Theatre History Studies articles from June 1 2002

Theatre History Studies archives from June 1 2002

Bibliography of published sources in English on actors and the history of acting in the West since 1950: a tentative checklist.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2002... Introduction: This is a work in progress and one collection of resources of many to be used for a proposed history of acting in the West to be undertaken by the compiler. For practical masons a number of parameters have had to be imposed on...

Updates to the Cambridge Guide to American Theatre.
June 1, 2002... The hardcover edition of the Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, coedited by Don Wilmeth and Tice Miller, was published in 1993. Due to the exigencies of publishing, the material covered went through most of 1992. And, not too surprisingly,...

The voices of Bang, Bang You're Dead.
June 1, 2002... The debate has become bloody. Millions of Americans are now convinced that the representation of violence--obscene and graphic--in our films, on our stages and television sets, and in video games is directly responsible for the carnage in our...

Faking it: the press agent and celebrity illusion in early twentieth century American theatre.
June 1, 2002... In our age of pervasive advertising, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the genesis of the theatrical press agent, who since the beginning of the twentieth century has used illusion and fabricated images to further the interests of...

"Green to the very door": painted landscape on the nineteenth-century stage.
June 1, 2002... If my grandmother, who emigrated from County Down, had any aesthetic dicta guiding her domestic choices, she lacked the vocabulary--or perhaps the desire--to articulate them. But she did know, and would affirm to anyone who asked, that over the...

"Women know her to be a real woman": femininity, nationalism, and the suffrage activism of Lillian Russell.
June 1, 2002... At first glance, the suffrage activism of singer and actress Lillian Russell meshes neatly with conventional wisdom about actresses' involvement in the movement for women's enfranchisement. As a successful star performer, Russell enjoyed for...

Carson McCullers: young, gifted, and odd.
June 1, 2002... Until her death in 1967 at age fifty, Carson McCullers was noted for her youthful appearance. She was photographed after the publication of her seminal work, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, at a book signing, "looking like a drowsy-eyed child who...

The Moscow Art Theatre's stepdaughter: Stanislavsky and Olga Gzovskaya.
June 1, 2002... Enamored by the actresses' talents, Stanislavsky did not trust them. "They all deceived me," he used to say, and he counted the names of the actresses who had abandoned him. Vladimir Volkenstein (1) A forty-four-year-old Stanislavsky...

Rational entertainment, music hall and the nineteenth-century British periodical press.
June 1, 2002... This article is adapted from a larger work concerned with the role of the British periodical press in the rhetorical construction of theatrical legitimacy during the nineteenth century, and the relationship of that notion to the concept of...

Rough Magic: Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
June 1, 2002... By Steven Adler. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001; pp. xxii + 272. $50 cloth, $20 paper. Steven Adler takes his title, Rough Magic: Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare, from Prospero's soliloquy in Act V....

The Pickle Clowns: New American Circus Comedy.
June 1, 2002... Edited and with interviews by Joel Schechter. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. pp. xii + 175. $25.00 paper. As Joel Schechter notes in his preface, the clowning acts of great clowns have only rarely been recorded...

Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of.
June 1, 2002... By David Carlyon. New York: Public Affairs, 2001; pp. xix + 506 pages. $30 cloth. Dan Rice was one of nineteenth-century America's most visible and prolific popular performers. A consummate "talking clown," circus owner, menagerie...

Chicano, Drama, Performance, Society and Myth.
June 1, 2002... By Jorge Huerta. Cambridge: MA, Cambridge University Press, 2000. pp. xi + 209. $64.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. The publication of Jorge Huerta's 1982 Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms was a watershed that marked the beginning of serious,...

Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart.
June 1, 2002... By Steven Bach. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001; pp. xiii + 462. $29.95 cloth. Hart was born near the beginning of the twentieth century (1904), not on the wrong end of Fifth Avenue, as he liked to say, but "in a tenement at 74 East 105th...

A Triptych from the Russian Theatre: The Komissarzhevskys.
June 1, 2002... By Victor Borovsky. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001; pp. xx + 485. $49.95 cloth. While reading Victor Borovsky's story of three generations of the Kommissarzhevskii family, the first question that will emerge for readers familiar...

150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre.
June 1, 2002... By Andrew Lamb. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001; pp. x + 380. $39.95 cloth. For anyone who still believes that the musical is a strictly American theatrical genre, 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre by British...

The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914.
June 1, 2002... By Tracy C. Davis. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. pp. xviii + 506. $80.00 cloth. Tracy Davis's latest contribution to theatre history is a richly detailed study of the relationship between the stage and capital,...

Theatre Under the Nazis.
June 1, 2002... Edited by John London. New York: Manchester UP, 2000; pp. xii + 356. $74.95 cloth. The study of theatre under National Socialism is fraught with difficulties, not the least of which is balancing the need for careful critical examination of...

The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750-1990.
June 1, 2002... By Richard Butsch. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000; pp. x + 438. $ 32.44 paper. I readily admit to giving only scant attention to the phenomenological connections between the Astor Place Riot, 1960s rock concerts...

Books received.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2002... The listing of a book in this section does not preclude subsequent review. Adams, Kenneth, Ciaran Cosgrove, and James Whiston, eds. Spanish Theatre: Studies in Honour of Victor F. Dixon. Rochester, NY: Tamesis Books, 2001. pp. vii + 190....