Comparative Drama articles from June 2005

Comparative Drama archives from June 2005

The play of surface: theater and The Turn of the Screw.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... "He's like nobody.... He has red hair, very red, close-curling, and a pale face, long in shape, with straight good features and little rather queer whiskers that are as red as his hair. His eyebrows are somehow darker; they look particularly...

Playing for time (and playing with time) in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
June 22, 2005... Time moves in odd and often unfamiliar ways in Tom Stoppard's theater, and no more so than in Arcadia, which opened in 1993 at the National Theatre in London to great and much deserved critical acclaim. The playwright had already earned for...

The sacralization of revenge in Antonio's Revenge.(John Marston)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... Among all John Marston's plays, Antonio's Revenge seems to be the hardest to pin down. Critics have long disagreed about whether the play is moral, immoral, or amoral; whether it accepts or rejects the idea of revenge; and even whether it is...

"Look on this picture, and on this": framing Shakespeare in William Wells Brown's The Escape.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... "With me, socially, politically, morally, character is everything--color, nothing. The negro is no less a man, because he is black; the Anglo-American is no more a man, because he is white." --Senator Francis Gillette of Connecticut, in a...

Marlowe's texts and oral transmission: towards the Zielform.(Christopher Marlowe)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... The Elizabethan popular theater was the product of a uniquely intense and creative encounter between literary art and traditional culture, and the plays of Christopher Marlowe offer as powerful an instance of this interaction as could be...

Loren Kruger. Post-Imperial Brecht: Politics and Performance, East and South.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Loren Kruger. Post-Imperial Brecht: Politics and Performance, East and South. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 399. $85.00. Kruger's book is primarily an exploration of Bertolt...

Patrick Cheney, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Patrick Cheney, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 312. 45.00 [pounds sterling] casebound; 15.95 [pounds sterling] paperbound. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher...

Carol Thomas Neely. Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture.(Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 by Virginia Mason Vaughan)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Carol Thomas Neely. Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii + 244. $52.50 casebound; $21.95 paperbound. Virginia Mason Vaughan. Performing Blackness...

Michael Patterson. Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Michael Patterson. Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Ed. David Bradby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $85.00. However advanced, every student of contemporary...

Enoch Brater, ed. Arthur Miller's America: Theater and Culture in a Time of Change.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Enoch Brater, ed. Arthur Miller's America: Theater and Culture in a Time of Change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp xii + 268. $55.00. Following a preface by the editor (vii-x), this volume contains the following essays:...

Vera Gottlieb, ed. and trans. Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre: Illustrations of the Original Productions.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Vera Gottlieb, ed. and trans. Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre: Illustrations of the Original Productions. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp xv + 85. $115.00. This volume contains both illustrations and photographs on Chekhov's original...

John Smythe. Downstage Upfront: The First 40 Years of New Zealand's Longest-Running Professional Theatre.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... John Smythe. Downstage Upfront: The First 40 Years of New Zealand's Longest-Running Professional Theatre. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 2005. Pp. 512. NZ$49.95. Following a list of the title theater's former artistic...

Nishan Parlakian, ed. Contemporary Armenian Drama: An Anthology of Ancestral Voices.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Nishan Parlakian, ed. Contemporary Armenian Drama: An Anthology of Ancestral Voices. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 408. $34.50. This volume begins with a preface (ix-xii), a note on Armenian translation (xiii), and...

Milla Cozart Riggio, ed. Carnival: Culture in Action--The Trinidad Experience.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Milla Cozart Riggio, ed. Carnival: Culture in Action--The Trinidad Experience. New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xvi +322. $125.00 casebound; $43.95 paperbound. Following a list of illustrations (ix-x), notes on contributors (xi-xiv), and...