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Books Received

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Theatre Research International , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , July 2016, pp. 194 - 196
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2016 

ALBRIGHT, DANIEL, Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten: Great Shakespearians, Volume XI. London and New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014. Pp. 256. £80/$150 Hb; £23.99/$39.95 Pb.

ANAN, NOBUKO, Contemporary Japanese Women's Theatre and Visual Arts: Performing Girls’ Aesthetics. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 248. £55 Hb.

BAÑAGALE, RYAN PAUL, Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 232. £64/$105 Hb.

BANHAM, MARTIN, NJOGU, KIMANI and OSOFISAN, FEMI, eds, African Theatre 13: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Wole Soyinka. Woodbridge and Rochester: James Currey, 2014. Pp. 144. £19.99 Pb.

BANK, ROSEMARIE K. and KOBIALKA, MICHAEL, eds., Theatre/Performance Historiography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 280. £55/$90 Hb.

BENNETT, MICHAEL Y.The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 173. £17.99/£27.99 Pb.

BERNSTEIN, JOANNE SCHEFF, Standing Room Only: Marketing Insights for Engaging Performing Arts Audiences, 2nd edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 416. £36.99/$55 Hb.

BIAL, HENRY, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Pp. 260. £21/$29.95 Pb.

BLEEKER, MAAIKE, SHERMAN, JON FOLEY and NEDELKOPOULOU, ERINI, eds., Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 234. £101/$145 Hb.

BOENISCH, PETER M., Directing Scenes and Senses: The Thinking of Regie. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 256. £65 Hb.

BRITTEN, BILL, From Stage to Screen: A Theatre Actor's Guide to Working on Camera. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 248. £14.99/$29.95 Pb.

CAMPBELL, ALYSON and , STEPHEN FARRIER, eds., Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 320. £58 Hb.

CAREY, DAVID and CLARK CAREY, REBECCA, eds., The Shakespeare Workbook and Video: A Practical Course for Actors. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2015. Pp. 288. £165/$234.95 Pb.

CITRON, ATAY, ARONSON-LEHAVI, SHARON and ZERBIB, DAVID, Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 416. £63/$123.50 Hb; £20.70/$29 Pb.

COCHRANE, CLAIRE and ROBINSON, JO, eds., Theatre History and Historiography: Ethics, Evidence and Truth. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 224. £58 Hb.

COLCLOUGH, DYLAN, Child Labour in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry: 1875–1914. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 256. £60 Hb.

D'MONTE, REBECCA, British Theatre and Performance 1900–1950. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 352 + 8 illus. £16.99/$29.95 Pb; £50/$86 Hb.

ERNST, WOLF-DIETER, NIETHAMMER, NORA, SZYMANSKI-DÜLL, BERENIKA and MUNGEN, ANNO, eds., Sound und Performance: Positionen, Methoden, Analysen. WÜrzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2015. Pp. 728. €58 Pb.

EWAN, VANESSA and GREEN, DEBBIE, Actor Movement: Expression of the Physical Being. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 336. £22.49/$42.95 Pb.

FINDLAY, ALISON, Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014. Pp. 568. £160/$224.30 Hb; £21.70/$42.70 Pb.

FRANCESCHINA, JOHN, Music Theory through Musical Theatre: Putting It Together. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 466. £64/$99 Hb; £25.99/$39.95 Pb.

GEORGE-GRAVES, NADINE, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 1056 + 124 illus. £115/$175 Hb.

HEATHER, JANE and SELMAN, JAN, Theatre, Teens, Sex Ed: Are We There Yet? Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015. Pp. 542. £41.99/$49.95 Pb.

HOLLAND, PETER, ed., Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean: Great Shakespearians Volume II. London and New York: Methuen Arden Shakespeare, 2014. Pp. 240. £80/$150 Hb; £23.99/$39.95 Pb.

JANNARONE, KIMBERLY, ed., Vanguard Performance beyond Left and Right. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Pp. 230. £49/$70 Hb.

