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LIST OF BOOKS RECEIVED AS OF 1 DECEMBER 2008

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Theatre Survey , Volume 50 , Special Issue 1: African and Afro-Caribbean Performance , May 2009, pp. 177 - 183
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Alonso, Harriet Huyman. Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. $28.95 paper.*Anderson, Lisa M.Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. $35 cloth.*Armstrong, Ann, and Juhl, Kathleen, eds. Radical Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2007. $17.95 paper.Artaud, Antonin. 50 Drawings to Murder Magic. Trans. Nicholson-Smith, Donald. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2008. $29.95 cloth.Auslander, Philip. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. 2d ed.London and New York: Routledge, 2008. $35.95 paper.Balme, Christopher B.The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $80 cloth, $22.99 paper.Baron, Cynthia, and Carnicke, Sharon Marie, eds. Reframing Screen Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. $65 cloth, $24.95 paper.Barranger, Milly S.Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. $37.50 paper.*Bartels, Emily C.Speaking of the Moor: From “Alcazar” to “Othello.” Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. $55 cloth.Beadle, Richard, and Fletcher, Alan J., eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, 2d ed.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $90 cloth, $29.99 paper.*Beam, Sara. Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. $55 cloth.*Bechtel, Roger. Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press (Cranbury, NJ: AUP), 2007. $56.50 cloth.*Bigsby, Christopher. Neil LaBute: Stage and Cinema. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $95 cloth, $24.99 paper.Bigsby, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $90 cloth, $29.99 paper.Bollen, Jonathan, Kiernander, Adrian, and Parr, Bruce. Men at Play: Masculinities in the Australian Theatre since the 1950s. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. $65 paper.Boon, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to David Hare. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $90 cloth, $29.99 paper.*Bottoms, Stephen, and Goulish, Matthew, eds. Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. $125 cloth, $37.95 paper.Brown, Jayna. Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.Brown, Pamela Allen, and Parolin, Peter, eds. Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. $120 cloth, $49.95 paper.*Bulman, James C., ed. Shakespeare Re-Dressed: Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Cranbury, NJ: AUP), 2008. $53.50 cloth.Canino, Catherine Grace. Shakespeare and the Nobility: The Negotiation of Lineage. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $95 cloth.Castellucci, Claudia, Romeo Castellucci, ChiaraGuidi, Joe Kelleher, and Ridout, Nicholas. The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. $150 cloth, $35.95 paper.Chatterjee, Sudipto. The Colonial Staged: Theatre in Colonial Calcutta. London, New York, and Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2008. $84.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.Cheney, Patrick. Shakespeare's Literary Authorship. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Collison, David. The Sound of Theatre: From the Ancient Greeks to the Modern Digital Age. Eastbourne: PLASA Limited, 2008. $49.99 cloth.Cunningham, Vanessa. Shakespeare and Garrick. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.De García, Susan Paun, and Larson, Donald R., eds. The Comedia in English: Translation and Performance. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis Books, 2008. $95 cloth.Delgado, Maria M.Federico García Lorca. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. $110 cloth, $29.95 paper.Dorbian, Iris. Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater. New York: Allworth Press, 2008. $19.95 paper.Dutton, Richard. Ben Jonson: “Volpone” and the Gunpowder Plot. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Ephraim, Michelle. Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. $99.95 cloth.Fliotsos, Anne, and Vierow, Wendy. American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. $60 cloth.*Forman, Valerie. Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. $59.95 cloth.Frueh, Joanna. Clairvoyance (For Those in the Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979–2004. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.Gale, Maggie B.J. B. Priestley. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. $29.95 paper.Gay, Penny. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $70 cloth, $19.99 paper.Geis, Deborah R.Suzan-Lori Parks. Michigan Modern Dramatists. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. $18.95 paper.Gharavi, Lance, ed. and trans. Western Esotericism in Russian Silver Age Drama: Aleksandr Blok's “The Rose and the Cross.” St. Paul, MN: New Grail Publishing, 2008. $27.95 paper.*Goff, Moira. The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 cloth.Guthrie, Tyrone. A New Theatre, expanded ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. $15.95 paper.*Hall-Witt, Jennifer. Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780–1880. Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press (Lebanon, NH: UPNE), 2007. $55 cloth.*Hamera, Judith. Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City. Studies in International Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $74.95 cloth.*Hand, Richard J., and Wilson, Michael. London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008. $90 cloth, $28.95 paper.Hays, Peter L., and Nicholson, Kent. Arthur Miller's “Death of a Salesman.” Modern Theatre Guides. New York: Continuum, 2008. $90 cloth, $16.95 paper.Henry, Mari Lyn, and Rogers, Lynne. How to Be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, and Television. 5th ed.New York: Back Stage Books, 2008. $19.95 paper.*Herren, Graley. Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $65 cloth.Hooks, Ed.The Ultimate Scene & Monologue Sourcebook, 2d ed.New York: Back Stage Books, 2007. $19.95 paper.*Hopkins, D. J.City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. $100 cloth.Jennings, Coleman A., ed. Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism and Mature Themes in Theatre for Young Audiences. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. $60 cloth, $24.95 paper.*Johnson, Claudia Durst. Church and Stage: The Theatre as Target of Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth Century America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. $39.95 paper.Jonson, Ben. Epicene, or The Silent Woman. Dutton, Richard, ed. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. $24.95 paper.*Kanter, Jodi. Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. $37.50 paper.*Kershaw, Baz. Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.King, Thomas A.The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750: vol. 2, Queer Articulations. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. $65 cloth.*Kinservik, Matthew J.Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $74.95 cloth.