Books Received

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 the Book Review Editor, Melissa Gibson, at Department of Theatre Arts, M/S SA 46, 5201 N. Maple Ave., Fresno State University, Fresno CA 93740, or via electronic mail: 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, PA: Dufour Editions, 2006; pp. 211. $26.95 paper.

Clinton, Craig. Mrs. Leslie Carter: A Biography of the Early Twentieth-Century American Stage Star. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006; pp. 228. $45.00 paper.

David, Deirdre. Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007; pp. 350. $39.95 cloth.

Everett, William A. Sigmund Romberg. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007; pp. 362. $45.00 cloth.

McArthur, Benjamin. The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007; pp. 438. $45.00 cloth.

Nadel, Ira. David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; pp. 271. $26.95 cloth.

Bibliography and Reference

Cody, Gabrielle H. and Evert Sprinchorn, eds. The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007; pp. 1,721. $450.00 cloth.

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, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006; pp. 343. $94.95 cloth.

Leiter, Samuel L., ed. Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre, 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007; pp. 979. $225.00 cloth.

Sjåvik, Jan. Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006; pp. 359. $85.00 cloth.

Costume and Design

Brandesky, Joe, ed. Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century: Metaphor and 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.

Balme, Christopher B. Pacific Performance: Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. 256. $80.00 cloth.

Bay-Cheng, Sarah. Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein’s Avant-Garde Theater. New York: Routledge, 2004; pp. 207. $24.95 cloth.

Bechtel, Roger. Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell Univesity Press, 2007; pp. 287. $56.50 cloth.

Benedetti, Jean. The Art of the Actor. New York: Routledge, 2007; pp. 245. $95.00 cloth.

Ben-Zvi, Linda and Tracy C. Davis, eds. Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research. Tel Aviv: Assaph Books, 2007; pp. 222.

**Beusterien, John. An Eye on Race: Perspectives from Theater in Imperial Spain. Lewisburg, PA: 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, PA: 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...