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Theatre History Studies 2021, Volume 40

Theatre History Studies 2021, Volume 40

Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

Contributions by Angela K. Ahlgren, Jane Barnette, David Bisaha, Chrystyna M. Dail, Rebecca K. Hammonds, Jessica Ann Holt, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Odai Johnson, Lindsey Mantoan, Scott Proudfit, Mamata Sengupta, Jonathan Shandell, David Carlyon, Ryan Claycomb, Meredith A. Conti, Jeremy Cornelius, Jennifer Ewing-Pierce, Brice Ezell, Thomas Fish, Paul Gagliardi, Elizabeth Gray, William David Green, Alícia Hernàndez Grande, Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Rose Hilton and Catherine Quick

Published by: The University of Alabama Press

Series: Theatre History Studies

Imprint: The University of Alabama Press

256 Pages, 152.00 × 228.00 × 17.00 mm

  • Paperback
  • 9780817371159
  • Published: January 2022

£26.99

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A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
  • Introduction—LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELL
  • PART I STUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORY
  • Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason—ODAI JOHNSON
  • Caricatured, Marginalized,and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia’s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939—JONATHAN SHANDELL
  • Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate—SCOTT PROUDFIT
  • Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance—ANGELA K. AHLGREN
  • PART II WITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCE
  • Editor’s Introduction to the Special Section Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances—CHRYSTYNA DAIL
  • To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft—JANE BARNETTE
  • Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare’s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter’s Tale—JESSICA HOLT
  • Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom—MAMATA SENGUPTA
  • (Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba’s Heroine Journey in Wicked—REBECCA K. HAMMONDS
  • Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell—DAVID BISAHA
  • PART III Essay from the Conference
  • The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020 New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s—LINDSEY MANTOAN

Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is Theater Department Chair and associate professor of history & theater at Skidmore College. She is President of the American Theatre and Drama Society.

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