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Theatre Research International , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2009, pp. 101 - 102
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2009

ASPHERGER, CYNTHIA, The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time: Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique in the 21st Century. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 368. €80 Pb.

AUSLANDER, PHILIP, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. Second Edition. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008 (first published 1999). Pp. xiv + 208. £19.99/$35.95 Pb.

AUSLANDER, PHILIP, Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guide. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. viii + 168. £15.99/$27.95 Pb.

BADA, VALéRIE, Mnemopoetics: Memory and Slavery in African-American Drama. Bruxelles, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 226. €36.90/£25.90 Pb.

BARRETT, MICHèLE and BAKER, BOBBY, eds., Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Daily Life. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xii + 276 + illus. £25 Pb.

BELSEY, CATHERINE, Shakespeare in Theory and Practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Pp. viii + 208. £50 Hb.

BERRY, CICELY, From Word to Play: A Handbook for Directors. London: Oberon, 2008. Pp. viii + 184. £14.99 Pb.

BLEEKER, MAAIKE, ed., Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. Pp. 270 + illus. €32.50 Pb.

BLEEKER, MAAIKE, Visibility in the Theatre: The Locus of Looking. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xiv + 288. £50 Hb.

BOTTOMS, STEPHEN and GOULISH, MATTHEW, eds., Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xviii + 242 + illus. £19.99 Pb.

BOWERS, RICK, Radical Comedy in Early Modern England: Contexts, Cultures, Performances. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 122. £45 Hb.

BURCH, STEVEN DEDALUS, Andrew P. Wilson and the Early Irish and Scottish National Theatres, 1911–1950. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon, 2008. Pp. 240. $109.95/£69.95 Hb.

DEER, JOE and DAL VERA, ROCCO, Acting in Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course. With a Foreword by Lynn Ahrens. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xxxii + 448. £16.99 Pb, £60 Hb.

DICKER-SUN, GLENDA, African American Theater: A Cultural Companion. Cambridge: Polity, 2008. Pp. xiv + 210. £18.99 Pb., £60 Hb.

DIEDE, MARTHA KALNIN, Shakespeare's Knowledgeable Body. New York, Bern, e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 186. €53/£32.40 Pb.

FISCHER-LICHTE, ERIKA, The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics. Translated by JAIN, Saskya Iris. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008 (first published 2004). Pp. 232. £18.99 Pb; £65 Hb.

GALE, MAGGIE B., J. B. Priestley. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. x + 208. £14.99 Pb.

GHOSE, INDIRA, Shakespeare and Laughter: A Cultural History. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. Pp. 230. £55 Hb.

GOODALL, JANE, Stage Presence. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. viii + 224. £19.99 Pb.

HAMILTON, JAMES R., The Art of Theater. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. xvi + 226. £45 Hb.

HARSHAV, BENJAMIN, The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 198. $45 Hb.

HENKE, ROBERT and NICHOLSON, ERIC, eds., Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xvi + 264. £55 Hb.

KOZEL, SUSAN, Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. Pp. 380. $35/£22.95 Hb.

KREUDER, FRIEDEMANN and SCHULER, CONSTANZE, eds., Hostile Takeover – On Violence and Media: Performance and Media Studies 2006. Marburg: Tectum, 2008. Pp. 122. €24.90 Pb.

LEACH, ROBERT, Theatre Studies: The Basics. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. x + 194. £9.99 Pb; £55 Hb.

LUNDSKAER-NIELSEN, MIRANDA, Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. x + 232. £42.50 Hb.

MCARTHUR, BENJAMIN, The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineeteenth-Century American Theatre. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 464 + illus. $45 Hb.

MCCUTCHEON, JADE ROSINA, Awakening the Performing Body. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. xii + 174. €37 Pb.

MCNULTY, EUGENE, The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival. Cork: Cork University Press, 2008. Pp. x + 258. €39/£30 Hb.

OKAMURO, MINAKO, NAOYA, MORI E.A., eds., Borderless Beckett: Beckett sans frontiers, Tokyo 2006. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 468 +illus. €94.

ÓLAFSSON, TRAUSTI, Ibsen's Theatre of Ritualistic Visions: An Interdisciplinary Study of Ten Plays. Oxford, Bern, e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 314 + illus. €57.70/£35 Pb.

OZIEBLO, BARBARA and DICKEY, JERRY, Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xii + 288. £14.99 Pb.

