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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatres of War

Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

University of Alabama Press, 2014

Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.

War and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special edition of Theatre History Studies brings together a unique collection of work by thirteen innovative scholars whose work explores such topics as theatre performances during war times, theatre written and performed to resist war, and theatre that fosters and promotes war.

The contributors to this volume write poignantly about nationhood and about how war—through both propaganda and protest—defines a people. The contributors also delve into numerous fascinating themes that transcend time, peoples, nations, and particular conflicts: the foundations of nationalism and the concepts of occupied and occupier, nostalgia and utopia, and patriotism and revolution.

These essays survey a march of civil and international wars spanning three centuries. Arranged chronologically, they invite comparisons between themes and trace the development of the major themes of war. Ideas manifest in the theatre of one period recall ideologies and propaganda of the past, reflect those of the present, and anticipate wars to come.

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Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39

Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

University of Alabama Press, 2020

Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES, VOLUME 38

PART I: Studies in Theatre History

MATTHIEU CHAPMAN
Red, White, and Black: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Structuring of Racial Antagonisms in Early Modern England and the New World

MICHAEL CHEMERS AND MICHAEL SELL
Sokyokuchi: Toward a Theory, History, and Practice of Systemic Dramaturgy

JEFFREY ULLOM
The Value of Inaction: Unions, Labor Codes, and the Cleveland Play House

CHRYSTYNA DAIL
When for “Witches” We Read “Women”: Advocacy and Ageism in Nineteenth-Century Salem Witchcraft Plays

MICHAEL DENNIS
The Lost and Found Playwright: Donald Ogden Stewart and the Theatre of Socialist Commitment

Part II: HEMISPHERIC HISTORIOGRAPHIES

EMILY SAHAKIAN, CHRISTIANA MOLLDREM HARKULICH, AND LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA
Introduction to the Special Section

PATRICIA YBARRA
Gestures toward a Hemispheric Theatre History: A Work in Progress

ERIC MAYER- GARCÍA
Thinking East and West in Nuestra América: Retracing the Footprints of a Latinx Teatro Brigade in Revolutionary Cuba

ANA OLIVAREZ-LEVINSON AND ERIC MAYER-GARCÍA
Intercambio: A Visual History of Nuevo Teatro from the Ana Olivarez-Levinson Photography Collection

JESSICA N. PABÓN-COLÓN
Digital Diasporic Tactics for a Decolonized Future: Tweeting in the Wake of #HurricaneMaria

LEO CABRANES-GRANT
Performance, Cognition, and the Quest for an Affective Historiography

Part III: Essays from the Conference

The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, from the 2019 Mid-America Theatre Conference

JULIE BURRELL
Reinventing Reconstruction and Scripting Civil Rights in Theodore Ward’s Our Lan’

The Robert A. Schanke Honorable Mention Essay, MATC 2019

MATTHEW MCMAHAN

Projections of Race at the Nouveau Cirque: The Clown Acts of Foottit and Chocolat

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Theatre History Studies 2021, Vol 40

Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

University of Alabama Press, 2021

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

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