Books by Tracy C. Davis

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History.

As Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin travelled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey.

A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of Shaw's economic practices and theories, augments feminist and postcolonial critiques that preoccupy the study of literary history in the 1990s, and provides a long overdue revisionist reading of Shaw for an undergraduate readership.

In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. This title investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises.

Using historical evidence and personal accounts, Davis examines the reality of conditions for ordinary actresses, their working environments, employment patterns, and the reasons why acting continued a popular, though insecure, profession.