Comparative Drama articles from September 2000

Comparative Drama archives from September 2000

"Those Proud Titles Thou Hast Won": Sovereignty, Power, and Combat in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy.
September 22, 2000... Shakespeare depicts political tensions in the second tetralogy more through challenges and individual combats than through the group violence so prominent in the first tetralogy. In his cyclic portrayal of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, the...

London and the Problem of the Clerkenwell Plays.
September 22, 2000... Scholars and antiquarians at least since John Stow's Survey of London (1590) have believed that there was a cycle of biblical plays performed over several days by clerics at Clerkenwell (or at Skinners' Well) in the fourteenth and the opening...

Temporizing as Pyrrhonizing in Marston's The Malcontent.
September 22, 2000... Critics often allude to the skepticism of John Marston's drama. Robert Ornstein calls Marston the first Jacobean to exploit dramatically the skepticism about Stoic self-sufficiency expressed by Erasmus and Montaigne and implicit in the moral...

"My naked weapon": Male Anxiety and the Violent Courtship of the Jacobean Stage Widow.
September 22, 2000... On the night of the nineteenth of November in 1628, a young widow by the name of Elizabeth Bennett was asleep in her house in the London parish of St. Olave. Only seven months earlier, the Widow Bennett had lost her husband Richard, a wealthy...

Women's Matters: Politics, Gender, and Nation in Shakespeare's Early History Plays.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Nina S. Levine. Women's Matters: Politics, Gender, and Nation in Shakespeare's Early History Plays. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998. Pp. 193. $36.00. Women's Matters: Politics, Gender, and Nation in Shakespeare's Early History...

Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Gordon Kipling. Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 393. $85.00. The medieval civic triumph has usually been studied from the vantage of the Renaissance and as...

The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Barbara Hodgdon. The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xix + 306. $45.00 casebound, $19.95 paperbound The Shakespeare Trade is part of the New Cultural Studies...

Making Subject(s): Literature and the Emergence of National Identity.(Review)
September 22, 2000... ALLEN CAREY-WEBB. Making Subject(s): Literature and the Emergence of National Identity. Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Volume 4. New York, London: Garland Publishing, 1998. Pp. xiv + 242. $55.00. Carey-Webb's book is a piece of...

The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Michael Werth Gelber. The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. x + 342. $59.95. The title of Michael Werth Gelber's book is drawn from...

Theatre of Chaos: Beyond Absurdism, into Orderly Disorder.(Review)
September 22, 2000... William W. Demastes. Theatre of Chaos: Beyond Absurdism, into Orderly Disorder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii + 190. $59.95 In Theatre of Chaos William W. Demastes has joined the small coterie of contemporary...