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Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36

Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36

Theatre History Studies

Edited by Sara Freeman

Introduction by Sara Freeman

Contributions by Vivian Appler, Steven Dedalus Burch, Dorothy Chansky, Eric J. Colleary, Stacey Connelly, Lezlie C. Cross, Eileen Curley, David Afriyie Donkor, Shannon Epplett, Laura Ferdninand Feldmeyer, La Donna L. Forsgren, Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Nicholas Holden, Gabrielle Houle, Julie Jackson, Darin Kerr, Todd London, Karin Maresh, L. Bailey McDaniel, Matthew McMahan, Julia Moriarty, Laura M. Nelson, Deana Nichols, Michael A. Rothmayer, Richard Sautter, Jeff Turner, Dan Venning, Alex Vermillion, Elizabeth Wellman and Sarah Wyman

376 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in, 12 B&W figures

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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. Many issues feature a special section curated around a special theme or topic; for 2017 that special section focus on histories of new writing for the theatre.

Featured in THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES 2017, VOLUME 36
  • “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
  • “New Writing and Theatre History” 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
  • The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay: “Black Folk’s Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campus” by La Donna L. Forsgren

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

Contributors

Sara Freeman is an associate professor of theatre at the University of Puget Sound. Freeman is a coeditor of International Dramaturgy: Translation and Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker and recently staged Anne Washburn’s experimental show Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play.

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