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The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage. By Moira Goff. Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K., and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007; pp. x+189, 17 illus. $99.95 cloth.
Kimiko Okamoto
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03 November 2009, pp. 347-349
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WHAT ARE YOU READING?: Edited by Katherine Scheil
Charlotte M. Canning
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22 April 2009, pp. 135-138
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All I seem to be able to read about recently is war. Some of that reading is predictable—I read the New York Times and the local paper every day—but lately it has seemed to me that in each book I pick up, no matter what the subject or purpose, passages about war leap out at me. Until I realized this, I made no conscious attempt to select books about war, but over this past spring and into the summer, I have been choosing to read about war.

Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780–1880. By Jennifer Hall-Witt. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2007; pp. ix+390. $50 cloth.
Judith Milhous
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03 November 2009, pp. 349-351
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The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. By C. W. Marshall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pp. xiii + 320. $104 cloth.
Timothy J. Moore
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22 April 2009, pp. 139-140
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Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representations of Slavery and the Black Character. By Hazel Waters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; pp. 243. $104 cloth, $34.99 paper. - Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius. Edited by Bernth Lindfors. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007; pp. 288. $55 cloth.
Kate Roark
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03 November 2009, pp. 351-355
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Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations. By Bryan Reynolds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. 271. $84.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.
David Hawkes
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22 April 2009, pp. 141-143
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London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror. By Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2007; pp. xi+291, 18 illus. $90 cloth, $28.95 paper.
Sharon Mazer
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03 November 2009, pp. 355-357
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Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama. By Alison Findlay. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pp. ix+260. $96 cloth, $34.99 paper. - Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria. By Karen Britland. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pp. ix+302. $101 cloth.
S. P. Cerasano
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22 April 2009, pp. 143-146
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The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music. By Barbara Ravelhofer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. 317+xvi. $125 cloth.
C. E. McGee
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22 April 2009, pp. 146-148
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Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage. Edited by Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. vii+259. 2 illus. $94.95 cloth, $34.95 paper.
Mike Sell
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03 November 2009, pp. 357-359
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Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy. Edited by Robert A. Schanke. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007; pp. xiii+314. $35 paper.
Jonathan Chambers
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03 November 2009, pp. 359-361
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Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing: The Impossible Act. By Wendy Arons. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. 270 + x. $74.95 cloth.
Simon Williams
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22 April 2009, pp. 148-150
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Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War. By Harriet Hyman Alonso. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007; pp. 394. $28.95 paper.
Fonzie D. Geary II
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03 November 2009, pp. 361-363
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Looking for Hamlet. By Marvin W. Hunt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. v + 230. $27.95 cloth. - “Hamlet” without Hamlet. By Margreta de Grazia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; pp. xi + 267. $101 cloth, $39.99 paper. - Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction. By Tony Howard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; pp. xi + 329. $101 cloth.
Neil Taylor
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22 April 2009, pp. 150-154
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Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle. By Paige Reynolds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; pp. 257. $90 cloth. - Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation. Edited by Melissa Sihra. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. 241. $84.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. - Performing the Body in Irish Theatre. By Bernadette Sweeney. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; pp. 241. $74.95 cloth.
Joan FitzPatrick Dean
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03 November 2009, pp. 363-368
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Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life. By Deirdre David. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007; pp. 350. $39.95 cloth.
Georgianna Ziegler
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22 April 2009, pp. 154-156
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Arthur Miller's Global Theater. Edited by Enoch Brater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007; pp. 151. $49.50 cloth.
Elizabeth Osborne
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03 November 2009, pp. 368-370
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Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917–2000. By Manon van de Water. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 302. $79.95 cloth.
Julia L. Mickenberg
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22 April 2009, pp. 156-159
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Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. By Lisa M. Anderson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008; pp. 152, 6 photographs. $35 cloth. - Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. New York: Routledge, 2007; pp. 224. $120 cloth.
Adrienne C. Macki
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03 November 2009, pp. 370-374
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The Theater Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical, from “Hair” to “Hedwig.” By Elizabeth L. Wollman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006; pp. 271. $29.95 cloth. - The Megamusical. By Jessica Sternfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006; pp. 441. $29.95 cloth.
Julie Noonan
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22 April 2009, pp. 159-163
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The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage. By Moira Goff. Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K., and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007; pp. x+189, 17 illus. $99.95 cloth.

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WHAT ARE YOU READING?: Edited by Katherine Scheil

Book Reviews: Edited by Katherine Scheil

Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780–1880. By Jennifer Hall-Witt. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2007; pp. ix+390. $50 cloth.

The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. By C. W. Marshall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pp. xiii + 320. $104 cloth.

Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations. By Bryan Reynolds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. 271. $84.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.

London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror. By Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2007; pp. xi+291, 18 illus. $90 cloth, $28.95 paper.

The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music. By Barbara Ravelhofer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. 317+xvi. $125 cloth.

Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage. Edited by Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. vii+259. 2 illus. $94.95 cloth, $34.95 paper.

Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy. Edited by Robert A. Schanke. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007; pp. xiii+314. $35 paper.

Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing: The Impossible Act. By Wendy Arons. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. 270 + x. $74.95 cloth.

Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War. By Harriet Hyman Alonso. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007; pp. 394. $28.95 paper.

Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life. By Deirdre David. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007; pp. 350. $39.95 cloth.

Arthur Miller's Global Theater. Edited by Enoch Brater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007; pp. 151. $49.50 cloth.

Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917–2000. By Manon van de Water. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 302. $79.95 cloth.

Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. By Lisa M. Anderson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008; pp. 152, 6 photographs. $35 cloth. - Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. New York: Routledge, 2007; pp. 224. $120 cloth.

The Theater Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical, from “Hair” to “Hedwig.” By Elizabeth L. Wollman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006; pp. 271. $29.95 cloth. - The Megamusical. By Jessica Sternfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006; pp. 441. $29.95 cloth.

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