Comparative Drama articles from June 2000

Comparative Drama archives from June 2000

Absorbing Interests: Kyd's Bloody Handkerchief as Palimpsest.(Thomas Kyd)
June 22, 2000... Old stancher! [Pause.] You... remain. --Hamm in Endgame(1) After the Protestant Reformation took hold in England, many stage properties familiar from the drama of worship performed by urban trade guilds became politically and religiously...

The Urner Tellenspiel of 1512: Strategies of Early Political Drama.
June 22, 2000... The early sixteenth-century text known as the Urner Tellspiel or Tellenspiel (The Canton Uri Tell Play) has been called the earliest political drama of the German language.(1) Given Switzerland's role as the avant-garde of Western democracy, it...

Out of Ireland: Revisionist Strategies in Beckett's Drama.(Samuel Beckett)
June 22, 2000... A deliberate and very public effort to situate Samuel Beckett within he Irish dramatic tradition occurred during the1991 Dublin Theatre Festival when Michael Colgan, Director of the Gate Theatre, remarked that the moment had arrived "to...

Bandello's "Timbreo and Fenicia" and The Winter's Tale.(Matteo Bandello)
June 22, 2000... Several critics have noticed the similarities in theme, character, and setting between Much Ado About Nothing and The Winter's Tale,(1) and since Bandello's novella of Timbreo and Fenicia (I, 22) has been accepted as one of the sources of Much...

Dorset.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Dorset, ed. Rosalind Conklin Hays and C. E. McGee. (Records of Early English Drama). Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press and Brepols Publishers, 1999. Pp. viii + 719. $150.00. It is always difficult to do justice in a review to...

Cornwall.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Cornwall, ed. Sally L. Joyce and Evelyn S. Newlyn. (Records of Early English Drama). Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press and Brepols Publishers, 1999. Pp. viii + 719. $150.00. It is always difficult to do justice in a review to...

The Queen's Men and their Plays.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen's Men and their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii + 234. (including 3 Appendices). $59.95. In this book on the Queen's Men, McMillin and MacLean suggest a fresh...

Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Edna Nahshon. Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 260. + 12 photographs. $59.95. The proliferating of Yiddish theatrical activity from the end of...

New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia.(Review)
June 22, 2000... John Russell Brown. New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. x + 211. $40.00 casebound; $12.99 paperback. When, a decade ago, I brought out a collection of interviews with...

Stanislavsky in Focus.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Sharon M. Carnicke. Stanislavsky in Focus. Russian Theatre Archive Series 17. Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998. Pp. xv + 235. $23.00 In her study of the (mis)interpretations of Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) in the Soviet...

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance.(Review)
June 22, 2000... W. B. Worthen. Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x +255. $49.95 casebound, $17.95 paperbound. Thirty odd years ago or so, English departments across this green and pleasant land...

The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Annette J. Saddik, The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Associated University Presses), 1999. Pp. 173. $33.50. It is a truism of American...