Overview

Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 35th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles. The essays include innovative detective work on Aristophanes's and Aeschylus's plays and discussions of topics including Joe Orton's plays as social protest against the power of psychiatry and the asylum, George Eliot's controversial description of the burlesque spirit as ""fodder for degraded appetites,"" and psychological depictions of young women entering into sexual experience in Liz Lochhead's Dracula, among others.

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Author:   Kiki Gounaridou
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Edition:   2011 ed.
Volume:   08
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.195kg
ISBN:  

9780786469956

ISBN 10:   0786469951
Pages:   134
Publication Date:   06 December 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      1. The Aristophanes-Chaeris Hypothesis: Did Aristophanes See an Adaptation of Aeschylus’s Persians During the Peloponnesian War?      (Stratos E. Constantinidis) 2. Saint Ambrose’s De officiis and the Image of Virtue in Shakespeare’s Richard II      (Mary Frances Williams) 3. The Ghost of Dante Alighieri in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet      (Rae Williams) 4. “A Bottle-Nosed Lear”: The Threat of Burlesque in Victorian England and Late Antiquity      (Carly E.L. Maris) 5. “Your Immediate Superior in Madness”: Orton’s What the Butler Saw and Foucault’s Madness and Civilization      (J. Andrew Gothard) 6. Dotty’s “Juney Old Moon”: The Romantic Imagination in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers      (Miriam Chirico) 7. Liz Lochhead’s Dracula: Revision and Reception      (Verna A. Foster) 8. On Making the Classroom More Menacing: Pinter for Professors      (Doug Phillips) 9. Theatre Artists Writing About Practice: A Review Essay      (Ann M. Shanahan) Review of Literature: Selected Books Edith Hall. Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun      (Mary-Kay Gamel) Anthony Ellis. Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage      (Dennis Costa) Alexander C.Y. Huang. Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange      (Gary Kao-chen Liao) Kimberly Jannarone. Artaud and His Doubles      (Les Essif ) Michael Y. Bennett. Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter      (Julia Listengarten) Rakesh H. Solomon. Albee in Performance      (Nicolas Pullin) Laurence Senelick, ed. The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner      (Jason Shaffer) 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---New England Theatre Journal.

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."

Author Information

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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