Theatre History Studies 2021, Vol 40 (eBook)

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceIntroduction LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELLPART ISTUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORYUn-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason ODAI JOHNSONCaricatured, Marginalized,and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936 1939 JONATHAN SHANDELLStop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins s Appropriate SCOTT PROUDFITAsia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance ANGELA K. AHLGRENPART IIWITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCEEditor s Introduction to the Special SectionShifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances CHRYSTYNA DAILTo Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie s Witchcraft JANE BARNETTENothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter s Tale JESSICA HOLTOf 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. HAMMONDSImmersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell DAVID BISAHAPART IIIEssay from the ConferenceThe Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s LINDSEY MANTOAN