Theatre History Studies 2021, Vol 40

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

Introduction
--LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELL

PART I
STUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORY

Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason
--ODAI JOHNSON

Caricatured, Marginalized,
and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia's Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936-1939
--JONATHAN SHANDELL

Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate
--SCOTT PROUDFIT

Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance
--ANGELA K. AHLGREN

PART II
WITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCE

Editor's Introduction to the Special Section
Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances
--CHRYSTYNA DAIL

To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft
--JANE BARNETTE

Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare's Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter's Tale
--JESSICA HOLT

Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom
--MAMATA SENGUPTA

(Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba's Heroine Journey in Wicked
--REBECCA K. HAMMONDS

Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell
--DAVID BISAHA

PART III
Essay from the Conference

The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020
New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s
--LINDSEY MANTOAN

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081737115X
• ISBN13: 9780817371159
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"