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Theatre and Performance Studies

Selected Works

2018

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Full-Text Articles in American Studies

Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: The American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell dedicated her literary career to exploring the lives and motives of lonely and trapped individuals.


Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, xi + 199 pp., $90.00.


Book Review Of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition In American Political Theater By Ilka Saal, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition In American Political Theater By Ilka Saal, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater by Ilka Saal. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007. 244 pp. $69.95.


"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss May 2018

"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: In 1975, Bob Dylan invited Sam Shepard, the young playwright who had ignited the Off-Broadway and London theatre scene, to go on tour with him in order to write scenes and dialogue for a film of the Rolling Thunder Revue.