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List of Books Received as of 1 August 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

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Theatre Survey , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 135 - 138
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 2017 

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

* = Assigned for review

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  • Anderegg, Michael. Lincoln and Shakespeare. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. $29.95 cloth, $29.95 e-book.

  • Anoop, Maratt Mythili, and Gulati, Varun eds. Scripting Dance in Contemporary India. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2016. $85 cloth, $84.99 e-book.

  • Bingham, Emily. Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015. $28 cloth, $16 paper, $9.99 e-book.

  • *Bogad, L. M. Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. $135 cloth, $29.95 paper, $29.95 e-book.

  • Brosius, Peter, and Adams, Elissa, eds. Key Change: New Musicals for Young Audiences. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. $70 cloth, $19.95 paper, $19.95 e-book.

  • *Cantu, Maya. American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from “Irene” to “Gypsy.” Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. $95 cloth.

  • Carlson, Marvin. Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. $60 paper, $48.95 e-book.

  • Carlyon, David. The Education of a Circus Clown: Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $99 cloth, $74.99 e-book.

  • Colclough, Dyan. Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry 1875–1914. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $95 cloth, $69.99 e-book.

  • Crosby, Sara L. Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America. Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 2016. $65 paper, $65 e-book.

  • Dietz, Dan. The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. $125 cloth, $124.99 e-book.

  • Dietz, Dan. The Complete Book of 1980s Broadway Musicals. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. $125 cloth, $124.99 e-book.

  • Dox, Donnalee. Reckoning with Spirit in the Paradigm of Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. $85 cloth, $39.50 paper, $39.50 e-book.

  • Dunne, Will. The Architecture of Story: A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer. Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing. Chicago and New York: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $55 cloth, $18 paper, $18 e-book.

  • García-Romero, Anne. The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. $24.95 paper, $24.95 e-book.

  • *Garde, Ulrike, and Mumford, Meg. Theatre of Real People: Diverse Encounters at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond. Methuen Drama Engage. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016. $104 cloth, $29.95 paper, $24.99 e-book.

  • Hand, Richard J., and Wilson, Michael. Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror. Exeter Performance Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2016. $120 cloth, $36 paper.

  • Heddon, Deirdre, and Johnson, Dominic, eds. It's All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells. Intellect Live. Bristol: Intellect Ltd., 2016. $28.50 paper.

  • *Heim, Caroline. Audience as Performer: The Changing Role of Theatre Audiences in the Twenty-first Century. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. $125 cloth, $47.95 paper, $47.95 e-book.

  • Hindson, Catherine. London's West End Actresses and the Origins of Celebrity Charity, 1880–1920. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016. $65 paper, $65 e-book.

  • Hischak, Thomas S. Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts. 2d edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. $95 cloth, $45 paper, $44.99 e-book.

  • Honea, Marc. Another Farewell to the Theatre: Occasional Writings, 2000–2013. The Lichtenbergian Press, 2014. $19.99 paper.

  • Hughes, Jenny, and Nicholson, Helen, eds. Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper, $24 e-book.

  • Johnston, Kirsty. Disability Theatre and Modern Drama: Recasting Modernism. Critical Companions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016. $112 cloth, $37.95 paper, $24.99 e-book.

  • Josipovici, Gabriel. Hamlet: Fold on Fold. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. $35 cloth, $35 e-book.

  • Lavery, Carl, and Finburgh, Clare, eds. Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage. Methuen Drama Engage. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $104 cloth, $89.99 e-book.

  • *Lee, Esther Kim. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang. Critical Companions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $94 cloth, $29.95 paper, $24.99 e-book.

  • *Lennox, Patricia, and Mirabella, Bella, eds. Shakespeare and Costume. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. $112 cloth, $39.95 paper, $32.99 e-book.

  • Lewis, Megan, and Krueger, Anton, eds. Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space. Bristol, UK and Chicago: Intellect, 2016. $45 paper.

  • Ley, Graham. Acting Greek Tragedy. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2014. $85 cloth, $27 paper, $22 e-book.

  • Lindfors, Bernth. Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855–1867. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2015. $55 cloth.

  • *Loomis, Catherine, and Ray, Sid, eds. Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage. Shakespeare and the Stage. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. $85 cloth, $84.99 e-book.

  • Mayo, Sandra M., and Holt, Elvin. Stages of Struggle and Celebration: A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. $75 cloth, $29.95 paper, $29.95 e-book.

  • Moran, James. The Theatre of D. H. Lawrence: Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator. Critical Companions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $104 cloth, $29.95 paper, $24.99 e-book.

  • *Moreno, Iani del Rosario. Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2015. $90 cloth.

  • *Nahshon, Edna, ed. New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. $40 cloth, $39.99 e-book.

  • Plastow, Jane, Hutchison, Yvette, and Matzke, Christine, eds. African Theatre 14: Contemporary Women. African Theatre Series. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer / James Currey, 2015. $34.95 paper.

  • Porter, Jeff. Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. $29.95 paper, $28.99 e-book.

  • Profeta, Katherine. Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance. Studies in Dance History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. $26.95 paper, $31.95 e-book.

  • Rice, Nicole R., and Pappano, Margaret Aziza. The Civic Cycles: Artisan Drama and Identity in Premodern England. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. $42 paper.

  • *Sack, Daniel. After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. $75 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.

  • Schechter, Joel. Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole. Exeter Performance Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2016. $95 cloth.

  • Shannon, Sandra G., ed. August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle: Critical Perspectives on the Plays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. $40 paper, $19.99 e-book.

  • Shimazaki, Satoko. Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. $60 cloth, $59.99 e-book.

  • Solga, Kim. Theatre & Feminism. Theatre And. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $11 paper, $11 e-book.

  • Taylor, Diana. Performance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper, $23.95 e-book.

  • Walsh, Fintan. Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation. Contemporary Performance InterActions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $95 cloth, $69.99 e-book.

  • Wong, Yutian. Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance. Studies in Dance History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. $45 cloth, $55 e-book.