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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.
Contents
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
