Name: Theatre History Studies 2009, Vol. 29
Author: Ybarra, Patricia
ISBN: 9780817355548

Theatre History Studies 2009, Vol. 29

edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
contributions by Paul Cornwell, Harry J. Elam Jr., Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh, Marc Martinez, Joseph C. Bromfield, Cynthia L. Allan, Anne Beck, Henry Bial, Jocelyn L. Buckner, Matthew Causey, Christin Essin, Larry D. Clark, Meredith Conti, Patricia Downey, Hephzibah D. Dutt, Kurt Eisen, Harry J. Elam, Fonzie D. Geary, Scott R. Irelan, Odai Johnson, Cary Leiter, Carolyn D. Roark, Felicia Hardison Londré, Maria Isabel Seguro, Jeanne Willcoxon, Kirk Woodward, Patricia Ybarra, Meredith Lowe, Valleri J. Hohman, Fonzie D. Geary II, Robert B. Shimko and Elizabeth Osborne
by Robert B. Theatre History Studies

University of Alabama Press, 2009
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8298-8 | Paper: 978-0-8173-5554-8

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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 purpose of MATC is to unite people and organizations in their 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

An Uncommon Woman: An Interview with Wendy Wasserstein

Thresholds of Pain in Performance: Tormentingt he Actor and Audience

Designing American Modernity: David Belasco’s The Governor’s Lady and Robert Edmond Jones’s The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

A Historiography of Informed Imagination: A (Hi)Story Drawn fromthe Correspondence of Annie Russell and Faith Baldwin

The Miseries of History: Shakespearian Extremity as Cautionary Tale on the Restoration Stage

The Final Straw: Producing James Purdy at the Trinity Square Rep

Disappearing Frontiers and the National Stage: Placing the Portland Federal Theatre Project

“Can’t Someone Find Him a Stimulant?” The Treatment of Prohibitionon the American Stage, 1920–1933

The Tricks of Lun: Mimesis and Mimicry in John Rich’s Performance and Conception of Pantomimes

Sensational with the Greeks and Daring with Shakespeare but Not So Sure about Shaw: Performance of George Bernard Shaw at Terence Gray’s Festival Theatre, Cambridge, England, 1926–1935

Robert A. Schanke, ed., Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy

Barbara Ozieblo and Jerry Dickey, Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell

David Krasner, ed., Theatre in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology

Hazel Waters, Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representations of Slavery and the Black Character

Romeo Castellucci, Joe Kelleher, Nicholas Ridout, Claudia Castellucci, and Chiara Guidi, The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

Tice L. Miller, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Paige Reynolds, Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle

Rhonda Garelick, Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism

Paul Fortunato, Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde

Zander Brietzke, American Drama in the Age of Film

William W. Demastes and Iris Smith Fischer, eds., Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

John Patrick Diggins, Eugene O’Neill’s America: Desire under Democracy

Harriet Hyman Alonso, Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War

Jason Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity inthe Colonial and Revolutionary American Theatre

Benjamin Harshav; Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav, trans.,The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution

Laurence Senelick, Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater

Esther Kim Lee, A History of Asian American Theatre

Judith Curtis, “Divine Thalie”: The Career of Jeanne Quinault

Philip C. Kolin, ed., Contemporary African American Women Playwrights

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