Overview
Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 30th annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Beckett, Brecht, Goethe, Tom Stoppard, dance performance, staged violence, the Comedie Francaise, and Greek and Japanese drama. Reviews of selected books are also included.
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Author: Stratos E. Constantinidis
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Edition: 2006 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.345kg
ISBN: 9780786430772
ISBN 10: 078643077
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 19 February 2007
Recommended Age: From 18 years
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Format: Paperback
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. Post-Beckett Theatre 2. Saving Your Breath—And Beckett’s Too 3. New Plots and Playful Schemes: Shukô in Raguko, Japanese Comic Storytelling 4. Iphigenie’s Power in Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris 5. Mabou Mines Stage Beckett, 1965–1975: The Discipline of Word and Body 6. Stoppard vs. Brecht: Competing Visions of Galileo 7. New Stage Directions in Waiting for Godot 8. Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, and the “Theatre in Crisis” Playwrights: Publicly Funded Arts and Freedom of Expression 9. Metaphor and Semiotics in Text and Movement Dance Performance 10. Theatre Hoplology: Simulations and Representations of Violence on the Stage 11. Acting Lessons at the Comédie Française: Nivelle de la Chaussée and the Theatricalization of Bourgeois Morality 12. Excavating Muliple “Troys”: An Embodied Deconstruction of the Scenario of Conquest through “Teatro de Vivência” 13. Philosophical Investigations: Will Eno’s Thom Pain and the 14. Foreign or Domestic Drama? Osanai Kaoru and Modern Wittgenstein Effect Japanese Theatre 15. Dressing-up Dramaturgy in Charles L. Mee’s Bacchae 2.1 16. Ch¨shingura and Beyond: A Study of Japanese Ideal of Loyalty 17. On Not Knowing Greek Drama: A Review Essay Review of Literature: Selected Books Philip C. Kolin, Understanding Adrienne Kennedy Badia Sahar Ahad John J. White, Bertolt Brecht’s Dramatic Theory Neil Blackadder Mary F. Brewer, Staging Whiteness Miriam M. Chirico James Fisher, ed., Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays John M. Clum Shannon Jackson, Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity Penny Farfan Sonia Massai, ed., World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance Robert Ormsby Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shûji and Postwar Japan Thomas Rimer Loren Kruger, Post-Imperial Brecht Carl Weber Index
Reviews
"From previous volumes: ""Edited with care...preserves the conference experience by extending its scholarly dialogue to the wider reading community...many fine essays""--New England Theatre Journal."
-edited with care...preserves the conference experience by extending its scholarly dialogue to the wider reading community...many fine essays---New England Theatre Journal.
Author Information
Stratos E. Constantinidis, former director of the Comparative Drama Conference and former editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, teaches in the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University and lives in Columbus.
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