Text & Presentation, 2004Stratos E. Constantinidis McFarland, 21.12.2009 - 252 Seiten 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 anthology includes papers from the 28th annual conference held in Columbus, Ohio. Topics covered include Euripides, German and Russian theatre, dramatic antecedents of the striptease, surrogate love in The Glass Menagerie, surrealist drama, Greek comedy and the American concept musical, and theatre and politics. |
Inhalt
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3 When I am laid in the earth | 35 |
4 Oskar Blumenthal and the Lessing Theater in Berlin 18881904 | 45 |
5 Comedian of the Seventeenth Century | 56 |
6 Critical Mimesis | 70 |
7 Spectacles in Terpsichorean Disrobing | 84 |
8 Menagerie à Trois | 98 |
11 Views Values and Worship | 134 |
12 Deviant Speech | 144 |
13 Adrienne Kennedys Deadly Parts | 158 |
14 Faces of Contemporary TurkishGerman Kabarett | 172 |
15 Oedipus in New York | 187 |
16 From the Prophetic Performer to the Scribal Performer | 199 |
17 Theatre and Politics | 210 |
Review of Literature | 215 |
9 Reconsidering Surrealist Drama | 110 |
10 Narrative Discontinuity and Identity in Greek Old Comedy and the American Concept Musical | 119 |
Index | 229 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
a›ected actors actress Adrienne Kennedy Albee Aristophanes artists Athenian audience behavior Berlin Black Crook Blumenthal Blumenthal’s Brahm burlesque Caryl Churchill century characters Churchill Churchill’s Comedian comedy comic concept musicals Creon Creusa Creusa and Iphigenia critical cultural dance Deadly Triplets di›erent dialogue Dicaeopolis Dido Dikmen Drama Conference e›ect Ellen Terry essay Euripides female genre German Glass Menagerie goat Greek identity images Irish Isabella Kennedy Kennedy’s king Lady Macbeth Laura linguistic Linney Linney’s literature Martin McGlew Medea Minsky Nahum Tate narrative Nijo o›ers ofthe Omurca Ostrovskii Otto Brahm past performance Pippin play play’s playwright political present prophet refers religion Robert role Russian scene scribe skomorokh social speaker stage Starns Stevie story strippers striptease su›ering surrealist games Sylvia Tate Terry’s theatre theatrical tion Tom’s Top Girls tradition tragedy tragic Turk Turkish tyrannicide tyranny tyrant University Press Valaoritis Victorian William woman women writing Yakov York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 77 - And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I...
Seite 77 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Seite 107 - Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger — anything that can blow your candles out!
Seite 99 - Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
Seite 106 - I traveled around a great deal. The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something.
Seite 107 - I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Perhaps I am walking along a street at night, in some strange city, before I have found companions. I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is .filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister...
Seite 81 - Macbeth') is a most tremendous success, and the last three days' advance booking has been greater than ever was known, even at the Lyceum. Yes, it is a success, and I am a success, which amazes me, for never did I think I should be let down so easily. Some people hate me in it ; some, Henry among them, think It my best part, and the critics differ, and discuss it hotly, which in itself is my best success of all ! Those who don't like me in it are those who don't want, and don't like to read it fresh...
Seite 102 - LAURA. [Laughing breathlessly.] It's hard not to. JIM. Okay. LAURA. I'm afraid you can't budge me. JIM. What do you bet I can't? [He swings her into motion.] LAURA. Goodness, yes, you can! JIM. Let yourself go, now, Laura, just let yourself go. LAURA. I'm— JIM. Come on! LAURA. Trying! JIM. Not so stiff— Easy does it1 LAURA. I know but I'm— JIM. Loosen th
Seite 106 - I'd do the same thing as Tom. I'd bring out fellows and—introduce her to them. The right type of boys of a type to—appreciate her. Only—well—he made a mistake about me. Maybe I've got no call to be saying this. That may not have been the idea in having me over. But what if it was? There's nothing wrong about that. The only trouble is that in my case—I'm not in a situation to—do the right thing.
Seite 99 - Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.