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Reconsidering “the American Style”: Black Performers and Black Music in Streetcar and Cat

Paige A. McGinley
pp. 1-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0030
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“The Jew That Shakespeare Drew, at Least in Outlines”: Renderings of a Yiddish-Speaking Shylock in New York, circa 1900

Elisabeth H. Kinsley
pp. 17-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0002
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Impersonating the Law: The Dramaturgy of Legal Action in the York Corpus Christi Pageant and John Bale’s Three Laws

Rebecca Kastleman
pp. 37-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0007
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Container Aesthetics: The Infrastructural Politics of Shunt’s The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face

Michael Shane Boyle
pp. 57-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0012
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Three Readings of Reading, Pennsylvania: Approaching Lynn Nottage’s Sweat and Douglas Carter Beane’s Shows for Days

Courtney Elkin Mohler, Christina McMahon, David Román
pp. 79-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0017
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Crossing by Matthew Aucoin (review)

Aaron C. Thomas
pp. 95-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0022
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Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers (review)

Sean Bartley
pp. 97-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0028
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Edward Foote by Phillip DePoy (review)

Chandra Owenby Hopkins
pp. 98-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0000
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Paradise Interrupted by Huang Ruo, and: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Songs of the American Right by Taylor Mac (review)

Susan Kattwinkel
pp. 100-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0005
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Hand to God by Robert Askins (review)

Kerri Ann Considine
pp. 103-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0010
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How to Hold your Breath by Zinnie Harris, and: Game by Mike Bartlett (review)

William C. Boles
pp. 105-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0015
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American Moor by Keith Hamilton Cobb (review)

Lindsey R. Swindall
pp. 108-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0020
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Born in the R.S.A. by Barney Simon (review)

Paul Adolphsen
pp. 109-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0026
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Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion by Harry Partch (review)

Matthew Robert Moore
pp. 112-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0032
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The Glas Nocturne by Joseph Lavy (review)

Jeanmarie Higgins
pp. 114-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0003
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My One Demand by Blast Theory (review)

Lindsay Brandon Hunter
pp. 116-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0008
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10 Out of 12 by Anne Washburn (review)

Christin Essin
pp. 117-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0013
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War by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (review)

Joshua Williams
pp. 119-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0018
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Staging Race in Nineteenth-Century America

Jason Shaffer
pp. 123-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0023
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Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Playing Women by Helen E. M. Brooks, and: Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1800 ed. by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr (review)

Lisa A. Freeman
pp. 133-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0029
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The Theatre of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual Performance from 1875 to the Present by Edmund B. Lingan (review)

Kurt Taroff
pp. 135-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0001
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Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs: Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage—Scripts, Music and Context by Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping (review)

Robert M. Black
pp. 136-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0006
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Staging The Slums, Slumming The Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890–1916 by J. Chris Westgate (review)

Sarah Crockarell
pp. 137-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0011
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Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur by Paul Elsam (review)

Stephanie Tucker
pp. 139-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0016
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Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in The American Theater by Jordan Schildcrout (review)

John M. Clum
pp. 140-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0021
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History, Memory, Performance by David Dean, Yana Meerzon, and Kathryn Prince (review)

Danny Devlin
pp. 141-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0027
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Gender, Culture and Performance: Marathi Theatre and Cinema before Independence by Meera Kosambi (review)

Kedar A. Kulkarni
pp. 143-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0033
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Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation by Ananda Breed (review)

Laura Edmondson
pp. 144-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0004
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Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory by Clark Lunberry (review)

Meghan O’Hara
pp. 145-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0009
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Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle by P. A. Skantze (review)

Ayanna Thompson
pp. 146-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0014
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The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies by Rachel C. Lee (review)

Emily Roxworthy
pp. 148-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0019
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Affective Performance and Cognitive Science: Body, Brain and Being ed. by Nicola Shaughnessy (review)

Robert J. Vrtis
pp. 149-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0025
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Editorial Comment

Jen Parker-Starbuck
pp. vii-ix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0024
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Books Received

pp. 151-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0031
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