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, Josephine Lee at the Department of English, University of Minnesota, 207 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455–1034, or via electronic mail: “leexx151@gold.tc.umn.edu.” (N.B. Those titles preceded by a “*” have been assigned to reviewers.)

Acting and Directing

Alterman, Glenn. The Job Book II: 100 Day Jobs for Actors. Smith & Kraus Career Guides for Actors. Lyme, NH: Smith & Kraus, 1995; pp. 128. $11.95.

Dixon, Michael Bigelow, and Joel A. Smith, editors. Anne Bogart: Viewpoints. Lyme, NH: Smith & Kraus, 1995; pp. 224. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Colaianni, Louis. The Joy of Phonetics and Accents. New York: Drama Book Publishers, 1994; pp. 172.

Early, Michael and Phillipa Keil. The Contemporary Monologue: Men. New York: Routledge, 1995; pp. 131. $9.95.

Early, Michael and Phillipa Keil. The Contemporary Monologue: Women. New York: Routledge, 1995; pp. 131. $9.95.

Montanaro, Tony. Mime Spoken Here: The Performer’s Portable Workshop. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 1996; 264. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Morrison, Malcolm. Classical Acting. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996; pp. 128. $14.95.

Sonenberg, Janet. The Actor Speaks: Twenty-four Actors Talk About Process and Technique. New York: Crown, 1996; pp. 320. $17.00.

Redgrave, Michael. The Actor’s Ways and Means. London: Routledge, 1995; pp. 126. $13.95.

Autobiography and Biography

Bryan, George B. and Wolfgang Meder, compilers. The Proverbial Eugene O’Neill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Eugene Gladstone O’Neill. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995; pp. 359.

Gilbert, Steven E. The Music of Gershwin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996; pp. 255. $32.50.

Norden, Martin F. John Barrymore: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995; pp. 328. $59.95.

Peters, Sally. Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996; pp. 315. $28.50.

Seymour, Bruce. Lola Montez: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996; pp. 468. $30.00.

Strasburg, John. Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections of Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity. New York: Applause, 1996.

Weintraub, Stanley. Shaw’s People: Victoria to Churchill. University Park: Penn State Press, 1996; pp. 255. $29.50.

Weill, Kurt and Lotte Lenya. Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. Edited and translated by Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; pp. 632. $39.95.

Bibliography and Reference

Bordman, Gerald. American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995; pp. 446. $49.95.

Dawson, J. L., P. D. Holland, and D. J. McKitterick. A Concordance to the Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995; pp. 1240. $85.00.

Gänzl, Kurt. Gänzl’s Book of the Broadway Musical: 75 Favorite Shows, from H.M.S. Pinafore to Sunset Boulevard. New York: Schirmer, 1995; pp. 376. $35.00.

Kennedy, Emmet, Marie-Laurence Netter, James P. McGregor, and Mark V. Olsen. Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996; pp. 424. $79.50.

Parsons, Philip, editor. Companion to Theatre in Australia. Sydney: Currency Press, 1995; pp. 704. $69.95.

Criticism, History, and Theory

Albrecht, Ernest. The New American Circus. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995; pp. 272. $29.95.

Deborah E. Barker and Ivo Kamps, editors. Shakespeare and Gender: A History. London: Verso, 1995; pp. 342. $18.95.

Bate, Jonathan and Russell Jackson. Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996; pp. 253. $35.00.

*Ben-Zvi, Linda. Theater in Israel. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996; pp. 450. $52.50.

Blackburn, Stuart. Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; pp. 291. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.

Bloom, Clive. American Drama. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995; pp. 196. $35.00.

Braun, Kazimierz. A History of Polish Theater, 1939–1989: Spheres of Captivity and Freedom. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996; pp. 248. $59.95.

Brooks, Peter. The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama and...