Comparative Drama articles from March 2006

Comparative Drama archives from March 2006

Intertextualizing polyphemus: politics and ideology in Walcott's Odyssey.
March 22, 2006... "The whole course of imitations and adaptations is simply a method of apprenticeship." --Derek Walcott, interview given in 1977 "The idea of art has no tense apart from the present. Dante, for a poet, is. That is related to the same...

The common good and the necessity of war: emergent republican ideals in Shakespeare's Henry V and Coriolanus.
March 22, 2006... The Chorus in act 5 of Henry Vlikens Henry's victory to that of Julius Caesar: Like to the senators of th' antique Rome / With the plebeians swarming at their heels,/Go forth and fetch their conqu'ring Caesar in." (1) To envisage a scene of...

Staging act 5 of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell.
March 22, 2006... Of the nine plays completed by Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell (1804) is probably the most well known to general theater audiences and students of theater history. The annual outdoor presentations of the play in Interlaken, Switzerland,...

Theatrical wonder, amazement, and the construction of spiritual agency in Paradise Lost.
March 22, 2006... Criticism that addresses the presence of theatrical language and imagery in Miltons later poems is usually one of two types. The first type considers the ways in which the later poems incorporate dramatic conventions and criticize or redefine...

Marriage in late-medieval German Easter and Shrovetide plays.
March 22, 2006... The topics of love, marriage, sexuality, and the family in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance have attracted tremendous interest for some time now because we have realized how much the relationship between genders proves important for the...

Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II, and Gus Edwards, eds. Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II, and Gus Edwards, eds. Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the AFrican Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. Pp. 418. $29.95. The impact on contemporary American and...

Ken Jackson. Separate Theaters: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean Stage.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Ken Jackson. Separate Theaters: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean Stage. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. Pp. 309. $57.50. What makes Ken Jackson's study of Bethlem Hospital and Bedlam dramas particularly...

Bernard McKenna. Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Drama from the North of Ireland, 1969-1994.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Bernard McKenna. Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Drama from the North of Ireland, 1969-1994. Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, No. 102. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 207. $66.95. Bernard...

Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2005. Pp. ix + 244. $37.50 casebound; $19.75 paperbound. This latest volume in the valuable MLA...

Philip Butterworth. Magic on the Early English Stage.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Philip Butterworth. Magic on the Early English Stage. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii + 295. $85.00. Philip Butterworth is rapidly establishing himself as the pre-eminent authority on special effects on...

Lloyd Kermode, Jason Scott-Warren, and Martine van Elk, eds. Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare, 1485-1590: New Directions for Research, Criticism, and Pedagogy.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Lloyd Kermode, Jason Scott-Warren, and Martine van Elk, eds. Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare, 1485-1590: New Directions for Research, Criticism, and Pedagogy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp vi + 271. $59.95. Following an...

Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin, eds. Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin, eds. Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvii + 329. $99.95. This volume begins with a list of illustrations (vii-x), a list of musical...

Domnica Radulescu and Maria Stadter Fox, eds. The Theater of Teaching and the Lessons of Theater.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Domnica Radulescu and Maria Stadter Fox, eds. The Theater of Teaching and the Lessons of Theater. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005. Pp. xx + 215. $75.00. Following acknowledgments (ix-x), a preface by Domnica Radulescu (xi-xx), and an...

Billy J. Harbin, Kim Marra, and Robert A. Schanke, eds. The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Billy J. Harbin, Kim Marra, and Robert A. Schanke, eds. The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp....

Bernice W. Kliman and Rick J. Santos, eds. Latin American Shakespeares.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Bernice W. Kliman and Rick J. Santos, eds. Latin American Shakespeares. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005. Pp. 347. $57.50. This volume begins with acknowledgments (9-10) and an introduction by Rick J. Santos: "Mestizo...