Books Received
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Theatre Journal publishes primarily reviews of scholarly works of theatre criticism, history, and theory. All books received are listed here as a courtesy to publishers. Listing does not preclude subsequent review. Interested reviewers should send a resume and a letter indicating areas of expertise to incoming Book Review Editor Melissa Gibson at Department of Theatre Arts, M/S SA 46, California State University, Fresno, 5201 N. Maple Ave., Fresno, CA 93740-8027, or via e-mail at mgibson@csufresno.edu. Titles preceded by an "*" have been assigned to reviewers. Titles preceded by a "**" are reviewed in this issue.
Autobiography And Biography
Brennan, Fiona. George Fitzmaurice: "Wild in His Own Way": Biography of an Abbey Playwright. Chester Springs: Dufour Editions, 2006; pp. 211. $26.95 paper.
Bibliography And Reference
Glerum, Jay O. Stage Rigging Handbook. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007; pp. 292. $29.50 paper.
Kirkland, Michael. Stage Combat Resource Materials: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2006; pp. 343. $94.95 cloth.
Leiter, Samuel L., ed. Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (2 vols.). Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007; pp. 979. $225.00 cloth.
Sjåvik, Jan. Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2006; pp. 359. $85.00 cloth.
Costume And Design
Brandesky, Joe, ed. Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century: Metaphor & Irony Revisited. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007; pp. 97. $39.95 cloth.
Criticism, History, And Theory
Ackerman, Alan and Martin Puchner, eds. Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. 259. $80.00 cloth.
Andreach, Robert J. Understanding Beth Henley. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006; pp. 192. $34.95 cloth.
Arnold, Oliver. The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007; pp. 308. $55.00 cloth.
Arons, Wendy. Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing: The Impossible Act. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. 270. $69.95 cloth.
Arrizón, Alicia. Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006; pp. 246. $28.95 paper.
Bay-Cheng, Sarah. Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theater. New York: Routledge, 2004; pp. 207. $24.95 cloth.
Beusterien, John. An Eye on Race: Perspectives from Theater in Imperial Spain. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006; pp. 228. $47.50 cloth.
Bevington, David. The Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007; pp. 242. $25.00 cloth.
Bigsby, Christopher. Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pp. 407. $35.00 cloth.
Binding, Paul. With Vine-Leaves in His Hair: The Role of the Artist in Ibsen's Plays. Chester Springs: Dufour Editions, 2007; pp. 230. $42.95 paper.
Bloom, Gina. Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennslyvania Press, 2007; pp. 277. $59.95 cloth.
Boal, Augusto. Adrian Jackson, trans. The Aesthetics of the Oppressed. New York: Routledge, 2006; pp. 133. $30.95 paper.
Bogar, Thomas A. American Presidents Attend the Theatre: The Playgoing Experiences of Each Chief Executive. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2006; pp. 433. $75.00 cloth.
Bradby, David and Andrew Calder, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Molière. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pp. 242. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.
Bradley, Laura. Brecht and Political Theatre: The Mother on Stage. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. 261. $90.00 cloth.
Brandesky, Joe, ed. Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century: Metaphor & Irony Revisited. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007; pp. 97. $39.95 cloth.
Brater, Enoch, ed. Arthur Miller's Global Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007; pp. 154. $49.50 cloth.
Britland, Karen. Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pp. 292. $85.00 cloth.
Brooks, Daphne A. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006; pp. 475. $94.95 cloth, $25.95 paper.
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