Comparative Drama articles from June 2003

Comparative Drama archives from June 2003

The globalization of Beckett's Godot.
June 22, 2003... When, in the second act of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's landmark play that premiered in Paris in 1953, Didi complains to his sidekick about not wasting any more time in "idle discourse," he delivers a stage speech rich in the...

Borrowings and the authorial domain: Gostanzo, Polonius, and Marston's Gonzago.
June 22, 2003... When we read a Renaissance play, to what extent are we reading the work of a specific Renaissance writer? Viewing an early modern quarto sidesteps the scholarly treatment of a modern editor but does not bypass the various contributions to have...

But owthir in frith or felde: the rural in the York cycle.
June 22, 2003... City dwellers frequently treat their city as foreground and that which surrounds it as background, or, indeed, as invisible. Such an attitude is, perhaps, part of the urban experience itself, not only in modern cities but also in medieval ones....

The politics of adapting Behn's Oroonoko.
June 22, 2003... 'Biyi Bandele's 1999 adaptation of Aphra Behn's novel, Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave (1688), commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, proved to be an interesting play theatrically. Bandele and the RSC director, Gregory Doran, were...

Ralph F. Voss, ed. Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 251. $39.95 casebound. An arrogant academic skeptical of all press blurbs, I must confess that the "unique and engaging collection" enticement for this volume pre-empted my own lofty...

Chris Humphrey. The Politics of Carnival: Festive Misrule in Medieval England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Manchester Medieval Studies. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 113. $59.95 casebound; $19.95 paperbound. "For O, for O, the hobbyhorse is forgot," said Hamlet, just before the dumb show meant to catch...

Craig Stewart Walker. The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 467. $27.95 paperbound. This deeply conservative book provides a close reading of the thematic preoccupations and dramaturgic conventions of six of our better-known...

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter. The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theatre.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. 296. $40.00 casebound. Elise Wirtschafter offers an intelligent reading of some 260 largely forgotten plays. She suggests the lapse of memory is unjust, not so much in the light of...

Anne Lancashire. London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558.
June 22, 2003... Anne Lancashire. London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix + 355. $65.00. Meg Twycross and Sarah Carpenter. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor...

Gunnar Sorelius, ed. Shakespeare and Scandinavia: a Collection of Nordic Studies.
June 22, 2003... Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002. Pp. 213 + black-and-white illustrations. $44.50. After an introduction by the editor (9-16), this volume contains the following essays: August Strindberg, "Julius Caesar: Shakespeare's Historical...

Minami Ryuta, Ian Carruthers, John Gillies, eds. Performing Shakespeare in Japan.
June 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 259 + color plates and black-and-white illustrations. $74.95. Following an introduction by the editors (1-14), this volume contains the following essays: Anzai Tetsuo, "What Do We Mean...

Kathleen Gallagher and David Booth, eds. How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints.
June 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 282. $50.00 casebound; $27.95 paperbound. After introductory essays by the editors--Kathleen Gallagher, "Emergent Conceptions in Theatre Pedagogy and Production" (3-13) and David Booth,...

Ric Knowles, Joanne Tompkins, and W. B. Worthen, eds. Modern Drama: Defining the Field.
June 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 212. $27.95 paperbound. Following an introduction by Ric Knowles (vii-xiii), this volume contains the following essays: Elin Diamond, "Modern Drama/Modernity's Drama" (3-14); Michael...

Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed. Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: an A to Z Guide.
June 22, 2003... Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003. Pp. xv + 480. $99.95. Following a preface by the editor (xiii-xv), this volume contains the following entries: Thomas Dukes, "Edward Albee (1928-)" (1-10); Karen C. Blansfield, "Jeff Baron...

Claire Sponsler and Xiaomei Chen, eds. East of West: Cross-Cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference.
June 22, 2003... New York: Palgrave Press, 2000. Pp. x + 230 + black-and-white illustrations. $45.00. After an introduction by Claire Sponsler, this volume contains the following essays: Marvin Carlson, "The Macaronic Stage" (15-31); Claus Cluver,...

Wim Husken and Konrad Schoell, eds., with Leif Sondergaard. Farce and Farcical Elements.
June 22, 2003... Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2002. Pp. 223. $51.50 casebound; $23.00 paperbound. Following an introduction by Wim Hiasken and Konrad Schoell, this collection contains: Peter Happe, "Farcical Elements in the English Mystery Cycles" (29-43);...

Joel Berkowitz, ed. Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches.
June 22, 2003... Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003. Pp. xiii + 273 + black-and-white illustrations. $59.50. After an introduction by the editor (1-25), this volume contains: Ahuva Belkin, "The 'Low' Culture of the Purimshpir"...