Text & Presentation, 2007 (Text & Presentation) (The Comparative Drama Conference Series)

Acknowledgments......Page 6
Contents
......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1. Chicano Theatre in a Society in Crisis......Page 16
2. Responding to a Society in Crisis......Page 35
3. When We Dead Awaken......Page 40
4. Out of Wasteland......Page 56
5. The Hyperrealities of America’s Vietnam War and 9/11 in the French Theatre of Armand Gatti and Michel Vinaver......Page 72
6. Babel, Babble and Multilingualism in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul......Page 88
7. Formal Subversion in How I Learned to Drive......Page 104
8. Shaw’s Saint Joan and Shakespeare’s Joan la Pucelle......Page 120
9. Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad and the “Tragedy of Electra”......Page 133
10. Actresses and the Making of the Modern Hamlet......Page 148
11. Alan Bennett’s The History Boys......Page 160
12. No Red Blood......Page 169
13. Antigone in Pre-Wall and Post-Wall German Theatre......Page 180
14. Shaw’s St. Joan (1923)......Page 196
15. Adapting an Internet Comic Strip for the Stage......Page 207
16. Antigone and Terrorism......Page 216
Verna Foster......Page 224
Miriam Chirico......Page 226
Jan L. Hagens......Page 230
Karelisa Hartigan......Page 233
Rush Rehm......Page 235
Jon D. Rossini......Page 238
Tony J. Stafford......Page 241
18. Asian Theatre......Page 244
David Bevington. This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance Then and Now
......Page 250
C. W. Marshall. The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy
......Page 252
David Krasner. American Drama 1945–2000: An Introduction
......Page 256
John Patrick Diggins. Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy
......Page 257
J. Michael Walton. Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English
......Page 260
Andrew Stott. Comedy, and Verna A. Foster. The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy
......Page 262
Index......Page 266