Books Received 2017—2019

Ammen, Sharon. May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Arjomand, Minou. Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

Aronson, Arnold. The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography. Second edition. New York: Methuen, 2018.

Barker, Harvey Granville. Colin Chambers and Richard Nelson, eds. Granville Barker on Theatre: Selected Essays. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Bennett, Susan, and Sonia Massai, eds. Ivo Van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie. New York: Methuen, 2018.

Blank, Paula. Shakesplish: How We Read Shakespeare's Language. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.

Boyd, Amanda Weldy. Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography. New York: Anthem, 2018.

Brauneck, Manfred, and ITI Germany, eds. Independent Theatre in Contemporary Europe: Structures, Aesthetics, Cultural Policy. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2017.

Bredeson, Kate. Occupying the Stage: The Theatre of May '68. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Cahill, Alex. The Formation, Existence, and Deconstruction of the Catholic Stage Guild of Ireland. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017.

Dadario, Will. Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy. New York: Palgrave, 2017.

Damodaran, Sumangala. The Radical Impulse: Music in the Tradition of the Indian People's Theatre Association. New Delhi: Tulika, 2017.

Davies, Rachel Bryant. Victorian Epic Burlesques: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer. New York: Blooms-bury, 2019.

Day, Stuart A. Outside Theatre: Alliances that Shape Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017.

Ducomb, Christian. Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.

Ellinghausen, Laurie, ed. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Plays: English History Plays. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2017.

Enders, Jody, ed. Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries: Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Farfan, Penny. Performing Queer Modernism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Ferdman, Bertie. Off Sites: Contemporary Performance Beyond Site-Specific. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.

Gibb, Andrew. Californios, Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.

Goodman, Jessica. Goldoni in Paris: La Gloire et le Malentendu. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Grene, Nicholas. The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Johnson, Odai. London in a Box: Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 2017.

Jones, Chris. Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from "Angels in America" to "Hamilton." New York: Methuen, 2019.

Lemon, Rebecca. Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

MacDonald, Laura, and Willaim A. Everett, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers. New York: Palgrave, 2017.

McAvinchey, Caoimbe, Lucy Richardson, and Fabio Santos, eds. Phakma: Making Participatory Performance. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.

Montez, Noe. Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.

Nathans, Heather S. Hideous Characters & Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.

Ney, Charles. Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives. New York: Arden Shakespeare, 2019.

Pangallo, Matteo A. Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Richlin, Amy. Slave Theatre in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Senelick, Laurence. Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Shandell, Jonathan. The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018.

Shannon, Sandra G., and Sandra L. Richards, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2016.

Shimazaki, Satoko. Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Smith, Matthew Wilson. The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Wood, Michael. Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater: The Politics of Making the Audience Work. Rochester: Camden House, 2017.

Wright, Matthew. The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy, Volume 2: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.