Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED Barnett, David. Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $90.00 cloth. Berkove, Lawrence I., and Gary Scharnhorst, eds. The Old West in the Old World: Lost Plays by Bret Harte and Sam Davis. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. $34.95 cloth. Bush-Bailey, Gilli. Treading the Bawds: Actresses and Playwrights on the Late Stuart Stage. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. £50 cloth. Chude-Sokei, Louis. The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Dickey, Jerry, and Miriam López-Rodríguez, eds. Broadway’s Bravest Woman: Selected Writings of Sophie Treadwell. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. $50.00 cloth. Donohue, Joseph. Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1804. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. $44.95 cloth. Dué, Casey. The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. $45.00 cloth. Eleftheriotis, Dimitris, and Gary Nedham. Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. $28.00 paper. Hamdan, Mas’ud. Poetics, Politics, and Protest in Arab Theatre: The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain. East Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2006. $67.50 cloth. Hinz-Bode,Kristina.Susan Glaspell and the Anxiety of Expression: Language and Isolation in the Plays. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. $45.00 paper. Kassel, Paul. Acting: An Introduction to the Art and Craft of Playing. New York: Allyn, Bacon, and Longman, 2006. $53.00 cloth. { 175 } Konkle, Lincoln. Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2006. $44.95 cloth. Londraville, Janis, and Richard Londraville. The Most Beautiful Man in the World: Paul Swan, from Wilder to Warhol. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. $29.95 cloth. Luckhurst, Mary. Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85.00 cloth. Morrison, Craig. Theaters. New York: Norton, 2006. $75.00 cloth. Ockman,Carol,and Kenneth E.Silver.Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. $50.00 cloth. Sjavik, Jan. Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater. Lanham , Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2006. $85.00 cloth. Stephens, Judith L., ed. The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. $20.00 paper. Tomlinson, Sophie. Women on Stage in Stuart Drama. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85.00 cloth. Weber, Anne Nicholson. Upstaged: Making Theatre in the Media Age. New York: Routledge, 2006. $22.95 paper. Wertheim, Arthur Frank. Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big Time and Its Performers. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan , 2006. $69.95 cloth. BOOKS RECEIVED { 176 } ...