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

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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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 1/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817371159, 978-0817371159
      ISBN10: 081737115X
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      Description

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

      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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