Books Received

{ 197 } BOOKS RECEIVED Benedetti, Jean. The Art of the Actor: The Essential History of Acting, from Classical Times to the Present Day. New York: Routledge, 2007. Bloom, Ken. The Routledge Guide to Broadway. New York: Routledge, 2007. Brandesky, Joe. Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Brater, Enoch, ed. Arthur Miller’s Global Theatre. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Broadhurst, Susan, and Josephine Machon, eds. Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan , 2007. Conner, Lynn. Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theatre. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. Cullen, Frank, with Florence Hackman and Donald McNeilly. Vaudeville Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America. Vol. 2. New York: Routledge, 2007. Cummings, Scott T. Remaking American Theatre: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart, and the SITI Company. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Daileader, Celia R., and Gary Taylor, eds. The Tamer Tamed, or The Woman’s Prize by John Fletcher. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. David, Deirdre. Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Demastes, William W., and Iris Smith Fischer, eds. Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History . New York: Palgrave, 2007. Dickinson, Peter. Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. { 198 } BOOKS RECEIVED Dillon, Janette. The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Frame, Murray. School for Citizens: Theatre and Civil Society in Imperial Russia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Hampton-Reeves, Stuart, and Carol Chillington Rutter. The Henry VI Plays. New York: Palgrave, 2007. Hillman, David. Shakespeare’s Entrails: Belief, Skepticism, and the Interior of the Body. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies, 2007. Jestrovic, Silvija. Theatre of Estrangement: Theatre, Practice, Ideology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Johnson, Katie N. Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900–1920. NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Kaput, Anuradha. Actors, Pilgrims, Kings, and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Knapp, Raymond. The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Lee, Esther Kim. A History of Asian American Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Lei, Daphne P. Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Londré, Felicia Hardison. The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870–1930. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Magelssen, Scott. Living History Museums: Undoing History through Performance . Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Mayer, Jean-Christophe. Shakespeare’s Hybrid Faith: History, Religion, and the Stage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. McDonald, Ronan. The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Miller, Scott. Strike Up the Band: A New History of Musical Theatre. Portsmouth , N.H.: Heinemann, 2007. Prest, Julia. Theatre under Louis XIV: Cross-casting and the Performance of Gender in Drama, Ballet, and Opera. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Reason, Matthew. Documentation, Disappearance, and the Representation of Live Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Ridout, Nicholas. Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Roche, Anthony, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. { 199 } BOOKS RECEIVED Rokem, Freddie. Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. Rozik, Eli. The Roots of Theatre: Rethinking Ritual and Other Theories of Origin. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Schanke, Robert A., ed. Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. Sihra, Melissa, ed. Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation . New York: Palgrave, 2007. Sokalski, J. A. Pictorial Illusionism: The Theatre of Steele MacKaye. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Thompson, Michael. Performing Spanishness: History, Cultural Identity, and Censorship in the Theatre of José María Rodríguez Méndez. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Thomson, Peter. The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660–1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Thomson, Peter, and Glandyr Sacks, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. New York: Cambridge, 2007. Tomlinson, Sophie. Women on...