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List of Books Received as of 1 April 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2016

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Theatre Survey , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , September 2016, pp. 497 - 501
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 2016 

Each book is listed in two consecutive issues or, if assigned for review, until the review appears.

* = Assigned for review

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  • Anderegg, Michael. Lincoln and Shakespeare. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. $29.95 cloth, $29.95 e-book.

  • Anoop, Maratt Mythili, and Gulati, Varun eds. Scripting Dance in Contemporary India. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2016. $85 cloth, $84.99 e-book.

  • *Bay-Cheng, Sarah, Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer, and Saltz, David Z.. Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. $75 cloth, $26.95 paper, $26.95 e-book.

  • Bial, Henry. Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. $80 cloth, $29.95 paper, $29.95 e-book.

  • Bingham, Emily. Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015. $28 cloth, $16 paper, $14.99 e-book.

  • Burwick, Frederick. British Drama of the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. $99.99 cloth, $99.99 e-book.

  • Cameron, Richard. The Flannelettes. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Campana, Alessandra. Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy. Cambridge Studies in Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. $99 cloth, $79 e-book.

  • Canning, Charlotte M. On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism. Studies in International Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. $90 cloth, $90 e-book.

  • *Cantu, Maya. American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from “Irene” to “Gypsy.” Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. $95 cloth.

  • Carey, David, and Carey, Rebecca Clark. The Shakespeare Workbook and Video: A Practical Course for Actors. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $34.95 paper, $25.99 e-book.

  • Carlyon, David. The Education of a Circus Clown: Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $99 cloth, $74.99 e-book.

  • Cefalu, Paul. Tragic Cognition in Shakespeare's “Othello”: Beyond the Neural Sublime. Shakespeare Now! London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. $22.95 paper, $16.99 e-book.

  • *Chansky, Dorothy. Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015. $55 paper, $55 e-book.

  • Colclough, Dyan. Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry 1875–1914. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $95 cloth, $69.99 e-book.

  • Crosby, Sara L. Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America. Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 2016. $65 paper, $65 e-book.

  • Dietz, Dan. The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. $125 cloth, $124.99 e-book.

  • Dox, Donnalee. Reckoning with Spirit in the Paradigm of Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. $85 cloth, $39.50 paper, $39.50 e-book.

  • Duckett, Victoria. Seeing Sarah Bernhardt: Performance and Silent Film. Women and Film History International. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. $95 cloth, $30 paper, $30 e-book.

  • Elswit, Kate. Watching Weimar Dance. Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014. $105 cloth, $36.95 paper, $35.99 e-book.

  • Enelow, Shonni. Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.

  • *Fawcett, Julia H. Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696–1801. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. $65 cloth, $55 e-book.

  • Fisher, Mark. How to Write about Theatre: A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $94 cloth, $29.95 paper, $22.99 e-book.

  • García-Romero, Anne. The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. $24.95 paper, $24.95 e-book.

  • Henke, Robert. Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015. $55 paper, $55 e-book.

  • Home-Cook, George. Theatre and Aural Attention: Stretching Ourselves. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. $90 cloth, $69.99 e-book.

  • *Isaka, Maki. Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. $50 cloth, $50 e-book.

  • Jackson, Shannon, and Weems, Marianne. The Builders Association: Performance and Media in Contemporary Theater. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. $39.95 cloth, $27.95 e-book.

  • Jannarone, Kimberly, ed. Vanguard Performance beyond Left and Right. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. $70 cloth, $55 e-book.

  • Josipovici, Gabriel. Hamlet: Fold on Fold. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. $35 cloth, $35 e-book.

  • Kelly, Sonya. How to Keep an Alien: A Story about Falling in Love and Proving It to the Government. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • *Kerr, Rosalind. The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. $65 cloth, $65 e-book.

  • Lavery, Carl, and Finburgh, Clare, eds. Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage. Methuen Drama Engage. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $104 cloth, $77.99 e-book.

  • Lee, Esther Kim. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang. Critical Companions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $94 cloth, $29.95 paper, $22.99 e-book.

