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Theatre Research International , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , July 2010, pp. 215 - 217
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2010

ALLARD, JAMES ROBERT AND MARTIN, MATHEW R., eds., Staging Pain, 1580–1800: Violence and Trauma in British Theatre. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xii +220. £55/$99.95 Hb.

ASLAN, ODETTE, Paris: Capitale mondiale du théâtre. Paris: CNRS, 2009. Pp. 336. €49 Hb.

ASTON, ELAINE AND DIAMOND, ELIN, eds., Companion to Caryl Churchill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 194. £17.99/$29.99 Pb; £45/$78 Hb.

BARBA, EUGENIO, On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 303. £19.99/$31.95 Pb; £65/$110 Hb.

BEUMERS, BIRGIT AND LIPOVETSKY, MARK, Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama. Bristol: Intellect, 2009. Pp. 224. £14.95/$25 Pb.

BUCHANAN, JUDITH, Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv + 316. £55/$99 Hb.

BURRIDGE, STEPHANIE AND FRUMBERG, FRED, Beyond the Apsara: Celebrating Dance in Cambodia. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2009. Pp. 242. £55 Hb.

BUTTERWORTH, JO AND WILDSCHUT, LIESBETH, eds., Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 480. £21.99/$35.95 Pb; £70/$125 Hb.

CHAKRAVORTY, PALLABI AND GUPTA, NILANJANA, eds., Dance Matters: Performing India on Local and Global Stages. New Delhi and Florence, KY: Routledge India, 2009. Pp. 312. £55/$95 Hb.

CHARNEY, MAURICE, Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 192. £20.75/$29.50 Pb.

CRAIG, HUGH AND KINNEY, ARTHUR F., Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xx + 234. £55/$90 Hb.

DORNEY, KATE, The Changing Language of Modern English Drama, 1945–2005. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2009. Pp. x + 250. £50/$80 Hb.

DUBOR, FRANÇOISE AND TRIAU, CHRISTOPHE, eds., Monologuer: Pratiques du discourse solitaire au théâtre. Rennes: Presses Universitaire, 2009. Pp. 312. €18 Pb.

ELFERT, JENNIFER, Theaterfestivals: Geschichte und Kritik eines kulturellen Organisationsmodells. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009. Pp. 406. €34.80 Pb.

ELLIS, ANTHONY, Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xii +190. £55/$99.95 Hb.

EWANS, MICHAEL, Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and the Oresteia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 272. £14.99/$27.99 Pb; £60/$110 Hb.

FIX, FLORENCE AND TOUDOIRE-SURLAPIERRE, FRÉDÉRIQUE, Le Choeur dans le théâtre contemporain: 1970–2000. Dijon: Ed. Universitaires de Dijon, 2009. Pp. 240. €20 Pb.

FRIESEN, RYAN CURTIS, Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture. Brighton e.a.: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. x + 250. £49.95/$74.95 Hb.

FRIEZE, JAMES, Naming Theatre: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2009. Pp. viii + 216. £50/$80 Hb.

GAUTHIER, BRIGITTE, Le Langage chorégraphique de Pina Bausch. Paris: L'Arche, 2009. Pp. 224. €16 Pb.

GAUTHIER, BRIGITTE, ed., Viva Pinter: Harold Pinter's Spirit of Resistance. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. xii + 246. €31/£31/$48.95 Pb.

GORDON, MEL, Stanislavsky in America: An Actor's Workbook. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 208. £16.99/$27.95 Pb; £55/$88 Hb.

HAMMOND, PAUL, The Strangeness of Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 216. £30/$55 Hb.

HEULET-PETIT, FRANÇOISE AND MICHEL, LISE, eds., La Reconnaissance sur la scène française: XVII–XXI siècle. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2009. Pp. 266. €22 Pb.

JESTROVIC, SILVIJA AND MEERZON, YANA, eds., Performance, Exile and ‘America’. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2009. Pp. xiv + 266. £50/$79.95 Hb.

KENNEDY, REBECCA FUTO, Athena's Justice: Athena, Athens and the Concept of Justice in Greek Tragedy. New York, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. xiv + 169. €44.90/£48/$74.95 Hb.

KLEIN, CHRISTIAN, ed., Théâtre et politique dans l'espace germanophone contemporain. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009. Pp. 260. €23.50 Pb.

