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The idea that actors were hypocrites and fakes and therefore dangerous to society was widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries. This work examines the equation between the vice of hypocrisy and the craft of acting in anti-theatrical tracts, in popular and high culture, and plays of the period.

Successful plays and playwrights achieve their prominence not simply because of their intrinsic merit but because of the work of mediators. This work demonstrates the processes through which these mediatory practices by key authority figures situate theatrical companies and playwrights within cultural and historical memory.

This collection examines the problems and challenges of formulating national theatre histories. The essayists included here provide an international context for national theatre histories as well as studies of individual nations.

In early twentieth-century US culture, sex sold. The Progressive Era was obsessed with prostitution, sexuality, and the staging of women's changing roles in the modern era. By the 1910s, plays about prostitution had inundated Broadway. Katie N. Johnson recovers six of these plays, presenting them with astute cultural analysis, photographs, and production histories.

Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue,Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws and rogue books suggest.

What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question - crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century - Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa's Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around, and out of power from the colonial period to the postcolony.