Comparative Drama articles from June 2007

Comparative Drama archives from June 2007

Aphra Behn's The City Heiress: feminism and the Dynamics of Popular Success on the Late Seventeenth-Century Stage.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... For all the attention devoted to Aphra Behn's fiction, poetry, and plays over the last twenty-five years, few critics have focused on what remains a crucial problem in the scholarship on her work: the half-acknowledged tensions between her...

"To kindle an industrious desire": the poetry of work in Lord Mayors' shows.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... This study seeks to explore how and why representations of motives to work changed in the poetic speeches for Lord Mayors' Shows. Almost every 29 October during the Renaissance, one of the liveries staged a civic pageant in the streets to...

Comparing poverty: fictions of a "poor theater" in Ruzante and Shakespeare.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Early modern drama has always been a propitious, if underexplored, terrain for transnational, comparative study. (1) Positivistic source studies that track the influence across borders of one playwright upon another, the preferred method for...

Transplanting the work of "that rooted man": the reception of John Millington Synge's drama in Hungary.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... During John Millington Synge's lifetime (1871-1909) Hungary was part of a so-called dual monarchy that was established under the terms of the Compromise with Austria in 1867. In accordance with the compromise, the "two halves of the empire were...

Diana E. Henderson. Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Diana E. Henderson. Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. xi + 289. $39.95 casebound. Diana Henderson's Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across...

Victoria Pedrick and Steven M. Oberhelman, eds. The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Victoria Pedrick and Steven M. Oberhelman, eds. The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 323. $56.00 casebound; $22.50 paperbound. This book, a Festschrift in honor of the late Charles...

Nancy Guy. Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Nancy Guy. Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. 240. $35.00. Historically, the polemics between Art and the State have been a preoccupation of philosophers and statesmen. From Louis XIV to...

Janette Dillon. The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Janette Dillon. The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 296. $75.00. This is a carefully designed book whose function is essentially to teach. It sets out to present a great deal...

Jodi Campbell. Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of Negotiation.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Jodi Campbell. Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of Negotiation. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. vi + 175. $99.95. The popular appeal of Spanish theater in the seventeenth century fomented one of...

Kenneth Gross, Shylock Is Shakespeare.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Kenneth Gross, Shylock Is Shakespeare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 205. $22.50. This energetic study promises to "rescue" The Merchant of Venice from what Kenneth Gross considers its "sectarian" interpreters who...

Subha Mukherji. Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Subha Mukherji. Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi + 291. $95.00. This volume contributes to the growing body of research on literature and law, a field whose beginnings can be...

Elsa Strietman and Peter Happe, eds. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe: Urban Theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Elsa Strietman and Peter Happe, eds. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe: Urban Theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006. Pp. xii + 320. $123.00 casebound. This volume begins with a list of...

Joseph Farrell and Paolo Puppa, eds. A History of Italian Theatre.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Joseph Farrell and Paolo Puppa, eds. A History of Italian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 418. $110.00 casebound. Following a list of illustrations (viii-ix), a list of contributors (x-xiv), and an...

Peter Holland, ed. Shakespeare, Memory and Performance.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Peter Holland, ed. Shakespeare, Memory and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp xx + 357. $90.00 casebound. This volume begins with a list of illustrations (vii-x), notes on contributors (xi-xiii), acknowledgments...

Samuel L. Leiter, ed. Encydopedia of Asian Theatre.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Samuel L. Leiter, ed. Encydopedia of Asian Theatre, 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. xxxvi + 979. $225.00 casebound. This volume begins with a preface (xi-xiv), acknowledgments (xv-xvi), an alphabetical list of entries...