*Kolin, Philip C., ed. Contemporary African American Woman Playwrights: A Casebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. $120 cloth.Krasner, David, ed. Theatre in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Wiley–Blackwell, 2008. $100.95 cloth, $47.95 paper.*Kritzer, Amelia Howe. Political Theatre in Post-Thatcher Britain: New Writing, 1995–2005. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $74.95 cloth.*Leach, Robert. Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of the Modern British Theatre. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006. $95 cloth, $32.50 paper.Lundskaer-Nielsen, Miranda. Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $74.95 cloth.McCutcheon, Jade Rosina. Awakening the Performing Body. Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. $48 paper.Macdonald, James. Russia, Freaks, & Foreigners: Three Performance Texts. Bristol, UK and Chicago: Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press, 2008. $30 paper.McMullan, Gordon. Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $99 cloth.*Mann, David. Shakespeare's Women: Performance and Conception. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $95 cloth.Marranca, Bonnie. Performance Histories. New York: PAJ Publications, 2008. $18.95 paper.Mason, Jeffrey D.Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. $49.50 cloth.*Miller, Tice L.Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. $37.50 paper.Moncrief, Kathryn M., and McPherson, Kathryn R.. Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 cloth.Moody, Jane, and O'Quinn, Daniel. The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $85 cloth, $29.99 paper.Mukherji, Subha, and Lyne, Raphael, eds. Early Modern Tragicomedy. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. $85 cloth.*Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare for the People: Working-Class Readers, 1800–1900. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Nadel, Ira. David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $26.95 cloth.*Normington, Katie. Modern Mysteries: Contemporary Productions of Medieval English Cycle Dramas. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. $55 cloth.*Novick, Julius. Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $69.95 cloth.Ozieblo, Barbara, and Dickey, Jerry. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. $29.95 paper.*Parker, John. The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. $39.95 cloth.Phillips, Louis. The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, 2d ed.New York: World Audience, Inc., 2007. $20 paper.Price, Steven. The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet. A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $75.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.*Reynolds, Paige. Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $95 cloth.Robb, David, ed. Clowns, Fools and Picaros: Popular Forms in Theatre, Fiction and Film. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007. $61 paper.*Romeyn, Esther. Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. $25 paper.*Russell, Gillian. Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $96 cloth.Rutter, Tom. Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Rzhevsky, Nicholas. The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History. Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharp Inc., 2008. $79.95 cloth.*Saal, Ilka. New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $74.95 cloth.Saunders, Graham. Patrick Marber's “Closer.” Modern Theatre Guides. New York: Continuum, 2008. $90 cloth, $16.95 paper.Schalkwyk, David. Shakespeare, Love and Service. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.*Schechter, Joel. Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. $39.50 cloth.*Shaffer, Jason. Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary Theater. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. $45 cloth.Sieg, Katrin. Choreographing the Global in European Cinema and Theater. Studies in European Culture and History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $79.95 cloth.Sierz, Aleks. John Osborne's “Look Back in Anger.” Modern Theater Guides. New York: Continuum, 2008. $90 cloth, $16.95 paper.*Sihra, Melissa. Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation. Performance Interventions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $74.95 cloth.Slights, William W. E.The Heart in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.*Sokalski, J. A.Pictorial Illusionism: The Theatre of Steele Mackaye. Montréal: McGill–Queen's University Press, 2007. $55 cloth.Stanislavski, Konstantin. My Life in Art. Trans. Benedetti, Jean. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. $39.95 cloth.*Strobl, Gerwin. The Swastika and the Stage: German Theatre and Society, 1933–1945. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $95 cloth.*Symes, Carol. A Common Stage: Theatre and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. $49.95 cloth.Thomas, David, Carlton, David, and Etienne, Anne. Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Törnqvist, Emil, and Steene, Birgitta, eds. Strindberg: On Drama and Theatre. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. $34.95 paper.Traill, Ariana. Women and the Comic Plot in Menander. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.*Wallace, Jennifer. The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $75 cloth, $22.99 paper.Walling, Michael, ed. Theatre and Slavery: Ghosts at the Crossroads. Bankside, Enfield: Border Crossings, 2007. £12.99 paper.Wellman, Mac. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field: Nine New Plays. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. $69 cloth, $22.95 paper.Wetmore, Kevin J. Jr., ed. Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre: From Hamlet to Madame Butterfly. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $79.95 cloth.White, Paul Whitfield. Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485–1660. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Whyman, Rose. The Stanislavsky System of Acting: Legacy and Influence in Modern Performance. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.*Wiles, David. Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $100 cloth.*Wilmer, Stephen, ed. National Theatres in a Changing Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $74.95 cloth.Wilson, Ross. Theodor Adorno. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. $19.95 paper.*Witmore, Michael. Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. $39.95 cloth.Woodruff, Paul. The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. $27.95 cloth.Worthen, Hana. Playing “Nordic”: “The Women of Niskavuori,” Agri/Culture, and Imagining Finland on the Third Reich Stage. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2007. €20 paper.*Wright, John. Why Is That So Funny?: A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy. London: Nick Hern Books, 2007. $25.95 paper.*Zarhy-Levo, Yael. The Making of Theatrical Reputations: Studies from the Modern London Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008. $42.50 cloth.Zinman, Toby. Edward Albee. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. $49.50 cloth, $18.95 paper.

