Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 31st annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Chicano theatre, the Vietnam War and 9/11 in the French theatre, actresses and modern Hamlet, Asian theatre, Antigone in pre- and post-communist Germany, adapting an Internet comic strip for the stage, and the future of dramatic literature in the academy, among others.…mehr
Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 31st annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Chicano theatre, the Vietnam War and 9/11 in the French theatre, actresses and modern Hamlet, Asian theatre, Antigone in pre- and post-communist Germany, adapting an Internet comic strip for the stage, and the future of dramatic literature in the academy, among others.
Stratos E. Constantinidis, former director of the Comparative Drama Conference and former editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, teaches in the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University and lives in Columbus.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. Chicano Theatre in a Society in Crisis Jorge Huerta 2. Responding to a Society in Crisis Jon D. Rossini 3. When We Dead Awaken: The 1613 Marriage Masques of Shakespeare, Campion, and Beaumont Ellen Caldwell 4. Out of Wasteland: Remembering the Cultural Revolution in Wasteland and the Human Being 45 Xiao Che 5. The Hyperrealities of America's Vietnam War and 9/11 in the French Theatre of Armand Gatti and Michel Vinaver Les Essif 6. Babel, Babble, and Multilingualism in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabu1 77 Erith Jaffe-Berg 7. Formal Subversion in How I Learned to Drive: A Structure of Meaning
Andrew Kimbrough 8. Shaw's Saint Joan and Shakespeare's Joan la Pucelle Annie Papreck King 9. Luis Alfaro's Electricidad and the "Tragedy of Electra" Helen E. Moritz 10. Actresses and the Making of the Modern Hamlet Amy Muse 11. Alan Bennett's The History Boys: Education and "The Wherewithal to Resist It" Doug Phillips 12. No Red Blood: Clyde Fitch and the Staging of the Neurasthenic Michael Schwartz 13. Antigone in Pre-Wall and Post-Wall German Theatre: Bertolt Brecht's and George Tabori's Power Plays Margaret Setje-Eilers 14. Shaw's St. Joan (1923): A Platonian Tragedy? P. S. Sri 15. Adapting an Internet Comic Strip for the Stage James Utz 16. Antigone and Terrorism: Seamus Heaney Sends a Letter to George W. Bush Kelly Younger 17. The Future of Dramatic Literature in the Academy: A Roundtable Discussion Verna Foster Miriam Chirico Jan L. Hagens Karelisa Hartigan Rush Rehm Jon D. Rossini Tony J. Stafford 18. Asian Theatre A Review Essay Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei 233 Review of Literature: Selected Books David Bevington, This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance Then and Now 239 Emily Bartels C. W Marshall, The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy 241 Eleni Bozia David Krasner, American Drama 1945-2000: An Introduction 245 Dorothy Chansky John Patrick Diggins, Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy 246 Kurt Eisen J. Michael Walton, Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English 249 Katharine B. Free Andrew Stott, Comedy, and Verna A. Foster, The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy 251 M. Beth Meszaros Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. Chicano Theatre in a Society in Crisis Jorge Huerta 2. Responding to a Society in Crisis Jon D. Rossini 3. When We Dead Awaken: The 1613 Marriage Masques of Shakespeare, Campion, and Beaumont Ellen Caldwell 4. Out of Wasteland: Remembering the Cultural Revolution in Wasteland and the Human Being 45 Xiao Che 5. The Hyperrealities of America's Vietnam War and 9/11 in the French Theatre of Armand Gatti and Michel Vinaver Les Essif 6. Babel, Babble, and Multilingualism in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabu1 77 Erith Jaffe-Berg 7. Formal Subversion in How I Learned to Drive: A Structure of Meaning
Andrew Kimbrough 8. Shaw's Saint Joan and Shakespeare's Joan la Pucelle Annie Papreck King 9. Luis Alfaro's Electricidad and the "Tragedy of Electra" Helen E. Moritz 10. Actresses and the Making of the Modern Hamlet Amy Muse 11. Alan Bennett's The History Boys: Education and "The Wherewithal to Resist It" Doug Phillips 12. No Red Blood: Clyde Fitch and the Staging of the Neurasthenic Michael Schwartz 13. Antigone in Pre-Wall and Post-Wall German Theatre: Bertolt Brecht's and George Tabori's Power Plays Margaret Setje-Eilers 14. Shaw's St. Joan (1923): A Platonian Tragedy? P. S. Sri 15. Adapting an Internet Comic Strip for the Stage James Utz 16. Antigone and Terrorism: Seamus Heaney Sends a Letter to George W. Bush Kelly Younger 17. The Future of Dramatic Literature in the Academy: A Roundtable Discussion Verna Foster Miriam Chirico Jan L. Hagens Karelisa Hartigan Rush Rehm Jon D. Rossini Tony J. Stafford 18. Asian Theatre A Review Essay Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei 233 Review of Literature: Selected Books David Bevington, This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance Then and Now 239 Emily Bartels C. W Marshall, The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy 241 Eleni Bozia David Krasner, American Drama 1945-2000: An Introduction 245 Dorothy Chansky John Patrick Diggins, Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy 246 Kurt Eisen J. Michael Walton, Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English 249 Katharine B. Free Andrew Stott, Comedy, and Verna A. Foster, The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy 251 M. Beth Meszaros Index
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