Theatre History Studies articles from January 1 2006

Theatre History Studies archives from January 1 2006

Remembering Spalding Gray.
January 1, 2006... As a tribute to the legacy of Spalding Gray, the Department of Theatre at The Ohio State University acknowledged his life's work at a public gathering in Thurber Theatre on November 22, 2004. Charles Helm, Director of Performing Arts at the...

Dorothy Parker and the politics of McCarthyism.
January 1, 2006... I am not a traitor and I will not be involved in this obscene inquisition. --DOROTHY PARKER Known to friends as Dottie and to others as Mrs. Parker, Dorothy Parker was briefly considered a quadruple threat to the nation's security under...

A paradigm for new play development: the Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit.(Richard Barr, Clinton Wilder, Edward Albee)
January 1, 2006... Albarwild Inc.'s Playwrights Unit would never have been successful without the unique partnership of its off- and on-Broadway producers Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder and playwright Edward Albee. The Unit was initially financially dependent on...

"The power of woman's influence": nineteenth-century temperance theatricality and the drama of Nellie H. Bradley.
January 1, 2006... "Woman's influence, wrongly exerted in a thoughtless moment, first led me astray, yet to her influence, properly directed, I attribute, to a great extent, my love for all that is good and true. I am impressed with the belief that the fairer...

Toward a new theatre history of Dionysus.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... For historians of the Western theatre, The Bacchae tells a peculiarly fecund tale. Compressed into its 1,394 lines is the origin story of our object of study--or, to put a finer point on it, in its short traffic of the stage the vexed...

The Salvation Lass, her harlot-friend, and slum realism in Edward Sheldon's Salvation Nell (1908).(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Doctors, lawyers, butchers and bakers And some sporty old fellows, as well, They've been sinners for years Yet they burst out in tears, And join the Army, join the Army Just to be around Salvation Nell. --FROM THE SONG "SALVATION NELL"...

Irony lost. Bret Harte's Heathen Chinee and the popularization of the comic coolie as trickster in frontier melodrama.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... "Plain Language from Truthful James" was by its author's own account "the worst poem I ever wrote, possibly the worst poem anyone ever wrote." (1) Bret Harte readily admitted that the poems publication in the September 1870 issue of Overland...

Labanotation: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement, 4th ed.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Labanotation: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement. By Ann Hutchinson Guest. 4th ed. New York and London: Routledge, 2005.487 pp. $35.00 paper. John Hodgson asks in the preface of his 1996 biography, Mastering Movement: The Life...

Women, Modernism, and Performance.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Women, Modernism, and Performance. By Penny Farfan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 173 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] cloth. In Women, Modernism, and Performance, Penny Farfan argues that women's performance and writing...

Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical. By Andrea Most. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 253 pp. $29.95 cloth. The burgeoning field of musical theatre academic writing has a welcome new addition in Andrea Most's Making...

The Cambridge History of British Theatre, 3 vols.(Origins to 1660)(1660 to 1895)(Since 1895)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Cambridge History of British Theatre. 3 vols. Edited by Peter Thomson. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Vol. 1: Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. xxix + 540 pp. $175 cloth. Vol. 2: 1660 to 1895....

Books received.
January 1, 2006... Assael, Brenda. The Circus and Victorian Society. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Badenhausen, Richard. T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Canning, Charlotte M....

Arthur Miller: A Critical Study.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Arthur Miller: A Critical Study. By Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 514 pp. $29.99 paper. Any serious scholar of American drama will recognize the name of Christopher Bigsby. Author of the...

Paul Green: Playwright of the Real South.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Paul Green: Playwright of the Real South. By John Herbert Roper. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xiii + 320 pp. $34.95 cloth. A major study of Paul Green's life and work was too long overdue. Green--a Pulitzer Prize winner,...

Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times.(Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times. By Linda Ben-Zvi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 476 pp. $45.00 cloth. Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland. By Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books,...

The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question. By Scott McGrea. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005. xiv + 280 pp. $42.95 cloth. Is it possible that the greatest playwright the world has ever known was actually an impostor? Many...

Doing Shakespeare.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Doing Shakespeare. By Simon Palfrey. London: Arden Shakespeare, Thomson Learning, 2005. ix + 300 pp. $15.99 paper. In a world that produces a new article on Hamlet every day, Doing Shakespeare is an original and long-overdue resource for...

Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion. By Sondra Fraleigh. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. 285 pp. $32.50 cloth. Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion is a collection of nine essays written over a fifteen-year period...