Books Received

Listing does not preclude subsequent review. Interested reviewers should send a resume and a letter indicating areas of expertise directly to the Book Review Editor, Dorothy Chansky, at the College of William and Mary, Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795, or via electronic mail: dachan@wm.edu. (N.B. Those titles preceded by "*" have been assigned to reviewers. Titles preceded by "**" are reviewed in this issue).

Acting, Dircting, and Playwriting

Chekhov, Michael. To the Actor on the Technique of Acting. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2002; pp. 222. $19.95.

Fisher, Jennifer and Jim Drobnick. Counterposes. Montréal: Oboro, 1998. pp. 79.

*Sossaman, Stephen. Writing Your First Play. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001; pp. 126. $27.00.

**Tucker, Patrick. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach. New York: Routledge, 2002; pp. viii + 297. $22.95.

Autobiography and Biography

Fitz-Simon, Christopher. The Boys: A Biography of Micheál MacLíammóir and Hilton Edwards. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, Inc., 2002; pp. 320. $17.95.

Henslowe, Philip and R. A. Foakes, ed. Henslowe's Diary, 2nd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 368. $75.00 cloth, $29.00 paper.

*Kaufmann, David. Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2003; pp. 946. $29.95.

*McCarthy, Gerry. The Theatres of Molière. New York: Routledge, 2002; pp. 238. $30.95.

*Michalos, Alex and Deborah Poff, eds. Bernard Shaw and the Webbs. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2002; pp. 311. $65.00.

Phillips, Sian. Public Places: My Life in Theater, with Peter O'Toole and Beyond. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2003; pp. 425. $26.00.

*Saunders, Graham. 'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes. New York: Manchester University Press, 2002; pp. 205. $74.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

*Shaw, Bernard and L.W. Conolly, ed. Bernard Shaw and Barry Jackson: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2002; pp. 218. $60.00.

*Slagle, Judith Bailey. Joanna Baillie: A Literary Life. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 2002; pp. 325. $48.50.

Bibliography and Reference

Chambers, Colin, ed. The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre. New York: Continuum, 2002; pp. 866. $150.00 cloth, $49.95 paper.

Everettt, William A. and Paul R. Laird, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 310. $65.00 cloth, $23.00 paper.

**Hischak, Thomas. American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000. New York: Oxford University, Inc., 2001; pp. 432. $72.00.

Criticism, History, and Theory

Adams, Kenneth, Ciaran Cosgrove, and James Whinston, eds. Spanish Theatre: Studies in Honour of Victor F. Dixon. Rochester, NY: Tamesis Books, 2002; pp. 189. $60.00.

Bamford, Karen and Alexander Leggatt, eds. Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2002; pp. 230. $37.50.

Barnes-McLain, Noreen, ed. Theatre Symposium: Representations of Gender on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2002; pp. 126. $20.00.

Billingham, Peter. Theatre of Conscience 1939-53: A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres. New York: Routledge, 2002; pp. 163. $64.00.

**Blau, Herbert. The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theatre, 1976-2000. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001; pp. xxiv + 347. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Brandt, Nat. Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003; pp. 179. $25.00.

Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event. New York: Palgrave, 2002; pp. 237. $50.00 cloth, $16.50 paper.

Brydon, Diana and Irena R. Makaryk, eds. Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere? Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2002; pp. 489. $70.00.

Chambers, Lilian, Ger Fitzgibbon, and Eamonn Jordan, eds. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, Inc., 2003; pp. 508. $27.95.

Cocke, Dudley, Donna Porterfield and Edward Wemytewa, eds. Journeys Home: Revealing a Zuni-Appalachia Collaboration. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2002; pp. 112. $19.95...