{"id":32189,"date":"2020-07-31T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=32189"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:33:39","slug":"new-book-by-theresa-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/new-book-by-theresa-may\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: &#8220;Earth Matters on Stage&#8221; by Theresa May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MayBookCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MayBookCover.jpg 225w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MayBookCover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MayBookCover-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MayBookCover-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater, by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theatre.uoregon.edu\/faculty\/theresa-j-may\/\" target=\"_blank\">Theresa May<\/a> (Routledge, 2020, 344 pages).<\/strong> The book \u201ctells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century as it argues for theater\u2019s potential power in the age of climate change. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters illuminate key moments in American theater and American environmentalism over the course of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century in the US. It focuses in particular on how drama has represented environmental injustice, and how inequality has become part of the American environmental landscape.\u00a0 As the first book-length ecocritical study of American theater, <em>Earth Matters<\/em> examines both familiar dramas, but also lesser-known grassroots plays, in an effort to show that theater can be a powerful force for social change from frontier drama of the late nineteenth century to the eco-theatre movement, the book argues that theater has been part of the history of environmental ideas and action in the US.\u00a0<em>Earth Matters<\/em> also maps the rise of an ecocritical thought and ecotheater practice\u2014what the author calls <em>ecodramaturgy<\/em>\u2014showing how theatre has informed environmental perceptions and policies. Through key plays and productions, it identifies strategies for artists who want their work to contribute to cultural transformation in the face of climate change.\u201d \u2014<em>from the publisher<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Theresa May is an associate professor of theatre arts and a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater, by Theresa May (Routledge, 2020, 344 pages). The book \u201ctells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the 20th century as it argues&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/new-book-by-theresa-may\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-issues","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32191,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189\/revisions\/32191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}