Text & Presentation, 2008

Herausgeber: Constantinidis, Stratos E.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 32nd annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include masculinity in the plays of Tennessee Williams and Frederico Garcia Lorca; Moliere's revolutionary dramaturgy; motherhood in Medea; Electronovision and Richard Burton's Hamlet; and Jose Carrasquillo's all-nude production of Macbeth, among many others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780786443666
• ISBN-10: 0786443669
• Artikelnr.: 25608887

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Martyred Masculinities: Saint Sebastian and the Dramas of Tennessee
Williams and Federico García Lorca     
(José I. Badenes)
2. How to Do Things with Witches: Performing The Crucible on Stage and
Screen     
(Katherine Egerton)
3. Molière's Revolutionary Dramaturgy     
(Stephen H. Fleck)
4. Constructions of Motherhood in Euripides' Medea     
(John Given)
5. Becoming Romantic: Women's Sexual Encounters with the Other in Mourning
Becomes Electra and Machinal     
(Les Hunter)
6. "To Be, Or to Be Recorded": The Burton Hamlet, the Wooster Group, and
the Miracle of Electronovision     
(Lindsay Brandon Hunter)
7. "Is This a Dagger I See Before Me?": José Carrasquillo's All-Nude
Production of Macbeth     
(William Hutchings)
8. Cognitive Model Transformation in Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle
     
(David Paxman and Michael Hatch)
9. Parables for His People: Legal and Religious Authority in the Plays of
Stephen Adly Guirgis     
(David Pellegrini)
10. Classroom Drama: Beckett for the High School Set     
(Doug Phillips)
11. Anne Hébert's La cage: A Masque of Liberation     
(Gregory J. Reid)
12. Mohammad bin Tughlaq: A Fourteenth Century Muslim Sultan in 1960s South
India     
(Kristen Rudisill)
13. The Music Man Cometh: The Tuneful Pipe Dreams of Professor Harold
Hill     
(Michael Schwartz)
14. Tragic Ways of Killing a Child: Staging Violence and Revenge in
Classical Greek and Chinese Drama     
(Fei Shi)
15. Brecht and Bullough: Measuring the Distance in Mother Courage     
(Diane M. Somerville-Skinner)
16. The Argonautic Myth as Subtext of Shakespeare's The Tempest      192
(Mary Frances Williams)
17. American Musical Theatre: A Review Essay     
(Stacy Wolf )
Review of Literature: Selected Books
Graley Herren, Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television     
(Mary Bryden)
Toril Moi, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater,
Philosophy      213
(Miriam Chirico)
Enoch Brater, ed., Arthur Miller's Global Theater     
(Katherine Egerton)
Mary Luckhurst, Dramaturg y: A Revolution in Theatre     
(Christopher Innes)
Kiki Gounaridou, ed., Staging Nationalism: Essays on Theatre and National
Identity      221
(Siyuan Liu)
Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten. Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to
Copenhagen      223
(Jeffrey B. Loomis)
Philip C. Kolin, Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A
Casebook; Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. and Alycia Smith-Howard, eds., Suzan-Lori
Parks: A Casebook     
(Annette Saddik)
Simon Goldhill, How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today     
(James T. Svendsen)
Amy Scott-Douglass. Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars     
(Sara L. Warner)
Index