Theatre History Studies 2008, Vol. 28

edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
contributions by Heather S. Nathans, Aaron D Anderson, Rosemarie K. Bank, David A. Crespy, Stephen Harrick, Anne Fliotsos, Lou Bellamy, Elin Diamond, Antonis Glytzouris, Margaret Knapp, Landis K. Magnuson, Francesca Marini, Tavia Nyong'o, Margaret Thornton, Phil Groeschel, Mark Cosdon, Weldon B Durham, Barbara Ozieblo, Tyler Smith, Don B Wilmeth, Scott R. Irelan, Kenneth Schlesinger, Rebecca Kastleman, Jackson R. Bryer, John C. Hall, William W. Demastes, Noreen Barnes-Mclain, Judith E Barlow and Anne Fletcher
by Jackson R. Theatre History Studies

University of Alabama Press, 2008
Paper: 978-0-8173-5502-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8054-0

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Keynote Speech from the Twenty-eighth Mid-America Theatre Conference, Changing Theatrical Landscapes: Mapping New Directions in History, Pedagogy, and Practice in the Twenty-first Century

Between the Lines: Editing the Notebooks of Tennessee Williams

Research and Performance: A Roundtable on the Future of the Archive

Performance in the Archives

Performing Arts Archives: Dynamic Entities Complementing and Supporting Scholarship and Creativity

eBay, Wikipedia, and the Future of the Footnote

Period Rush: Affective Transfers in Recent Queer Art and Performance

Goon, Warrior, Communitarian, and Mythos: The Lincoln Legend of Dramatic Literature and Live Performance

Ole Olson and Companions as Others: Swedish-Dialect Characters and the Question of Scandinavian Acculturation

Games with Ghosts in Müller’s Explosion of a Memory: A Study of Pre-ideology in the Müller-Wilson Collaboration

On the Emergence of European Avant-Garde Theatre

Felicia Hardison Londré, The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatre, 1870–1930

Jonathan L. Chambers, Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923–1937

Weldon B. Durham, Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917–1919

Arthur Frank Wertheim, Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers

Kristina Hinz-Bode, Susan Glaspell and the Anxiety of Expression

Daphne A. Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910

Judith L. Stephens, ed., The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement

Philip Auslander, Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music

Tennessee Williams, Notebooks, ed. Margaret Bradham Thornton

Andrew B. Harris, The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of William and Jean Eckart

Paul Kassel, Acting: An Introduction to the Art and Craft of Playing

Scott L. Newstok, ed., Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare

Barbara Ozieblo and María Dolores Narbona-Carrión, eds., Codifying the National Self: Spectators, Actors, and the American Dramatic Text

Joseph Donohue, Fantasies of Empire: The Empire of Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894

David Krasner, ed., A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama

Phillip B. Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Theatre Histories: An Introduction

Martha C. Carpentier, ed., Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry, and Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo, eds, Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell

Kim Marra, Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914

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