Comparative Drama articles from December 2008

Comparative Drama archives from December 2008

John Patrick Diggins. Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... John Patrick Diggins. Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 305. $29.00. John Patrick Diggins, an historian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has...

Tice L. Miller. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Tice L. Miller. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi + 229.37.50. Tice Miller's new book covers two centuries of theatrical and...

Michael Hawcroft. Moliere: Reasoning with Fools.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Michael Hawcroft. Moliere: Reasoning with Fools. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 235. $99.00. In this intelligent and well-ordered book, Michael Hawcroft takes on what might be called la querelle de Moliere's raisonneurs. A...

Katie Normington. Modern Mysteries: Contemporary Productions of Medieval English Cycle Dramas.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Katie Normington. Modern Mysteries: Contemporary Productions of Medieval English Cycle Dramas. Cambridge: Brewer, 2007. Pp. xiv + 192. 16 pp. of black-and-white plates between pp. 114-15. $55.00. Performing medieval drama became...

Clare Wallace, ed. Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Clare Wallace, ed. Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. Pp. 330. $27.00. The publication of a book of essays about the monologue form in theater can be hailed as a most timely enterprise for...

David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne. Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne. Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi + 280 pp. $99.00. There has been no shortage of books on theatrical censorship. Some notable works...

Clifford Davidson. Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Clifford Davidson. Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain. Alder shot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp xii + 203. $99.95 casebound. This volume begins with a list of figures (vi), a preface (vii-ix), acknowledgments (x-xi), and abbreviations (xii)....

Marc Maufort and David O'Donnell, eds.: Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Marc Maufort and David O'Donnell, eds. Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2007. Pp. 463. $66.95 paperbound. Following acknowledgments and editorial policy (11-12), this...

Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan, eds.: Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Fresh Cultural Context.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan, eds. Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Fresh Cultural Context. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp xi + 249. $89.95 casebound. This volume begins with notes on contributors (vii-x), acknowledgments...

Susan Paun de Garcia and Donald R. Larson, eds.: The Comedia in English: Translation and Performance.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Susan Paun de Garcia and Donald R. Larson, eds. The Comedia in English: Translation and Performance. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008. Pp. xix + 295. $95.00 casebound. This volume begins with a preface (vii-xiv), a list of contributors...