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Books Received

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2018

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Theatre Research International , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , October 2017, pp. 367 - 368
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2018 

AMMEN, SHARON, May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy. Urbana-Champain, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Pp. 288 + 32 illus. $95 Hb.

ANGELAKI, VICKY, Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Pp. 280. £19.99/$26.95 Pb.

BAXTER, VERONICA and LOW, KATHARINE E., eds., Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Pp. 344 + 10 illus. £21.99/$29.95 Pb.

BORN, GEORGINA, LEWIS, ERIC and STRAW, WILL, eds., Improvisation and Social Aesthetics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 360 + 12 illus. $99.95/£86 Hb; $27.95/£23.99 Pb.

BULL, JOHN, ed., British Theatre Companies: 1965–1979: CAST, The People Show, Portable Theatre, Pip Simmons Theatre Group, Welfare State International, 7:84 Theatre Companies. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016. Pp. 336. £21.99/$29.95 Pb.

COLBY, SASHA, Staging Modernist Lives: H.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard, Three Plays and Criticism. Kingston and Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press, 2017. Pp. 336. $110 Hb; $37.95 Pb.

FREEMAN, BARRY, Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. Pp. 224 + 5 illus. $32.95 Pb.

FRIGAU MANNING, CÉLINE, ed., La scène en miroir: Métathéâtres italiens (XVIe–XXIe siècle) – Etudes en l'honneur de Françoise Decroisette. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016. Pp. 461. €31 Pb.

GOODLANDER, JENNIFER, Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. 216 + 21 illus. $65 Hb; $23.96 Pb.

HALPERN, RICHARD, Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 336. $40.63 Hb.

KING, BARNABY, Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia: Ridicule and Resistance. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016. Pp. 296. £85/$114 Hb.

LAZARDZIG, JAN and RÖßLER, HOLE, eds., Technologies of Theatre: Joseph Furttenbach and the Transfer of Mechanical Knowledge in Early Modern Theatre Cultures. Zeitsprünge Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, 20, 3–4. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2017. Pp. 208. €49 Pb.

MCNULTY, EUGENE and GHAIRBHÍ, RÓISÍN NÍ, eds., Patrick Pearse and the Theatre: Mac Piarais agus an Téatar. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016. Pp. 204. €45 Hb.

NANCY YUNHWA, RAO, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. Urbana-Champain, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Pp. 440 + 94 illus. $95 Hb.

RAJADHYAKSHA, ASHISH, Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 144 + 17 illus. $11.95 Pb.

RODOSTHENOUS, GEORGE, ed., Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Pp. 296 + 15 illus. £80/$108 Hb.

ROKISON-WOODAL, ABIGAIL, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner. London and New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017. Pp. 264 + 6 illus. £17.99/$24.95 Pb.

SCHULZE, DANIEL, Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance: Make It Real. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Pp. 296. £65/$88 Hb.

SENGUPTA, ASHIS, ed., Islam in Performance: Contemporary Plays from South Asia. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Pp. 368. £85/$114 Hb.

SIMONSEN, BARBARA, ed., The Art of Rehearsal: Conversations with Contemporary Theatre Makers. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Pp. 264. £22.99/ $31.95 Pb.

SIROTKINA, IRINA and SMITH, ROGER, The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Pp. 232 + 15 illus. £70/$94 Hb.

WESTOVER, JONAS, The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows: The Untold Tale of Ziegfeld's Rivals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 320 + 51 illus. $39.95 Hb.

YOUNG, HERSHINI BHANA, Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 280 + 7 illus. $94.95/£82 Hb; $25.95/£21.99 Pb.