Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction | Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Part I: Studies In Theatre History
Red, White, and Black: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Structuring of Racial Antagonisms in Early Modern England and the New World | Matthieu Chapman
Sokyokuchi: Toward a Theory, History, and Practice of Systemic Dramaturgy | Michael Chemers and Michael Sell
The Value of Inaction: Unions, Labor Codes, and the Cleveland Play House | Jeffrey Ullom
When for “Witches” We Read “Women”: Advocacy and Ageism in Nineteenth-Century Salem Witchcraft Plays | Chrystyna Dail
The Lost and Found Playwright: Donald Ogden Stewart and the Theatre of Socialist Commitment | Michael Dennis
Part II: Hemispheric Historiographies
Introduction to the Special Section | Emily Sahakian, Christiana Molldrem Harkulich, and Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Gestures toward a Hemispheric Theatre History: A Work in Progress | Patricia Ybarra
Thinking East and West in Nuestra América: Retracing the Footprints of a Latinx Teatro Brigade in Revolutionary Cuba | Eric Mayer-Garcia
Intercambio: A Visual History of Nuevo Teatro from the Ana Olivarez-Levinson Photography Collection | Ana Olivarez-Levinson and Eric Mayer-Garcia
Digital Diasporic Tactics for a Decolonized Future: Tweeting in the Wake of #HurricaneMaria | Jessica N. Pabon-Colon
Performance, Cognition, and the Quest for an Affective Historiography | Leo Cabranes-Grant
Part III: Essays From The Conference
The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, from the 2019 Mid-America Theatre Conference: Reinventing Reconstruction and Scripting Civil Rights in Theodore Ward’s Our Lan’ | Julie Burrell
The Robert A. Schanke Honorable Mention Essay, MATC 2019: Projections of Race at the Nouveau Cirque: The Clown Acts of Foottit and Chocolat | Matthew McMahan
Part IV: Book Reviews
Laurie Ellinghausen, ed., Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays | Reviewed by Marina J. Bergenstock
Susan Bennett and Sonia Massai, eds., Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie | Reviewed by Peter A. Campbell
Stuart A. Day, Outside Theater: Alliances That Shape Mexico | Reviewed by Sarah Alice Campbell
Penny Farfan, Performing Queer Modernism | Reviewed by Johnathan Chambers
Michael Wood, Heiner Müller’s Democratic Theater: The Politics of Making the Audience Work | Reviewed by Stacey Connelly
Nicholas Grene, The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer | Reviewed by Adam Goldstein
Matthew Wilson Smith, The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre | Reviewed by Macy Jones
Charles Ney, Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives | Reviewed by Felicia Hardison Londre
Alex Cahill, The Formation, Existence, and Deconstruction of the Catholic Stage Guild of Ireland | Reviewed by Karin Maresh
Minou Arjomand, Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment | Reviewed by Evleen Nasir
Donatella Galella, America in the Round: Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage | Reviewed by Kathy L. Privatt
Edwin Wong, The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected | Reviewed by Jayetta Slawson
Paula Blank, Shakesplish: How We Read Shakespeare’s Language | Reviewed by Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson
Juliane Braun, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans | Reviewed by Weston Twardowski
Bertie Ferdman, Off Sites: Contemporary Performance Beyond Site-Specific | Reviewed by Amanda Rose Villarreal
Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate, eds., Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage | Reviewed by Catherine M. Young
Books Received
Contributors
