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Theatre Research International , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , July 2009, pp. 223 - 225
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2009

BACH, SUSANNE and GLAAP, ALBERT-REINER, eds., Frayn in Germany: Plays and Novels. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008. Pp. 166. €19.50 Pb.

BAKER, K. SCOTT, Drama and ‘Ideenschmuggel’: Inserted Performance as Communicative Strategy in Karl Gutzkow's Plays 1839–1849. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 187. €41.50/£27/$64.95 Pb.

BALME, CHRISTOPHER, Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 246. £14.99/$22.99 Pb; £40/$80 Hb.

BEMROSE, ANNA, Robert Helpmann: A Servant of Art. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 403. AU$49.95 Hb.

BIRDSALL, CAROLYN and ENNS, ANTHONY, eds., Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. Pp. 290. £39.99/$79.99 Hb.

branigan, KEVIN, Radio Beckett: Musicality in the Radio Plays of Samuel Beckett. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 268. £33/€44/$68.95 Pb.

CARNICKE, SHARON MARIE, Stanislavsky in Focus: An Acting Master for the Twenty-First Century. Second edition. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xiv + 252. £15.99/$28.95 Pb; £65/$115 Hb.

CHAPMAN, DON, Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008. Pp. xx + 344 + illus. £18.99 Hb.

DAVIS, TRACY C., ed., Companion to Performance Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 194. £17.99/$29.99 Pb; £45/$90 Hb.

DUTTON, RICHARD, Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 216. £50/$99 Hb.

FERRONE, SIRO, Arlequin: Vie et aventures de Tristano Martinelli, acteur. Transl. by Siguret, Françoise. Montpollier: Ed. Les Entretemps, 2008. Pp. 256. €25 Pb.

FORTIN, SYLVIE, ed., Danse et santé: Du Corps intime au corps social. Montréal: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2008. Pp. xiii + 312 + illus. $30/€22 Pb.

FOULKES, RICHARD, ed., Henry Irving: A Re-evaluation of the Pre-eminent Victorian Actor–Manager. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xvi + 212 + CD. £50 Hb.

GERTSMAN, ELINA, ed., Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 366. £65 Hb.

GIBBS, JAMES, ed., African Theatre Companies. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer 2008. Pp. xvi + 176 + illus. £16.99/$34.95 Pb.

GLAAP, ALBERT-REINER, Jewish Facets of Contemporary Canadian Drama. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008. Pp. 196. €20 Pb.

GRAINGER, ROGER, Theatre and Relationships in Shakespeare's Later Plays. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 151. €44.60/£29/$69.95 Pb.

GRIMAUD, EMMANUEL, Dieux & Robots: Les Théâtres d'automates divins de Bombay. Apt: L'Archange-Minotaure, 2008. Pp. 176 + 120 illus. + DVD. €55 Hb.

HANNAH, DORITA and HARLØF, OLAV, eds., Performance Design. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008. Pp. 336 + illus. DKK 298/€40/£30/$60 Pb.

hauser, FRANK and REICH, RUSSELL, Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair. New York: Walker & Company, 2008. Pp. 106. $15 Pb.

kraut, ANTHEA, Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. 312 + illus. $75 Hb.

LAMB, EDEL, Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children's Playing Companies (1599–1613). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 190. £45/$75 Hb.

LEABHART, THOMAS and CHAMBERLAIN, FRANC, eds., The Decroux Sourcebook. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xii + 198. £17.99/$33.95 Pb.

lewcock, DAWN, Aphra Behn Stages the Social Scene in the Restoration Theatre. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2008. Pp. 350 + illus. $114.95/£67.95 Hb.

LONERGAN, PATRICK, Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. x + 248. £50/$85 Hb.

LONDRÉ, FELICIA HARDISON, The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870–1930. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. 352 + illus. $34.95 Hb.

MASON, JEFFREY D., Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 328. $49.50 Hb.

MCDONNELL, BILL, Theatres of the Troubles: Theatre, Resistance and Liberation in Ireland. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008. Pp. xviii + 254. £16.99/$32.95 Pb; £49.50/$89.95 Hb.

MORWOOD, JAMES, The Tragedies of Sophocles. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008. Pp. 160. £12.99/$24.95 Pb.

MURPHY, PAUL, Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899–1949. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. x + 266. £50/$69.95 Hb.

NASCIMENTO, CLAUDIA TATINGE, Crossing Cultural Borders through Actor's Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. £60/$95 Hb.

NEVILE, JENNIFER, ed., Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick (1250–1750). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. Pp. 376. £14.99/$24.95 Pb; £39/$65 Hb.

PENDER, ANNE and LEVER, SUSAN, eds., Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 224. €46/$64 Pb.

prentki, TIM and PRESTON, SHEILA, eds., The Applied Theatre Reader. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xvi +380. £19.99/$34 Pb; £65/$113 Hb.

quinn, SUSAN, Furious Improvisations: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times. New York: Walker & Company, 2008. Pp. 336. $25.99 Hb.

