List of Books Received as of 14 February 2007

Each book is listed in two consecutive issues or, if assigned for review, until the review appears.

* = Assigned for review

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Abraham, F.Murray. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Actors on Shakespeare. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. $12 paper.

Ackerman, Alan Jr. and Martin Puchner, eds. Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage. Performance Interventions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. $80 cloth.

Ballard, Kaye with Jim Hesselman. How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years: A Memoir. New York: Back Stage Books, 2006. $24.95 cloth.

Bay-Cheng, Sarah. Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theater. Studies in Modern Drama. New York: Routledge. $100 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Beckett, Francis. Olivier. Life & Times. London: Haus Publishing, 2005. £10.99 paper.

Bennett, Alan, The History Boys. New York: Faber & Faber, 2004. $13 paper.

Bennett, Alan. The History Boys: The Film. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. $14 paper.

Bennett, Alan. Untold Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. $32.50 cloth.

*Bial, Henry. Acting Jewish, Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. $19.95 paper, $60 cloth.

Bogad, L. M. Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements. New York: Routledge, 2005. $33.95 paper.

*Bottoms, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $25.95 paper.

Bradbury, David. Duke Ellington. Life & Times. London: Haus Publishing. 2005 £10.99 paper.

*Brewer, Mary F. Staging Whiteness. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. $24.95 paper.

Britland, Karen. Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 cloth.

Butterworth, Phillip. Magic on the Early English Stage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $85 cloth.

*Burgess, John. The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. £8.99.

Carlson, Marvin. Speaking in Tongues Languages at Play in the Theatre. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2006. $50 cloth.

Carpenter, Martha C. and Bárbara Ozieblo Rajkowska, eds. Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. $86 cloth, $34 paper.

*Chambers, Jonathan L. Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937. Theater in the Americas. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 2006. $55 cloth.

Chapple, Freda and Chiel Kattenbelt eds. Intermediality in Theatre and Performance. Themes in Theatre: Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance: 2. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. $68 paper.

Christie, Judie, Richard Gough, and Daniel Peter Watt, eds. A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past. London, New York: Routledge, 2006. $53.95 paper.

*Cima, Gay Gibson. Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 cloth.

*Cohen-Cruz, Jan and Mady Schutzman, eds., A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics. New York: Routledge, 2006. $100 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Cohn, Ruby. A Beckett Canon. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. $26 paper.

*Coleman, Terry. Olivier. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005. $32.50 cloth.

*Cullen, Frank. Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers. New York; London: Routledge, 2006. 2 vols. $295

*Cummings, Scott T. Remaking American Theater: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $95 cloth.

*Dawson, Mark S. Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $80 cloth.

Dillon, Janette. The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $75 cloth. $24.99 paper

*Eleftheriotis, Dimitris and Gary Needham. Asian Cinemas: A Reader’s Guide. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. $28 paper.

Emory, Margaret. Ask an Agent: Everything Actors Need to Know About Agents. New York: Back Stage Books, 2005. $16.95 paper.

Farrell, Joseph. A History of Italian theatre. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $110 cloth.

Fassel Hoorst and Paul S. Ulrich, eds. Welt Macht Theater. Deutsches Theater im Ausland vom 17.-20. Jahrhundert. Funktionsweisen und Zielsetzungen. Bd. 1.Thalia Germanica. Lit Verlag . Berlin 2006. 29.90€ paper.

Findlay, Alison. Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 cloth.

Fisher, James, ed. Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of his Plays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. $35 paper.

Gardner, Eric, ed. Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery. New Milford, CT: The Toby Press, 2005. $14.95 paper.

Garrison, Gary, ed. The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Presents: Award- Winning Plays from the Michael Kanin National Playwriting Program. New York: Watson-Guptil Publications, 2006. $16.95 paper.

Guirgis, Stephen Adly. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006. $13 paper.

Hoeveler, Diane Long and Jeffrey Cass, eds. Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. $41.95 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Holland, Peter, ed. Shakespeare Survey. 59: Editing Shakespeare. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $110 cloth.

*Harding, James M. and John Rouse, eds. Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. $75 cloth. $28.95 paper.

Jackson, John Wyse. We All Want to Change the World: the Life of John Lennon. HausBooks. London: Haus Publishing, 2005. £18 cloth.

*Kapur, Anuradha. Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar. New York: Berg, 2006. $99.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Kattwinkel, Susan, ed. Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South. Theatre Symposium, Volume 13, a Publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference. Tuscalossoa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2005. $ 22.50 paper.

Kelleher, Joe and Nicholas Rideout, eds. Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion. London, New York: Routledge, 2006. $110 cloth, $31.95 paper.

*Kershaw, Baz, ed. The Cambridge History of British Theatre, vol. 3: Since 1895. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $175 cloth.

*Konkle, Lincoln. Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition. Colombia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006. $44.95 cloth.

*Krasner, David. American Drama, 1945-2000: An Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. $24.95 paper.

LaBute, Neil. Some Girl(s): A Romance. New York: Faber and Faber, 2005. $13 paper.

Leach, Robert. Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. $32.50 paper.

Lecoq, Jacques. Theatre of Movement and Gesture. London, New York: Routledge, 2006. $113 cloth, $33.95 paper.

