Comparative Drama articles from March 2005

Comparative Drama archives from March 2005

"Bodied Forth": spectator, stage, and actor in the early modern theater.
March 22, 2005... Picture the original staging of these two death scenes: In Bussy D'Ambois, the title character fights off a host of assassins, then turns to combat the man who has hired them. Upon conquering his enemy, Bussy grants mercy to him just as a...

Thomas Heywood's The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject and the fall of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex.
March 22, 2005... Many recent studies have portrayed England's early modern theater as a venue carefully monitored by a government suspicious of subversion, but as Paul Yachnin, Leeds Barroll, and others have shown, official stage supervision tended to be...

Jonson's Volpone and Dante.(Ben Jonson, Dante Alighieri )
March 22, 2005... No one has linked Dante's Inferno to Ben Jonson's Volpone. But there are a number of reasons to think that the first canticle of the Italian poet's epic poem was influential on Jonson's most enduringly popular play. For one thing both works...

"In better places": space, identity, and alienation in Sarah Kane's Blasted.
March 22, 2005... My wound is my geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. --Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides Part of the task of new playwrights has always been to re-envision theatrical representation to reflect cultural shifts. The political...

John R. Elliott, Jr., and Alan H. Nelson (University); Alexandra F. Johnston and Diana Wyatt (City), eds. Oxford: Records of Early English Drama, vols. 2.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... John R. Elliott, Jr., and Alan H. Nelson (University); Alexandra F. Johnston and Diana Wyatt (City), eds. Oxford: Records of Early English Drama. London and Toronto: The British Library and University of Toronto Press, 2 vols., 2004. Pp. x +...

Sid Ray. Holy Estates: Marriage and Monarchy in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Sid Ray. Holy Estates: Marriage and Monarchy in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 2004. Pp. 162. $46.50. Sid Ray's Holy Estates: Marriage...

Donnalee Dox. The Idea of the Theatre in Latin Christian Thought: Augustine to the Fourteenth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Donnalee Dox. The Idea of the Theatre in Latin Christian Thought: Augustine to the Fourteenth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. 196. $65.00. Donnalee Dox's most welcome skill as a writer has been her clarity when...

Ian Carruthers and Takahashi Yasunari. The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Ian Carruthers and Takahashi Yasunari. The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi. Directors in Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxiii + 293. $95.00. More has been written in English about maverick theater visionary Suzuki...

Gabrielle Griffin. Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Gabrielle Griffin. Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. London: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 302. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Though bearing the string-of-modifiers type of...

Matthew Steggle. Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Matthew Steggle. Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. Pp. 222. $74.95. Matthew Steggle's Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage is a welcome addition to the...

Tom McAlindon. Shakespeare Minus 'Theory.'.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Tom McAlindon. Shakespeare Minus 'Theory.' Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xii + 198. $94.95. This book is one of the most engaging as well as thorough of those undermining the engines of the radical criticism that have attacked the...

Warren Edminster. The Preaching Fox: Festive Subversion in the Plays of the Wakefield Master.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Warren Edminster. The Preaching Fox: Festive Subversion in the Plays of the Wakefield Master. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiii + 230. $75.00. The latest contribution to the study of works generally attributed to the fifteenthcentury...

Foster Hirsch. Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Foster Hirsch. Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway. New York: Limelight Editions, 2002. Pp. vii + 406. $35.00 casebound; $20.00 paperbound. Following the prefatory material including acknowledgements (vii), this volume is broken...

Cheryl Black. The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Cheryl Black. The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. Pp. xvii + 246. $29.95. This volume begins with a full list and brief description of its thirty-five illustrations and five graphs (ix-xiii)....

Marcie Frank. Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism: From Dryden to Manley.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Marcie Frank. Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism: From Dryden to Manley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 175. $55.00. Following acknowledgments (viii-ix) and an introduction (1-14), this volume is divided...

Dennis G. Jerz. Technology in American Drama, 1920-1950: Soul and Society in the Age of the Machine.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Dennis G. Jerz. Technology in American Drama, 1920-1950: Soul and Society in the Age of the Machine. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 169. $61.95. This volume is number ninety-six in the publisher's "Contributions in Drama...

Kenneth Krauss. The Drama of Fallen France: Reading la Comedie sans Tickets.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Kenneth Krauss. The Drama of Fallen France: Reading la Comedie sans Tickets. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. Pp. xxii + 257. $50.00. This volume begins with a list of illustrations (ix), acknowledgments (xixii), and an...

Isaac Benabu. Reading for the Stage: Calderon and His Contemporaries.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Isaac Benabu. Reading for the Stage: Calderon and His Contemporaries. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Tamesis, 2003. Pp. viii + 96. $50.00. This volume is number 194 in the Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias. Following a foreward (vii-viii)...

Donald Roy, ed. Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History, Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1798-1860.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Donald Roy, ed. Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History: Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1798-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxv + 558. $130.00. This volume begins with a list of 460 compiled documents...