theatre, 1984–1990 by Julie Jackson
Part II Histories of New Writing for Theatre
New Writing and Theatre History: Introduction to the Special Section by Sara Freeman
New Plays in New Tongues: Bilingualism and Immigration at the New Italian Theatre in France by Matthew McMahan
The Waterloo Summer of the Prince of Wales’s Theatre: New Writing, Old Friends, and Early Realism in the Victorian Theatre by Shannon Epplett
Chekhov’s Three Sisters: A Proto-Poststructuralist Experiment by Sarah Wyman
Historicizing Shakesfear and Translating Shakespeare Anew by Lezlie C. Cross
A New Noble Kinsmen: The Play On! Project and Making New Plays Out of Old by 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 by Nicholas Holden
New Writing In A Populist Context: A Play, a Pie and a Pint by Deana Nichols
American Playwriting and the Now New by 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 by 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
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