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, 19841990 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. Forsgren