Comparative Drama articles from June 2001

Comparative Drama archives from June 2001

Staging disorder: charivari in the N-Town Cycle.
June 22, 2001... The N-Town cycle's "Trial of Mary and Joseph" has several problematic passages, not the least of which is the lengthy speech delivered by Den the Summoner at the beginning of the play. The general consensus among editors and critics is that the...

Amphitheater staging: in-the-round or to the front (and what about asides)?(staging Elizabethan theater)
June 22, 2001... I When the existence in Utrecht of the DeWitt/Van Buchel drawing the Swan Theater became known in 1888, William Poel was already seven years into his inquiries into the best means of staging the public amphitheater and great hall plays of...

Shakespeare's Edward III: a consolation for English recusants.
June 22, 2001... With the publication of three new editions in the past five years, The Raign of King Edward the Third has reemerged as a prominent candidate for inclusion in the Shakespeare canon. (1) Nonetheless, the play still continues to be received with...

Judeo-Christian apocalyptic literature and John Crowne's The Destruction of Jerusalem.
June 22, 2001... John Crowne followed his first comedy, The Countrey Wit (1676), with the two parts of The Destruction of Jerusalem, arguably two of his finest works. The first part premiered on 12 January 1677 and the second part one week later. (1) Neither...

Alan C. Dessen and Leslie Thomson. A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642.
June 22, 2001... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi + 289. $69.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. In the third chapter of Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary (1995), Alan Dessen imagines "a dictionary or handbook comparable to the OED...

Viviana Comensoli and Paul Stevens, eds. Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticism.
June 22, 2001... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xx + 244. $65.00. You will not agree with everything in this book. What is probable is that, whatever your specialty and your point of view, you will find parts of it much more convincing (or...

Philip C. Kolin. Williams: a Streetcar Named Desire.
June 22, 2001... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xix + 229. $54.95. The first observation that might be made of this volume of the Cambridge University Press Plays in Production is that the series editor landed the right person for A Streetcar...

Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne, eds. Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy.
June 22, 2001... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 417. $69.95. Recent criticism encourages us to explore interstices, the interactions between cultures, for example, or the interpenetration of genres. This collection of essays, drawn...

Daniel J. Vitkus, ed. Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, A Christian Turned Turk, and The Renegado.
June 22, 2001... New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. 358. $49.50. Using texts held at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Daniel J. Vitkus presents modernized (in spelling and stage directions) editions of three seventeenth-century plays. An...

Egil Tornqvist. Ibsen, Strindberg and the Intimate Theatre: Studies in TV Presentation. Film Culture in Transition Series.
June 22, 2001... Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999. Pp. 240. $49.50. Although cultural critics have explored television production, they generally have ignored the special circumstances of adapting stage plays, even though this is one of the...