Text & Presentation, 2015

by Graley Herren (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together some of the best work from the 2015 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this book covers subjects from ancient Greece to 21st century America with a variety of approaches and formats, including two transcripts, 10 research papers and six book reviews. This year's highlight is the keynote conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. This volume is the twelfth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476663340
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	02/09/2016
Series:	The Comparative Drama Conference Series , #12
Edition description:	2015 ed.
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Graley Herren is a professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati and an executive board member for the Comparative Drama Conference. He has published widely on modern literature, with an emphasis upon the drama of Samuel Beckett and the fiction of Don DeLillo.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

Preface 1

A Conversation with David Lindsay-Abaire Kelly Martin Younger 7

Visions of Tragedy in American Theatre David Palmer Jeffery Kennedy Sharon Friedman Jackson R. Bryer Susan C.W. Abbotson Stephen A. Marino Natka Bianchini Brenda Murphy Sandra Shannon 24

Politic Silence: Female Choruses in Lochhead's Medea and Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale Lydia Craig 42

Gender, Democracy and the Justice of Athena's Vote to Acquit Orestes Jacqueline Long 57

"Kill the Pity in Us": The Communal Crisis as Crisis of Individualism in David Grieg's Oedipus the Visionary Phillip Zapkin 70

With Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Hamlet in Prison Elizabeth Charlebois 87

Strange Interludes: Wallace Stevens and the Theatrical Event Doug Phillips 108

Spirits in Black and White: Ethiopia as the Black Columbia in African American Pageantry Lurana Donnels O'Malley 131

In Search of the Void: Metaphysical Theatricality in Giorgio de Chirico's The Painter's Family and Emptiness in the Arts Davenne Essif 154

Archives of an Ironic Film Fan: The "Tony" Drafts of The Glass Menagerie Jeffrey B. Loomis 173

"Bring Your Own Translator": Communication and Changing Business Paradigms in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish Martha Johnson 185

Sympathetic Curiosity, Not Voyeurism: David Lindsay-Abaire Takes Up Joanna Baillie's Abandoned Grief Project Amy Muse 194

Review of Literature: Selected Books

Paul Elsam. Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur Verna A. Foster 209

J. Chris Westgate. Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916 William Hutchings 212

Gwendolyn Compton-Engle. Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes Hallie Rebecca Marshall 216

Amy Holzapfel. Art, Vision and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama: Acts of Seeing Michael Schwartz 218

Ellen Ecker Dolgin. Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League: Staging Equality Ann M. Shanahan 221

Judith Fletcher. Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama Daniel B. Unruh 224

Index 229

Editorial Reviews

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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