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Abbate, Carolyn, and Parker, Roger. A History of Opera. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012. $45 cloth.
Ackerman, Alan. Reading Modern Drama. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. $29.95 paper.
*Amine, Khalid, and Carlson, Marvin. The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb. Studies in International Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. $85 cloth.
Baird, Bruce. Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $95 cloth.
Barnett, Claudia. I Love You Terribly: Six Plays by Claudia Barnett. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2011. $16.95 paper.
Batiste, Stephanie Leigh. Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. $94.95 cloth, $25.95 paper.
Bennett, Michael Y.Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $85 cloth.
Bennett, Michael Y., and Carson, Benjamin D., eds. Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $85 cloth.
Berkowitz, Joel, and Henry, Barbara, eds. Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012. $39.95 paper.
Binnerts, Paul. Acting in Real Time. Trans. Binnerts, Paul and Wangh, Stephen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. $85 cloth, $35 paper.
Brady, Sara. Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror: “Whatever It Takes.” Performance Interventions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $85 cloth.
*Bratton, Jacky. The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. $103 cloth, $82 e-book.
Caselli, Daniela, ed. Beckett and Nothing: Trying to Understand Beckett. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. $79.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.
Claycomb, Ryan. Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. $55 cloth, $45 e-book.
Clayton, J. Douglas, and Meerzon, Yana, eds. Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations. Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. $130 cloth.
*Cochrane, Claire. Twentieth-Century British Theatre: Industry, Art and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $99.00 cloth.
Colleran, Jeanne. Theatre and War: Theatrical Responses since 1991. What Is Theatre? New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $90 cloth, $90 e-book.
Cowgill, Rachel, and Poriss, Hilary, eds. The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. $99 cloth, $35 paper.
Cumming, Scott T.Maria Irene Fornes. Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. $120 cloth, $31.95 paper, $29.95 e-book.
*Decker, Todd. “Show Boat”: Performing Race in an American Musical. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. $35 cloth, $24.99 e-book.
Delgado, Maria M., and Gies, David T., eds. A History of Theatre in Spain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $120 cloth, $96 e-book.
Di Benedetto, Stephen. An Introduction to Theatre Design. New York: Routledge, 2012. $115 cloth, $50.95 paper, $47.95 e-book.
Fenemore, Anna, ed. The Rehearsal: Pigeon Theatre's Trilogy of Performance Works on Playing Dead. Fishponds, Bristol: Intellect Ltd., 2012. $30 paper.
Fletcher, Judith. Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $99 cloth, $79 e-book.
Foley, Helene P.Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage. Sather Classical Lectures. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. $95 cloth, $95 e-book.
Frederik, Laurie A.Trumpets in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. $94.95 cloth, $25.95 paper.
Gordon, Robert. Harold Pinter: The Theatre of Power. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. $49.50 cloth.
Greenspan, David. “The Myopia” and Other Plays by David Greenspan. Ed. Robinson, Marc. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. $85 cloth, $32.50 paper.
*Grover-Friedlander, Michal. Operatic Afterlives. New York: Zone Books, 2011. $29.95 cloth.
Hinton, Stephen. Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. $49.95 cloth, $49.95 e-book.
*Hohman, Valleri J.Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891–1933. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. $85 cloth, $85 e-book.
Holmberg, Arthur. David Mamet and American Macho. Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $90 cloth.
Hooper, Michael S. D.Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams: Desire Over Protest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $99 cloth, $79 e-book.
*Hopkins, Lisa. Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham, Surrey, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. $99.95 cloth.
Hughes, Alan. Performing Greek Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. $103 cloth, $82 e-book.
*Hughes, Amy E.Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. $75 cloth, $60 e-book.
Imada, Adria L.Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper, $24.95 e-book.
Johnson, Dominic. Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture. Rethinking Art's Histories. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. $95 cloth.
Johnson, Stephen, ed. Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. $80 cloth, $28.95 paper.
Kippola, Karl M.Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828–1865. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $85 cloth, $85 e-book.
Leask, Margaret. Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer. Hatfield, Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012. $50 cloth, $29.95 paper, $23.99 e-book.
Ledger, Adam J.Odin Teatret: Theatre in a New Century. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $85 cloth, $85 e-book.
Lee, Esther Kim, ed. Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. $94.95 cloth, $26.95 paper, $26.95 e-book.
*Lerman, Liz. Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. $29.95 cloth, $23.99 e-book.
*Ley, Graham, and Dadswell, Sarah, eds. British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History. Exeter Performance Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012. $105 cloth w/ DVD, $37.25 paper w/ DVD.
