Comparative Drama articles from June 2004

Comparative Drama archives from June 2004

Magic mirrors in Richard II.
June 22, 2004... Almost fifty years ago, Ernst Kantorowicz opined rather enigmatically that the looking glass in Richard II's deposition scene (act 4, scene 1) "has the effects of a magic mirror." (1) While much critical energy has been well spent on the rich...

Meanings of All for Love, 1677-1813.(All for Love by John Dryden)
June 22, 2004... The ongoing emphasis in literary studies on the work of literature as cultural artifact, or as one in a number of "texts," literary and otherwise, that derive meaning only from their interdependence, has had surprisingly little impact on...

Anti-colonist discourse, tragicomedy, and the "American" Behn.(John Dryden, english playwrights of late 17th century)
June 22, 2004... Recent critical discussion of The Widdow Ranter has been nearly silent on the prologue and epilogue that John Dryden authored for the posthumous production of the play in 1689. (1) Highlighting Dryden's prologue forces two salient but...

Politesse and the woman at risk: the social comedies of Marie-Therese De Camp.
June 22, 2004... The actress and playwright Marie-Therese De Camp (1774-1838) is described--by biographers of her more famous daughter, the actress, diarist, and playwright, Fanny Kemble--as dedicated to outdoor pursuits (principally angling and riding), moody,...

An American in Ireland: the representation of the American in Brian Friel's plays.
June 22, 2004... Twentieth-century Irish theater has been traversed by recurrent binarisms pertinent to the countrys specific political and historical condition such as those between Catholic and Protestant, Irish and English, North and South, Nationalist and...

Memory, composition, and the relationship of King John to The Troublesome Raigne of King John.
June 22, 2004... Let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance --King John (5.2.2) The argument about the relationship between Shakespeare's King John and the anonymous Troublesome Raigne of King John centers on the interaction of memory...

Serious Money becomes "business by other means": Caryl Churchill's metatheatrical subject.
June 22, 2004... I. Metatheatrical Trends In his foundational work devoted to defining the difference between tragedy and metatheater, Lionel Abel identifies numerous distinguishing characteristics of metatheater. Numbered among them is the claim that "for...

Dennis Kennedy. Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Dennis Kennedy. Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxv + 408 + 23 color plates. $90.00 casebound; $30.00 paperbound. Dennis Kennedy, ed. The...

Cynthia Marshall. The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Cynthia Marshall. The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 216. $44.95. In this provocative, cogent, and illuminating study, Cynthia Marshall...

Beatrice Batson, ed. Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy: Some Christian Features.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Beatrice Batson, ed. Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy: Some Christian Features. Locust Hill Literary Studies 35. West Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill Press, 2004. Pp. xxix + 188. $42.00. The editor of this volume has ably directed...

Jack D'Amico, Shakespeare and Italy: The City and the Stage.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Jack D'Amico, Shakespeare and Italy: The City and the Stage. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. 216. $55.00 casebound. For at least two centuries, Northern Europeans have looked longingly across the Alps to a wondrous...

Dominique Goy-Blanquet. Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Dominique Goy-Blanquet. Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 400. $85.00 casebound. In 1592, as the vogue for what came to be called history plays was still in its infancy,...

Harry J. Elam, Jr. The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Harry J. Elam, Jr. The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 271. $49.50. With a New York production scheduled for Spring 2005 of the final play in August Wilson's ten-play...

Andrew Sofer. The Stage Life of Props.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Andrew Sorer. The Stage Life of Props. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. xviii + 278. $49.50 casebound; $19.95 paperbound. Anyone who has managed a show's props knows that the impossible challenges may turn out to be...

John Lennard and Mary Luckhurst. The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... John Lennard and Mary Luckhurst. The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 416. $15.95. A colleague recently complained to me about the difficulty of finding good anthologies of...

Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, eds. Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, eds. Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. vi + 384. $59.95 casebound; $24.95 paperbound....

Susan Kattwinkel, ed. Elizabethan Performance in North American Spaces.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Susan Kattwinkel, ed. Elizabethan Performance in North American Spaces. Theatre Symposium Series. Vol. 12. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. Pp. 151. $22.50 paperbound. Following an introduction by the editor (5-7), this volume...

Marvin Spevack, ed. Julius Caesar.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Marvin Spevack, ed. Julius Caesar. Updated ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 209. $50.00 casebound; $12.00 paperbound. This volume begins with a list of illustrations (viii-ix), acknowledgments (x), and...

Juliet Perkins, trans. A Critical Study and Translation of Antonio Jose Da Silva's Cretan Labyrinth.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Juliet Perkins, trans. A Critical Study and Translation of Antonio Jose Da Silva's Cretan Labyrinth. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 410. $129.95. This volume begins with a List of Illustrations (i-ii), a Preface...

Barbara I. Gusick and Edelgard E. DuBruck, eds. New Approaches to European Theater of the Middle Ages: An Ontology.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Barbara I. Gusick and Edelgard E. DuBruck, eds. New Approaches to European Theater of the Middle Ages: An Ontology. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004. Pp. xv + 298. $72.95. Following a preface by the editors (vii-xiv), this volume...

Richard Boon and Jane Plastow, eds. Theatre and Empowerment: Community Drama on the World Stage.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Richard Boon and Jane Plastow, eds. Theatre and Empowerment: Community Drama on the World Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi + 267. $75.00. This volume begins with notes on contributors (ix-xi), an introduction by...

Robert Bagg, trans., with introductions and notes by Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg. The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Kolonos; Antigone.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Robert Bagg, trans., with introductions and notes by Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg. The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Kolonos; Antigone. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Pp. xiii + 269. $80.00 casebound;...

Catherine M. S. Alexander, ed. Shakespeare and Politics.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Catherine M. S. Alexander, ed. Shakespeare and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 268. $70.00 casebound; $24.99 paperbound. This volume begins with a brief editor's note (viii) and contains the following...

Brian Boyd, ed. Words that Count: Early Modern Authorship: Essays in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Brian Boyd, ed. Words that Count: Early Modern Authorship: Essays in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. Pp. 291. $45.00. Following two introductions by John Kerrigan, "'A Green Bay-Tree': Tribute to...

Graham Bradshaw, Tom Bishop, and Mark Turner, eds. The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Vol 4.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Graham Bradshaw, Tom Bishop, and Mark Turner, eds. The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Vol. 4. Shakespeare Studies Today. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xvii + 366. $99.95. Following a preface by Graham Bradshaw (ix-xvii), this...

John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds. African Drama and Performance.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds. African Drama and Performance. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2004. Pp. vii + 274. $49.95 casebound; $21.95 paperbound. This volume begins with an introduction by the editors (1-10)...

Ton Hoenselaars, ed. Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Ton Hoenselaars, ed. Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 287. $80.00 casebound. Following a forward by Dennis Kennedy, "Histories...

Vicky Ann Cremona, Peter Eversmann, Hans van Maanen, Willmar Sauter, and John Tulloch, eds. Theatrical Events: Borders-Dynamics-Frames.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Vicky Ann Cremona, Peter Eversmann, Hans van Maanen, Willmar Sauter, and John Tulloch, eds. Theatrical Events: Borders-Dynamics-Frames. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. Pp. 398. $110 paperbound. Following an introductory piece by Willmar Sauter,...