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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The University of Toronto Press has nominated
<EM>Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian Theatre Criticism
</EM></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2>for the 1999 Barnard Hewitt Award,
created in honor of one of the American theatre's most notable scholars.
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The $500 annual award is presented to an
individual or a group of writers in recognition of an important contribution, in
English, to the field of theatre history and cognate theatre studies.
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The official announcement and presentation of
the award will take place at the November 2000 meeting of The American Society
for Theatre Research.<BR> <BR>The 1998 Award went to Don B. Wilmeth and
Christopher Bigsby, eds., <EM>The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Vol. I:
Beginnings to 1870 </EM>(Cambridge University Press). Also recognized with
Honorable Mention were Patricia Eckert Boyer, <EM>Artists and the Avant-Garde
Theater in Paris, 1887-1900 </EM>(National Gallery of Art); Jennifer
Robertson, <EM>Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern
Japan </EM>(University of California Press); and Richard W. Schoch,
<EM>Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: <BR>Performing History in the Theatre of
Charles Kean </EM>(Cambridge University Press).</FONT></DIV>
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