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 : ï½Resisting Arlecchino's Mask: The Case of Marcello Morettiï½ by Gabrielle Houle ï½Making Space for Performance: Theatrical-Architectural Nationalism in Postindependence Ghanaï½ by David Afriyie Donkor ï½Preparing Boys for War: J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan Enlists in World War I's â??Great Adventure'ï½ by Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer ï½Not Just Rock â??n' Roll: Chicago Theatre, 1984â?"1990ï½ by Julie Jackson ï½New Writing and Theatre Historyï½ by Sara Freeman ï½New Plays in New Tongues: Bilingualism and Immigration at the New Italian Theatre in Franceï½ by Matthew McMahan ï½The Waterloo Summer of the Prince of Wales's Theatre: New Writing, Old Friends, and Early Realism in the Victorian Theatreï½ by Shannon Epplett ï½Chekhov's Three Sisters: A Proto-Poststructuralist Experimentï½ by Sarah Wyman ï½Historicizing Shakesfear and Translating Shakespeare Anewï½ by Lezlie C. Cross ï½A New Noble Kinsmen: The Play On! Project and Making New Plays Out of Oldï½ by Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Alex N. Vermillion ï½Making New Theatre Together: The First Writers' Group at the Royal Court Theatre and Its Legacy Within the Young Writers' Programmeï½ by Nicholas Holden ï½New Writing in a Populist Context: A Play,a Pie, and a Pintï½ by Deana Nichols ï½American Playwriting and the Now Newï½ by Todd London The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay: ï½Black Folk's Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campusï½ by La Donna L. Forsgren