Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels is professor emerita at Illinois College.

Spotlighting the ineluctable antistrophes between rhetoric and dramatic performance, Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage showcases how the art of rhetoric and the rhetoric of art still have much to teach us. Hacker Daniels’s volume features a diverse troupe of trope experts and rhetorical critics who push the boundaries of rhetoric and theatre scholarship, offering readers illuminating anagnorises of the musical, political, legal, pedagogical, spatial, and religious stages of symbolic life. Bravo!

• Chapter 1: Rhetorical Criticism as a Research Method for Analyzing Musical Theater Texts Valerie Lynn SchraderChapter 2: The Rhetoric of identity and Ideology in the Broadway Musical Revival: An Exploration of the Musicals Oklahoma!, West Side Story and ParadeJessica NeuChapter 3: Remember Who You Are: A Rhetorrectional Situation Analysis of “They Live in You” and “He Lives in You” from Disney’s The Lion KingAnn BrodaChapter 4: A Farmer, a Lawyer and a Sage: Identity and Identification in Paulus and Page’s 1776Emma Loerick and Casey BernerChapter 5: Devising Democracy: Inclusive Rhetoric and Communication through Devised Theater Processes Courtney Helen Grile and Amanda HillChapter 6: Performance, Place and Public Memory: To Kill a Mockingbird at Monroeville’s Old Courthouse MuseumJefferson WalkerChapter 7: The Spectacle of Didacticism in the January 6th HearingsTony PalmeriChapter 8: Rhetorical Invitation in Straight Line Crazy: Evaluating Robert Moses’ Legacy through DramaChristopher Lee Adamczyk and Mary P. CaulfieldChapter 9: Understanding Christopher: How The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Develops Awareness of the Neurodivergent CommunityValerie Lynn Schrader and Jessica NeuChapter 10: Making Voice: Sign Language on StageLaReina HingsonChapter 11: Children’s Theater as Essential “Equipment for Living”John H. SaundersChapter 12: The Missing Link in the Golden Chain: Judaic and Kabbalistic Eloquence in Thornton Wilder’s PlaysAdrienne E. Hacker Daniels

Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels is professor emerita at Illinois College.

Spotlighting the ineluctable antistrophes between rhetoric and dramatic performance, Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage showcases how the art of rhetoric and the rhetoric of art still have much to teach us. Hacker Daniels’s volume features a diverse troupe of trope experts and rhetorical critics who push the boundaries of rhetoric and theatre scholarship, offering readers illuminating anagnorises of the musical, political, legal, pedagogical, spatial, and religious stages of symbolic life. Bravo!

• Chapter 1: Rhetorical Criticism as a Research Method for Analyzing Musical Theater Texts Valerie Lynn SchraderChapter 2: The Rhetoric of identity and Ideology in the Broadway Musical Revival: An Exploration of the Musicals Oklahoma!, West Side Story and ParadeJessica NeuChapter 3: Remember Who You Are: A Rhetorrectional Situation Analysis of “They Live in You” and “He Lives in You” from Disney’s The Lion KingAnn BrodaChapter 4: A Farmer, a Lawyer and a Sage: Identity and Identification in Paulus and Page’s 1776Emma Loerick and Casey BernerChapter 5: Devising Democracy: Inclusive Rhetoric and Communication through Devised Theater Processes Courtney Helen Grile and Amanda HillChapter 6: Performance, Place and Public Memory: To Kill a Mockingbird at Monroeville’s Old Courthouse MuseumJefferson WalkerChapter 7: The Spectacle of Didacticism in the January 6th HearingsTony PalmeriChapter 8: Rhetorical Invitation in Straight Line Crazy: Evaluating Robert Moses’ Legacy through DramaChristopher Lee Adamczyk and Mary P. CaulfieldChapter 9: Understanding Christopher: How The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Develops Awareness of the Neurodivergent CommunityValerie Lynn Schrader and Jessica NeuChapter 10: Making Voice: Sign Language on StageLaReina HingsonChapter 11: Children’s Theater as Essential “Equipment for Living”John H. SaundersChapter 12: The Missing Link in the Golden Chain: Judaic and Kabbalistic Eloquence in Thornton Wilder’s PlaysAdrienne E. Hacker Daniels