Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36 (eBook)

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference.Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography. Many issues feature a special section curated around a special theme or topic; for 2017 that special section focus on histories of new writing for the theatre.Featured in THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES 2017, VOLUME 36 Resisting Arlecchino s Mask: The Case of Marcello Moretti by Gabrielle Houle Making Space for Performance: Theatrical-Architectural Nationalism in Postindependence Ghana by David Afriyie Donkor Preparing Boys for War: J. M. Barrie s Peter Pan Enlists in World War I s Great Adventure by Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer Not Just Rock n Roll: Chicago Theatre, 1984 1990 by Julie Jackson New Writing and Theatre History by Sara Freeman New Plays in New Tongues: Bilingualism and Immigration at the New Italian Theatre in France by Matthew McMahan The Waterloo Summer of the Prince of Wales s Theatre: New Writing, Old Friends, and Early Realism in the Victorian Theatre by Shannon Epplett Chekhov s Three Sisters: A Proto-Poststructuralist Experiment by Sarah Wyman Historicizing Shakesfear and Translating Shakespeare Anew by Lezlie C. Cross A New Noble Kinsmen: The Play On! Project and Making New Plays Out of Old by Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Alex N. Vermillion Making New Theatre Together: The First Writers Group at the Royal Court Theatre and Its Legacy Within the Young Writers Programme by Nicholas Holden New Writing in a Populist Context: A Play,a Pie, and a Pint by Deana Nichols American Playwriting and the Now New by Todd LondonThe Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay: Black Folk s Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campus by La Donna L. Forsgren