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Alonso, Harriet Huyman. Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. $28.95 paper.Google Scholar
*Anderson, Lisa M.Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. $35 cloth.Google Scholar
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Artaud, Antonin. 50 Drawings to Murder Magic. Trans. Nicholson-Smith, Donald. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2008. $29.95 cloth.Google Scholar
Auslander, Philip. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. 2d ed.London and New York: Routledge, 2008. $35.95 paper.Google Scholar
Balme, Christopher B.The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $80 cloth, $22.99 paper.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baron, Cynthia, and Carnicke, Sharon Marie, eds. Reframing Screen Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. $65 cloth, $24.95 paper.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barranger, Milly S.Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. $37.50 paper.Google Scholar
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Beadle, Richard, and Fletcher, Alan J., eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, 2d ed.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $90 cloth, $29.99 paper.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Bigsby, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $90 cloth, $29.99 paper.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bollen, Jonathan, Kiernander, Adrian, and Parr, Bruce. Men at Play: Masculinities in the Australian Theatre since the 1950s. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. $65 paper.Google Scholar
Boon, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to David Hare. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $90 cloth, $29.99 paper.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Brown, Jayna. Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.Google Scholar
Brown, Pamela Allen, and Parolin, Peter, eds. Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. $120 cloth, $49.95 paper.Google Scholar
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Castellucci, Claudia, Romeo Castellucci, ChiaraGuidi, Joe Kelleher, and Ridout, Nicholas. The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. $150 cloth, $35.95 paper.Google Scholar
Chatterjee, Sudipto. The Colonial Staged: Theatre in Colonial Calcutta. London, New York, and Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2008. $84.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.Google Scholar
Cheney, Patrick. Shakespeare's Literary Authorship. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Google Scholar
Collison, David. The Sound of Theatre: From the Ancient Greeks to the Modern Digital Age. Eastbourne: PLASA Limited, 2008. $49.99 cloth.Google Scholar
Cunningham, Vanessa. Shakespeare and Garrick. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Google Scholar
De García, Susan Paun, and Larson, Donald R., eds. The Comedia in English: Translation and Performance. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis Books, 2008. $95 cloth.Google Scholar
Delgado, Maria M.Federico García Lorca. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. $110 cloth, $29.95 paper.Google Scholar
Dorbian, Iris. Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater. New York: Allworth Press, 2008. $19.95 paper.Google Scholar
Dutton, Richard. Ben Jonson: “Volpone” and the Gunpowder Plot. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $99 cloth.Google Scholar
Ephraim, Michelle. Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. $99.95 cloth.Google Scholar
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Gale, Maggie B.J. B. Priestley. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. $29.95 paper.Google Scholar
Gay, Penny. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $70 cloth, $19.99 paper.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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*Goff, Moira. The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 cloth.Google Scholar
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*Hall-Witt, Jennifer. Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780–1880. Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press (Lebanon, NH: UPNE), 2007. $55 cloth.Google Scholar
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Hays, Peter L., and Nicholson, Kent. Arthur Miller's “Death of a Salesman.” Modern Theatre Guides. New York: Continuum, 2008. $90 cloth, $16.95 paper.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Henry, Mari Lyn, and Rogers, Lynne. How to Be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, and Television. 5th ed.New York: Back Stage Books, 2008. $19.95 paper.Google Scholar
*Herren, Graley. Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $65 cloth.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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*Hopkins, D. J.City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. $100 cloth.Google Scholar
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*Johnson, Claudia Durst. Church and Stage: The Theatre as Target of Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth Century America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. $39.95 paper.Google Scholar
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Marranca, Bonnie. Performance Histories. New York: PAJ Publications, 2008. $18.95 paper.Google Scholar
Mason, Jeffrey D.Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. $49.50 cloth.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Mukherji, Subha, and Lyne, Raphael, eds. Early Modern Tragicomedy. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. $85 cloth.Google Scholar
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