  • *Lennox, Patricia, and Mirabella, Bella, eds. Shakespeare and Costume. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. $112 cloth, $39.95 paper, $83.99 e-book.

  • Lindfors, Bernth. Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855–1867. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2015. $55 cloth.

  • Loomis, Catherine, and Ray, Sid, eds. Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage. Shakespeare and the Stage. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. $85 cloth, $84.99 e-book.

  • McAleavey, Jimmy. Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • McGrath, John. The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil. Edited by Macdonald, Graeme. Student Editions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Mahfouz, Sabrina. Chef. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $15.95 paper, $11.99 e-book.

  • Martin, Carol. Theatre of the Real. Studies in International Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013/2015. $95 cloth, $29 paper, $19.99 e-book.

  • Mayo, Sandra M., and Holt, Elvin. Stages of Struggle and Celebration: A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. $75 cloth, $29.95 paper, $29.95 e-book.

  • Milhous, Judith, and Hume, Robert D.. The Publication of Plays in London 1660–1800: Playwrights, Publishers and the Market. Panizzi Lectures. London: The British Library, 2015. $80 cloth.

  • Moran, James. The Theatre of D. H. Lawrence: Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator. Critical Companions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $104 cloth, $29.95 paper, $24.99 e-book.

  • Moreno, Iani del Rosario. Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2015. $90 cloth.

  • *Mullaney, Steven. The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. $35 cloth, $35 e-book.

  • Nahshon, Edna, ed. New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. $40 cloth, $39.99 e-book.

  • Nicholson, Steve. The Censorship of British Drama 1900–1968, vol. 4: The Sixties. Exeter Performance Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2015. $110 cloth, $88 e-book.

  • Nyoni, Zodwa. “Nine Lives” and “Come to Where I'm From.” Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $15.95 paper, $11.99 e-book.

  • *Peschel, Lisa, ed. Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto. London: Seagull Books, 2014. $25 paper.

  • Phillips, James. Camelot: The Shining City. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Phillips, James. McQueen; or, Lee and Beauty. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Plastow, Jane, and Hutchison, Yvette, eds. African Theatre 14: Contemporary Women. African Theatre Series. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer / James Currey, 2015. $34.95 paper.

  • Profeta, Katherine. Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance. Studies in Dance History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. $26.95 paper, $31.95 e-book.

  • Reynolds, James, and Smith, Andy W., eds. Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe. Methuen Drama Engage. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $104 cloth, $29.95 paper, $24.99 e-book.

  • Rice, Nicole R., and Pappano, Margaret Aziza. The Civic Cycles: Artisan Drama and Identity in Premodern England. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. $42 paper.

  • Roche, Anthony. The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899–1939. Critical Companions. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $86 cloth, $29.95 paper, $21.99 e-book.

  • Rodenburg, Patsy. The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice. 2d ed. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $94 cloth, $29.95 paper, $22.99 e-book.

  • *Sack, Daniel. After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. $75 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.

  • Semerciyan, Silva. I and the Village. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Shannon, Sandra G., ed. August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle: Critical Perspectives on the Plays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. $40 paper, $24.99 e-book.

  • Siân, Jessica. Klippies. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Solga, Kim. Theatre & Feminism. Theatre And. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $11 paper, $11 e-book.

  • Stephens, Simon. Carmen Disruption. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Stephens, Simon. The Funfair. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Stephens, Simon. Heisenberg. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Urban, Ken. Sense of an Ending. Modern Plays. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. $17.95 paper, $12.99 e-book.

  • Walsh, Fintan. Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation. Contemporary Performance InterActions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $95 cloth, $69.99 e-book.

  • Wilmer, S.E., and Žukauskaitė, Audronė, eds. Deleuze and Beckett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. $90 cloth, $69.99 e-book.

  • Wright, Michael. Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen: An Etude-Based Process of Exploration. Indianapolis: Hackett / Focus, 2015. $19.95 paper, $16.95 e-book.