Recently added articles from Comparative Drama:
Lay performances of work and salvation in the York Cycle.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... That notions of work and its cultural value have captivated the attention of medievalists for quite some time is exemplified by James Simpson's recent claim that cycle plays "mounted a theology of labor at whose centre stands the practice of mercy in the active life." (1) This theology of ...
Henry S. Turner. The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Henry S. Turner. The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630. Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 2006. Pp. xvi + 326. $125.00. Henry S. Turner's magisterial book The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the ...
Jon D. Rossini. Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Jon D. Rossini. Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. Pp. vii + 253. $37.50. Jon D. Rossini's Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity arrives as a significantly synthetic achievement, a book that ...
From Great Women to Top Girls: pageants of sisterhood in British feminist theater.(Pageant of Great Women)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Caryl Churchill's groundbreaking play Top Girls (1982) opens with a fleeting fantasy of transnational, transhistorical sisterhood as an eclectic group of eminent women, historical and fictional, gather to celebrate an apparent feminist victory--the promotion of a contemporary, high-powered ...
Sermons, exegesis, and performance: the Laon Ordo Prophetarum and the meaning of Advent.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Of the four texts that Karl Young presents as "Procession of Prophets" plays in The Drama of the Medieval Church, the example from the northern French cathedral town of Laon is distinctive. (1) The Laon play impressed Young because it has a wealth of rubrics indicating impersonation, ...