LEAHY, KATH, Lords & Larrikins: The Actor's Role in the Making of Australia. Sydney: Currency House, 2009. Pp. x + 246 + illus. AU$54.95 Hb; $34.95 Pb.

LEON, MECHELE, Molière, the French Revolution and the Theatrical Afterlife. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. Pp. 184 + illus. $39.95 Hb.

MALKIN, JEANETTE R. AND ROKEM, FREDDIE, Jews and the Making of Modern Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. Pp. 336. £41.50/$49.95 Hb.

MARTIN, CAROL, ed., Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2010. Pp. xviii + 310. £55/$90 Hb.

MATZKE, CHRISTINE AND OKAGBUE, OSITA, eds., African Theatre Diasporas. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2009. Pp. xx + 170. £17.99/$34.95 Pb.

MCKENZIE, JON, ROMS, HEIKE AND WEE, C. J. W. L., eds., Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2010. Pp. xx + 262. £55/$80 Hb.

MCKINNEY, JOSLIN AND BUTTERWORTH, PHILIP, Introduction to Scenography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 238. £15.99/$28.99 Pb; £45/$80 Hb.

MORIN, EMILIE, Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 224. £50/$75 Hb.

OOST, REGINA B., Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875–1896. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xii + 168. £50/$99.95 Hb.

POUILLAUDE, FREDERIC, Le Désoeuvrement chorégraphique: Etude sur la notion d'oeuvre en danse. Paris: Vrin, 2009. Pp. 432. €30 Pb.

POWELL, KERRY, Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 214. £55.00/$90 Hb.

PURCELL, STEPHEN, Popular Shakespeare: Simulation and Subversion on the Modern Stage. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2009. Pp. x + 262. £50/$80 Hb.

ROBINSON, MICHAEL, ed., Companion to August Strindberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxvi + 188. £17.99/$29.99 Pb; £55/$90 Hb.

SATZ, AURA AND WOOD, JON, eds., Articulate Objects: Voice, Sculpture and Performance. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. 300 + illus. €37.50/£35/$54.95 Pb.

SAWYER, ROBERT, SWINDELLS, JULIA, TAYLOR, DAVID FRANCIS AND FOULKES, RICHARD, eds., Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. 3 Vols. Pp. 1016. £275.00/$495.00 Hb.

SHEPHERD, SIMON, Introduction to Modern British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 250. £15.99/$27.99 Pb; £45/$78 Hb.

SHEVTSOVA, MARIA, Sociology of Theatre and Performance. Verona: Qui Edit, 2009. Pp. 395. €25 Pb.

SIEGEL, MARCIA B., Mirrors and Scrims: The Life and Afterlife of Ballet. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010. $27.95 Pb; $85 Hb.

SINGH, LATA, Play-House of Power: Theatre in Colonial India. New Delhi and Oxford: Oxford University Press India, 2009. Pp. 362. RS895/£34.99 Hb.

STRATEN, FRANK VAN, Florence Young and the Golden Years of Australian Musical Theatre. Mornington, Vic: Beleura/The Tallis Foundation, 2009. Pp. 175 + illus. AU$25 Hb.

THOMPSON, PETER E., The Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses: A Bilingual and Annotated Selection of Plays Written for This Spanish Golden Age Gracioso. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 272. £42/$65 Hb.

WATZKA, STEFANIE AND MARX, PETER W., eds., Berlin auf dem Weg zur Theaterhauptstadt: Theaterstreitschriften zwischen 1869 und 1914. Tübingen: Francke, 2009. Pp. 408. €68 Hb.

WILLIAMSON, ELIZABETH, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. x + 232. £55/$99.95 Hb.

WILSON, MEREDITH, And There I Stood with My Piccolo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 256. £9.50/$14.95 Pb.

WILSON, MEREDITH, “But He Doesn't Know the Territory”. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 256. £9.50/$14.95 Pb.

ZIOLKOWSKI, THEODORE, Scandal on Stage: European Theater as Moral Trial. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 202. £50/$85 Hb.

