Comparative Drama articles from September 2006

Comparative Drama archives from September 2006

Material economy, spiritual economy, and social critique in Everyman.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... In an important essay first published in 1972, V. A. Kolve pointed out that "the most distinctive part" of Everyman's language, "the essential verbal matrix of the play," deals with economic exchanges and the account book the protagonist must...

"Things like truths, well feigned": mimesis and secrecy in Jonson's Epicoene.(The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry)(Ben Jonson)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... I In The Light in Troy, Thomas M. Greene takes as his subject "the literary uses of imitatio during the Renaissance, but emphasizes as well that these "uses" extended beyond the literary to many other areas of educational, aesthetic,...

The death of representation and the representation of death: Ionesco, Beckett, and Stoppard.(Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Tom Stoppard)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... The crisis of representation as a feature of late modernist art in general, diagnosed by T.W. Adorno in Aesthetic Theory, finds its most striking expression in the field of drama in Eugene Ionesco's and Samuel Beckett's plays. This crisis...

David N. Klausner, ed. Wales: Records of Early Drama.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... David N. Klausner, ed. Wales: Records of Early Drama. Toronto: The British Library and University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp.clxxviii + 528. $250.00 Coloring the map red now has a different, and more benign, meaning from that prevailing in...

Verna A. Foster. The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Verna A. Foster. The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy. Studies in European Cultural Transition 18. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. vi + 217. $99.95. Few critics today attempt to span different historical periods in a single study, or even...

Marvin Rosenberg. The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Marvin Rosenberg. The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra. Edited and completed by Mary Rosenberg. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006. Pp. 605. $80.00. Marvin Rosenberg takes us through Antony and Cleopatra with an act-by-act,...

David M. Bergeron. Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... David M. Bergeron. Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x + 248. $89.95. This challenging book explores the diverse commercial and cultural strategies through which dramatists and their stationers...

Brenda Murphy. The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Brenda Murphy. The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xix + 282. $85.00 cloth. Brenda Murphy begins her exploration of the Provincetown Players and the culture of modernity...

John Tulloch. Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception: Theatrical Events and their Audiences.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... John Tulloch. Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception: Theatrical Events and their Audiences. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. Pp. XV + 310. $39.95. Given the degree of influence that Shakespeare had upon the most...

Thomas P. Anderson. Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Thomas P. Anderson. Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. viii + 225. $94.95. There are at least three ways to think about what happens when we describe the past in narrative. One...

Max Harris. Theater and Incarnation.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Max Harris. Theater and Incarnation. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2005. Pp. x + 155. $18.00. Max Harris first published Theater and Incarnation, of which this is the second edition, in 1990. The book is a tour de force of...

John J. White. Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... John J. White. Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2004. Pp. ix + 348. $90.00. The cover of John Whites book shows us Brecht--cigar in hand, smiling pleased and somewhat mischievously--as I have seen him often...

Robert E. Stillman, ed. Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Robert E. Stillman, ed. Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Boston: Brill, 2006. Pp. xxiv + 257. $120.00 casebound. Following acknowledgments (ix-x), the editor's forward (xi-xviii), a list of...

Jan Cohen-Cruz and Mady Schutzman, eds. A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Jan Cohen-Cruz and Mady Schutzman, eds. A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics. New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. x + 208. $100.00 casebound; $29.95 paperbound. This volume begins with a list of contributors (vii-ix),...

Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer, eds. Approaches to Teaching: Early Modern Spanish Drama.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer, eds. Approaches to Teaching: Early Modern Spanish Drama. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006. Pp. xiii + 281. $37.50 casebound; $19.75 paperbound. This volume begins with a preface to the series...

Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha, and Maria Kurdi, eds. Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: The Work Has Value.(Brief Notices)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha, and Maria Kurdi, eds. Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: The Work Has Value. Chester Springs, Pa.: Carysfort Press & Dufour Editions, 2006. Pp. xiii + 342. $39.95 paperbound. This volume begins with copyright...

Phillip B. Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, eds. Theatre Histories: An Introduction.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Phillip B. Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, eds. Theatre Histories: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xxxi + 544. $122.00 casebound; $44.95 paperbound. This volume begins with a...