RABEY, DAVID IAN, Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death, An Expository Study of his Drama, Theory, and Production Work, 1988–2008. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 290. £50 Hb.

RICHARDS, THOMAS, Heart of Practice: Within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 152. £17.99/$35.95 Pb; £55 Hb.

ROMEYN, ESTHER, Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. 312. $25 Pb.

ROTH, MAYA E. and FREEMAN, SARA, eds., International Dramaturgy: Translation & Transformation in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker. Bruxelles, Bern e.a.: PIE Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 292. €45.90/£32.20/$66.95 Pb.

rutter, TOM, Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 216. £50/$99 Hb.

SABOR, PETER and YACHNIN, PAUL, eds., Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xii + 190. £50 Hb.

saint-denis, MICHEL, Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style, and Other Writings. Ed. by Jane Baldwin. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. x + 202 + illus. £16.99/$30.95 Pb; £60/$110 Hb.

SCHECHTER, JOEL, Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. Pp. 304. $39.50 Hb.

SENELICK, LAURENCE, ed., Theatre Arts on Acting. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xviii + 532. £18.99 Pb; £65 Hb.

SIEG, KATRIN, Choreographing the Global in European Cinema and Theater. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. 228. £45/$79.95 Hb.

SLIGHTS, WILLIAM W.E., The Heart in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 224. £55/$99 Hb.

SMITH, GEDDETH, Walter Hampden: Dean of the American Theatre. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008. Pp. 430 + illus. £39.95/$45 Hb.

TAYLOR, DIANA and TOWNSEND, SARAH J., eds., Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 344 + illus. $39.95 Pb; $90 Hb.

trotter, MARY, Modern Irish Theatre. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008. Pp. 256. £15.99/$24.95 Pb; £55 Hb.

VANNAYOVÁ, MARTINA and HÄUSLER, ANNA, eds., Landvermessungen: Theaterlandschaften in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2008. Pp. 206 +illus. €14 Pb.

varney, DENISE, ed., Theatre in the Berlin Republic: German Drama since Reunification. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 335 + illus. €53.30/£40/$82.95 Pb.

WHITE, PAUL WHITFIELD, Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 264. £50/$99 Hb.

ZARRILLI, PHILLIP B., Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xiv + 256 + DVD. £21.99/$39.95 Pb; £70/$120 Hb.

