Comparative Drama articles from September 2001

Comparative Drama archives from September 2001

Self-discovery in Montaigne's "Of Solitarinesse" and King Lear.(Michel de Montaigne)
September 22, 2001... There is not much lesse vexation in the government of a private family, than in the managing of an entire state.... [T]hough domesticall occupations be lesse important, they are as importunate. Moreover, though we have freed our selves from the...

The boy who would be king: court revels of King Edward VI, 1547-1553.
September 22, 2001... In the mean season, because there was a rumor that I was dead, I passed through London. (1) Many have commented on the coldness of the entries in the diary of the boy-king Edward VI, but few seem more chilling than this one (dated 23 July...

Mapping Jouissance: insights from a case study in the schizophrenia of Canadian drama.
September 22, 2001... To read is to compare.--George Steiner, What Is Comparative Literature? In The Map and the Garden, John Vernon identifies two forms of schizophrenia that together frame the most common features of twentieth-century literature and culture:...

Situating the holy: Celtic community in Breton and Cornish saint plays.
September 22, 2001... Although close relationships between Brittany and Cornwall in the later Middle Ages have long been acknowledged in terms of their common linguistic background, reciprocal trade, and changing political affiliations, their mutual dramatic...

"Between Two Worlds": the Dybbuk and the Japanese Noh and Kabuki ghost plays.
September 22, 2001... The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds by S. Ansky (Shlomo Rapoport) (1) the most renowned production by Ha'bimah (The Stage), Israel's National Theater. It premiered in 1922 in Moscow, staged by Ha'bimah, which was a Russian-Jewish company at that...

Brokering glory for the Chinese nation: Peking opera's 1930 American tour.
September 22, 2001... On 29 December 1929 a company of some twenty Peking opera actors, musicians, and artistic advisors left Shanghai for the United States. Head of the troupe was China's foremost actor of Peking opera, Mei Lanfang, who was already an international...

Shakespeare's "books of memory": 1 and 2 Henry VI.(William Shakespeare)
September 22, 2001... In Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI (1589-90), Plantagenet tells Somerset and Suffolk that he will note them "in [his] book of memory" and scourge them later for their gibes about his father (2.4.95, 101-02), and in 2 Henry VI (1590-91), Gloucester...

Theatricality and cosmopolitanism in Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem.
September 22, 2001... In act 3 of Hannah Cowley's 1780 comedy The Belle's Stratagem, (1) the character Hardy contemplates the choice of a costume for an upcoming masquerade: Let me see.--What shall my dress be? A Great Mogul? No.--A Grenadier? No;--no,...

O'Neill and Jamie: a survivor's tale.(Eugene O'Neill)
September 22, 2001... "No, my brother is not alive," O'Neill wrote to a correspondent in the 1930s. "Booze got him in the end. It was a shame. He and I were terribly close to each other, but after my mother's death in 1922 he gave up all hold on life and simply...

Hedda and Bailu: portraits of two "bored" women.(Hedda Gabler, Chen Bailu)
September 22, 2001... A shot is heard within the inner room. Tesman runs in. Immediately, we hear him yelling at Brack: "Shot herself! Shot herself in the temple! Think of that!" Brack replies, as if speaking to himself: "But, good God Almighty ... ...

R. C. Beacham. Power into Pageantry: Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 306. $40.00. This book, following Beacham's 1991 study of The Roman Theatre and Its Audience, extends the concept of performance and spectacle well outside the walls of the theater. Keeping...

Stanton Garner Jr. Trevor Griffiths: Politics, Drama, History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. vi + 317. $49.50. Stanton Garner's book provides a thoroughly researched, carefully articulated, and timely look at a playwright whose politically committed work...

Paul Whitfield White, ed. Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... New York: AMS Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 257. $59.95. Introducing this volume of essays, Paul Whitfield White observes a "remarkably consistent, if somewhat sensationalized" picture of Christopher Marlowe in English literary history--a picture...

Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, eds. Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. vi + 250. $44.50. Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America, discussed in this volume's final essay, opens with a Rabbi using a funeral eulogy to reflect on the immigrant experience and the...

Kenneth Gross. Shakespeare's Noise.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 282. $42.00 casebound; $16.00 The subject of Kenneth Gross's new book, Shakespeare's "noise," is "disorderly forms of speaking: slander, defamation, insult, vituperation, malediction,...

Robert Baker-White. The Text in Play: Representations of Rehearsal in Modern Drama.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1999. Pp. vi + 212. $37.50. In his work on A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Brook sought to direct his actors toward a deeper understanding of the various nonverbal levels of the drama. He thus...

Michael X. Zelenak. Gender and Politics in Greek Tragedy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Artists and Issues in the Theatre Series 7. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. 156. $23.95. This is a puzzling book. In his introduction, the author says he wants to help his audience recover "some of the immediacy which I believe the...

John London, ed. Theater under the Nazis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. 356. $74.95 casebound; $35.00 paperbound. Theater machen (literally translated: "to make theater") is a German expression used to condemn children and adults who make a fuss or put on a...

Russell Jackson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 342. $60.00 casebound; $19.95 paperbound. The study of Shakespeare on film may seem an overnight success, but, like many such phenomena, its sudden success took decades. In the 1970s,...

Richard Helgerson. Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early European Drama and Painting.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. 238. $29.00. Richard Helgerson is a fine writer, consistently producing articles that are a pleasure to read. Adulterous Alliances is no exception; Helgerson casts his arguments to cover more...