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 : ï+½Resisting Arlecchino's Mask: The Case of Marcello Morettiï+½ by Gabrielle Houle ï+½Making Space for Performance: Theatrical-Architectural Nationalism in Postindependence Ghanaï+½ by David Afriyie Donkor ï+½Preparing Boys for War: J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan Enlists in World War I's âi˜Great Adventure'ï+½ by Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer ï+½Not Just Rock âi˜n' Roll: Chicago Theatre, 1984âi"1990ï+½ by Julie Jackson ï+½New Writing and Theatre Historyï+½ by Sara Freeman ï+½New Plays in New Tongues: Bilingualism and Immigration at the New Italian Theatre in Franceï+½ by Matthew McMahan ï+½The Waterloo Summer of the Prince of Wales's Theatre: New Writing, Old Friends, and Early Realism in the Victorian Theatreï+½ by Shannon Epplett ï+½Chekhov's Three Sisters: A Proto-Poststructuralist Experimentï+½ by Sarah Wyman ï+½Historicizing Shakesfear and Translating Shakespeare Anewï+½ by Lezlie C. Cross ï+½A New Noble Kinsmen: The Play On! Project and Making New Plays Out of Oldï+½ by Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Alex N. Vermillion ï+½Making New Theatre Together: The First Writers' Group at the Royal Court Theatre and Its Legacy Within the Young Writers' Programmeï+½ by Nicholas Holden ï+½New Writing in a Populist Context: A Play,a Pie, and a Pintï+½ by Deana Nichols ï+½American Playwriting and the Now Newï+½ by Todd London The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay: ï+½Black Folk's Theatre to Black Lives Matter: The Black Revolution on Campusï+½ by La Donna L. Forsgren.