Theatre History Studies 2021, Volume 40

Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (Edited by), Angela K. Ahlgren (Contributions by), Jane Barnette (Contributions by), David Bisaha (Contributions by), Chrystyna M. Dail (Contributions by), Rebecca K. Hammonds (Contributions by), Jessica Ann Holt (Contributions by), Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (Contributions by), Odai Johnson (Contributions by), Lindsey Mantoan (Contributions by), Scott Proudfit (Contributions by), Mamata Sengupta (Contributions by), Jonathan Shandell (Contributions by), David Carlyon (Contributions by), Ryan Claycomb (Contributions by), Meredith A. Conti (Contributions by), Jeremy Cornelius (Contributions by), Jennifer Ewing-Pierce (Contributions by), Brice Ezell (Contributions by), Thomas Fish (Contributions by), Paul Gagliardi (Contributions by), Elizabeth Gray (Contributions by), William David Green (Contributions by), Alícia Hernàndez Grande (Contributions by), Alani Hicks-Bartlett (Contributions by), Rose Hilton (Contributions by), Catherine Quick (Contributions by)

9780817371159

Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2022

256 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.412 kg

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