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 edition includes papers from the 33rd annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Bernard Shaw's use of gardens and libraries in Widowers' Houses, Northern Ireland emergency law in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City, cannibalism and surrogation in Hamletmachine, Sergei Eisenstein's and Charlie Chaplin's use of the ""montage of attraction,"" and adaptations of classic Greek tragedy in Mexico and Taiwan, among other topics.

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Author:   Kiki Gounaridou
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9780786447060

ISBN 10:   0786447060
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   22 March 2010
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      1. Where’s a Saint When You Need One? The Influence of Edmund Campion’s Ambrosia on Shakespeare’s Macbeth      (Mary Frances Williams) 2. The (Im)perfect Wagnerite: Bernard Shaw and Richard Wagner      (Christopher Innes) 3. Gardens and Libraries in Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses: “Life Here Is a Perfect Idyll”      (Tony J. Stafford) 4. Relative Facts: Emergency Law, Northern Ireland, and Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City      (Peter Leman) 5. The Totalitarian Non-Tragedy of American Business in the French Plays of Michel Vinaver      (Les Essif ) 6. Attacking the Canon through the Corpse: Cannibalism and Surrogation in Hamletmachine      (Sonya Freeman Loftis) 7. A Liberating Cruelty: Two Adaptations of Classical Tragedy for the Mexican Stage      (Francisco Barrenechea) 8. Troy, Troy ... Taiwan: Transformation from Epic to Elegy      (Wen-ling Lin) 9. Peeling Empire: Y¨ Miri’s Performance of “Resident Korean” in Japan      ( John D. Swain) 10. Ping Chong’s Postcolonial Historicism and Theatricalism: Pojagi in The East-West Quartet      (Yuko Kurahashi) 11. Great Souls, Big Wheels, and Other Words: Experiments with Truth and Representation in Verbatim Theatre      (Donald McManus) 12. “Sounds Indistinguishable from Sights”: Staging Subjectivity in Katie Mitchell’s Waves      (Sharon Friedman) 13. Down with Plot: Eisenstein, the Tramp, and the Subversiveness of “Montage of Attraction”      (Sascha Just) 14. Rita Felski’s Rethinking Tragedy: A Review Essay      (Helen Moritz) Review of Literature: Selected Books Bernard Freydberg, Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros      (Michael J. Griffin) Margaret Jane Kidnie, Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation      (Michael Shapiro) Mary Trotter, Modern Irish Theatre; Shaun Richards, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama; John P. Harrington, ed., Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama, 2nd edition      (Kelly Younger) Emily Roxworthy, The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II      (Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei) Neilesh Bose, ed., Beyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora      (Kristen Rudisill) Jon D. Rossini, Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity      (Yael Prizant) Sharon Friedman, ed., Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works: Critical Essays      (Laura Snyder) 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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