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

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Author:   Lisa Jackson-Schebetta ,  Angela K. Ahlgren ,  Jane Barnette ,  David Bisaha
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.412kg
ISBN:  

9780817371159

ISBN 10:   081737115
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is Theater Department Chair and associate professor of history & theater at Skidmore College. She is President of the American Theatre and Drama Society.

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