References

ALLARD, JAMES ROBERT AND MARTIN, MATHEW R., eds., Staging Pain, 1580–1800: Violence and Trauma in British Theatre. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xii +220. £55/$99.95 Hb.Google Scholar
ASLAN, ODETTE, Paris: Capitale mondiale du théâtre. Paris: CNRS, 2009. Pp. 336. €49 Hb.Google Scholar
ASTON, ELAINE AND DIAMOND, ELIN, eds., Companion to Caryl Churchill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 194. £17.99/$29.99 Pb; £45/$78 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BARBA, EUGENIO, On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 303. £19.99/$31.95 Pb; £65/$110 Hb.Google Scholar
BEUMERS, BIRGIT AND LIPOVETSKY, MARK, Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama. Bristol: Intellect, 2009. Pp. 224. £14.95/$25 Pb.Google Scholar
BUCHANAN, JUDITH, Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv + 316. £55/$99 Hb.Google Scholar
BURRIDGE, STEPHANIE AND FRUMBERG, FRED, Beyond the Apsara: Celebrating Dance in Cambodia. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2009. Pp. 242. £55 Hb.Google Scholar
BUTTERWORTH, JO AND WILDSCHUT, LIESBETH, eds., Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 480. £21.99/$35.95 Pb; £70/$125 Hb.Google Scholar
CHAKRAVORTY, PALLABI AND GUPTA, NILANJANA, eds., Dance Matters: Performing India on Local and Global Stages. New Delhi and Florence, KY: Routledge India, 2009. Pp. 312. £55/$95 Hb.Google Scholar
CHARNEY, MAURICE, Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 192. £20.75/$29.50 Pb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
CRAIG, HUGH AND KINNEY, ARTHUR F., Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xx + 234. £55/$90 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
DORNEY, KATE, The Changing Language of Modern English Drama, 1945–2005. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2009. Pp. x + 250. £50/$80 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
DUBOR, FRANÇOISE AND TRIAU, CHRISTOPHE, eds., Monologuer: Pratiques du discourse solitaire au théâtre. Rennes: Presses Universitaire, 2009. Pp. 312. €18 Pb.Google Scholar
ELFERT, JENNIFER, Theaterfestivals: Geschichte und Kritik eines kulturellen Organisationsmodells. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009. Pp. 406. €34.80 Pb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
ELLIS, ANTHONY, Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xii +190. £55/$99.95 Hb.Google Scholar
EWANS, MICHAEL, Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and the Oresteia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 272. £14.99/$27.99 Pb; £60/$110 Hb.Google Scholar
FIX, FLORENCE AND TOUDOIRE-SURLAPIERRE, FRÉDÉRIQUE, Le Choeur dans le théâtre contemporain: 1970–2000. Dijon: Ed. Universitaires de Dijon, 2009. Pp. 240. €20 Pb.Google Scholar
FRIESEN, RYAN CURTIS, Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture. Brighton e.a.: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. x + 250. £49.95/$74.95 Hb.Google Scholar
FRIEZE, JAMES, Naming Theatre: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2009. Pp. viii + 216. £50/$80 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
GAUTHIER, BRIGITTE, Le Langage chorégraphique de Pina Bausch. Paris: L'Arche, 2009. Pp. 224. €16 Pb.Google Scholar
GAUTHIER, BRIGITTE, ed., Viva Pinter: Harold Pinter's Spirit of Resistance. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. xii + 246. €31/£31/$48.95 Pb.Google Scholar
GORDON, MEL, Stanislavsky in America: An Actor's Workbook. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 208. £16.99/$27.95 Pb; £55/$88 Hb.Google Scholar
HAMMOND, PAUL, The Strangeness of Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 216. £30/$55 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
HEULET-PETIT, FRANÇOISE AND MICHEL, LISE, eds., La Reconnaissance sur la scène française: XVII–XXI siècle. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2009. Pp. 266. €22 Pb.Google Scholar
JESTROVIC, SILVIJA AND MEERZON, YANA, eds., Performance, Exile and ‘America’. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2009. Pp. xiv + 266. £50/$79.95 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
KENNEDY, REBECCA FUTO, Athena's Justice: Athena, Athens and the Concept of Justice in Greek Tragedy. New York, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. xiv + 169. €44.90/£48/$74.95 Hb.Google Scholar
