Comparative Drama articles from March 2003

Comparative Drama archives from March 2003

Tom Stoppard and "postmodern science": normalizing radical epistemologies in Hapgood and Arcadia.
March 22, 2003... In two of his more recent plays, Tom Stoppard takes contemporary science as his subject matter. In Hapgood (1988), he draws an analogy between the theory of quantum mechanics and international espionage, while in Arcadia (1993) he uses chaos...

Mocking dead bones: historical memory and the theater of the dead in Richard III.
March 22, 2003... Nicholas Brooke's 1965 landmark essay, "Reflecting Gems and Dead Bones," still largely determines the critical understanding of the relationship between history and tragedy in Richard III: "It is... supremely ambivalent: a simultaneous...

The trope of transformation in Medea: a Noh Cycle.
March 22, 2003... Since the rise of feminism in the United States in the 1960s, cultural and materialist feminist theater playwrights have actively searched for new literary and theatrical forms that transcend the patriarchal strictures of realism. (1) As Jill...

"Together again": theater in postcolonial Hong Kong.
March 22, 2003... As the midnight handover approached on 30 June 1997, the fashionable Central district on Hong Kong Island was abuzz with merriment and apprehension. (1) A traditional meeting place for the young and trendy, the bars and bistros of Lan Kwai Fong...

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet): from Shakespearean tragedy to postmodern satyr play.
March 22, 2003... Northrop Frye followed in the footsteps of Aristotle and the author of the Tractatus Coislinianus in his attempt to define and describe the main aspects of the literary genres in the monumental Anatomy of Criticism. For centuries Aristotle's...

Steven T. Brown. Theatricalities of Power: the Cultural Politics of Noh.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp ix + 209. $49.50. In Theatricalities of Power, Steven T. Brown has set himself the welcome task of historicizing Noh by freeing "the study of noh theatricality out of the prison house of...

Albert Wertheim. The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 273. $39.95 casebound; $17.95 paperbound. The subtitle of Albert Wertheim's brilliant study of the South African playwright Athol Fugard, From South Africa to the World, is doubly...

Matthew Roudane, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix+329. $60.00. At a session on play development at the 2003 Mid-America Theatre conference, an MFA candidate in playwriting complained about the attitudes of actors and directors who not...

Stratos E. Constantinidis. Modern Greek Theatre: a Quest for Hellenism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Jefferson, North Carolina: McFadand, 2001. Pp. x + 198. $34.95 paperbound. "Can [Greek] postmodernism find its way out of the loop of Greek modernism?" This is one of the questions asked by Stratus Constantinidis (29) in his new book...

William W. Demastes. Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. 193. $47.50. William W. Demastes's esoteric book is essentially an argument that theater can be a viable link between the mind and nature. Drawing upon theories of cognitive psychology,...

Terry Otten. The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur Miller.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xvi + 280. $37.50 casebound. In The Temptation of Innocence, Terry Otten delves into a most ambitious project--an attempt to clarify the essential nature of tragedy as it has developed...

Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer, eds. Harold Bloom's Shakespeare.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv + 292. $55.00. In the course of assessing the influence of A. C, Bradley and his landmark 1904 study Shakespearean Tragedy, Katharine Cooke commented in 1972 that "now a writer would have to have some...

Gyorgy E. Szonyi and Rowland Wymer, eds. The Iconography of Power: Ideas and Images of Rulership on the English Renaissance Stage.(book's table of contents)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... Szeged: JATE Press, 2000. Pp. 214. $16.00. After a "Forward" by Rowland Wymer this volume contains the following essays: Gyorgy E. Szonyi, "Matching the Falles of Princes and Machiavell: Tradition and Subversion in the Historiography and...

Lisa S. Starks and Courtney Lehmann, eds. The Reel Shakespeare.(book's table of contents)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... Cranbury, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. Pp. 298. $45.50. Following an introduction by the editors ("Images of the 'Reel' Shakespeare and the Art of Cinema" [9-22]), this volume contains these essays: Kenneth S....

Frank Occhiogrosso, ed. Shakespeare in Performance: A Collection of Essays.(book's table of contents)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Pp. 147. $37.50. Following an introduction by the editor (pp. 7-11), this volume contains the following essays: John Russell Brown, "Shakespeare in Performance, Study, and Criticism" (pp. 15-26);...

Hardin L. Aasand, ed. Stage Directions in Hamlet: New Essays and New Directions.(book's table of contents)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... Cranbury, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. Pp. 234 + black-and-white illustrations. $44.50. Following an introduction by the editor (pp. 9-14), this volume contains these articles: Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, "Variable...

Bruce J. Mann, ed. Edward Albee: a Casebook.(book's table of contents)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xiii + 150. $85.00. After an introduction by the editor (pp. 1-5), this volume contains these articles: Bruce J. Mann, "Three Tall Women: Return to the Muses" (pp. 6-17); Anne Paolucci, "Edward Albee: A...

Joel Schechter, ed. Popular Theatre: a Sourcebook.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xv + 279 + black-and-white illustrations. $85.00 casebound; $28.95 paperbound. Following an introduction by the editor ("Back to the Popular Source," [pp. 3-11]), this six-part volume contains these articles:...