In this Issue

Table of Contents

Notice of Errata

p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0050
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Articles

Introduction

Matthew Buckley
pp. 429-436
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0053
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Frankenstein and the Mute Figure of Melodrama

Emma Raub
pp. 437-458
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0056
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Melodramatic Slaves

Dana Van Kooy, Jeffrey N. Cox
pp. 459-475
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0066
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Redressing the Black Crook: The Dancing Tableau of Melodrama

Bradley Rogers
pp. 476-496
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0059
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Victorian Railway Accident and the Melodramatic Imagination

Matthew Wilson Smith
pp. 497-522
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0062
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Mega-Melodrama! Vertical and Horizontal Suspensions of the “Classical”

Linda Williams
pp. 523-543
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0064
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Melodrama, Modernity and the Brazilian Television Mini-Series

Niall Brennan
pp. 544-565
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0049
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Reviews

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (review)

Kathryn Bond Stockton
pp. 566-569
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0052
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Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater: Antonin Artaud, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett (review)

Sung Hee Choi
pp. 569-571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0055
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Salome’s Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression (review)

John Paul Riquelme
pp. 571-573
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0058
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Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theater in the 1970s (review)

Amy S. Green
pp. 573-576
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0061
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Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia (review)

Aoise Stratford
pp. 576-579
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0063
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American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop (review)

Christopher Grobe
pp. 579-581
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0065
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Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater (review)

John H. Muse
pp. 581-584
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0051
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Berlinische Dramaturgie: Gespraechsprotokolle der von Peter Hacks geleiteten Akademiearbeitsgruppen (review)

Antje Budde
pp. 584-586
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0054
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Contributors

pp. 587-588
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0057
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Index to Volume 55, 2012

pp. 589-592
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2012.0060
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