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...Emily Banta Abstract This essay considers how rowdy theater audiences contributed to a broader cultural understanding of democratic politics in the early United States, showing how raucous and occasionally riotous theater patrons enacted a form of popular rule that was predicated on the paying...

... than we think too. In the book’s powerful closing gesture, Mielke investigates an undelivered proconfederacy speech composed by none other than John Wilkes Booth. It seems, as Provocative Eloquence expertly demonstrates, that theater and rhetoric were destined to intersect through even the country’s...

...Danny Luzon Abstract This article explores the American Yiddish theater’s creative reworkings of William Shakespeare, a practice epitomized by the presumed parodic dictum “translated and improved” ( fartaytsht un farbessert ). It argues that this theater’s translational politics of chutzpah strives...

...Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Abstract This essay examines the cultural and political work of the Free Southern Theater, specifically how this company used plantations, porches, and cotton fields in order to build a radical black southern theater in the civil rights movement. Staging plays like Samuel...

...Amy E. Hughes Collectively, these books remind us that quotidian experience is, to employ Gallagher-Ross’s words, “always disappearing, replaced by new perceptions, vanishing into routine, . . . as ephemeral as any theatrical performance” (4), and that the theater can serve as an entrée...

...Reginald Dyck Duke University Press 2006 A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago . By Richard Christiansen. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 317 pp. $29.95. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919...

...Patricia Ybarra No Safe Spaces: Recasting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the American Theater . By Pao Angela C. . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press , 2010 . vii , 305 pp. Paper , $32.50 . Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian...

..., Stages of Life works through contemporary Latina theater using a trans- cultural rubric first employed in Latin American anthropology. But Stages of Life also reaches conclusions that echo Nagel’s because Sandoval-Sánchez...

... contestation, these books together argue for the centrality of theater in any consideration of national formations while also suggesting that the conflicts staged in and through the theater— before the audience, backstage, and beyond—are rather easily marginalized. Wilmer observes that t]he theatre can...

... in this study is Houchin’s ability to connect theater history to a larger cultural history. Houchin manages to do this effectively by constructing a coherent narrative through detailed research. The amount of information packed into this study is simply impressive without being over- whelming. Houchin does...

...- ceptions of gender relations, sexuality, and gender identity to enter into our reading of texts This study, however, reminds us to try. Mimi Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso The Portable Theater: American...

...Britt Rusert © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture . By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs...

...John Whalen-Bridge 2005 Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien . By Alex Vernon. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xi, 314 pp. $39.95; Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity . By Thomas Strychacz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2003...

...Kristin Grogan Abstract This essay explores the relationship between Langston Hughes’s 1930s poetry and the Soviet avant-garde theater. It argues that the constructivist theater provides an aesthetic framework through which to read Hughes’s radical poetry. Often read as an artistic failure...

... public humanities seminar at Emory University who partnered with a large regional theater on a project involving dramaturgy and audience engagement for a spring 2020 production of Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat (first performed in 2015). The graduate seminar and the project—both before and in the wake...

...-of-the-century American theater, Tin Pan Alley and the music industry, anthropology and ethnography in the southern United States, and Toomer's debts or relations to other writers of the Harlem Renaissance, among them James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, and Langston Hughes. © 2010 by Duke...

..., and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's sense, the political unconscious of American literature. As a celebrated example of political theater, The Exonerated also provides a forum...

...Patrick Jagoda In recent years, the growing field of game studies has contributed to the ongoing cultural debate about what it means for videogames to be an art form that both selectively draws and dramatically departs from earlier forms such as the novel, theater, and cinema. To achieve a sense...

... Theater, among others, immersed themselves in the existential questions of freedom and responsibility, pointing the way toward ethical action at a time when there was, as the characters of the FST’s production of Waiting for Godot put it, “nothing to be done.” [email protected] Copyright © 2023...

... staging of religious declension within the theater of enslavement aboard the San Dominick , this essay shows how the novella positions the practice of human slavery as an object of belief and obligation, thereby rendering human slavery into a coherent feature of the national landscape. 11 Here...