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Theatre Research International , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 2010, pp. 93 - 95
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2010

ALEXANDER, CATHERINE M. S., ed., Shakespeare's Last Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 222. £17.99/$29.99 Pb; £50/$90 Hb.

ALLAIN, PAUL, The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki: A critical study with DVD Examples. London: Methuen, 2009. Pp. x + 214 + DVD. £24.99 Hb.

AUTANT-MATHIEU, MARIE-CHRISTINE, ed., Mikhaïl Tchekhov – Michael Chekhov: de Moscou à Hollywood, du théâtre au cinema. Montpellier: Ed. L'Entretemps, 2009. Pp. 528 + illus. €30 Pb.

BAILEY, REBECCA A., Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625–1642. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 266. £50 Hb.

BÉRARD, SUZANNE J., Le Théâtre révolutionnaire de 1789–1794: La déchristianisation sur les planches. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2009. Pp. 422. €23 Pb.

BRADY, SARA, AND WALSH, FINTAN, eds., Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 256. £55/$75 Hb.

CARLSON, MARVIN, Theatre Is More Beautiful than War: German Stage Directing in the Late Twentieth Century. Cedar Rapids: University of Iowa Press, 2009. Pp. 240. $42.95/£36.95 Hb.

COWART, GEORGIA J., The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. 336 + illus. $55/£38 Hb.

CULL, LAURA, ed., Deleuze and Performance. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2009. Pp. 282. £24.99 Pb; £75 Hb.

DUTTON, RICHARD, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 752 + illus. £85/$150 Hb.

EFROS, ANATOLY, Beyond Rehearsal: Reflections on Interpretation and Practice, Continued. Trans. James Thomas. New York, Bern, e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. 324 + illus. €56.50/£52.80/$81.95 Hb.

EYRE, RICHARD, Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People. London: Nick Hern, 2009. Pp. xvi + 332. £20 Hb.

FENSHAM, RACHEL, To Watch Theatre: Essays on Genre and Corporeality. Brussels, Bern, e.a.: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. 191. €32.50/£29.50/$44.50 Pb.

FOSTER, SUSAN LEIGH, ed., Worlding Dance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian, 2009. Pp. 240. £45/$75 Hb.

GRADY, HUGH, Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 262. £55/$99 Hb.

GUTHRIE, JOHN, Schiller the Dramatist: A Study of Gesture in the Plays. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge: Camden House, 2009. Pp. xii + 214. $75/£40 Hb.

HAEDICKE, SUSAN C., HEDDON, DEIRDRE, OZ, AVRAHAM AND WESTLAKE, E. J., eds., Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. Pp. 380. €76 Pb.

HARRINGTON, JOHN P., ed., Irish Theater in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008. Pp. 232. $24.95/£21.50 Hb.

HENNION, CATHERINE, La Naissance du théâtre moderne à Tôkyô: Du Kabuki de la fin d'Edo au Petit Théâtre de Tsukiji (1842–1924). Montpellier: L'Entretemps, 2009. Pp. 416 + illus. €30 Hb.

HOPKINS, D. J., ORR, SHELLEY AND SOLGA, KIM, eds., Performance and the City. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xiv + 270. £52 Hb.

HORNBACK, ROBERT, The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2009. Pp. xiv + 240. £50/$95 Hb.

HUANG, ALEXANDER C. Y., Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 368. $26.50/£15.50 Pb; $84.50/£49.95 Hb.

HUNTER, LYNETTE, AND LICHTENFELS, PETER, Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo & Juliet: Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre. Accompanied by a scholarly edition of the play on DVD. Pp. xii + 242 + DVD. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. £50/$89.95 Hb.

IBBETT, KATHERINE, The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660: Neoclassicism and Government. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. viii + 176. £55/$99.95 Hb.

JESCHKE, CLAUDIA, VETTERMANN, GABI AND HAITZINGER, NICOLE, Les Choses Espagnoles: Research into the Hispanomania of 19th Century Dance. Munich: E-Podium, 2009. Pp. 136. €23 Pb.

JURKOWSKY, HENRIK, AND FOULC, THIERI, eds., Encyclopédie mondiale des arts de la marionette. Montpellier: L'Entretemps, 2009. Pp. 864 + illus. €80 Pb.

KOBIALKA, MICHAL, Further On, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 552. $35 Pb; £65 Hb.

KOEGEL, JOHN, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City 1840–1940. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. Pp. 620. $80/£45 Hb.

KOLB, ALEXANDRA, Performing Femininity: Dance and Literature in German Modernism. Oxford, Bern, e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. viii + 316 + illus. €42.80/£40/$61.95 Pb.

KUFTINEC, SONJA ARSHAM, Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xviii + 218. £50/$75 Hb.

MCCALLUM, JOHN, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the Twentieth Century. Sydney: Currency, 2009. Pp. xi + 484 + illus. AU$49.95 Pb.

NATHANS, HEATHER S., Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 278 +illus. £50/90 Hb.

NORLAND, HOWARD B., Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England. Neward: University of Delaware Press, 2009. Pp. 278. $60/£53.95 Hb.

OSTOVICH, HELEN, SYME, HOLGER SCHOTT AND GRIFFIN, ANDREW, eds., Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xiv + 270. £55/$99.95 Hb.

PICKERING, KENNETH, AND WOOLGAR, MARK, Theatre Studies: Foundations. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 212. £16.99/$28.95 Pb.

PIETRZAK-FRANGER, MONIKA, AND VOIGTS-VIRCHOW, ECKART, eds., Adaptations: Performing across Media and Genres. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009. Pp. 308. €32.50 Pb.

RILEY, SHANNON ROSE, AND HUNTER, LYNETTE, eds., Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xxiv + 274. £55/$75 Hb.

ROBINSON, MARC, The American Play, 1787–2000. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 406 + illus. $45/£30 Hb.

ROZIK, ELI, Fictional Thinking: A Poetics and Rhetoric of Fictional Creativity in Theatre. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2009. £18.95/$37.95 Pb; £55/$74.95 Hb.

RZHEVSKY, NICHOLAS, The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008. Pp. 312 + illus. $79.95/£68.50 Hb.

SALZMAN, ERIC, AND DESI, THOMAS, The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 418 + illus. £22.95/$39.95 Hb.

SCHINO, MIRELLA, Alchemists of the Stage: Theatre Laboratories in Europe. Trans. Paul Warrington. Holstebro e.a.: Icarus, 2009. Pp. 272. €20/£17 Pb.

SCHWEITZER, MARLIS, When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. 310 + illus. $39.95/£26 Hb.

SHEVTSOVA, MARIA, AND INNES, CHRISTOPHER, eds., Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 288. £45/$80 Hb; £15.99/$23.99 Pb.

SIMON, ELI, The Art of Clowning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 192. £29.99 Pb; £55 Hb.

SOKOL, B. J., Shakespeare and Tolerance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 260. £50/$90 Hb.

SOLGA, KIM, Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 224. £52/$75 Hb.

STANLAKE, CHRISTY, Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 242 + illus. £55/$99 Hb.

VAN MAANEN, HANS, KOTTE, ANDREAS AND SARO, ANNELI, eds., Global Changes, Local Stages: How Theatre Functions in Smaller European Countries. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. Pp. 538. €106/$154 Hb.

WALTON, J. MICHAEL, Euripides Our Contemporary. London: Methuen, 2009. Pp. 250. £16.99 Pb.

WILMER, S. E., ed., Native American Performance and Representation. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. Pp. 296. $49.95 Hb.

References

ALEXANDER, CATHERINE M. S., ed., Shakespeare's Last Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 222. £17.99/$29.99 Pb; £50/$90 Hb.Google Scholar
ALLAIN, PAUL, The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki: A critical study with DVD Examples. London: Methuen, 2009. Pp. x + 214 + DVD. £24.99 Hb.Google Scholar
AUTANT-MATHIEU, MARIE-CHRISTINE, ed., Mikhaïl Tchekhov – Michael Chekhov: de Moscou à Hollywood, du théâtre au cinema. Montpellier: Ed. L'Entretemps, 2009. Pp. 528 + illus. €30 Pb.Google Scholar
BAILEY, REBECCA A., Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625–1642. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 266. £50 Hb.Google Scholar
BÉRARD, SUZANNE J., Le Théâtre révolutionnaire de 1789–1794: La déchristianisation sur les planches. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2009. Pp. 422. €23 Pb.Google Scholar
BRADY, SARA, AND WALSH, FINTAN, eds., Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 256. £55/$75 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
CARLSON, MARVIN, Theatre Is More Beautiful than War: German Stage Directing in the Late Twentieth Century. Cedar Rapids: University of Iowa Press, 2009. Pp. 240. $42.95/£36.95 Hb.Google Scholar
COWART, GEORGIA J., The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. 336 + illus. $55/£38 Hb.Google Scholar
CULL, LAURA, ed., Deleuze and Performance. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2009. Pp. 282. £24.99 Pb; £75 Hb.Google Scholar
DUTTON, RICHARD, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 752 + illus. £85/$150 Hb.Google Scholar
EFROS, ANATOLY, Beyond Rehearsal: Reflections on Interpretation and Practice, Continued. Trans. James Thomas. New York, Bern, e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. 324 + illus. €56.50/£52.80/$81.95 Hb.Google Scholar
EYRE, RICHARD, Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People. London: Nick Hern, 2009. Pp. xvi + 332. £20 Hb.Google Scholar
FENSHAM, RACHEL, To Watch Theatre: Essays on Genre and Corporeality. Brussels, Bern, e.a.: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. 191. €32.50/£29.50/$44.50 Pb.Google Scholar
FOSTER, SUSAN LEIGH, ed., Worlding Dance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian, 2009. Pp. 240. £45/$75 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
GRADY, HUGH, Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 262. £55/$99 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
GUTHRIE, JOHN, Schiller the Dramatist: A Study of Gesture in the Plays. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge: Camden House, 2009. Pp. xii + 214. $75/£40 Hb.Google Scholar
HAEDICKE, SUSAN C., HEDDON, DEIRDRE, OZ, AVRAHAM AND WESTLAKE, E. J., eds., Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. Pp. 380. €76 Pb.Google Scholar
HARRINGTON, JOHN P., ed., Irish Theater in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008. Pp. 232. $24.95/£21.50 Hb.Google Scholar
HENNION, CATHERINE, La Naissance du théâtre moderne à Tôkyô: Du Kabuki de la fin d'Edo au Petit Théâtre de Tsukiji (1842–1924). Montpellier: L'Entretemps, 2009. Pp. 416 + illus. €30 Hb.Google Scholar
HOPKINS, D. J., ORR, SHELLEY AND SOLGA, KIM, eds., Performance and the City. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xiv + 270. £52 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
HORNBACK, ROBERT, The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2009. Pp. xiv + 240. £50/$95 Hb.Google Scholar
HUANG, ALEXANDER C. Y., Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 368. $26.50/£15.50 Pb; $84.50/£49.95 Hb.Google Scholar
HUNTER, LYNETTE, AND LICHTENFELS, PETER, Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo & Juliet: Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre. Accompanied by a scholarly edition of the play on DVD. Pp. xii + 242 + DVD. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. £50/$89.95 Hb.Google Scholar
IBBETT, KATHERINE, The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660: Neoclassicism and Government. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. viii + 176. £55/$99.95 Hb.Google Scholar
JESCHKE, CLAUDIA, VETTERMANN, GABI AND HAITZINGER, NICOLE, Les Choses Espagnoles: Research into the Hispanomania of 19th Century Dance. Munich: E-Podium, 2009. Pp. 136. €23 Pb.Google Scholar
JURKOWSKY, HENRIK, AND FOULC, THIERI, eds., Encyclopédie mondiale des arts de la marionette. Montpellier: L'Entretemps, 2009. Pp. 864 + illus. €80 Pb.Google Scholar
KOBIALKA, MICHAL, Further On, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 552. $35 Pb; £65 Hb.Google Scholar
KOEGEL, JOHN, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City 1840–1940. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. Pp. 620. $80/£45 Hb.Google Scholar
KOLB, ALEXANDRA, Performing Femininity: Dance and Literature in German Modernism. Oxford, Bern, e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. viii + 316 + illus. €42.80/£40/$61.95 Pb.Google Scholar
KUFTINEC, SONJA ARSHAM, Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xviii + 218. £50/$75 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MCCALLUM, JOHN, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the Twentieth Century. Sydney: Currency, 2009. Pp. xi + 484 + illus. AU$49.95 Pb.Google Scholar
NATHANS, HEATHER S., Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 278 +illus. £50/90 Hb.Google Scholar
NORLAND, HOWARD B., Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England. Neward: University of Delaware Press, 2009. Pp. 278. $60/£53.95 Hb.Google Scholar
OSTOVICH, HELEN, SYME, HOLGER SCHOTT AND GRIFFIN, ANDREW, eds., Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xiv + 270. £55/$99.95 Hb.Google Scholar
PICKERING, KENNETH, AND WOOLGAR, MARK, Theatre Studies: Foundations. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 212. £16.99/$28.95 Pb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
PIETRZAK-FRANGER, MONIKA, AND VOIGTS-VIRCHOW, ECKART, eds., Adaptations: Performing across Media and Genres. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009. Pp. 308. €32.50 Pb.Google Scholar
RILEY, SHANNON ROSE, AND HUNTER, LYNETTE, eds., Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xxiv + 274. £55/$75 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
ROBINSON, MARC, The American Play, 1787–2000. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 406 + illus. $45/£30 Hb.Google Scholar
ROZIK, ELI, Fictional Thinking: A Poetics and Rhetoric of Fictional Creativity in Theatre. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2009. £18.95/$37.95 Pb; £55/$74.95 Hb.Google Scholar
RZHEVSKY, NICHOLAS, The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008. Pp. 312 + illus. $79.95/£68.50 Hb.Google Scholar
SALZMAN, ERIC, AND DESI, THOMAS, The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 418 + illus. £22.95/$39.95 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SCHINO, MIRELLA, Alchemists of the Stage: Theatre Laboratories in Europe. Trans. Paul Warrington. Holstebro e.a.: Icarus, 2009. Pp. 272. €20/£17 Pb.Google Scholar
SCHWEITZER, MARLIS, When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. 310 + illus. $39.95/£26 Hb.Google Scholar
SHEVTSOVA, MARIA, AND INNES, CHRISTOPHER, eds., Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 288. £45/$80 Hb; £15.99/$23.99 Pb.Google Scholar
SIMON, ELI, The Art of Clowning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 192. £29.99 Pb; £55 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SOKOL, B. J., Shakespeare and Tolerance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 260. £50/$90 Hb.Google Scholar
SOLGA, KIM, Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 224. £52/$75 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
STANLAKE, CHRISTY, Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 242 + illus. £55/$99 Hb.Google Scholar
VAN MAANEN, HANS, KOTTE, ANDREAS AND SARO, ANNELI, eds., Global Changes, Local Stages: How Theatre Functions in Smaller European Countries. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. Pp. 538. €106/$154 Hb.Google Scholar
WALTON, J. MICHAEL, Euripides Our Contemporary. London: Methuen, 2009. Pp. 250. £16.99 Pb.Google Scholar
WILMER, S. E., ed., Native American Performance and Representation. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. Pp. 296. $49.95 Hb.Google Scholar