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Books Received

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Theatre Research International , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , October 2013, pp. 272 - 274
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2013 

AEBISCHER, PASCALE AND PRINCE, KATHRYN, Performing Early Modern Drama Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 258. £60/$99 Hb.

ANGELAKI, VICKY, The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 240. £56/$85 Hb.

BALFOUR, MICHAEL (ed.), Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Press, Ltd, 2013. Pp. 224. £45/$60 Hb.

BANHAM, MARTIN, GIBBS, JAMES AND OSOFISAN, FEMI, African Theatre. 11. Festivals. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012. Pp. 192. £19/$34.95 Pb.

BENNETT, SUSAN, Theatre & Museums. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 96. £5.99 Pb.

BLANDFORD, STEVE, Theatre & Performance in Small Nations. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, 2013. Pp. 212. £24.95 Pb.

CARNEY, SEAN, The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Pp. 360. £49/$75 Hb; £22.88/$34.95 Pb.

CASEY, MARYROSE, Telling Stories: Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013. Pp. 198 + illus. AU$39.95 Pb.

CROWE, SINEAD, Religion in Contemporary German Drama: Botho Strauß, George Tabori, Werner Fritsch, and Lukas Bärfuss. London: Camden House, 2013. Pp. 184. £50 Hb.

CULL, LAURA, Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 304. £55/$90 Hb.

DECKER, TODD R., Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 328. £22.50/$35 Hb.

DOUBLE, OLIVER, Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 288. £52.50/$80 Hb; £17.99/$28 Pb.

DURHAM, LESLIE ATKINS, Women's Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century: Sarah Ruhl and Her Contemporaries. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 228. £55.64/$85 Hb.

ELTIS, SOS, Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800–1930, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 268 + 6 illus. £55 Hb.

ESSIN, CHRISTIN, Stage Designers in Early Twentieth Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 255. £50/$76.50 Hb.

FIRMAGE, GEORGE (ed.), The Theatre of E.E. Cummings. New York: Liveright Publishers, 2013. Pp. 240. £20 Hb.

FORREST, DAVID (ed.), The Doctoral Journey in Dance and Drama Education: Reflections on Doctoral Studies by Australian and New Zealand Educators. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013. Pp. 116. AU$34.95 Pb.

GILMAN, TODD, The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013. Pp. 621. £70 Hb.

HABER, JUDITH, Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 212. £22.99 Pb.

HAEDICKE, SUSAN C., Contemporary Street Arts in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 256. £50 Hb.

HOUSSAMI, EYAD (ed.), Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre. London: Pluto Press, 2012. Pp. 256. £62/$95 Hb; £19/$29 Pb.

JAMES, C. L. R., Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 240. £55.61/$84.95 Hb; £15.68/$23.95 Pb.

JOHNSON, DOMINIC, Theatre & the Visual. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 96. £5.99/$9.50 Pb.

JONES, STANLEIGH H., The Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan: Honor, Vengeance, and Love in Four Plays of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013. Pp. 336. £54.95/$65 Hb; £24.95/$29 Pb.

LAERA, MARGHERITA, Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang, 2013. Pp. xiv + 319. £45 Hb.

LEEP, JEANNE, Theatrical Improvisation: Short Form, Long Form, and Sketch-Based Improv. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 204. £59/$90 Hb; £18.35/$28 Pb.

LIN, ERIKA T., Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 256. £56/$85 Hb.

LIU, SIYUAN, Performing Hybridity in Colonial–Modern China. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 260. £56/$85 Hb.

MCCONACHIE, BRUCE, Theatre & Mind. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 96. £5.99 Pb.

MACFAUL, TOM, Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 259. £60 Hb.

MCGRATH, AOIFE, Dance Theatre in Ireland. Revolutionary Moves. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 240. £50 Hb.

MCINNIS, DAVID, Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 256. £56/$85 Hb.

MARLOW, CHRISTOPHER, Performing Masculinity in English University Drama 1598–1636. London: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 196. £55 Hb.

MARTIN, CAROL, Theatre of the Real. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 216. £50/$80 Hb.

MEYER-DINKGRÄFE, DANIEL, Theatre, Opera and Consciousness: History and Current Debates. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013. Pp. 241. $68/€50 Pb.

NICHOLSON, STEVEN, The Censorship of British Drama. 1900–1968. Volume 3: The Fifties. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2011. Pp. 282. £65 Hb.

NIELSEN, LARA D. AND YBARRA, PATRICIA A., Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 328. £59/$90 Hb.

NUSS, MELYNDA, Distance, Theatre and the Public Voice, 1750–1850. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 208. £56/$85 Hb.

PAAVOLAINEN, TEEMU, Theatre/Ecology/Cognition: Theorizing Performer–Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012. Pp. 300. £64/$98 Hb.

RADBOURNE, JENNIFER, GLOW, HILARY AND JOHANSON, KATYA (eds.), The Audience Experience: A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, 2013. Pp. 184. £45 Hb.

REID, TRISH, Theatre & Scotland. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 120. £5.99 Pb.

ROCHE, ANTHONY, Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 248. £55/$95 Hb; £18.99/$29 Pb.

SCHALKWYK, DAVID, Hamlet's Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare. London: Methuen Drama/The Arden Shakespeare, 2013. Pp. 191. £14.99 Pb.

TOMPKINS, JOANNE AND BIRCH, ANNA, Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 272. £55/$90 Hb; £17.99/$28 Pb.

VAN DE WATER, MANON, Theatre, Youth, and Culture: A Critical and Historical Exploration. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 212. £56/$85 Hb.

VAN EIKELS, KAI, Die Kunst des Kollektiven: Performance zwischen Theater, Politik und Sozio-ökonomie. Berlin: Wilhem Fink, 2013. Pp. 556. €59 Pb.

VARTY, ANNE (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Liz Lochhead. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. 168. £19.99 Pb.

VERMA, NEIL, Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 296. £56/$85 Hb; £19/$29 Pb.

WALDRON, JENNIFER, Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 316. £55/$85 Hb.

WALSH, FINTAN, Theatre & Therapy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 96. £5.99 Pb.

WEISS, KATHERINE, The Plays of Samuel Beckett. London: Methuen Drama, 2013. Pp. 304. £16.99 Pb.

WEISS, KATHERINE, The Plays of Samuel Beckett. London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. 272. $90 Hb.

WOLF-DIETER, ERNST, Der affektive Schauspieler: Die Energetik des postdramatischen Theaters. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2013. Pp. 256. €22 Pb.

WRIGHT, ADRIAN, West End Broadway: The American Musical in London, 1939–1972. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. Pp. 376. £25/$45 Hb.

YOUNG, HARVEY, The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 313. £55/$90 Hb; £18.99/$29.99 Pb.

ZELTINA, GUNA AND REINSONE, SANITA (eds.), Text in Contemporary Theatre: The Baltics within the World Experience. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. Pp. 202. £44.99 Hb.