KEENAN, SIOBHAN, Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare's London. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 288. £54/$89.42 Hb; £17.09/$29.44 Pb.

KERR, ROSALIND, The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. 232 + 26 illus. £34.19/$52.84 Hb.

KOZINN, SARAH, Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theatres of Popular Law. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 280. £58.50/$112 Hb; £19.99/$34.95 Pb.

LAERA, MARGHERITA, ed., Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 296. $120 Hb; $39.95 Pb.

LAVERY, CARL and FINBURGH, CLARE, eds., Rethinking Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 328 + 9 illus. £59.99 Hb.

LEE, ESTHER KIM, The Theatre of David Henry Hwang. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. Pp. 207. £17.99 Pb.

LEHMAN, SUSAN BETH, Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. Pp.177. £18.70/$30 Pb.

LI, RURU, Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 296. £58 Hb.

MCAULEY, GAY, Not Magic but Work: An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 256. £17.99 Pb.

MCGRATH, JOHN, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, ed. MACDONALD, GRAEME. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 216. £9.99/$17.95.

MCHUGH, DOMINIC, ed., Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 336. £39.99/$41.95 Hb.

MASON VAUGHAN, VIRGINIA, The Tempest. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 238 + 18 illus. £17.99 Pb.

MAY, SHAUN, A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen: You Have to Be There. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016. Pp. x + 213 + 3 illus. £60 Hb.

MAZZILLI, MARY, Gao Xingjian's Post-exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 288. £59.99.

MIDDEKE, MARTIN, SCHNIERER, PETER PAUL and HOLMANN, GREG, eds., The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 392. £70 Hb.

MONRÓS-GASPAR, LAURA, Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 256 + 5 illus. £19.99/$39.99 Pb.

MORAN, JAMES, The Theatre of D. H. Lawrence: Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 264. £18.99 Pb.

NAPOLITANO, MARC, Oliver! A Dickensian Musical. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 304. £22.99/$36.95 Hb.

OJA, CAROL J., Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 416. £18.99/$29.95 Hb.

PATERSON, EDDIE, The Contemporary American Dialogue: Performance and Politics. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. Pp. 217 + 8 illus. £18.99 Pb.

QUIRK, SOPHIE, Why Stand-up Matters: How Comedians Manipulate and Influence. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 256 + 4 illus. £16.99 Pb.

ROBERTS, DAVID, Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 260. £17.99/$27.99 Pb.

ROUDANÉ, MATTHEW C., ed., The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. 536. £29.99/$45.99 Hb.

SACK, DANIEL, After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Pp. 260. £45/$65 Hb; £24/$34.95 Pb.

SAUNDERS, GRAHAM, British Theatre Companies: 1980–1994. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 320. £19.99/$29.95 Pb; £65/$112 Hb.

SHEPHERD-BARR, KIRSTEN E., Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 136 + 11 illus. £7.99 Pb.

SHEPHERD-BARR, KRISTEN E., Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Pp. 400+6 illus. £34.50/$50 Hb.

SHEREN, ILA NICOLE, Portable Borders: Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. 211. $55 Hb.

THOMPSON, KATRINA DYONNE, Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery. Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2014. Pp. 256. £20.99/$30 Pb.

TURNER, CATHY, Dramaturgy and Architecture: Theatre, Utopia and the Built Environment. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 272. £55 Hb.

WALKER WHITE, ANDREW, Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 288 + 12 illus. £64.99/$99 Hb.

WALSH, FINTAN, Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 208. £58 Hb.

WHITE, GARETH, Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 240. £60/$90 Hb; £18.99/$29 Pb.

WILMER, STEPHEN ELLIOT and ŽUKAUSKAITĖ, AUDRONĖ, eds., Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 306 + 10 illus. £90 Hb.

ZINMAN, TOBY, Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 288. £55/$94 Hb; £16.99/$29.95 Pb.