Theatre History Studies 2017, Volume 36

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 London The Robert A.

Schanke Award-Winning Essay: �Black Folk's Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campus� by La Donna L.

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