KLEIN, CHRISTIAN, ed., Théâtre et politique dans l'espace germanophone contemporain. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009. Pp. 260. €23.50 Pb.Google Scholar
LEAHY, KATH, Lords & Larrikins: The Actor's Role in the Making of Australia. Sydney: Currency House, 2009. Pp. x + 246 + illus. AU$54.95 Hb; $34.95 Pb.Google Scholar
LEON, MECHELE, Molière, the French Revolution and the Theatrical Afterlife. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. Pp. 184 + illus. $39.95 Hb.Google Scholar
MALKIN, JEANETTE R. AND ROKEM, FREDDIE, Jews and the Making of Modern Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. Pp. 336. £41.50/$49.95 Hb.Google Scholar
MARTIN, CAROL, ed., Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2010. Pp. xviii + 310. £55/$90 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MATZKE, CHRISTINE AND OKAGBUE, OSITA, eds., African Theatre Diasporas. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2009. Pp. xx + 170. £17.99/$34.95 Pb.Google Scholar
MCKENZIE, JON, ROMS, HEIKE AND WEE, C. J. W. L., eds., Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2010. Pp. xx + 262. £55/$80 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MCKINNEY, JOSLIN AND BUTTERWORTH, PHILIP, Introduction to Scenography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 238. £15.99/$28.99 Pb; £45/$80 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MORIN, EMILIE, Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii + 224. £50/$75 Hb.Google Scholar
OOST, REGINA B., Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875–1896. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xii + 168. £50/$99.95 Hb.Google Scholar
POUILLAUDE, FREDERIC, Le Désoeuvrement chorégraphique: Etude sur la notion d'oeuvre en danse. Paris: Vrin, 2009. Pp. 432. €30 Pb.Google Scholar
POWELL, KERRY, Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 214. £55.00/$90 Hb.Google Scholar
PURCELL, STEPHEN, Popular Shakespeare: Simulation and Subversion on the Modern Stage. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2009. Pp. x + 262. £50/$80 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
ROBINSON, MICHAEL, ed., Companion to August Strindberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxvi + 188. £17.99/$29.99 Pb; £55/$90 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SATZ, AURA AND WOOD, JON, eds., Articulate Objects: Voice, Sculpture and Performance. Oxford, Bern e.a.: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. 300 + illus. €37.50/£35/$54.95 Pb.Google Scholar
SAWYER, ROBERT, SWINDELLS, JULIA, TAYLOR, DAVID FRANCIS AND FOULKES, RICHARD, eds., Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. 3 Vols. Pp. 1016. £275.00/$495.00 Hb.Google Scholar
SHEPHERD, SIMON, Introduction to Modern British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 250. £15.99/$27.99 Pb; £45/$78 Hb.Google Scholar
SHEVTSOVA, MARIA, Sociology of Theatre and Performance. Verona: Qui Edit, 2009. Pp. 395. €25 Pb.Google Scholar
SIEGEL, MARCIA B., Mirrors and Scrims: The Life and Afterlife of Ballet. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010. $27.95 Pb; $85 Hb.Google Scholar
SINGH, LATA, Play-House of Power: Theatre in Colonial India. New Delhi and Oxford: Oxford University Press India, 2009. Pp. 362. RS895/£34.99 Hb.Google Scholar
STRATEN, FRANK VAN, Florence Young and the Golden Years of Australian Musical Theatre. Mornington, Vic: Beleura/The Tallis Foundation, 2009. Pp. 175 + illus. AU$25 Hb.Google Scholar
THOMPSON, PETER E., The Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses: A Bilingual and Annotated Selection of Plays Written for This Spanish Golden Age Gracioso. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 272. £42/$65 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
WATZKA, STEFANIE AND MARX, PETER W., eds., Berlin auf dem Weg zur Theaterhauptstadt: Theaterstreitschriften zwischen 1869 und 1914. Tübingen: Francke, 2009. Pp. 408. €68 Hb.Google Scholar
WILLIAMSON, ELIZABETH, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. x + 232. £55/$99.95 Hb.Google Scholar
WILSON, MEREDITH, And There I Stood with My Piccolo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 256. £9.50/$14.95 Pb.Google Scholar
WILSON, MEREDITH, “But He Doesn't Know the Territory”. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 256. £9.50/$14.95 Pb.Google Scholar
ZIOLKOWSKI, THEODORE, Scandal on Stage: European Theater as Moral Trial. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 202. £50/$85 Hb.CrossRefGoogle Scholar