Comparative Drama articles from September 2007

Comparative Drama archives from September 2007

Puppets dallying: thoughts on Shakespearean theatricality.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... In the film version of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, directed by the playwright himself, we see the dumb show from Hamlet twice. In the first case, we watch the traveling players rehearsing the show on a stage in the...

A hermaphrodite? Lope de Vega and the controversy of tragicomedy.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... In his Tablas poeticas (1617), Francisco de Cascales notoriously called the contemporary Spanish plays hermafroditos and monstruous de la poesia, indicating that they were neither tragedies nor comedies in the Aristotelian sense, but a mixture...

G. B. Shaw's Heartbreak House and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming: comedies of implosion.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... G. B. Shaw's Heartbreak House (1919) and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965) are two of twentieth-century British dramas premier plays. Shaw's debt to Chekhov's Cherry Orchard is too well known for rehearsal here, while the Pinter play mines...

Incest disguised: Ottonian influence at Gandersheim and Hrotsvit's Abraham.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... "Unde ego Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis non recusavi illum imitari dictando dum alii colunt legendo quo eodem dictationis genere quo turpia lascivarum incesta feminarum recitabantur laudabilis sacrarum castimonia virginum iuxta mei facultatem...

Rebecca Lemon. Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Rebecca Lemon. Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 234. $39.95. Treason by Words by Rebecca Lemon combines a broad definition of treason with...

Robert A. Logan. Shakespeare's Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's Artistry.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Robert A. Logan. Shakespeare's Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's Artistry. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 251. $89.95. Robert Logan's new study is a sustained attempt to trace the impact of Marlowe's linguistic,...

Zdenek Stribrny. The Whirligig of Time: Essays on Shakespeare and Czechoslovakia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Zdenek Stribrny. The Whirligig of Time: Essays on Shakespeare and Czechoslovakia. Ed. Lois Potter. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 258. $52.00. Every culture gets the Shakespeare it deserves and needs, and from at least...

Tom Maguire. Making Theatre in Northern Ireland: Through and Beyond the Troubles.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Tom Maguire. Making Theatre in Northern Ireland: Through and Beyond the Troubles. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006. Pp. x + 221. $89.95 casebound; $27.95 paperbound. Making Theatre in Northern Ireland is a welcome contribution to...

Louis Chude-Sokei. The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-On-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Louis Chude-Sokei. The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-On-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. x + 278. $22.95. Louis Chude-Sokei titles his study after Bert Williams, the famed--and...

Jean I. Marsden. Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality and the English Stage, 1660-1720.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Jean I. Marsden. Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality and the English Stage, 1660-1720. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. 224. $45.00. This fine book adds to an ever-increasing number of revisionist accounts of Restoration and...

Farah Karim-Cooper. Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Farah Karim-Cooper. Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. x + 221 pp. + 17 plates. $80.00. In this engaging book, Farah Karim-Cooper studies the polemical, discursive, and material...

Mark Pizzato. Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Mark Pizzato. Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 335. $75.00. The title of Mark Pizzato's book promises a study devoted to the topic which nowadays gains increasing significance--the way the...

Beatrice Groves. Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604.(Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Beatrice Groves. Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 231. $95.00. Beatrice Batson, ed. Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth,...

Enoch Brater, ed. Arthur Miller's Global Theater: How an American Playwright Is Performed on Stages Around the World.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Enoch Brater, ed. Arthur Miller's Global Theater: How an American Playwright Is Performed on Stages Around the World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Pp. x + 154. $49.50. This volume begins with acknowledgments (vii-viii) and...

David N. Klausner and Karen Sawyer, eds. "Bring furth the pagants": Essays in Early English Drama Presented to Alexandra F. Johnston.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... David N. Klausner and Karen Sawyer, eds. "Bring furth the pagants" Essays in Early English Drama Presented to Alexandra F. Johnston. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. vi + 329. $60.00. Following a brief biography of Alexandra...

Laurie Postlewate and Wim Husken, eds. Acts and Texts: Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Laurie Postlewate and Wim Husken, eds. Acts and Texts: Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. Pp. 361. $99.00. Following an introduction by Laurie Postlewate (7-16), this volume contains...

Susan Broadhurst and Josephine Machon, eds. Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Susan Broadhurst and Josephine Machon, eds. Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. Pp. xx + 203. $74.95. This volume begins with a list of illustrations (vii-viii),...

Joe Brandesky, ed. Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century: Metaphor and Irony Revisited.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Joe Brandesky, ed. Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century: Metaphor and Irony Revisited. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Pp xvi + 97. $39.95. This volume includes a CD with interactive multimedia content. The text begins...

Regina Buccola and Lisa Hopkins, eds. Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama.(Brief Notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Regina Buccola and Lisa Hopkins, eds. Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xx + 177. $99.95 casebound. This volume begins with contributor biographies (vii-viii), a preface (ix-xii), a foreword by...