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Volume 32 - Issue 2 - July 2007

Theatre Research International Volume 32 - Issue 2 -

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Book Review

Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre. By Mary Luckhurst. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 298. £48/US-$85 Hb.
PETER M BOENISCH
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Devising Performance: A Critical History. By Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. vii + 272. £14.99/US-$24.95 Pb.; £45/US-$74.95 Hb.
ANJA KLÖCK
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01 July 2007, p. 208
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Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance. By Peta Tait. London: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 187 + illus. £65 Hb.; £19.99 Pb.
JANE GOODALL
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01 July 2007, p. 209
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Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen. By Henry Bial. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. viii + 195. US-$19.95 Pb.; US-$60.00 Hb.
HARLEY ERDMAN
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01 July 2007, pp. 209-210
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Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894. By Joseph Donohue. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. Pp. 290 + xii + 24 illus. $44.95 Hb.
TRACY C. DAVIS
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The Censorship of British Drama 1900–1968. By Steve Nicholson. Exeter: Exeter University Press. Volume One: 1900–1932, 2003. Pp. x + 352. £39.50; $75 Hb; Volume Two: 1933–1952, 2005. Pp. vi + 432. £39.50; $75 Hb.
MICK WALLIS
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The Nazi Appropriation of Shakespeare: Cultural Politics in the Third Reich. By Rodney Symington. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 310. £74.95; $119.95 Hb.
ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY
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Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting. By Jonathan Pitches. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 226. £65 Hb.
GEOFFREY COLMAN
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Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Anglo-American Approaches to Political Theatre. By Stefania Taviano. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 136 + illus. £40; $79.95 Hb.
JAMES FISHER
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The Last ‘Darky’: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora. By Louis Chude-Sokei. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. x + 278. $79.95 Hb; $22.95 Pb.
HARVEY YOUNG
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Understanding Adrienne Kennedy. By Philip C. Kolin. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 192. $34.95 Hb.
ANTHONY D. HILL
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The Wooster Group and Its Traditions. Edited by Johan Callens. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. 290 + 32 illus. €39.10; £25.60 Pb.
JEN HARVIE
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Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement. By André Lepecki. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. x + 150 + 14 illus. £19.99 Pb; £65 Hb.
FRANZ ANTON CRAMER
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Abwesenheit: Eine performative Ästhetik des Tanzes – William Forsythe, Jérôme Bel, Xavier Le Roy, Meg Stuart [Absence: A performative aesthetics of dance]. By Gerald Siegmund. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006. Pp. 502 + illus. €32.80 Pb.
FRANZ ANTON CRAMER
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Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Process. By Bruce Kirle. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 252 + 30 illus. $30.00 Pb; $60 Hb.
FREDA CHAPPLE
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Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Edited by Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. v + 329 + illus. £50; $99.95 Hb.
HELEN BROOKS
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Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory. By Lucy Munro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 267 + 6 illus. £48 Hb.
VICTORIA E. PRICE
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Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria. By Karen Britland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 292 + 5 illus. £48 Hb.
VICTORIA E. PRICE
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The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee. Edited by Stephen Bottoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii + 263 + 8 illus. £45; $65 Hb; £15.99; $25.99 Pb.
STEVEN PRICE
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Book Review

Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre. By Mary Luckhurst. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 298. £48/US-$85 Hb.

Devising Performance: A Critical History. By Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. vii + 272. £14.99/US-$24.95 Pb.; £45/US-$74.95 Hb.

Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance. By Peta Tait. London: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 187 + illus. £65 Hb.; £19.99 Pb.

Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen. By Henry Bial. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. viii + 195. US-$19.95 Pb.; US-$60.00 Hb.

Books Received

Books Received

Book Review 32:1

Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894. By Joseph Donohue. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. Pp. 290 + xii + 24 illus. $44.95 Hb.

The Censorship of British Drama 1900–1968. By Steve Nicholson. Exeter: Exeter University Press. Volume One: 1900–1932, 2003. Pp. x + 352. £39.50; $75 Hb; Volume Two: 1933–1952, 2005. Pp. vi + 432. £39.50; $75 Hb.

The Nazi Appropriation of Shakespeare: Cultural Politics in the Third Reich. By Rodney Symington. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 310. £74.95; $119.95 Hb.

Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting. By Jonathan Pitches. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 226. £65 Hb.

Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Anglo-American Approaches to Political Theatre. By Stefania Taviano. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 136 + illus. £40; $79.95 Hb.

The Last ‘Darky’: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora. By Louis Chude-Sokei. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. x + 278. $79.95 Hb; $22.95 Pb.

Understanding Adrienne Kennedy. By Philip C. Kolin. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 192. $34.95 Hb.

The Wooster Group and Its Traditions. Edited by Johan Callens. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. 290 + 32 illus. €39.10; £25.60 Pb.

Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement. By André Lepecki. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. x + 150 + 14 illus. £19.99 Pb; £65 Hb.

Abwesenheit: Eine performative Ästhetik des Tanzes – William Forsythe, Jérôme Bel, Xavier Le Roy, Meg Stuart [Absence: A performative aesthetics of dance]. By Gerald Siegmund. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006. Pp. 502 + illus. €32.80 Pb.

Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Process. By Bruce Kirle. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 252 + 30 illus. $30.00 Pb; $60 Hb.

Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Edited by Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. v + 329 + illus. £50; $99.95 Hb.

Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory. By Lucy Munro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 267 + 6 illus. £48 Hb.

Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria. By Karen Britland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 292 + 5 illus. £48 Hb.

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee. Edited by Stephen Bottoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii + 263 + 8 illus. £45; $65 Hb; £15.99; $25.99 Pb.

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