Text & presentation, 2004
This is an anthology of the best papers that were presented at the 28th Comparative Drama Conference at Ohio State University April 29-May 1, 2004. This international three day event had 59 sessions and 200 program participants who presented and discussed 168 research papers.
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) : illustrations.
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Caught in time : Creusa, Iphigenia, and resolving the past in Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris / Angeline Chiu
"Because you spoke abuse against the king" : Parresia and tyrannicide in Euripides' Medea / Mary Frances Williams
"When I am laid in the earth" : Dido and Aeneas, Nahum Tate, and Anglo-Irish consciousness / Michael P. Jaros
Oskar Blumenthal and the Lessing Theatre in Berlin, 1888-1904 / William Grange
Comedian of the seventeenth century : Ostrovskii's dialogue with Russian theatre history / John W. Hill
Critical mimesis : investigating gender roles with Ellen Terry / Lauren Love
Spectacles in terpsichorean disrobing : antecedents and ideologies of the striptease / Michael Schwartz
Menagerie à trois : surrogate love in The glass menagerie / Graley Herren
Reconsidering surrealist drama : the case of Nanos Valaoritis' Round tables / Vassiliki Rapti
Narrative discontinuity and identity in Greek old comedy and the American concept musical / John Given
Views, values and worship : religion and social class in the plays of Romulus Linney / John Fleming
Deviant speech : understanding Churchill's use of feminine linguistics in Top girls / Melody Schneider
Adrienne Kennedy's deadly parts : pictures, portraits, and plays / Johanna Frank
Faces of contemporary Turkish-German Kabarett / Erol Boran
Oedipus in New York : Greek tragedy and Edward Albee's The goat, or, who is Sylvia? / Thomas M. Falkner
From the prophetic performer to the scribal performer / William Doan and Terry Giles
Theatre and politics : a review essay / David S. Escoffery
Review of literature : selected books. Hellmut Hal Rennert, ed., Essays on twentieth-century German drama and theater : an American reception, 1977-1999 / David Krasner ; Andrew Sofer, The stage life of props / Richard Dutton ; Harold B. Segel, The Columbia guide to the literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945 / Eileen Krajewski ; Elinor Fuchs and Una Chaudhuri, eds., Land/scape/theater / John Rossini ; Japan Playwrights Association, Half a century of Japanese theatre : 1970s / David Pellegrini