Comparative Drama articles from September 2003

Comparative Drama archives from September 2003

Menaechmi and the Renaissance of comedy.(Comedy of Errors)
September 22, 2003... If The Comedy of Errors remains, for English speakers, the supreme instance of the Menaechmi contribution to drama, that play deserves to be seen as part of a larger picture of European, including English, comedy. Consider, for example, that...

The lost playing places of Lincolnshire.
September 22, 2003... Since at least 1912 when Hardin Craig wrote his first essay on Lincoln, most major scholarship on early drama in the county of Lincolnshire has focused its energies in what might be called "The Quest for Cycle Drama in the City of Lincoln,"...

Blackened faces and a veiled woman: the early Korcula Moreska.
September 22, 2003... Mock battles between Moors (or Turks) and Christians are one of the most popular features of the folk theatrical repertoire almost anywhere that Spanish culture was once dominant. Beginning, perhaps, in the late thirteenth century, and varying...

Chavittunatakam: music-drama in Kerala.((Malayalam: chavittu [cavittu] = foot stamping, as in dance; natakam = dance drama))
September 22, 2003... Following the arrival of Vasco Da Gama on the Malabar coast on 14 May 1498, the Portuguese missionaries who came to Kerala in South India in the sixteenth century not only brought Latin Christianity to a region that already had a long Christian...

Chinese Nuo and Japanese Noh: Nuo's role in the origination and formation of Noh.(gigaku, gagaku (and its dance form, bugaku), and sarugaku (from sangaku))
September 22, 2003... Modern interest in the Chinese ancient Nuo rite and drama did not take a strong hold in China until the final two decades of the last century; however, the Nuo rite and drama remain an aspect of Chinese culture that is hardly known to the West....

Nonverbal theatrical elements in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls ... and Intissar Abdel-Fatah's Makhadet El-Kohl (The Kohl Pillow).
September 22, 2003... There is language in her eyes, her cheek, her lip My her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body... --Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida Your face... is a book where men May read strange matters....

The Tyrone anthology: authority in the last act of Long Day's Journey into Night.
September 22, 2003... The stage directions for the opening of act 4 of O'Neill's Long Days Journey into Night are The same. It is around midnight. During the act the argument between father and sons reaches full pitch; but the anger of the family is tempered by...

Extending the breaks: Fires in the Mirror in the context of hip-hop structure, style, and culture.
September 22, 2003... In New York City in the late eighties and early nineties, hip-hop music not only expressed some of the tensions that existed between Jews and African-Americans, but it was characterized in the media as part of the problem. Most of this media...

Samuel Crowl. Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Samuel Crowl. Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv + 254. $34.95. So many good films of Shakespeare's plays were released in the 1990s that it became easy to take them for...

Robert Henke. Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Robert Henke. Performance and Literature in the Commedia del'Arte. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 263 + illustrations. $60.00. Robert Henke's elegant, erudite, highly readable volume dealing with the development of...

Cameron Lewis, ed. Sussex: Records of Early English Drama.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cameron Lewis, ed. Sussex: Records of Early English Drama. Toronto: Brepols Publishers and University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. c.x + 404. $150. This fifteenth volume of Records of Early English Drama fulfills yet one more important part...

Martial Rose. Forever Juliet: The Life and Letters of Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies 1891-1992.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Martial Rose. Forever Juliet: The Life and Letters of Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies 1891-1992. Dereham (UK): Larks Press, 2003. Pp. 202 + illustrations. 9.50 [pounds sterling]. Outside anglophile theatrical circles the actress Gwen...

Alan Filewod. Performing Canada: the Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Alan Filewod. Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre. Textual Studies in Canada. Kamloops, B.C.: University College of the Cariboo Print Services, 2002. $12.00 (Canadian). Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the...

Joel Berkowitz. Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Joel Berkowitz. Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage. Studies in Theatre History & Culture. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2002. Pp. xviii + 286. $32.95. The Shakespeare market currently reports a brisk trade in derivatives....

Barry B. Witham. The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Barry B. Witham. The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 190. $60.00. In 1832 William Dunlap, considered to be one of the main progenitors of American drama and theater, proposed in...

A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii + 463 + black-and-white illustrations. $65.00 casebound; $23.00 paperbound. This...

Dominique Goy-Blanquet, ed. Joan of Arc, a Saint for All Reasons: Studies in Myth and Politics.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Dominique Goy-Blanquet, ed. Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons: Studies in Myth and Politics. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xi + 180. $79.95. This volume contains the following essays: Dominique Goy-Blanquet, "Shakespeare and Voltaire...

Thomas Fahy and Kimball King, eds. Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theater.(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Thomas Fahy and Kimball King, eds. Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theater. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. vii + 196. $85.00. Following an introduction by Thomas Fahy (1-5), this volume contains the following essays:...

Peter Holland, ed. Shakespeare Survey 56.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Peter Holland, ed. Shakespeare Survey 56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 369 + black-and-white illustrations. $85.00. This volume contains the following essays: Carol Chillington Rutter,"Looking Like a...

Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino, eds. Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino, eds. Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 445 + black-and-white illustrations. $23.95. Following a preface and an introduction by the editors, this...

Eladio Cortes and Mirta Barrea-Marlys, eds. Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater.(Brief Notices)
September 22, 2003... Eladio Cortes and Mirta Barrea-Marlys, eds. Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004. Pp. xxxi + 514. $125.00. Following an "Overview of Latin American Theater" by the editors, this volume is...

Tracy C. Davis and Thomas Postlewait, eds. Theatricality.(Brief Notices)
September 22, 2003... Tracy C. Davis and Thomas Postlewait, eds. Theatricality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi + 243 + black-and-white illustrations. $55.00 casebound; $20.00 paperbound. Following "Theatricality: An Introduction" (1-39) by...