Previous Winners
of
The George Freedley Memorial Award
2007
Felicia Hardison Londrè. The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatrer, 1870-1930. (University of Missouri Press)
2006
Marvin Rosenberg. The
Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra.
(University of Delaware Press)
Special Jury Prize: bruce d.
mcclung. Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical. (Oxford
University Press)
Special Jury Prize: Patrick Carnegy. Wagner and the Art of Theatre. (Yale
University Press)
2005
Kathryn Shevelow. Charlotte:
Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyandt Adventures in
Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World.
(Henry Holt & Company)
Special Jury Prize: Linda Ben-Zvi. Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times. (Oxford University Press)
2004
Rachel Shteir. Striptease: The Untold
History of the Girlie Show. (Oxford University Press)
Special Jury Prize: Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik. Broadway
Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time. (Black Dog
& Leventhal Publishers)
2003
Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch. A History of African
American Theatre. (Cambridge University Press)
Special Jury Prize: Ted Chapin. Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical 'Follies'. (Alfred A .Knopf)
2002
David Kaufman. Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and
Times of Charles Ludlam. (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)
Special Jury Prize: Dunbar H. Ogden. The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church. (University of Delaware Press)
2001
Meredith Chilton. Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia
Dell'Arte and
Porcelain Sculpture. (Yale University Press)
Honorable Mention: Ron Jenkins. Dario Fo & Franca Rame: Artful Laughter. (Aperture)
2000
Tracy C. Davis. The Economics of the British Stage,
1800-1914. (Cambridge
University Press)
Honorable Mention: Laurence Senelick. The Changing Room: Sex, Drag, and Theatre. (Routledge)
1999
Mel Gussow. Edward Albee: A Singular Journey, A
Biography.
(Simon and Schuster)
Honorable Mention: Al Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld on Line. (Applause Books)
1998
Meryle Secrest. Stephen Sondheim: A Life.
(Knopf)
Honorable Mention: Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby,editors. The Cambridge History of American Theatre: Volume One. (Cambridge University Press)
1997
Gary Jay Williams. Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer
Night's Dream" in the Theatre. (University of Iowa Press)
Honorable Mention: Michael A. Morrison. John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor. (Cambridge University Press)
1996
James Knowlson. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel
Beckett.
(Simon & Schuster)
Honorable Mention: Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke, editors. Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. (University of California Press)
1995
Lyle Leverich. Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams.
(Crown)
Honorable Mention: Claire Tomalin. Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Actress and the Prince. (Knopf)
1994
Faye E. Dudden. Women and the American Theatre:
Actresses and
Audiences, 1790-1870. (Yale University Press)
Honorable Mention: Simon Trussler. The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre. (Cambridge University Press)
1993
Rachel M. Brownstein. Tragic Muse: Rachel of the
Comedie
Francaise. (Knopf)
Honorable Mention: Dennis Kennedy. Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance. (Cambridge University Press)
1992
Marvin Rosenberg. The Masks of Hamlet. (University
of
Delaware Press)
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Howe. The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700. (Cambridge University Press)
1991
Robert C. Allen. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and
American
Culture. (University of North Carolina Press)
Honorable Mention: Norris Houghton. Entrances and Exits: A Life In and Out of the Theatre. (Limelight Editions)
1990
Virginia Scott. The Commedia dell 'Arte in Paris, 1644-1697.
(The University Press of Virginia)
Honorable Mention: Margot Peters. The House of Barrymore. (Knopf)
1989
Martin Bauml Duberman. Paul Robeson: A Biography.
(Knopf)
Honorable Mention: Marvin Carlson. Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture. (Cornell University Press)
1988
Laurence Senelick. The Age and Stage of George L. Fox.
