Comparative Drama articles from December 2004

Comparative Drama archives from December 2004

Joan of Arc internationale: Shaw, Brecht, and the law of nations.(Biography)
December 22, 2004... Joan of Arc was an illiterate peasant girl, a mystic to whom Saints Margaret, Michael, and Catherine spoke directly, and a cross-dressing warrior whose mission, at the age of seventeen, was the liberation of France from English occupation in...

"Forward backward" time and the apocalypse in Hamlet.
December 22, 2004... Ophelia's remarkable description of a distraught, disheveled Hamlet leaving her chamber figures a paradoxical simultaneous forward backward" movement of time in the play, one enriching (and enriched by) its apocalyptic overtones: At...

Shakespeare, molly house culture, and the eighteenth-century stage.
December 22, 2004... "To please some Friends--and draw the Vulgar in" I. Local Constructions of Literary and Cultural Authority In the early months of 1716, after word leaked out from the rival play house at Drury Lane that Charles Johnson was at Work on...

Interrogating the devil: social and demonic pressure in The Witch of Edmonton.
December 22, 2004... In its tale of witchcraft, murder, and bigamy, Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton (1621) powerfully dramatizes both social and demonic forces operating within a small rural community. Although a number of recent...

Theresa Coletti. Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Theresa Coletti. Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Pp. 360 + 15 illustrations. $47.96. In some ways it is rather difficult...

Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda, eds. Staged Properties in Early Modern Drama.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda, eds. Staged Properties in Early Modern Drama,. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 358. $75.00 casebound. This fascinating anthology represents the confluence of two developments, one...

Kenneth S. Rothwell. A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television.(Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Kenneth S. Rothwell. A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century" of Film and Television. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii + 380 + illustrations. $28.99. Sarah Hatchuel. Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen....

Chester N. Scoville. Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Chester N. Scoville. Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama. Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. 140. $50.00/32.00. [pounds sterling] Chester Scoville is developing a reputation for thorough, insightful, and...

Eli Rozik. The Roots of Theatre: Rethinking Ritual and Other Theories of Origin.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Eli Rozik. The Roots of Theatre: Rethinking Ritual and Other Theories of Origin. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. Pp. xix + 362. $49.95. In this challenging book, Eli Rozik sets out to offer a "semiotic" and interdisciplinary...

Darryll Grantley, ed. English Dramatic Interludes 1300-1580: A Reference Guide.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Darryll Grantley, ed. English Dramatic Interludes 1300-1580: A Reference Guide. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 427. $110.00 casebound. Following a complete list of plays and fragments, acknowledgments, and...

Ananda Lal, ed. The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Ananda Lal, ed. The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xx + 563. $99.00 casebound. This volume begins with an introduction by the editor (ix-xiv) and a list of contributors (xv-xx). The main text...

David Starkey and Patti J. Willis, eds. In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... David Starkey and Patti I. Willis, eds. In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 192. $19.95 paperbound; $39.95 casebound. This volume is made up of poems inspired by the works of...

Charlotte M. Canning. The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Charlotte M. Canning. The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. Pp xv + 270. $34.95 casebound. Following the prefatory material including acknowledgments (xi-xii) and...