PAUN DE GARCIA, SUSAN and LARSON, DONALD R., eds., The Comedia in English: Translation & Performance. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008. Pp. xx + 296. £50 Hb.

PUGA, ANA ELENA, Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theatre: Upstaging Dictatorship. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 208. £60/$95 Hb.

REDLING, ELLEN and SCHNIERER, PETER PAUL, eds., Non-standard Forms of Contemporary Drama and Theatre. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008. Pp. 260. €26.50 Pb.

ROBERTS, PHILIP, About Churchill: The Playwright & The Work. London: Faber & Faber, 2008. Pp. xxviii + 304. £12.99 Pb.

RUTTER, CAROL CHILLINGTON, Shakespeare and Child's Play: Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxii +250. £19.99 Pb.

SLOWEY, DESMOND, The Radicalization of Irish Drama 1600–1900: The Rise and Fall of Ascendancy Theatre. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008. Pp. 288. €59.95/£45 Hb.

TIAN, MIN, The Poetics of Difference and Displacement: Twentieth-Century Chinese Western Intercultural Theatre. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. Pp. 292. $49.50 Hb.

TRAMUTA, MARIE-JOSé and BUTEL, YANNICK, eds., France–Italie: Un Dialogue théâtral depuis 1950. Bern, Berlin e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. x +195 + 5 illus. €42.80/£30 Pb.

TYNAN, KENNETH, Theatre Writings. Foreword by Tom Stoppard. Selected and edited by Dominic Shellard. London: Nick Hern, 2008. Pp. xxv + 278. £9.99 Pb.

WANDOR, MICHELENE, The Art of Writing Drama: Theory and Practice. London: Methuen, 2008. Pp. viii + 188. £12.99/$19.95 Pb.

YACHNIN, PAUL and BADIR, PATRICIA, eds., Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xiv + 210 + 10 b-&-w illus. £50 Hb.

ZARHY-LEVO, YAEL, The Making of Theatrical Reputations: Studies from the Modern London Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008. Pp. 304 + illus. $42.50 Hb.

