Books Received

Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Books Received
*Assigned for review
**Review appears in JDTC’s Spring 2021 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 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 of books received below.

Individuals interested in reviewing books for 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 information about books available for review to:

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

Adiseshiah, Sian and Jaqueline Bolton, eds. debbie tucker green: critical perspectives. Palgrave, 2020.

*Ainsworth, Adam, Oliver Double, and Louise Peacock. Popular Performance. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.

*Aquilina, Stefan. Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes. London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020.

*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 U P 2019.

*Bennett, Susan. Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019.

Bennett, Susan and Sonia Massai. Ivo Van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie. London: Bloomsbury 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: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019.

Boffone, Trevor and Carla Della Gatta, eds. Shakespeare and Latinidad. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2021.

Bryer, Jackson R. and Ben Siegel, eds. Conversations with Neil Simon. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 2019.

Calihman, Matthew and Gerlad Early, eds. Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2018.

Campbell, Ali. The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today: An Introduction to the Work and Practices of Augusto Boal. London: Bloomsbury 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.

Cherbuliez, Juliette. In the Wake of Medea: Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction. Fordham University Press, 2020.

Cole, Catherine M. Performance and the Afterlives of Justice: Dance and Live Art in Contemporary South Africa and Beyond. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2020.

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.

*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.

Diggs Colbert, Soyica, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., and Shane Vogel, eds. Performance After Repetition. Duke UP, 2020.

Dragicevich, Milan. The Persuasive Actor: Rhetorical Power on the Contemporary Stage. Indianapolis: Focus, 2019.

**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 Arden Shakespeare, 2017.

*Farfan, Penny. Performing Queer Modernism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018.

Fraunhofer. Hedwig. Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Fuentes, Marcela A. Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P...