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          Theatre History Studies 2021, Vol 40

          Theatre History Studies 2021, Vol 40

          Theatre History Studies

          Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

          Contributions by Angela K. Ahlgren, Jane Barnette, David Bisaha, Chrystyna M. Dail, Rebecca K. Hammonds, Jessica Ann Holt, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Odai Johnson, Lindsey Mantoan, Scott Proudfit, Mamata Sengupta, Jonathan Shandell, David Carlyon, Ryan Claycomb, Meredith Conti, Jeremy Cornelius, Jennifer Ewing-Pierce, Brice Ezell, Tom Fish, Paul Gagliardi, Elizabeth Gray, William Green, Alícia Hernàndez Grande, Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Rose Hilton and Catherine Quirk

          256 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 1.20 in, 6 B&W figures

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          • 9780817371159
          • Published: January 2022

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          A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

          Introduction
          —LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELL

          PART I
          STUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORY

          Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason
          —ODAI JOHNSON

          Caricatured, Marginalized,
          and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia’s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939               
          —JONATHAN SHANDELL

          Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate
          —SCOTT PROUDFIT

          Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance
          —ANGELA K. AHLGREN

          PART II
          WITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCE

          Editor’s Introduction to the Special Section
          Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances
          —CHRYSTYNA DAIL

          To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft
          —JANE BARNETTE

          Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare’s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter’s Tale
          —JESSICA HOLT

          Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom
          —MAMATA SENGUPTA

          (Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba’s Heroine Journey in Wicked
          —REBECCA K. HAMMONDS

          Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell
          —DAVID BISAHA

          PART III
          Essay from the Conference

          The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020
          New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s
          —LINDSEY MANTOAN
           
          Contents
          List of Illustrations
          Introduction | Lisa Jackson-Schebetta with Odai Johnson, Chystyna Dail, and Johnatan Shandell
          Part I. Studies In Theatre History
          Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason | Odai Johnson
          Caricatured, Marginalized, and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia’s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939 | Jonathan Shandell
          Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate | Scott Proudfit
          Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance | Angela K. Ahlgren
          Part II. Witch Characters and Witchy Performance
          Editor’s Introduction to the Special Section: Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances | Crystyna Dail
          To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft | Jane Barnette
          Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare’s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter’s Tale | Jessica Ann Holt
          Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom | Mamata Sengupta
          (Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba’s Heroine Journey in Wicked | Rebecca K. Hammonds
          Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell | David Bisaha
          Part III. Essay From The Conference: The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020
          New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s | Lindsey Mantoan
          Part IV. Book Reviews
          Arthur W. Bloom, Edwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History | Reviewed by David Carlyon
          Liz Tomlin, Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship: Provocations for Change | Reviewed by Ryan Claycomb
          David R. M. Beck, Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago | Reviewed by Meredith Conti
          Fintan Walsh, ed., Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance | Reviewed by Jeremy Cornelius
          Bethany Wood, Women Adapting: Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen | Reviewed by Jennifer Ewing-Pierce
          Patrick Lonergan, Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 | Reviewed by Brice Ezell
          Musa Gurnis, Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling: Theater in Post-Reformation London | Reviewed by Thomas Fish
          Christian DuComb, Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia | Reviewed by Paul Gagliardi
          Noe Montez, Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina | Reviewed by Elizabeth Gray
          Yasmin Arshad, Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England | Reviewed by William David Green
          Kate Bredeson, Occupying the Stage: The Theatre of May ’68 | Reviewed by Alicia Hernandez Grande
          Meredith Conti, Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine | Reviewed by Alani Hicks-Bartlett
          Amanda Weldy Boyd, Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography | Reviewed by Rose Hilton
          Sharon Marcus, The Drama of Celebrity. | Reviewed by Catherine Quirk
          Books Received
          Contributors

          Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is Theater Department Chair and associate professor of history & theater at Skidmore College. She is President of the American Theatre and Drama Society.

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