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 93740-0046, 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

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

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 Series. London: Routledge, 2008; pp. 207.

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

Jackson, Shirley Gordon. A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008; pp. 245.

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

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

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

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

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

Bibliography and Reference

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

Kabatchnik, Amnon. Blood on the Stage: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008; pp. 416.

Kabatchnik, Amnon. Sherlock Holmes on the Stage: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Plays Featuring the Great Detective. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008; pp. 196.

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

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

Costume and Design

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

Criticism, History, and Theory

Amin, Dina A. Alfred Farag and Egyptian Theater: The Poetics of Disguise, with Four Short Plays and a Monologue. Middle East Literature in Translation Series. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008; pp. 321.

Andrews, Richard, ed. and trans. The Commedia dell’Arte of Flaminio Scala: A Translation and Analysis of 30 Scenarios. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008; pp. 341.

*Anthony, M. Susan. Gothic Plays and American Society, 1794–1830. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008; pp. 195.

Arnold, Oliver. The Third Citizen: Shakespeare’s Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007; pp. 308.

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

*Barranger, Milly S. Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era. Theater in the Americas Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008; pp. 197.

Bartels, Emily C. Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008; pp. 252.

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

*Beam, Sara. Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007; pp. 268.

Bechtel, Roger. Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell Univesity Press, 2007; pp. 287.

Bell, John. American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; pp. 280.

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

Berns, Ute, and Michael Bradshaw, eds. The Ashgate Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007; pp. 273.

Bevington, David. Shakespeare’s Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008; pp. 234.

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