Recently added articles from Comparative Drama:
Roman world, Egyptian earth: cognitive difference and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Critics over the years have found many ways to read the binary division of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra between the poles of Rome and Egypt) Recently, postcolonial theory has informed readings that emphasize the "Otherness" of Egypt: as John Gillies has argued, "the 'orientalism' of ...
The Scriblerian stage and page: Three Hours After Marriage, Pope's "minor" poems, and the problem of genre-history.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Standard accounts of literary history posit a reorientation, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, from the play to the novel, exteriority to interiority, public to private. Scholars describe a new set of ontological priorities, privileging an intensive, focused mode of accessing ...
Elsa Strietman and Peter Happe, eds.: Urban Theatre in the Low Countries: 1400-1625.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Elsa Strietman and Peter Happe, eds. Urban Theatre in the Low Countries: 1400-1625. Medieval Texts and Cultures in Northern Europe 12. Brepols: Turnhout, 2006. 70.00 [euro] Since the 1980s a rebirth of scholarly interest in Middle Dutch drama has had Dutch early drama ...
Joy H. Calico. Brecht at the Opera.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Joy H. Calico. Brecht at the Opera. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xvi + 282. $45.00. Brecht at the Opera is a short book; of its 282 pages, only 163 are main text. The remainder contains a plethora of footnotes, together with a bibliography ...
Sara Beam. Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Sara Beam. Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. 288. $55.00. "Laughter is often a political act;' says Sara Beam (2). There has been a steady stream of publications on the history of French drama, and even ...
David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne, Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne, Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Pp. xvi + 280. $99.00. There is apparently an ever growing and insatiable appetite for books about British theater censorship. This volume, by three ...
Eli Rozik. Generating Theatre Meaning: A Theory and Methodology of Performance Analysis.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Eli Rozik. Generating Theatre Meaning: A Theory and Methodology of Performance Analysis. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. Pp. 272. $75.00. Eli Rozik is among the leading scholars in the field of theater theory and performance analysis and a cofounder of the International ...
Christopher Cobb. The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare: Text and Theatrical Technique.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Christopher Cobb. The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare: Text and Theatrical Technique. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 304. $60.00. Christopher Cobb's interesting and tightly focused book is a detailed analysis of The Winter's Tale that develops its account ...
Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, Ton J. Broos, eds.: Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, Ton J. Broos, eds. Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc. TEAMS, Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. Pp. vii + 104. $13.00. That Everyman's story has been, and still is, all things to all men is ...
David Ellis. Shakespeare's Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in His Works.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... David Ellis. Shakespeare's Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in His Works. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2007. Pp. 236. $52.00. David Ellis rightly points out that most discussions of the comic in Shakespeare's plays are actually about comedy as a genre ...
Kate Emery Pogue. Shakespeare's Family.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Kate Emery Pogue. Shakespeare's Family. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008. Pp. xx + 211. $39.95. This volume begins with a preface (ix-x), acknowledgments (xi-xii), and an introduction, "Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare" (xiii-xx). The primary text is divided into four parts ....
Ann C. Hall, ed.: Making the Stage: Essays on the Changing Concept of Theatre, Drama, and Performance.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Ann C. Hall, ed. Making the Stage: Essays on the Changing Concept of Theatre, Drama, and Performance. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. Pp. viii + 205. $69.99. Following an introduction by the editor (1-7) this volume contains the following essays: Joshua Pederson, ...
Philip C. Kolin, ed.: The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Philip C. Kolin, ed. The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights. Jefferson: McFarland, 2008. Pp. x + 229. $39.95. This volume begins with acknowledgments (vii), a preface (1-2), and an introduction, "The Panoptic Tennessee Williams" by the ...
Richard Fotheringham, Christa Jansohn, and R.S. White, eds.: Shakespeare's World/World Shakespeares: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress Brisbane, 2006.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Richard Fotheringham, Christa Jansohn, and R. S. White, eds. Shakespeare's World/World Shakespeares: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress Brisbane, 2006. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. Pp. 436. $69.50. This volume ...
Rita Felski, ed.: Rethinking Tragedy.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Rita Felski, ed. Rethinking Tragedy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 368. $24.95. Following an introduction by the editor (1-28), this volume contains essays in four parts. Part 1, "Defining Tragedy" includes: George Steiner, "'Tragedy" Reconsidered" ...
John Patrick Diggins. Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... John Patrick Diggins. Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 305. $29.00. John Patrick Diggins, an historian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has written a study of Eugene O'Neill that ...
Tice L. Miller. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Tice L. Miller. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi + 229.37.50. Tice Miller's new book covers two centuries of theatrical and dramatic activity in about 180 pages of ...
Michael Hawcroft. Moliere: Reasoning with Fools.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Michael Hawcroft. Moliere: Reasoning with Fools. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 235. $99.00. In this intelligent and well-ordered book, Michael Hawcroft takes on what might be called la querelle de Moliere's raisonneurs. A vexed issue since the nineteenth ...
Katie Normington. Modern Mysteries: Contemporary Productions of Medieval English Cycle Dramas.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Katie Normington. Modern Mysteries: Contemporary Productions of Medieval English Cycle Dramas. Cambridge: Brewer, 2007. Pp. xiv + 192. 16 pp. of black-and-white plates between pp. 114-15. $55.00. Performing medieval drama became increasingly popular in England in the last half ...
Clare Wallace, ed. Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Clare Wallace, ed. Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. Pp. 330. $27.00. The publication of a book of essays about the monologue form in theater can be hailed as a most timely enterprise for several reasons. Although this kind of ...