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Author:   Kiki Gounaridou
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.268kg
ISBN:  

9780786447305

ISBN 10:   0786447303
Pages:   193
Publication Date:   28 February 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      1. Metatheatre and Metaphysics in Two Late Greek Tragedies      (Francis M. Dunn) 2. Manipulating Memory: An Examination of the Ghost Road Company’s Ensemble- Devised Adaptation of The Oresteia      (Katharine Noon) 3. Romantic Male Role Types: Kabuki’s Nimaime and the Innamorato of Commedia dell’Arte      (Katherine Saltzman- Li) 4. Between Factography and Ethnography: Sergei Tretyakov’sRoar, China! and Soviet Orientalist Discourse (Robert Crane) 5. Staging the Public Sphere: Karl Kraus and Romain Rolland’s Critical Theatre in World War I      (Christa Zorn) 6. No Kick Coming: The Staging and Taming of the I.W.W. in Sidney Howard’s They Knew What They Wanted      (Michael Schwartz) 7. “Gramps, Shush the Preaching”: Family Memories in The Night of the Iguana      ( Jeffrey B. Loomis) 8. Truth Drugs and Hothouse Flowers: Metatheatre and the Mid-century Psychotherapy Play      (Ariel Watson) 9. He Said; She Said: Reversing Roles by Gender in Oleanna      (Ann M. Shanahan) 10. Coontown: Utopian Longing and Reification in Black Suburbia      (Courtney R. Wilkes) 11. Nostalgia, Irony, and the Re- Emergence of the Reified American Indian Other in August: Osage County      (Courtney Elkin Mohler) 12. Plagues and Performance: Broadway Bares as Danse Macabre      (Virginia Anderson) 13. Acting, Science, and Gender: A Review Essay      (Kiki Gounaridou) Review of Literature: Selected Books E. Teresa Choate. Electra USA: American Stagings of Sophocles’ Tragedy      (Amanda Wrigley) Karelisa V. Hartigan. Performance and Cure: Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America      (Rush Rehm) Emily C. Bartels. Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello      ( Janna Segal) Jane Goodall. Stage Presence      (Kimberly Jannarone) Heather S. Nathans. Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black      (Dorothy Chansky) Philip C. Kolin, ed. The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights      (David Pellegrini) James R. Brandon. Kabuki’s Forgotten War: 1931–1945      (Yoshiko Fukushima) S.E. Gontarski, ed. A Companion to Samuel Beckett      (Katherine Weiss) Index     

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edited with care...preserves the conference experience by extending its scholarly dialogue to the wider reading community...many fine essays --<i>New England Theatre Journal</i>.

"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.

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Kiki Gounaridou teaches theatre history and theory in the Department of Theatre at Smith College. She has published articles, books, and reviews on theatre. An award-winning theatre director, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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