Text and presentation. 2009 / edited Kiki Gounaridou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gounaridou, Kiki.

Series:

Comparative drama conference series ; 6.

The comparative drama conference series ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : McFarland & Company, Inc., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,""

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; 1. Where's a Saint When You Need One? The Influence of Edmund Campion's Ambrosia on Shakespeare's Macbeth; 2. The (Im)perfect Wagnerite: Bernard Shaw and Richard Wagner; 3. Gardens and Libraries in Shaw's Widowers' Houses: "Life Here Is a Perfect Idyll"; 4. Relative Facts: Emergency Law, Northern Ireland, and Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City; 5. The Totalitarian Non-Tragedy of American Business in the French Plays of Michel Vinaver; 6. Attacking the Canon through the Corpse: Cannibalism and Surrogation in Hamletmachine

7. A Liberating Cruelty: Two Adaptations of Classical Tragedy for the Mexican Stage8. Troy, Troy ... Taiwan: Transformation from Epic to Elegy; 9. Peeling Empire: Yu Miri's Performance of "Resident Korean" in Japan; 10. Ping Chong's Postcolonial Historicism and Theatricalism: Pojagi in The East-West Quartet; 11. Great Souls, Big Wheels, and Other Words: Experiments with Truth and Representation in Verbatim Theatre; 12. "Sounds Indistinguishable from Sights": Staging Subjectivity in Katie Mitchell's Waves

13. Down with Plot: Eisenstein, the Tramp, and the Subversiveness of "Montage of Attraction"14. Rita Felski's Rethinking Tragedy: A Review Essay; Review of Literature; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-53214-6

9786612532146

0-7864-5666-3

OCLC:

609861584