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  • List of Books Received

Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

Books Received

*Assigned for review

**Review appears in JDTOs Spring 2020 issue

Book reviews should be between 800 and 1,000 words for single book reviews (1,500 words for double book reviews) and conform to the current version of The Chicago Manual of Style. Reviews should include title and publication information, current price of the book in both cloth and paper (if applicable), and length in pages, inclusive of front matter and appendices. Reviews should speak to the book's strengths and/or weaknesses, its contribution to the field in relation to similar/competing volumes (if applicable), and the particular audiences to whom the book would be most helpful. Reviews should end with the name of the reviewer, followed by institutional affiliation. See the list ofbooks received below.

Individuals interested in reviewing books for the JDTC may submit a statement of expertise or brief CV to Angela K. Ahlgren, book review editor, at akahlgr@bgsu.edu.

Authors and presses may send review copies of books to:

Dr. Angela K. Ahlgren, JDTC Book Review Editor
Department of Theatre and Film
212 Wolfe Center
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403

*Ainsworth, Adam, Oliver Double, and Louise Peacock. Popular Performance. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Alston, Adam, and Martin Welton. Theatre in the Dark. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Angelaki, Vicky. Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Aronson, Arnold. The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018.
Auslander, Philip. Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2018.
Ball, James R. III. Theater of State: A Dramaturgy of the United Nations. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2019.
*Bennett, Susan. Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound. London: Methuen Drama, 2019.
*Bennett, Susan and Sonia Massai. Ivo Van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie. London: Methuen Drama, 2018.
Berzal de Dios, Javier. Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2019.
*Bleeker, Maaide, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher, and Heike Roms, eds. Thinking Through Theatre and Performance. London: Methuen Drama, 2019.
*Boyle, Michael Shane, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf. Postdramatic Theatre and Form. London: Methuen Drama, 2019.
**Brejzek, Thea, and Lawrence Wallen. The Model as Performance. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Bryer, Jackson R. and Ben Siegel, eds. Conversations with Neil Simon. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2019.
Bull, John. British Theatre Companies, 1965-1979. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. 2017.
Calihman, Matthew and Gerlad Early, eds. Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2018.
Cameron, David, Michael Anderson, and Rebecca Wotzko. Drama and Digital Arts Cultures. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
*Campbell, Ali. The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today: An Introduction to the Work and Practices of Augusto Boal. London: Methuen Drama, 2019.
*Carlson, Marla. Affect, Animals, and Autists: Feeling Around the Edges of the Human in Performance. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2018.
Conti, Meredith. Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine. London: Routledge, 2019.
Corcoran, Neil. Reading Shakespeare's Soliloquies: Text, Theatre, Film. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018.
Croall, Jonathan. Performing Hamlet: Actors in the Modern Age. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018.
Crossley, Mark, and James Yarker. Devising Theatre with Stan's Café. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
*Daddario, Will. Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.
*Dharwadker, Aparna Bhargava, ed. A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019.
Dragicevich, Milan. The Persuasive Actor: Rhetorical Power on the Contemporary Stage. Indianapolis: Focus, 2019.
Dromgoole, Dominic. Hamlet Globe to Globe. New York: Grove Press, 2017.
**Dudeck, Theresa Robbins and Caitlin McClure, eds. Applied Improvisation: Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre. London: Methuen Drama, 2018.
*Edmondson, Laura. Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2018.
Eichen, Carolyn Grattan. From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West. Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2020.
*Elam, Keir. Shakespeare's Pictures: Visual Objects in the Drama. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Farfan, Penny. Performing Queer Modernism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018.
*Fragkou, Marissia. Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre: Politics, Affect, Responsibility. London: Methuen Drama, 2018.
*Galella, Donatella. America in the...

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