(Tufts
University Press)
Honorable Mention: Richard Ellmann. Oscar Wilde. (Knopf)
1987
Charles Shattuck. Shakespeare on the American Stage, Vol
II: From
Booth and Barrett to Sothern and Marlowe. (Folger Books,
Associated
University Press)
Honorable Mention: Frank Rich and Lisa Aronson. The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson. (Knopf)
1986
Mary C. Henderson. Theatre in America: Two Hundred
Years of
Plays, Players and Productions. (Harry N. Abrams)
Honorable Mention: Ricky Jay. Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers. (Villard Books)
1985
Michael Meyer. Strindberg. (Random House)
Honorable Mention: Dennis Kennedy. Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre. (Cambridge University Press)
1984
Margot Peters. Mrs. Pat: The Life of Mrs. Patrick
Campbell.
(Knopf)
Honorable Mention: Ann Marie Koller. The Theatre Duke: George II of Saxe-Meininger and the German Stage. (Stanford University Press)
1983
Martin Meisel. Realizations: Narrative Pictorial and
Theatrical
Arts in Nineteenth century England. (Princeton University
Press)
1982
J. C. Furnas. Fanny Kemble: Leading Lady of the
Nineteenth
Century Stage. (Dial)
Honorable Mention: Laurence Senelick. Gordon Craig's Moscow Hamlet: A Reconstruction. (Greenwood Press)
1981
Margaret Brenman-Gibson. Clifford Odets: American
Playwright, the
Years from 1906 to 1940j. (Atheneum)
Honorable Mention: Jonas Barish. The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice. (University of California Press)
1980
Margot Peters. Bernard Shaw and the Actresses.
(Doubleday)
1979
George Winchester Stone Jr. and George M. Kahrl. David
Garrick: A
Critical Biography. (Southern Illinois University Press)
Honorable Mention: Malcolm Goldstein. George S. Kaufman: His Life, His Theatre. (Oxford University Press)
1978
Richard Altick. The Shows of London. (Belknap Press
of
Harvard University)
Special Citation: Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward Langhans. Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. (Southern Illinois University Press)
1977
George C. Izenour. Theatre Design. (McGraw-Hill)
Honorable Mention: Nahma Sandrow. Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theatre. (Harper & Row)
1976
Gerald Kahan. Jacques Callot: Artist of the
Theatre. (University
of Georgia Press)
Honorable Mention: Charles Shattuck. Shakespeare on the American Stage: From the Hallams to Edwin Booth. (Folger Books)
1975
Donald Oenslager. Stage Design: Four Centuries of
Scenic
Invention. (Viking Press)
1974
Robert C. Toll. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in
Nineteenth-Century America. (Oxford University Press)
Honorable Mention: John Wharton. Life Among the Playwrights: Being Mostly the Story of the Playwrights Producing Company, Inc. (Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company)
1973
Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong. Inigo Jones: The Theatre
of the
Stuart Court. (The University of California Press)
Honorable Mention: Richard Leacroft. (The Development of the English Playhouse. (Cornell University Press)
Honorable Mention: Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill, Son and Artist. (Little, Brown)
1972
John Houseman. Run-Through: A Memoir. (Simon
and
Schuster)
Honorable Mention: Marvin Rosenberg. The Masks of King Lear. (University of California Press)
1971
James M. Symons. Meyerhold's Theatre of the Grotesque:
The Post
Revolutionary Productions 1920-1932. (University of Miami
Press)
Honorable Mention: Stanley Weintraub. Journey to Heartbreak: The Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw 1914-1918. (Weybright and Talley)
1970
Brooks Atkinson. Broadway. (Macmillan)
Honorable Mention: Joseph Leach. Bright Particular Star: The Life and Times of Charlotte Cushman. (Yale University Press)
1969
Charles Shattuck. The Hamlet of Edwin Booth.
(University of
Illinois Press)
1968
Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill, Son and Playwright.
(Little, Brown)
Honorable Mention: Edward Craig. Gordon Craig: The Story of His Life. (Knopf)
Honorable Mention: Walter Volbach. Adolphe Appia, Prophet of the Modern Theatre. (Wesleyan University Press)
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