Comparative Drama articles from March 2004

Comparative Drama archives from March 2004

Jews in the Fleury Playbook.
March 22, 2004... If the Saracens are to be detested... how much more are the Jews to be execrated and hated who, utterly insensible to Christ and the Christian faith, reject, blaspheme, and ridicule that Virgin Birth and all the sacraments of human redemption?...

The dilemma of naturalistic tragedy: Strindberg's Miss Julie.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Until the time of Strindberg in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the dilemma of tragedy had been shaped by the divided heritage of the neoclassical view of Greek tragedy, on the one hand, and on the other, by its Elizabethan past in...

Unpardonable sins: the hazards of performative language in the tragic cases of Francesco Spiera and Doctor Faustus.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In 1548, Francesco Spiera, an Italian Protestant who had been compelled to abjure his faith by the Roman Inquisition, died under the conviction that in acquiescing to the Inquisition's demands he had committed the unpardonable sin against the...

Disorder in the house of God: disrupted worship in Shakespeare and others.
March 22, 2004... Let's start with two famous disturbances in church. The first of these appears in The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1592), where the aged Gremio describes Petruchio's nuptials in a horrified monologue: [W]hen the priest Should ask if...

Rainer Warning. The Ambivalences of Medieval Religious Drama.(Staging Faith: East Anglian Drama in the Later Middle Ages)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Rainer Warning. The Ambivalences of Medieval Religious Drama. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii + 310. $60.00 Victor I. Scherb. Staging Faith: East Anglian Drama in the Later Middle Ages. Madison: Faideigh Dickinson...

Kerry Powell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Kerry Powell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 288 + 14 illustrations. $65.00 casebound; $24.00 paperbound. Reviewing volumes in the Cambridge Companion...

Alan Shepard. Marlowe's Soldiers: Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alan Shepard. Marlowe's Soldiers: Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. viii + 248. $69.95. In Marlowe's Soldiers, Alan Shepard focuses less on Marlowe's depictions of actual...

Richard Rastall. Minstrels Playing: Music in Early English Religious Drama.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Richard Rastall. Minstrels Playing: Music in Early English Religious Drama. Vol. 2. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001. Pp. xxi + 549. $110.00. Minstrels Playing is the second volume of Richard Rastall's monumental study of the role of music in...

Pamela Allen Brown. Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Pamela Allen Brown. Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 263. $49.95 casebound; $19.95 paperbound. The title of Pamela Allen Brown's...

James Hirsh. Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... James Hirsh. Shakespeare and the History o Soliloquies. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 200:3. Pp. 470 pages. $75.00 More than once while reading James Hirsh's new book I was reminded of previous readings of Aristotle's...

Penny Gay. Jane Austen and the Theatre.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 201. $55.00 It is a great pleasure finally to see a thoroughgoing treatment of the rich theatrical investments of one of the greatest novelists in the English tradition. Though the more...

Cameron Louis, ed. Sussex: Records of Early English Drama.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Cameron Louis, ed. Sussex: Records of Early English Drama. Toronto: Brepols Publishers and University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. cx + 404. $150.00. This fifteenth volume of Records of Early English Drama fulfills yet one more important...

Ian Brown, ed. Journey's Beginning: the Gateway Theatre Building and Company, 1884-1965.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Bristol: Intellect, 2004. Pp. iv + 81. $19.95. This volume contains the following essays: Ian Brown, "Gateways from the Past to the Future" (1-14); Ksenija Horvat, "The Gateway Building and its Early Manifestations" (15-28); Donald Smith,...

Philip C. Kolin, ed. The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xxix + 350 + black-and-white illustrations. $89.95. Following a preface by the editor, this volume contains a "Guide to Related Topics" that provides a list of keywords arranged by categories...

Frances Harding, ed. The Performance Arts in Africa: a Reader.(Brief Notices)
March 22, 2004... London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xiv + 364. $28.95. Following an introduction by the editor (1-26), this volume contains essays categorized in four parts: Part 1, Theory: M.J.C. Echeruo, "The Dramatic Limits of Igbo Ritual" (27-37); Ossie...

Ian Herbert, ed. The World of Theatre 2003 Edition: an Account of the World's Theatre Seasons 1999-2000, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. ix + 388. $95.00. Following an introduction (vii-viii) by the editor and a foreward (ix) by Andre-Louis Perinetti, this volume contains essays discussing recent theater trends and performances in Argentina,...

Phyllis R. Brown, Linda A. McMillin, and Katharina M. Wilson, eds. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. vii + 313. $60.00. Following an introduction by Katharina M. Wilson (1-10), this volume contains essays categorized in four sections: Section 1, Constructing a Context: Jay T. Lees, "Hrotsvit...

Martin Banham, ed. A History of Theatre in Africa.(Brief Notices)
March 22, 2004... Martin Banham, ed. A History of Theatre in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii + 478. $130.00. Following notes on contributors (ix-xii) and a preface by the editor (xv-xvii), this volume contains entries...

Cynthia Marshall, ed. Shakespeare in Production: As You Like It.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2004... Cynthia Marshall, ed. Shakespeare in Production: As You Like It. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii + 262. $70.00 casebound; $27.99 paperbound. This volume begins with a senior editor's preface (viii-ix), acknowledgments...

Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie, eds. Textual Performances: the Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie, eds. Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama. New York: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 229. $70.00. Following an introduction by the editors (1-20),...

Tom Clayton, Susan Brock, and Vicente Fores, eds. Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: the Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Valencia, 2001.(Brief Notices)
March 22, 2004... Tom Clayton, Susan Brock, and Vicente Fores, eds. Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Valencia, 2001. Newark: The University of Delaware Press, 2004. Pp. 468....

Beatrice Batson, ed. Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy: Some Christian Features.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Beatrice Batson, ed. Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy: Some Christian Features. West Cornwall: Locust Hill Press, 2004. Pp. xxix + 188. $42.00. Following an introduction by the editor (ix-xxv) and contributor biographies...