Comparative Drama articles from March 2007

Comparative Drama archives from March 2007

"Is everything history?": Churchill, Barker, and the modern history play.
March 22, 2007... Whiten the English theatergoer thinks of the category "history play," is likely to be Shakespeare that first comes to mind. Shakespeare wrote his two great tetralogies of history plays in the 1590s against a background of unprecedented...

Anti-Semitism, surrogacy, and the invocation of Mohammed in the Play of the Sacrament.
March 22, 2007... Scholars have made little of the strange habit of Jewish characters who invoke Mohammed in early modern drama. Christian playwrights of the period, we have assumed, merely project the common European practice of calling out to Jesus and the...

"My condicion is mannes soule to kill"--Everyman's mercantile salvation.
March 22, 2007... That Everyman is atypical of medieval English drama is becoming a commonplace. While an occasional scholar will still attempt to show the play's continuity with other medieval English drama, critics point regularly to the representation of evil...

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Erasmus's De Copia, and sentential ambiguity.
March 22, 2007... In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, immediately after the assassination, Brutus and Cassius make the following metadramatic allusion: Caesar: How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet...

Toril Moi. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Toril Moi. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 396, 4 color plates, 10 b/w illus. $35.00. Toril Moi deplores that academic modernists do not recognize Ibsen's...

Katharine Goodland. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to "King Lear.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Katharine Goodland. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to "King Lear." Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 254. $94.95. The most innovative element in Katharine Goodland's capable study...

Stefania Taviano. Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Anglo-American Approaches to Political Theatre.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Stefania Taviano. Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Anglo-American Approaches to Political Theatre. Warwick Studies in the Humanities. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. ix + 136 + 10 color plates. $79.95. The larger questions this book...

Penny McCarthy. Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Penny McCarthy. Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xxiv + 257. $94.95. "And as no chemic yet th'elixir got, / But glorifies his pregnant pot / If by the way to him befall /...

Michael Wyatt. The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Michael Wyatt. The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 371. $90.00. Michael Wyatt's...

Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha, and Maria Kurdi, eds. Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: "The Work Has Value.".(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha, and Maria Kurdi, eds. Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: "The Work Has Value." Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 342. * 25.00. Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry brings together essays written not only by...

Odai Johnson. Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli's Plaster.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Odai Johnson. Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli's Plaster. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. x + 322. $69.95. Odai Johnson's Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli's Plaster is an engaging...

Matthew Isaac Cohen. Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theatre in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Matthew Isaac Cohen. Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theatre in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii + 473. $30.00. This book is a vivid description of popular theater that developed in Indonesia during...

Andrei Marinescu, ed.: East of Eden: New Romanian Plays.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Andrei Marinescu, ed. East of Eden: New Romanian Plays. Dublin: Carysfor Press, 2006. Pp. xxi + 184. $16.95 paperbound. Following acknowledgments (x), contributor biographies (xi-xiii), and forwards by Fiach MacConghail, Ion Caramitru, and...

Audrey Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean, eds.: REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Audrey Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean, eds. REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 271. $70.00 casebound. This volume begins with a list of abbreviations...

Kim Marra. Strange Duets: Impresarios & Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Kim Marra. Strange Duets: Impresarios & Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. Pp. xxii + 352. $47.95 casebound. This volume begins with acknowledgments (ix-xii) and an introduction...

Elza C. Tiner, ed.: Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Elza C. Tiner, ed. Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. xxvii + 238. $75.00 casebound. Following acknowledgments (ix-x), abbreviations (xi-xii), and an introduction (xiii-xxvii),...

Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner, eds. Against Theatre: Creative Destructions of the Modernist Stage.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner, eds. Against Theatre: Creative Destructions of the Modernist Stage. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. Pp. xii + 259. $80.00 casebound. This volume begins with a list of illustrations (viii),...

Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout, eds. Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout, eds. Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion. New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xviii + 214. $110.00 casebound; $31.95 paperbound. This volume begins with a list of illustrations (vii-viii),...