References

ASPHERGER, CYNTHIA, The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time: Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique in the 21st Century. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 368. €80 Pb.Google Scholar
AUSLANDER, PHILIP, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. Second Edition. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008 (first published 1999). Pp. xiv + 208. £19.99/$35.95 Pb.Google Scholar
AUSLANDER, PHILIP, Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guide. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. viii + 168. £15.99/$27.95 Pb.Google Scholar
BADA, VALéRIE, Mnemopoetics: Memory and Slavery in African-American Drama. Bruxelles, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 226. €36.90/£25.90 Pb.Google Scholar
BARRETT, MICHèLE and BAKER, BOBBY, eds., Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Daily Life. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xii + 276 + illus. £25 Pb.Google Scholar
BELSEY, CATHERINE, Shakespeare in Theory and Practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Pp. viii + 208. £50 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BERRY, CICELY, From Word to Play: A Handbook for Directors. London: Oberon, 2008. Pp. viii + 184. £14.99 Pb.Google Scholar
BLEEKER, MAAIKE, ed., Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. Pp. 270 + illus. €32.50 Pb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BLEEKER, MAAIKE, Visibility in the Theatre: The Locus of Looking. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xiv + 288. £50 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BOTTOMS, STEPHEN and GOULISH, MATTHEW, eds., Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xviii + 242 + illus. £19.99 Pb.Google Scholar
BOWERS, RICK, Radical Comedy in Early Modern England: Contexts, Cultures, Performances. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 122. £45 Hb.Google Scholar
BURCH, STEVEN DEDALUS, Andrew P. Wilson and the Early Irish and Scottish National Theatres, 1911–1950. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon, 2008. Pp. 240. $109.95/£69.95 Hb.Google Scholar
DEER, JOE and DAL VERA, ROCCO, Acting in Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course. With a Foreword by Lynn Ahrens. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xxxii + 448. £16.99 Pb, £60 Hb.Google Scholar
DICKER-SUN, GLENDA, African American Theater: A Cultural Companion. Cambridge: Polity, 2008. Pp. xiv + 210. £18.99 Pb., £60 Hb.Google Scholar
DIEDE, MARTHA KALNIN, Shakespeare's Knowledgeable Body. New York, Bern, e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 186. €53/£32.40 Pb.Google Scholar
FISCHER-LICHTE, ERIKA, The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics. Translated by JAIN, Saskya Iris. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008 (first published 2004). Pp. 232. £18.99 Pb; £65 Hb.Google Scholar
GALE, MAGGIE B., J. B. Priestley. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. x + 208. £14.99 Pb.Google Scholar
GHOSE, INDIRA, Shakespeare and Laughter: A Cultural History. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. Pp. 230. £55 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
GOODALL, JANE, Stage Presence. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. viii + 224. £19.99 Pb.Google Scholar
HAMILTON, JAMES R., The Art of Theater. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. xvi + 226. £45 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
HARSHAV, BENJAMIN, The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 198. $45 Hb.Google Scholar
HENKE, ROBERT and NICHOLSON, ERIC, eds., Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xvi + 264. £55 Hb.Google Scholar
KOZEL, SUSAN, Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. Pp. 380. $35/£22.95 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
KREUDER, FRIEDEMANN and SCHULER, CONSTANZE, eds., Hostile Takeover – On Violence and Media: Performance and Media Studies 2006. Marburg: Tectum, 2008. Pp. 122. €24.90 Pb.Google Scholar
LEACH, ROBERT, Theatre Studies: The Basics. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. x + 194. £9.99 Pb; £55 Hb.Google Scholar
LUNDSKAER-NIELSEN, MIRANDA, Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. x + 232. £42.50 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MCARTHUR, BENJAMIN, The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineeteenth-Century American Theatre. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 464 + illus. $45 Hb.Google Scholar
MCCUTCHEON, JADE ROSINA, Awakening the Performing Body. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. xii + 174. €37 Pb.Google Scholar
MCNULTY, EUGENE, The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival. Cork: Cork University Press, 2008. Pp. x + 258. €39/£30 Hb.Google Scholar
OKAMURO, MINAKO, NAOYA, MORI E.A., eds., Borderless Beckett: Beckett sans frontiers, Tokyo 2006. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 468 +illus. €94.Google Scholar
ÓLAFSSON, TRAUSTI, Ibsen's Theatre of Ritualistic Visions: An Interdisciplinary Study of Ten Plays. Oxford, Bern, e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 314 + illus. €57.70/£35 Pb.Google Scholar
OZIEBLO, BARBARA and DICKEY, JERRY, Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xii + 288. £14.99 Pb.Google Scholar
PAUN DE GARCIA, SUSAN and LARSON, DONALD R., eds., The Comedia in English: Translation & Performance. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008. Pp. xx + 296. £50 Hb.Google Scholar
PUGA, ANA ELENA, Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theatre: Upstaging Dictatorship. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 208. £60/$95 Hb.Google Scholar
REDLING, ELLEN and SCHNIERER, PETER PAUL, eds., Non-standard Forms of Contemporary Drama and Theatre. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008. Pp. 260. €26.50 Pb.Google Scholar
ROBERTS, PHILIP, About Churchill: The Playwright & The Work. London: Faber & Faber, 2008. Pp. xxviii + 304. £12.99 Pb.Google Scholar
RUTTER, CAROL CHILLINGTON, Shakespeare and Child's Play: Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxii +250. £19.99 Pb.Google Scholar
SLOWEY, DESMOND, The Radicalization of Irish Drama 1600–1900: The Rise and Fall of Ascendancy Theatre. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008. Pp. 288. €59.95/£45 Hb.Google Scholar
TIAN, MIN, The Poetics of Difference and Displacement: Twentieth-Century Chinese Western Intercultural Theatre. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. Pp. 292. $49.50 Hb.Google Scholar
TRAMUTA, MARIE-JOSé and BUTEL, YANNICK, eds., France–Italie: Un Dialogue théâtral depuis 1950. Bern, Berlin e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. x +195 + 5 illus. €42.80/£30 Pb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
TYNAN, KENNETH, Theatre Writings. Foreword by Tom Stoppard. Selected and edited by Dominic Shellard. London: Nick Hern, 2008. Pp. xxv + 278. £9.99 Pb.Google Scholar
WANDOR, MICHELENE, The Art of Writing Drama: Theory and Practice. London: Methuen, 2008. Pp. viii + 188. £12.99/$19.95 Pb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
YACHNIN, PAUL and BADIR, PATRICIA, eds., Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xiv + 210 + 10 b-&-w illus. £50 Hb.Google Scholar
ZARHY-LEVO, YAEL, The Making of Theatrical Reputations: Studies from the Modern London Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008. Pp. 304 + illus. $42.50 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar