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... and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America (Michigan), 2013 winner of the American Society for Theatre Research Barnard Hewitt Award, Amy Hughes observes, “Theater scholars have studied the mechanics of stage spectacle, and historians have traced the impact of U.S. reform move- ments, but to date...

..., works to divide its audience into sympathy for the student versus sympathy for the professor. The stripped-down staging of the play (unlike the filmed version) asks viewers to fill in the blanks, leading them to consider not the play s construction or meaning so much as their own interpretive motives...

... the theoretical problem endemic to studies of drama: what to do about the role of staging and performance in the dramatic text. That tension in drama scholarship between the text on the page and the staging and production elements of performance has tended to marginalize American drama from the rest...

... Performance on the Auction Block” (TJ 63: 61–84). Using historic reenactments (as well as fictional ones), Stupp shows how Henry Ward Beecher’s abolitionist reenactment erased the black body, “which placed nearly white, female slaves on his pulpit-stage to be emancipated by a congregation consumed...

... by Caroline s refusal to be a mother to eight-year-old Noah. Caroline gives to us nothing of herself. We cannot appropriate her or the emotions she attempts to keep at bay. Instead, Caroline/Caroline reorients the a ects and imagery associated with Blackness and Black female subjectivity, staging an anger...

...: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by citing Marvin Carl- son’s The Haunted Stage, which “accepts intertextuality as fundamental to what we think of as literacy, an understanding built on memory and recognition of familiar patterns, refreshed and reorganized. This leads to a focus...

... and the Man, ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Har- tig (McFarland). Albert Wertheim, author of Staging the War: American Drama and World War II (2004), had written “American Theatre in the 1950s and Inge’s Plays” ( pp. 13–24) before his death in 2003. In this essay he connects the personal...

... into seeing the intercon- nection of theater and philosophy in “Stages of Thought: Emerson, Maeterlinck, Glaspell” (MD 56: 457–77): “But what if ideas emerge, instead, from a dialogue between mind and object, the metaphysical and the physical? What if thinking requires an interaction with things...

... Theatres of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage (Northwestern). The book features a reevaluation of Thornton Wilder s Our Town, and its thesis certainly is grounded in the play. Its point of departure is Emily s experience returning to life when she was twelve: Do humans ever realize...

... that assess plays reflecting the legacy of Reconstruction, a culture-wide fascination with eugenics, the effects of jazz as both music and trope, and silent film’s debt to the stage. If this is the most often addressed era in the year’s work, race is its most frequently visited broad topic and makes...

... Practices and Racial Formations’’ (ThS 41, ii: 1–21) exam- ines various nontraditional casting practices in the last half-century such as those of the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Asian American Theatre Company, and the Chicano teatros. The staged agon of August Wilson and Robert Brustein...

..., occasionally performative ways, American Literary Scholarship (2005) doi 10.1215/00659142-2006-009 © 2007 by Duke University Press 428 Drama locating drama in its glory and discontents on stages ranging from playhouses to museums to the street...

..., and theater events in the United States from Bronson Howard’s Saratoga to Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s Pulitzer prizewinning State of the Union. First-rate chapters include Thomas Postlewait’s ‘‘The Hieroglyphic Stage: American Theatre and Society, Post-Civil War to 1945...

... Television Culture from NYU, among others. The times they are a-changin’. i  Theater History Richard Christiansen’s Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago (Northwestern) starts in 1837, with a troupe of traveling actors including Joseph Jefferson staging the first...

... plays, The Lost Colony, a work largely responsible for reshaping that genre. Susan Kattwinkel s Tony Pastor Presents: Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Stage (Greenwood) contains the original scripts of 13 sketches popular with working-class citizens of New York City at the Opera House of the Godfather...

...- tion for director Ivo van Hove’s 1999–2000 revival of Williams’s A Street- car Named Desire. This is Hischak’s most ambitious and successful under- taking since his Stage It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Theater (see AmLS 1993, p. 315) and is as enjoyable as his...

... will, and romantic love as the other major characters. Thompson sees these tax- onomies as ghosting present conceptions of race. Jennifer Larson offers a sophisticated reading of a conundrum staged in Venus and applicable to Parks herself. Larson’s “ ‘With Deliberate Calculation’: Money, Sex...

...” the ideas of her era “into sensational but temporal media events.” A new treasure in this book is Dickey’s archi- val discovery of the earliest surviving drafts of Machinal, one in which Treadwell explicitly calls for “the voice of the woman coming from out a dark stage (to an audience now trained...

...Karen Roggenkamp © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 2  Nathaniel Hawthorne Karen Roggenkamp This year occasioned an increase in the number of essays and mono- graphs published about Nathaniel Hawthorne. Biographical investiga- tions take center stage, with a monograph by Robert...

... Giblin James’s ‘‘Carson McCullers, Lillian Smith, and the Politics of Broad- way’’ (pp. 42–60) compares the quite di√erent experiences in adapt- ing best-selling novels—McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding and Smith’s Strange Fruit—for the stage. Unlike Hellman...