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Pages 81-97 | Published online: 05 Jun 2009
 

THE LONDON STAGE, 1660–1800: A CALENDAR OF PLAYS, ENTERTAINMENTS & AFTERPIECES TOGETHER WITH CASTS, BOX‐RECEIPTS AND CONTEMPORARY COMMENT COMPILED FROM THE PLAY‐BILLS, NEWSPAPERS AND THEATRICAL DIARIES OF THE PERIOD. PART 2: 1700–1729. Edited with a Critical Introduction by Emmett L. Avery, Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1960; Volume I, ccxii+460; Volume II, xlii+461–1044. $50.00.

THEATRE: THE REDISCOVERY OF STYLE. By Michel Saint‐Denis; Introduction by Sir Laurence Olivier. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1960; pp. 110. $3.00.

THE THEATRE OF BERTOLT BRECHT: A STUDY FROM EIGHT ASPECTS. By John Willett. New York: New Directions, 1959: pp. 272‐$8.oo.

BRECHT: THE MAN AND HIS WORK. By Martin Esslin. Garden City, N. Y.: Double‐day, 1960; pp. 360. $4.50.

THE THEATER OF MARIVAUX. By Kenneth N. McKee, with an Appreciation by Jean‐Louis Barrault. New York: New York University Press, 1958; pp. xvi+267. $5.00.

A NEW VIEW OF CONGREVE'S WAY OF THE WORLD. By Paul and Miriam Mueschke. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, 1958; pp. 85. Paper $3.00.

THE SENSE OF HISTORY IN GREEK AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA. By Tom F. Driver. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960; pp. viii+231. $5.50.

CHARLES MACKLIN: AN ACTOR'S LIFE. By William W. Appleton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960; pp. x+280. $5.00.

THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS IN RURAL MISSOURI BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. By Elbert R. Bowen. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1959; pp. xiii+141. $3.50.

ON PLAYS, PLAYWRIGHTS, AND PLAYGOERS: SELECTIONS FROM THE LETTERS OF BOOTH TARKINGTON TO GEORGE C. TYLER AND JOHN PETER TOOHEY, 1918–1935. Edited by Alan S. Downer. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Library, 1959; pp. 100. $3.00.

COSTUMING FOR THE THEATRE. By Josephine D. Paterek. New York: Crown Publishers, 1959; pp. x+150. $3.50.

STAGE‐SETTING FOR AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS. By Richard Southern. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1960; pp. 272. $5.00.

CHILDREN'S THEATRE: PLAY PRODUCTION FOR THE CHILD AUDIENCE. By Jed H. Davis and Mary Jane Watkins with the collaboration of Roger M. Busfield, Jr. New York: Harper, 1960; pp. xiv+416. $6.00.

EDUCATIONAL THEATRE JOURNAL, A TEN‐YEAR INDEX: 1949–1958> By David Welker. East Lansing, Mich.: American Educational Theatre Association, 1960; pp. 84. $3.00 (AETA members, $2.00).

DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATRE. Edited by Burnet M. Hobgood. East Lansing, Mich.: AETA, 1960; pp. 64. $3.00 (AETA members, §2.00).

THE POWERS OF POETRY. By Gilbert Highet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960; pp. xv+365. $6.00.

NAMING‐DAY IN EDEN: THE CREATION AND RECREATION OF LANGUAGE. By Noah Jonathan Jacobs. New York: Macmillan, 1958; pp. xi+159. $3.95.

EDMUND BURKE AND IRELAND. By Thomas H. D. Mahoney. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960; pp. xvi+413. $7.50.

STUDIES IN AMERICAN CULTURE: DOMINANT IDEAS AND IMAGES. Edited by Joseph J. Kwiat and Mary C. Turpie. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1960; pp. viii+233. $4.75.

CENTURY OF STRUGGLE: THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. By Eleanor Flexner. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press o£ Harvard University Press, 1959; pp. xiv+384. $6.00.

LINCOLN'S PLAN OF RECONSTRUCTION. By William B. Hesseltine. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Confederate Publishing Company, 1960; pp. 154. Paper $4.00.

THE TRUMPET SOUNDETH: WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN AND HIS DEMOCRACY, 1896–1912. By Paul W. Glad. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1960; pp. xiv+243. $4.75.

MOTION PICTURES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ART FROM SILENT FILMS TO THE AGE OF TELEVISION. By A. R. Fulton. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960; pp. xv+320. $5.00.

THE DYNAMICS OF DISCUSSION. By Dean C. Barnlund and Franklyn S. Haiman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960; pp. xviii+461. $4.50.

FIRST PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. By Loren Reid. Columbia, Mo.: Artcraft Press, 1960; pp. xvi+342. $5.00.

MODERN DEBATE: ITS LOGIC AND STRATEGY. By Arthur N. Kruger. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1960; pp. x+448. $6.50.

INTRODUCING CONTEST DEBATE. By Harold Dressel; Illustrations by Eleanor Woolfe. Flint, Mich.: Mott Foundation, 1959; pp. 47. Paper $0.50.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND WENDELL WILLKIE. By Donald Bruce Johnson. Ur‐bana: University of Illinois Press, 1960; xii+354‐ $5–50.

BIBLICAL AUTHORITY FOR MODERN PREACHING. By Charles W. F. Smith. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1960; pp. 176. $3.50.

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