References

BACH, SUSANNE and GLAAP, ALBERT-REINER, eds., Frayn in Germany: Plays and Novels. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008. Pp. 166. €19.50 Pb.Google Scholar
BAKER, K. SCOTT, Drama and ‘Ideenschmuggel’: Inserted Performance as Communicative Strategy in Karl Gutzkow's Plays 1839–1849. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 187. €41.50/£27/$64.95 Pb.Google Scholar
BALME, CHRISTOPHER, Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 246. £14.99/$22.99 Pb; £40/$80 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BEMROSE, ANNA, Robert Helpmann: A Servant of Art. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 403. AU$49.95 Hb.Google Scholar
BIRDSALL, CAROLYN and ENNS, ANTHONY, eds., Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. Pp. 290. £39.99/$79.99 Hb.Google Scholar
branigan, KEVIN, Radio Beckett: Musicality in the Radio Plays of Samuel Beckett. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 268. £33/€44/$68.95 Pb.Google Scholar
CARNICKE, SHARON MARIE, Stanislavsky in Focus: An Acting Master for the Twenty-First Century. Second edition. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xiv + 252. £15.99/$28.95 Pb; £65/$115 Hb.Google Scholar
CHAPMAN, DON, Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008. Pp. xx + 344 + illus. £18.99 Hb.Google Scholar
DAVIS, TRACY C., ed., Companion to Performance Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 194. £17.99/$29.99 Pb; £45/$90 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
DUTTON, RICHARD, Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 216. £50/$99 Hb.Google Scholar
FERRONE, SIRO, Arlequin: Vie et aventures de Tristano Martinelli, acteur. Transl. by Siguret, Françoise. Montpollier: Ed. Les Entretemps, 2008. Pp. 256. €25 Pb.Google Scholar
FORTIN, SYLVIE, ed., Danse et santé: Du Corps intime au corps social. Montréal: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2008. Pp. xiii + 312 + illus. $30/€22 Pb.Google Scholar
FOULKES, RICHARD, ed., Henry Irving: A Re-evaluation of the Pre-eminent Victorian Actor–Manager. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xvi + 212 + CD. £50 Hb.Google Scholar
GERTSMAN, ELINA, ed., Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 366. £65 Hb.Google Scholar
GIBBS, JAMES, ed., African Theatre Companies. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer 2008. Pp. xvi + 176 + illus. £16.99/$34.95 Pb.Google Scholar
GLAAP, ALBERT-REINER, Jewish Facets of Contemporary Canadian Drama. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008. Pp. 196. €20 Pb.Google Scholar
GRAINGER, ROGER, Theatre and Relationships in Shakespeare's Later Plays. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 151. €44.60/£29/$69.95 Pb.Google Scholar
GRIMAUD, EMMANUEL, Dieux & Robots: Les Théâtres d'automates divins de Bombay. Apt: L'Archange-Minotaure, 2008. Pp. 176 + 120 illus. + DVD. €55 Hb.Google Scholar
HANNAH, DORITA and HARLØF, OLAV, eds., Performance Design. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008. Pp. 336 + illus. DKK 298/€40/£30/$60 Pb.Google Scholar
hauser, FRANK and REICH, RUSSELL, Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair. New York: Walker & Company, 2008. Pp. 106. $15 Pb.Google Scholar
kraut, ANTHEA, Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. 312 + illus. $75 Hb.Google Scholar
LAMB, EDEL, Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children's Playing Companies (1599–1613). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 190. £45/$75 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
LEABHART, THOMAS and CHAMBERLAIN, FRANC, eds., The Decroux Sourcebook. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xii + 198. £17.99/$33.95 Pb.Google Scholar
lewcock, DAWN, Aphra Behn Stages the Social Scene in the Restoration Theatre. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2008. Pp. 350 + illus. $114.95/£67.95 Hb.Google Scholar
LONERGAN, PATRICK, Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. x + 248. £50/$85 Hb.Google Scholar
LONDRÉ, FELICIA HARDISON, The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870–1930. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. 352 + illus. $34.95 Hb.Google Scholar
MASON, JEFFREY D., Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 328. $49.50 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MCDONNELL, BILL, Theatres of the Troubles: Theatre, Resistance and Liberation in Ireland. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008. Pp. xviii + 254. £16.99/$32.95 Pb; £49.50/$89.95 Hb.Google Scholar
MORWOOD, JAMES, The Tragedies of Sophocles. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008. Pp. 160. £12.99/$24.95 Pb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MURPHY, PAUL, Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899–1949. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. x + 266. £50/$69.95 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
NASCIMENTO, CLAUDIA TATINGE, Crossing Cultural Borders through Actor's Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. £60/$95 Hb.Google Scholar
NEVILE, JENNIFER, ed., Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick (1250–1750). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. Pp. 376. £14.99/$24.95 Pb; £39/$65 Hb.Google Scholar
PENDER, ANNE and LEVER, SUSAN, eds., Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 224. €46/$64 Pb.Google Scholar
prentki, TIM and PRESTON, SHEILA, eds., The Applied Theatre Reader. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xvi +380. £19.99/$34 Pb; £65/$113 Hb.Google Scholar
quinn, SUSAN, Furious Improvisations: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times. New York: Walker & Company, 2008. Pp. 336. $25.99 Hb.Google Scholar
RABEY, DAVID IAN, Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death, An Expository Study of his Drama, Theory, and Production Work, 1988–2008. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 290. £50 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
RICHARDS, THOMAS, Heart of Practice: Within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 152. £17.99/$35.95 Pb; £55 Hb.Google Scholar
ROMEYN, ESTHER, Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. 312. $25 Pb.Google Scholar
ROTH, MAYA E. and FREEMAN, SARA, eds., International Dramaturgy: Translation & Transformation in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker. Bruxelles, Bern e.a.: PIE Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 292. €45.90/£32.20/$66.95 Pb.Google Scholar
rutter, TOM, Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 216. £50/$99 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SABOR, PETER and YACHNIN, PAUL, eds., Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xii + 190. £50 Hb.Google Scholar
saint-denis, MICHEL, Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style, and Other Writings. Ed. by Jane Baldwin. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. x + 202 + illus. £16.99/$30.95 Pb; £60/$110 Hb.Google Scholar
SCHECHTER, JOEL, Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. Pp. 304. $39.50 Hb.Google Scholar
SENELICK, LAURENCE, ed., Theatre Arts on Acting. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xviii + 532. £18.99 Pb; £65 Hb.Google Scholar
SIEG, KATRIN, Choreographing the Global in European Cinema and Theater. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. 228. £45/$79.95 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SLIGHTS, WILLIAM W.E., The Heart in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 224. £55/$99 Hb.Google Scholar
SMITH, GEDDETH, Walter Hampden: Dean of the American Theatre. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008. Pp. 430 + illus. £39.95/$45 Hb.Google Scholar
TAYLOR, DIANA and TOWNSEND, SARAH J., eds., Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 344 + illus. $39.95 Pb; $90 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
trotter, MARY, Modern Irish Theatre. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008. Pp. 256. £15.99/$24.95 Pb; £55 Hb.Google Scholar
VANNAYOVÁ, MARTINA and HÄUSLER, ANNA, eds., Landvermessungen: Theaterlandschaften in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2008. Pp. 206 +illus. €14 Pb.Google Scholar
varney, DENISE, ed., Theatre in the Berlin Republic: German Drama since Reunification. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 335 + illus. €53.30/£40/$82.95 Pb.Google Scholar
WHITE, PAUL WHITFIELD, Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 264. £50/$99 Hb.Google Scholar
ZARRILLI, PHILLIP B., Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xiv + 256 + DVD. £21.99/$39.95 Pb; £70/$120 Hb.Google Scholar