Ley, Graham, and Dadswell, Sarah, eds. Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre. Exeter Performance Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012. $48 paper.
Lonergan, Patrick. The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh. London: Methuen Drama, 2012. $117.25 cloth, $22.95 paper.
McAuley, Gay. Not Magic but Work: An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process. Theatre: Theory-Practice-Performance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. $90 cloth.
Magee, Jeffrey. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater. Broadway Legacies. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. $35 cloth, $25.99 e-book.
Makaryk, Irena R., and McHugh, Marissa, eds. Shakespeare and the Second World War: Memory, Culture, Identity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. $65 cloth.
*Malague, Rosemary. An Actress Prepares: Women and “the Method.” London and New York: Routledge, 2012. $131 cloth, $33.95 paper, $31.95 e-book.
Malina, Judith. The Piscator Notebook. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. $120 cloth, $33.95 paper, $31.95 e-book.
Martin, Carol, ed. Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $29 paper.
*Martin, Randall, and Scheil, Katherine, eds. Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama: Essays in Honour of Jill L. Levenson. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2011. $65 cloth.
*Mitchell, Koritha. Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930. New Black Studies. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2011. $40 cloth, $28.00 paper, $25.20 e-book.
*Newey, Katherine, and Richards, Jeffrey. John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. $95 cloth.
*Noonan, Ellen. The Strange Career of “Porgy and Bess”: Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. $39.95 cloth.
Nooter, Sarah. When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $95 cloth, $76 e-book.
Paulin, Diana Rebekkah. Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. $75 cloth, $25 paper.
*Perry, Jill, with Roach, Joseph and West, Shearer. The First Actresses: From Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. $50 cloth.
Phelan, Peggy, ed. Live Art in LA: Performance in Southern California, 1970–1983. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. $131 cloth, $41.95 paper, $39.95 e-book.
*Pitches, Jonathan, ed. Russians in Britain: British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. $120 cloth, $39.95 paper, $36.95 e-book.
Plunka, Gene A.Staging Holocaust Resistance. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $90 cloth.
Quintero, Maria Cristina. Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia. New Hispanisms: Cultural & Literary Studies. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. $99.95 cloth, $99.95 e-book.
Rebstock, Matthias, and Roesner, David, eds. Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices, Processes. Fishponds, Bristol: Intellect Ltd., 2012. $60 cloth, $20 e-book.
*Reinelt, Janelle, and Hewitt, Gerald. The Political Theatre of David Edgar: Negotiation and Retrieval. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. $99 cloth, $79 e-book.
Reynolds, Dee, and Reason, Matthew, eds. Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices. Fishponds, Bristol: Intellect Ltd., 2012. $50 paper.
Rovit, Rebecca. The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012. $41 paper.
Ruscio, Al. “So Therefore. . .”: A Practical Guide for Actors. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. $120 cloth, $27.95 paper, $25.95 e-book.
*Rutter, Tom. The Cambridge Introduction to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $75 cloth, $19.99 paper, $16 e-book.
*Scott, Shelley. Nightwood Theatre: A Woman's Work Is Always Done. Canadian Play. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2010. $43.95 paper.
*Schultig, Sabine, Lucia Muller, Sabine, and Hertel, Ralf, eds. Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East: Performing Cultures. Farnham, Surry, and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2012. $99.95 cloth, $79.96 Kindle edition.
Sell, Mike. The Avant-Garde: Race, Religion, War. London: Seagull Books, 2012. $25 paper.
Shaughnessy, Nicola. Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $85 cloth, $85 e-book.
*Sidiropoulou, Avra. Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre. What Is Theatre? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. $85 cloth.
Smith, Michael Wilson, ed. Georg Büchner: The Major Works. Trans. Schmidt, Henry J.. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012. $15 paper.
Smith, Susan Harris. Plays in American Periodicals, 1890–1918. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $89 cloth, $28 paper.
Strindberg, August. Selected Plays, Volume I. Trans. Evert Sprinchorn. Intro. Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and Anna Westerståhl Stenport. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. $25 paper.
Strindberg, August. Selected Plays, Volume II. Trans. Evert Sprinchorn. Intro. Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and Anna Westerståhl Stenport. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. $25 paper.
*Tait, Peta. Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $80 cloth.
*Volpp, Sophie. Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China. Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Press (for Harvard University Asia Center), 2011. $44.95 cloth.
Warden, Claire. British Avant-Garde Theatre. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $85 cloth.
Welton, Martin. Feeling Theatre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. $85 cloth.
*Wyles, Rosie. Costume in Greek Tragedy. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011. $34.95 paper.
*Young, Harvey, ed. The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $90 cloth, $29.99 paper.
