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Text & Presentation, 2004

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Informationen zum Autor Stratos E. Constantinidis, former director of the Comparative Drama Conference and former editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, teaches in the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University and lives in Columbus. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Preface      1. Caught in Time: Creusa, Iphigenia, and Resolving the Past in Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris      2. "Because you spoke abuse against the king": Parresia and Tyrannicide in Euripides' Medea      3. "When I am laid in the earth": Dido and Aeneas, Nahum Tate, and Anglo-Irish Consciousness      4. Oskar Blumenthal and the Lessing Theatre in Berlin (1888-1904)      5. Comedian of the Seventeenth Century: Ostrovskii's Dialogue with Russian Theatre History      6. Critical Mimesis: Investigating Gender Roles with Ellen Terry      7. Spectacles in Terpsichorean Disrobing: Antecedents and Ideologies of the Striptease      8. Menagerie à Trois: Surrogate Love in The Glass Menagerie      9. Reconsidering Surrealist Drama: The Case of Nanos Valaoritis' Round Tables      10. Narrative Discontinuity and Identity in Greek Old Comedy and the American Concept Musical      11. Views, Values and Worship: Religion and Social Class in the Plays of Romulus Linney      12. Deviant Speech: Understanding Churchill's Use of Feminine Linguistics in Top Girls      13. Adrienne Kennedy's Deadly Parts: Pictures, Portraits, and Plays      14. Faces of Contemporary Turkish-German Kabarett      15. Oedipus in New York: Greek Tragedy and Edward Albee's The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia?      16. From the Prophetic Performer to the Scribal Performer      17. Theatre and Politics: A Review Essay      REVIEW OF LITERATURE: SELECTED BOOKS       Hellmut Hal Rennert, ed., Essays on Twentieth-Century German Drama and Theater: An American Reception, 1977-1999      Andrew Sofer, The Stage Life of Props      Harold B. Segel, The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945      Elinor Fuchs and Una Chaudhuri, eds., Land/Scape/Theater      Japan Playwrights Association, Half a Century of Japanese Theatre: 1970s      Index      ...

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Authors Stratos E. (EDT) Constantinidis
Assisted by Stratos E. Constantinidis (Editor)
Publisher McFarland
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 28.02.2005
 
EAN 9780786422050
ISBN 978-0-7864-2205-0
No. of pages 252
Dimensions 152 mm x 222 mm x 15 mm
Series The Comparative Drama Conference Series
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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