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 California State University, Fresno, Department of Theatre Arts, 5201 North Maple Avenue, Fresno, CA 93740-8027, 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

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.

Delgado, Maria M. Federico García Lorca. Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. London: Routledge, 2008; pp. 245.

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

Flinn, Caryl. Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007; pp. 542.

Gale, Maggie B. J. B. Priestley. Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. London: Routledge, 2008; pp. 207.

Hammerschmidt-Hummel, Hildegard. The Life and Times of William Shakespeare. London: Chaucer Press, 2007; pp. 420.

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.

Ozieblo, Barbara, and Jerry Dickey. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell. Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. London: Routledge, 2008; pp. 228.

Riis, Thomas L. Frank Loesser. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008; pp. 332. $40.00 cloth.

Stanislavski, Konstantin. Jean Benedetti, trans. My Life in Art. New York: Routledge, 2008; pp. 452.

Stirling, Richard. Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008; pp. 376. $27.95 cloth.

Tucker, David C. Shirley Booth: A Biography and Career Record. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2008; pp. 210. $39.95 paper.

Wilson, Ross. Theodor Adorno. Routledge Critical Thinkers. London: Routledge: 2007; pp. 141.

Bibliography and Reference

Cody, Gabrielle H., and Evert Sprinchorn, eds. The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007; pp. 1721.

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

Publications Dept. of The Dramatists Guild of America Inc., compiler. The Dramatists Guild Resource Directory. New York: The Dramatists Guild of America Inc., 2008; pp. 273.

Wilmeth, Don B., ed. The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007; pp. 757. $150.00 cloth, $24.99 paper.

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.

Rowe, Clare P., and Peter Beudert. Drawing & Rendering for Theatre. Oxford: Elsevier Inc., 2007; pp. 272.

Criticism, History, and Theory

*Andreach, Robert J. The War against Naturalism in the Contemporary American Theatre. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008; pp. 174. $27.00 paper.

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.

Auslander, Philip. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2008; pp. 208.

**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.

Beam, Sara. Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007; pp. 268. $55.00 cloth. [End Page 517...