Comparative Drama articles from December 2000

Comparative Drama archives from December 2000

"Look not big, nor stamp, nor stare": Acting Up in The Taming of the Shrew and the Coventry Herod Plays.
December 22, 2000... In his 1945 study of Shakespeare's use of humoral psychology, John W. Draper noted that the supposedly choleric Petruchio's strategy for subduing the equally volatile Katherine "is to out-Herod Herod." (1) Though Draper doubtless intended his...

"I would faine serve": John Lyly's Career at Court.(comedy plays)
December 22, 2000... The most common assumption about John Lyly's court comedies has been that they embody an unproblematic celebration of Queen Elizabeth and her rule. (1) Recent critics, however, have problematized such a reading by arguing that the apparent...

A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
December 22, 2000... Every so often commentators on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's ream quote Bottom's judgment on his own "most rare vision" of the Fairy Queen--"Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream" (4.1.203-4)--with tongue-in-cheek...

Charismatic Authority in Early Modern English Tragedy.
December 22, 2000... Raphael Falco. Charismatic Authority in Early Modern English Tragedy. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 233. $39.95 Any book whose first chapter invites heavy underlining must be either smart or...

The Orient of the Boulevards: Exoticism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century French Theater.
December 22, 2000... Angela C. Pao. The Orient of the Boulevards: Exoticism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century French Theater. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1998. Pp. ix + 236. $39.95. Angela Pao's The Orient of the Boulevards is an insightful...

Of Borders and Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory.
December 22, 2000... Of Borders and Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory. Kobialka, Michal, ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Pp. 311. $? The ten essays in this volume suggest possibilities for making sense of a theatrical...

Tragic Instance: The Sequence of Shakespeare's Tragedies.
December 22, 2000... Ralph Berry. Tragic Instance: The Sequence of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999. Pp. 228. $39.50. Ralph Berry's book about Shakespearean tragedy is not, and does not...

Church and Stage in Victorian England.
December 22, 2000... Richard Foulkes. Church and Stage in Victorian England. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 263. $59.95. On a recent winter Sunday, I found myself managing my time between a holiday church celebration in the...

La comedia espanola y el teatro europeo del siglo XVII.
December 22, 2000... Henry W. Sullivan, Raul A. Galoppe, and Mahlon L. Stoutz, Eds. La comedia espanola y el teatro europeo del siglo XVII. London: Tamesis, 1999. Pp. x + 193. $60.00. Carefully edited and printed on low-acid paper, this excellent collection of...