Theatre History Studies 2006

Highly regarded annual journal of theatre history and scholarship. Theatre History Studiesis a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encom-passes the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. Rhona Justice-Malloyis Associate Professor of Theatre at Central Michigan University.

Rhona Justice-Malloy is Associate Professor of Theatre at Central Michigan University.

List of Illustrations

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Remembering Spalding Gray

(6)

Charles R. Helm

Dorothy Parker and the Politics of McCarthyism

(24)

Milly S. Barranger

A Paradigm for New Play Development: The Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit

(21)

David A. Crespy

``The Power of Woman's Influence'': Nineteenth-Century Temperance Theatricality and the Drama of Nellie H. Bradley

(19)

Deanna M. Toten Beard

Toward a New Theatre History of Dionysus

(17)

Ellen Mackay

The Salvation Lass, Her Harlot-Friend, and Slum Realism in Edward Sheldon's Salvation Nell (1908)

(20)

Katie N. Johnson

Irony Lost: Bret Harte's Heathen Chinee and the Popularization of the Comic Coolie as Trickster in Frontier Melodrama

108

(29)

Jacqueline Romeo

Book Reviews

Ann Hutchinson Guest, Labanotation: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement

137

(2)

Christopher Olsen

Penny Farfan, Women, Modernism, and Performance

139

(3)

Rebecca Nesvet

Andrea Most, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical

142

(2)

Jessica Hillman

Peter Thomson, ed., The Cambridge History of British Theatre, 3 vols.

144

(4)

Franklin J. Hildy

Sondra Fraleigh, Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion

148

(2)

Carrie Gaiser

Simon Palfrey, Doing Shakespeare

150

(2)

Adrianne Adderley

Scott McCrea, The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question

152

(2)

Julia Schmitt

Linda Ben-Zvi, Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf, Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland

154

(3)

Marcia Noe

John Herbert Roper, Paul Green: Playwright of the Real South

157

(2)

Jonathan Shandell

Christopher Bigsby, Arthur Miller: A Critical Study

159

(4)

Terry Otten

Books Received

163

(2)

Contributors

165

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