*Leggatt, Alexander. Shakespeare’s Tragedies: Violation and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $28.99 paper.

*Lima, Robert. Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. $55 cloth.

*Londre, Felicia Hardison. Words at Play: Creative Writing and Dramaturgy. Theater in the Americas series. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. $55 cloth, $28.50 paper.

*Luckhurst, Mary. Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $84 cloth.

McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare’s Late Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 cloth.

Manning, Susan. Ecstasy and the Demon: The Dances of Mary Wigman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. $25 paper.

*Marra, Kim. Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. $47.95 cloth.

Marshall, CW. The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $90 cloth.

Morley, Sheridan. Coward. Life and Times. London: Haus Publishing, 2005. £10.99 paper.

Moses, Itamar. Bach at Leipzig. NewYork: Faber and Faber, 2005. $13 paper.

Mukherji, Subha. Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. $95 cloth.

*Munro, Lucy. Children of the Queen’s Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $85 cloth.

*Murphy, Brenda. The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $85 cloth.

*Newey, Katherine. Women’s Theatre in Victorian Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. $69.95 cloth.

Nixon, Marni. I Could Have Sung All Night: My Story. North Hollywood, CA: Billboard Books, 2006. $24.95 cloth.

Patterson, Michael. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. $45 cloth.

Pinciss, Gerald M. Why Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Playwright’s Art. London and New York: Continuum, 2005. $24.95 cloth.

*Pollock, Della, ed. Remembering: Oral History Performance. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. New York: Palgrave, 2006. $24.95 paper.

Rapp, Adam. Red Light Winter. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006. $13 paper.

Ravelhofer, Barbara. The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. $99 cloth.

Reynolds, Bryan, ed. Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Palgrave: 2006. $69.95 cloth.

Ringer, Mark. Opera’s First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi. Unlocking the Masters. Newark, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2006. $29.95 paper.

Rocklin, Edward L. Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2005. $39.95 paper.

*Rothwell, Kenneth S. A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $28.99 paper.

Schmiesing, Ann. Norway's Christiania Theatre, 1827-1867: From Danish Showhouse to National Stage. Madison NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press (Cranbury, NJ AUP), 2006. $50.00 paper.

Shakespeare, William. Measure for Measure. Edited by Brian Gibbons. Shakespeare in Production Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $70 cloth. $14.99 paper.

Shakespeare, William. The Poems. Edited by John Roe. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $70 cloth. $14.99 paper.

Shakespeare, William The Sonnets. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $70 cloth. $14.99 paper

Shakespeare, William. Titus Adronicus. Edited by Alan Hughes. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $70 cloth. $14.99 paper.

Shakespeare, William. Troilus and Cressida. Edited by Frances A. Shirley. Shakespeare in Production Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $27.99 paper.

*Shellard, Dominic, and Steve Nicholson, with Miriam Handley. The Lord Chamberlain Regrets . . . : A History of British Theatre Censorship. London: British Library, 2004. $38 cloth.

Shepherd, Simon. Theatre, Body and Pleasure. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. $113 cloth, $31 paper.

Shepherd-Barr. Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. $29.95 cloth.

Semmes, Clovis E. The Regal Theater and Black Culture. New York: Palgrave, 2006. $69.95 cloth.

Shelton, Lewis E. Ideas of the Theatre: The Five Directorial Perspectives of the American Stage. Bethesda: Academica Press, 2005.

*Smallwood, Robert, ed. Players of Shakespeare 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $65 cloth, $29.99 paper.

*Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher. Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shu¯ji and Postwar Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005. $45 cloth.

*Sponsler, Claire. Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. $35 cloth.

Stephens, Judith L., ed., The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. $40 cloth, $20 paper.

*Stokes, John. The French Actress and Her English Audience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 cloth.

Sullivan Jr., Garrett A. Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 cloth.

*Straznicky, Marta. Privacy, Playreading and Women’s Closet Drama, 1550-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 cloth.

Swados, Liz. At Play: Teaching Teenagers Theater. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006. $16 paper.

*Tait, Peta. Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. $113 cloth, $34.95 paper.

Teague, Frances. Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2006. $85 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Tomlinson, Sophie. Women on Stage in Stuart Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $85 cloth.

Van de Water, Manon. Moscow Theaters for Young People. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2006. $75 cloth.

Walton, J. Michael. Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $95 cloth.

Webb, Paul. Ivor Novello: Portrait of a Star. Revised edition. Hausbooks. London: Haus Publishing, 2005. £16 cloth.

*Westlake, E.J. Our Land Is Made of Courage and Glory: Nationalist Performance of Nicaragua and Guatemala. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. $55 cloth.

Wellman, Mac and Young Jean Lee, ed. New Downtown Now: An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. $24.95 paper.

Woods, Leigh. Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. $69.95 cloth.

Whitney, Charles. Early Responses to Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 cloth.

Whybrow, Nicolas. Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin. Bristol, UK, and Portland, OR: Intellect, 2005. $39.95 paper.

Williams, Gordon. British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation. London and New York: Continuum, 2003. $49.95 paper.

*Wilmer, S. E., ed. Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. $42.95 cloth.

Wright, Doug. Quills and Other Plays.New York: Faber and Faber, 2005. $16.00 paper.