“A brilliant and unsettling book.”
– Judith Butler, U.C.-Berkeley

“A genuine tour de force.”
– Adrian Daub, Stanford University

“Intelligent, lucid, and elegantly wrought.”
– Spencer Golub, Brown University

“Revelatory . . . . Epiphanic.”
– Joseph Roach, Yale University

“Dazzling.”
– Modern Drama (2023 review)

– Helen Tartar First Book Award winner (2021, American Comparative Literature Association)

– Anna Balakian First Book Award honorable mention (2022, International Comparative Literature Association)

Shortlisted for the following honors:
– First Book Prize finalist (2022, Modernist Studies Association)

– Barnard Hewitt Award finalist “for outstanding research in theatre history” (2022, American Society for Theatre Research), and

– Outstanding Book Award finalist (2022, Association for Theatre in Higher Education).

Book Launch Roundtable (2022)
Sponsored by Skidmore College and Johns Hopkins University Press

Participants: Matthew Buckley (Rutgers University), Rebecca Schneider (Brown University), and Matthew Smith (Stanford University), and Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University)