Overview

Presenting some of the best work from the 2017 Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection highlights the latest research in comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis. Contributors cover a broad range of topics, from the ""practical ethnography"" of directing foreign language productions to writing for theoretical stages to the ""radical deaf theater"" of Aaron Sawyer's The Vineyard. A full transcript of the keynote conversation with American playwright and screenwriter Lisa Loomer is included.

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Author:   Jay Malarcher
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781476670362

ISBN 10:   1476670366
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   23 March 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments  vii Preface  1 A Conversation with Lisa Loomer (Amy Muse)  5 Advancing Accessibility: The “Radical Deaf Theatre” of Aaron Sawyer’s The Vineyard (Mary Lutze)  19 Irreconcilable Differences: Charles I, Henrietta Maria, and Jones’s and Townshend’s Court Masques (Mark Scott)  40 Form and Frenzy in Caryl Churchill’s and David Lan’s A Mouthful of Birds (Melinda Powers)  55 Skepticism in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Examining Man’s Inefficacy through Suspect Language (Emily L. Sharrett)  70 Reading Ahead: An Analysis of Editorial Prolegomena in Shakespeare’s Complete Works  (Melinda M. Marks)  86 Jonson Is for Closers: Reflections on “Original Practice” (Joe Falocco)  95 “You Ain’t Nothing but a ­Hoochie-Mama”: Explorations of Black Female Promiscuity in Contemporary Media Productions (Devair Jeffries)  106 The Drama of the Ungifted Child or, Where’s the Old Confidence, Biff? (Doug Phillips)  122 A Chameleon Anthology: Williams’s Source Plays Preview Variant Baby Dolls (Jeffrey B. Loomis)  140 James and Nora Joyce’s “Greatest Love Story Never Told”: Jonathan Brielle’s Musical Himself and Nora (William Hutchings)  153 On Bearing Witness to a Poetic Ritual: Robert Wilson’s Deafman Glance as Seen by János Pilinszky (Enikő Sepsi)  167 Out of the Classroom and into the Community: A “Practical Ethnography” in Directing Foreign Language Theatre (Scott D. Taylor) 180 What Is the Future of la compagnie in French Theatre? (Cynthia G. ­Running-Johnson)  195 Review of Literature: Selected Books Daniel Sack, ed. Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage (Ariel Watson)  209 Julie Bates. Beckett’s Art of Salvage: Writing and Material Imagination, 1932–1987 (Robert Reginio)  213 Jean-Michel Rabaté. Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human  (Doug Phillips)  217 Richard Preiss and Deanne Williams, eds. Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England (Jennifer Heller)  222 Adrienne Macki Braconi. Harlem’s Theaters: A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923–1939 (Beck Holden)  226 Penny Farfan. Performing Queer Modernism (Rachel Busse)  230 Index  235

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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.

"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."

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Jay Malarcher is an associate professor of theatre and dramaturg at the School of Theatre & Dance, West Virginia University, Morgantown.

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